e4e5's comments | WingNews

e4e5 | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

There was a post yesterday about counting traffic on a pi, you might want to check it out: https://nathanrooy.github.io/posts/2019-02-06/raspberry-pi-d...

e4e5 | 2 years ago | on: Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen

I have the same problem, but don't care enough to buy a new chair. It isn't that annoying

e4e5 | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

I know that you don't want when more competition for the flights, but that sounds very useful!

e4e5 | 2 years ago | on: Amazon will brick all Halo health trackers on August 1

> Amazon will fully refund purchase(s) made in the preceding 12 months of Amazon Halo View, Amazon Halo Band, Amazon Halo Rise, and Amazon Halo accessory bands. In addition, any unused prepaid Halo subscriptions fees will be refunded to your original payment method. If you have a paid subscription, as of today you will no longer be charged the monthly subscription fee. You do not need to take any additional steps.

At least they're doing the right thing and are paying for it

e4e5 | 2 years ago | on: Eww: ElKowars wacky widgets

It does. It even works on macos iirc

e4e5 | 2 years ago | on: Eww: ElKowars wacky widgets

Something notable about eww is that it's configured in a lisp language, as opposed to a more traditional XML and CSS: https://elkowar.github.io/eww/configuration.html

e4e5 | 2 years ago | on: De-Stressing Booking.com (2019)

I like Google travel a lot to find hotels and then I book directly. It's the best for cities because of how integrated with maps it is and since Google doesn't sell me anything, I don't have to be as weary of these dark patterns.

e4e5 | 2 years ago | on: Illustrations of Japan’s “unseen” workforce of trains that work at night (2019)

The artist of these illustrations also drew the images of toy boxes, that's where you might recognize the style from?

If you go on their website, you can see that most of the toys are machines: https://www.tamiya.com/english/e-home.htm

e4e5 | 2 years ago | on: Gource – Animate your Git history

Or for a single user and how they comment, e.g. on Reddit where the subreddits could be the directories

e4e5 | 2 years ago | on: Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux

My first Linux device was a 2013 MacBook Pro, a phenomenal device.

e4e5 | 2 years ago | on: Mapping hospital accessibility with OpenStreetMap

Awesome work, love stuff like this!

Also amazing to see how much open source software already exists for GIS, lowering the entry requirements to almost zero.

e4e5 | 3 years ago | on: Windows Snipping Tool is vulnerable to Acropalypse too

But in this case it's luckily not vulnerable

e4e5 | 3 years ago | on: Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

Yeah, I was thinking that it could mean both when I responded at first.

In terms of quality, it's mediocre. I find it bland and boring, and if you try to let it write poems, raps or anything with a deeper understanding it fails more than chatgpt would.

I disagree though, absolute speed is going to be important for the chatbot that wants to disrupt the search space. I could see Google Assistent relying on it more for information, and it would be near instant.

For writing large texts or digesting many other documents it will probably matter less, yeah.

e4e5 | 3 years ago | on: Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

The performance is leagues ahead of chatgpt. It's really quick and can also Google information with like 0 delay.

e4e5 | 3 years ago | on: Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

Not at all my experience, it's alright. And I've seen the as a language model response a lot less than when I use chatgpt

e4e5 | 3 years ago | on: Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

> You’ll receive another email when it’s your turn to test Bard.

> In the meantime, we asked Bard to write you a little poem while you wait.

> May your day be bright, Your mood be light, And your heart be filled with delight. ~ Bard Thank you for registering.

Cute

e4e5 | 3 years ago | on: The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge

The only reason apple is making money with safari is because they keep it a browser people trust.

If people wouldn't trust safari, and treat it like edge: uninstalling it, moving to other browsers, etc.. it wouldn't be worth it for google to pay apple.

e4e5 | 3 years ago | on: Acropalypse: a vulnerability in Google's screenshot editing tool

Nice write-up here: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploiting-acropalypse...

e4e5 | 3 years ago | on: A city map of bus and train stations

Actually, here's a combined one: https://imgur.com/a/QtP5YeO Red is without shelter, black is with.

e4e5 | 3 years ago | on: A city map of bus and train stations

Here's two maps of my city (montreal), first is all bus stops and second one is all stops with a shelter:

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/826191293138599937/...