Also, they can read high if the batteries are low.
I wonder why that would be? Presumably if the batteries are low then the pressure the machine "thinks" it's inflated the cuffs to is higher than the actual pressure...
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I’m just picturing a scenario where the fridge won’t open its door unless you finish watching an AI generated, very low quality, scammy ad. Looking at you, YouTube…
And with eye/face tracking it can tell if you really watched it, with a smile.
I use it especially when moving files around in my NAS and it is awesome.
For GUI file managers, I have to say you can't get better than Dolphin. It has an integrated shell for the current directory, and you can split the view. It can also directly open ssh and SFTP URLs. For local things the combination of Dolphin and it's shell is unbeatable.
I miss TkDesk, which I discovered many years ago when I was first trying Linux, partly because it supports unlimited splits, not just two. In fact, if I'm remembering correctly, when navigating to a subdirectory the default was just to open it in a new split. You ended up with splits containing the full path from wherever you started to your eventual subdirectory (you could scroll the view of splits horizontally once there got to be too many).
professoretc commented on I just want an 80×25 console, but that's no longer possible changelog.complete.org/ar... · Posted by u/teddyh
Related to this, the other day I learned that QEMU will render VGA mode text to your terminal using curses:
$ qemu -curses …
This also lets you run QEMU over SSH, if you want. I use this in my assembly language course; towards the end I give an assignment to write Hello, World! as a 16-bit real mode MBR bootloader. Students can do the whole thing on our SSH server, including testing in QEMU (and even attaching GDB to it to debug) not needing to install anything locally.
professoretc commented on The AI Job Title Decoder Ring dbreunig.com/2025/08/21/a... · Posted by u/dbreunig
My heuristic has been
ML engineer => knows pytorch
AI engineer => knows huggingface
Researcher => implements papers
I know these heuristics are imperfect but I call myself an MLE because it’s closest to my skillset.
I saw "Hugginface" listed alongside C++, React, and SQL as skills on a resume recently. Wasn't quite sure what to make of that.
It depends how one measure it. If you look at the total output if GitHub in a year and try to poorly extrapolate how much code is written in a year - and then Anthropic measures how much code their system spewed out, then sure maybe they emit 90% of the estimated total amount of code. But most people wouldn't define it that way.
Maybe that's why the models are so eager to spit out reams and reams of code, it lets their masters claim a higher percentage (even if most of the code they emit is never used).
professoretc commented on I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language nemanjatrifunovic.substac... · Posted by u/whobre
Check out Assembly Language for x86 Processors by Kip Irvine. It’s probably one of the best books on x86. The older editions are way cheaper.
Doesn't it still treat 64-bit code as something of an afterthought?
professoretc commented on Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today simonwillison.net/2024/Se... · Posted by u/ulrischa
Fuck “just”. When someone says “just”, all I hear is “I have no fucking clue”.
Just is a bitch mother that seeks to handwave away any potential problems.
If it’s just that, I’ll gladly step aside and let you do it. But if you then tell me you can’t do it, then you better sit down, shut the fuck up, and listen when I tell you something is more complicated than you think.
My wife and I agreed to expunge "just" from our vocabulary, at least with regards to asking to do this. It's almost always kind of belittling, implying that the thing you're asking for is easy and obvious, and you're an idiot/lazy for either not doing it already or trying to explain why its more difficult that it looks.
professoretc commented on Show HN: Vomitorium – all of your project in 1 text file npmjs.com/package/vomitor... · Posted by u/jwally
We use a C compiler for embedded systems that doesn't support link time optimizations (unless you pay for the pro version, that is). I have been thinking about some tool like this that merges all C source files for compilation.
That's called a "unity" build, isn't it? I was under the impression that it was a relatively well-known technique, such that there are existing tools to merge a set of source files into a single .c file.
professoretc commented on Ask HN: Which LLMs can run locally on most consumer computers · Posted by u/FezzikTheGiant
I think any NPC with dialogue important to a goal (a quest, a tutorial, etc) is going to be hard to use generative AI for. It not only needs to be coherent with the story, but it needs to correctly include certain ideas. I.e. if the NPC gives a quest to go find some item at some location, it needs to say what the item is and where it is.
I think we're currently stuck in a local minima where AI isn't up to the task of making a coherent player-interactable world, but an incoherent or fragmented and non-interactable world isn't impressive enough (like No Man's Sky).
> I think any NPC with dialogue important to a goal (a quest, a tutorial, etc) is going to be hard to use generative AI for. It not only needs to be coherent with the story, but it needs to correctly include certain ideas. I.e. if the NPC gives a quest to go find some item at some location, it needs to say what the item is and where it is.
That was my experience when I was experimenting with using current LLMs to generate quests. You can of course ask for both a human-readable quest description and also a JSON object (according to some schema) describing the important quest elements, but the failure rate of the results was too high. Maybe 10% of quests would have some important mismatch between the description and the JSON; the description would mention an important object but it would be left out of the JSON, or the JSON would mention an important NPC but the description wouldn't, etc.
As a player, I think it would get frustrating quickly if 10% of quests were unsolvable, especially since, as a player, you don't know when a quest is unsolvable; maybe you just haven't found the item/NPC yet.