mavamaarten (u/mavamaarten)

mavamaarten commented on AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it siddhantkhare.com/writing... · Posted by u/sidk24

parpfish · 15 hours ago

For me the fatigue is a little different— it’s the constant switching between doing a little bit of work/coding/reviewing and then stopping to wait for the llm to generate something.

The waits are unpredictable length, so you never know if you should wait or switch to a new task. So you just do something to kill a little time while the machine thinks.

You never get into a flow state and you feel worn down from this constant vigilance of waiting for background jobs to finish.

I dont feel more productive, I feel like a lazy babysitter that’s just doing enough to keep the kids from hurting themselves

mavamaarten · 14 hours ago

For me it honestly matches pretty well. I give it an instruction and go reply to an email, and when I'm back in my IDE I have work (that was done while I was doing something else) to review.

Going back from writing an email to working, versus going back from email to reviewing someone else's work feels harder.

mavamaarten commented on uLauncher github.com/jrpie/launcher... · Posted by u/dtj1123

cachius · 21 hours ago

Man there are about 50 Android launchers on F-Droid: https://search.f-droid.org/?q=launcher

Feels like picking a distro when going to Linux.

Notable changes compared to it's base Finn's Launcher: https://github.com/jrpie/launcher/blob/0.1.0/docs/launcher.m... (link is broken in readme on master branch)

Compatible with work profile, so apps like Shelter can be used.

Compatible with private space

...

The name of this one is a bit too clever: On GitHub in the URL it's just launcher, on HN uLauncher, actually on the website and stores it's µLauncher. I don't even know how to type and pronounce this 'micro' character - or is it 'mu'? https://old.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/wy53dr

For accessibility and shareability to people without an academic background an easier name would be better.

mavamaarten · 21 hours ago

Yeah. Plus the fact that ulauncher is already an existing launcher-type app for Linux: https://ulauncher.io/

mavamaarten commented on Everyone Is Stealing TV theverge.com/streaming/87... · Posted by u/naves

MoonWalk · 3 days ago

No, because they'd have to decompress and then recompress every stream. This would reduce already-lame quality (not that they'd particularly care) and require a bunch of resources.

mavamaarten · 3 days ago

Nah that's not how it works. Streaming video is usually cut up into small segments. By having a couple of variants per segment, they can serve you a unique and identifiable sequence of segments without having to decompress (and encrypt) them for each user.

mavamaarten commented on New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers blog.adafruit.com/2026/02... · Posted by u/ptorrone

alkonaut · 5 days ago

I could see why "people are making guns" would be at the top of the list of politicians' worries in places where there are almost no guns, and people want to keep it that way. But in the US?

mavamaarten · 5 days ago

Indeed. Don't want people making guns? Ban the making of guns. Banning the production of guns using a 3D printer makes zero sense, should ban CNC machines too then.

mavamaarten commented on AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines github.com/alibaba/AliSQL... · Posted by u/baotiao

baotiao · 5 days ago

Here is the professional English translation of your analysis, optimized for a technical audience or a blog post:

Why I Believe MySQL is More Suited than PostgreSQL for DuckDB Integration Currently, there are three mainstream solutions in the ecosystem: pg_duckdb, pg_mooncake, and pg_lake. However, they face several critical hurdles. First, PostgreSQL's logical replication is not mature enough—falling far behind the robustness of its physical replication—making it difficult to reliably connect a PG primary node to a DuckDB read-only replica via logical streams.

Furthermore, PostgreSQL lacks a truly mature pluggable storage engine architecture. While it provides the Table Access Method as an interface, it does not offer standardized support for primary-replica replication or Crash Recovery at the interface level. This makes it challenging to guarantee data consistency in many production scenarios.

MySQL, however, solves these issues elegantly:

Native Pluggable Architecture: MySQL was born with a pluggable storage engine design. Historically, MySQL pivoted from MyISAM to InnoDB as the default engine specifically to leverage InnoDB's row-level MVCC. While previous columnar attempts like InfoBright existed, they didn't reach mass adoption. Adding DuckDB as a native columnar engine in MySQL is a natural progression. It eliminates the need for "workaround" architectures seen in PostgreSQL, where data must first be written to a row-store before being converted into a columnar format.

