Readit Newsw-ll commented on Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API ch.at/... · Posted by u/ownlife
been using it on a plane for the past one month. it's a great way to do some light reading and learning about obscure topics.
dig @ch.at "why is gua musang the king of durian" TXT +short
This is the killer use case. Thanks!
w-ll commented on Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest ioccc.org/2024/index.html... · Posted by u/mdl_principle
Vibe obfuscation, all the cool kids are doing it.
i guess that should make vibe de-obfuscation as easy
w-ll commented on I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave themaister.net/blog/2025/... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
The ultimate compression is to send just the user inputs and reconstitute the game state on the other end.
The issue is the "reconstitute the game state on the other end" when it comes to at least how I travel.
I haven't in a while but I used to use https://parsec.app/ on a cheap intel Air to do my STO dailies on vacation. It sends inputs, but gets a compressed stream. Im curious of any OS of something similar.
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w-ll commented on I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022) smallandroidphone.com/... · Posted by u/asimops
The issue is "bigger numbers" marketing. The story for much of smartphone history was the flagship had a bigger screen.
But then it hit the practicable limits of what people can pocket/hold-comfortably.
If you make a phone with a smaller screen but want to call it "flagship" then you'd better have some good marketing to reverse the perception.
I think the other thing is pretty much everyone has a smartphone android/ios, and so the rev model has changed for android its youtube/movies, and for ios its apple tv.
It's funny, I would not put this or the Martian into made-to-be-movie category, mainly featuring a single protagonist alone with his thoughts of how best to effect survival. I haven't (and probably won't) see the movies. I preferred the Martian very much compared to PHM, but I did enjoy it. Just had a problem with suspension of disbelief to do trivialization of language learning and communication (especially alien).
I liked all of them but i thought the length and the production for a PHM movie would be a lot. Compared to Artemis, no need for aliens, and a shorter read.
w-ll commented on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon blog.thenewoil.org/the-pr... · Posted by u/DanAtC
The other problem are people doing price arbitrage. You find the item on eBay and think to yourself, "cool, I'd rather patronize a small business" - but as it turns out, the item is drop-shipped from Amazon, Walmart, or the like.
This got me the other day, and it had me cracking up, they just put my shipping address and and checked out from Walmart. $5 lesson that Walmart actually sold what i wanted and i should have checked there first.
It's funny most people are saying Google will win the AI wars, though that is precisely what will cannibalize their current business model, which had a much bigger moat than frontier LLMs, apparently.
You think we wont start seeing ads or paid for refs/links in those AI responses? Not defending Google here, when they turned that feature on I posted to some friends "another nail in the coffin for the web as we know it" or something to that effect.
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