The Power of the Binlog Ecosystem: MySQL’s "dual-log" mechanism (Binlog and Redo Log) is a double-edged sword; while it impacts raw write performance, the Binlog provides unparalleled support for the broader data ecosystem. By providing a clean stream of data changes, it facilitates seamless replication to downstream systems. This is precisely why OLAP solutions like ClickHouse, StarRocks, and SelectDB have flourished within the MySQL ecosystem.

Seamless HTAP Integration: When using DuckDB as a MySQL storage engine, the Binlog ecosystem remains fully compatible and intact. This allows the system to function as a data warehouse node that can still "egress" its own Binlog. In an HTAP (Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing) scenario, a primary MySQL node using InnoDB can stream Binlog directly to a downstream MySQL node using the DuckDB engine, achieving a perfectly compatible and fluid data pipeline.

mavamaarten · 5 days ago

So you pasted someone's comment in an LLM and posted the output here. Cool. Not really.

mavamaarten commented on Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/qmr

Mindwipe · 9 days ago

Unless Valve are going to do some work to enable that and support a hardware backed chain of trust for drivers that's not going to happen.

(I think it should happen but that's not the same as that it will.)

mavamaarten · 8 days ago

That would be great, honestly. Imagine just being able to install Android apps like Netflix, Disney+, ... On your Steam Deck or Steam Machine and having it work out of the box with Widevine L1. Then you'd truly just only need one device attached to your TV for all your entertainment needs. And then a great and supported one at that.

mavamaarten commented on Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/qmr

magicalhippo · 8 days ago

I have one of them, and been using it daily since I bought it in 2016. Bought a cheap Bluetooth remote control from AliExpress which was an upgrade over the Logitech Harmony crap I had earlier.

If it were to break, knock on wood it won't happen, what options are there? I have tried to look but haven't really found anything that is free of Chinese backdoors and has decent hardware. For just Plex or Jellyfin a N100 box or similar could do, but I want easy launch of HBO, YouTube etc. And I need that remote control option.

mavamaarten · 8 days ago

Google TV Streamer?

mavamaarten commented on Is It Time for a Nordic Nuke? warontherocks.com/2026/01... · Posted by u/ryan_j_naughton

mavamaarten · 14 days ago

What are you on about. We had a great thing going until your (Assuming this is a US person speaking and not a Russian or other troll bot) president started breaking that relationship down. We never threatened to "shoot first" lol, we simply responded to the threat of having Greenland taken by force.

Our relationship has been deteriorating because it was very clear that the US was not behaving like the ally they said they were.

mavamaarten commented on Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR tavus.io/post/sparrow-1-h... · Posted by u/code_brian

ttul · 25 days ago

I tried talking to Claude today. What a nightmare. It constantly interrupts you. I don’t mind if Claude wants to spend ten seconds thinking about its reply, but at least let ME finish my thought. Without decent turn-taking, the AI seems impolite and it’s just an icky experience. I hope tech like this gets widely distributed soon because there are so many situations in which I would love to talk with a model. If only it worked.

mavamaarten · 25 days ago

Agreed. English is not my native language. And I do speak it well, it's just that sometimes I need a second to think mid-sentence. None of the live chat models out there handle this well. Claude just starts answering before I've even had the chance to finish a sentence.

mavamaarten commented on Robotopia: A 3D, first-person, talking simulator elbowgreasegames.substack... · Posted by u/psawaya

malchow · a month ago

What's interesting is you might not want to see de novo AI-generated storytelling (slop factor), but you might really like the way AI can make a story crafted by humans more interactive.

mavamaarten · a month ago

It's going to be a balance act. There's going to be plenty of companies that are just going to be greedy and will generate AI slop without checking, which will undoubtedly tank the quality of many games in the near future.

When applied smartly and with human supervision, I think that AI could easily help humans build game worlds and stories that were previously impossible to achieve.