I used to do the same thing with a full RPi4. I’m pretty sure that was the first non-pi zero that worked in gadget mode.
I was trying to make an attached Linux machine for my iPad instead of using a cloud VM. It was pretty effective, but at the time the ARM distributions were difficult to run what I wanted. Now, however, it would be significantly better.
Going in the other direction: recent Intel laptops with Thunderbolt should support USB gadget mode. In theory, this would allow a Linux laptop to emulate keyboard and mouse input to an iPad Mini portrait sidecar, with seamless kb/mouse context switching onto USB, as the cursor moved into the configured virtual viewport of the iPad "monitor".
Similar to synergy/barrier/input-leap, but using USB gadget mode instead of local network, since iOS wouldn't allow installation of non-Apple keyboard-mouse remoting software, https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap
Exactly. For many, the idea of being able to see England, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India in one 50 day trip with many similar minded travelers who aren't in a rush is really quite appealing.
Also, with bus travel you could, if you felt like it, leave the trip to enjoy many more local attractions and resume your travels later in a way not afforded by airplane or rail travel.
Cheers, I thought I was the only person like this :) (also didn’t tie it to my anxiety, but it’s extremely obvious in retrospect. This is too short and elides the own kind of comfort part, but I guess it means I can’t spin out, ruminating on or creating other problems, when I have stuff right here to complain about!)
That’s a flimsy argument. Product sales can do that. Doesn’t need to be a subscription unless you know your market is weak or your data mining.
We can’t be ok with everything being a subscription. You won’t have any money left or, worse, only the rich can afford the tools. I’m much happier paying for $60 Steam games and forgetting about them after a month. Sell this for $20 forever and do it 50,000 times by building a good product. If you get to market mass where you need a dev team to keep up with all the bleeding edge changes to SQL that are coming out, then charge a subscription.
Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive. It may be worthwhile to at least have Claude (or whatever LLM you favor) to look at the other libraries and compare it to yours. It doesn’t have to write the code, but it could point out areas/features you’re missing.
We know what we're missing (a lot, we didn't implement the full spec). We don't know what weird edge cases the clients/servers will have, and I would bet you decent money a LLM won't either. That's why manual testing and validation is so important to us.
I wouldn’t be so sure about the LLM not helping. The LLM doesn’t need to know about the edge cases itself. Instead, you’d be relying on other client implementations knowing about the edge cases and the LLM finding the info in those code bases. Those other implementations have probably been through similar test cycles, so using an LLM to compare those implementations to yours isn’t a bad option.
I was initially expecting the horse to move after each turn. As it is, this is a logic game, similar to what I'd expect to see in the NYT Games app. Quite entertaining, but something that you could look at and reason about to solve.
But, you absolutely could make this a turn based game where the horse is trying to escape and you (playing as the farmer), work to fence it in as it meanders towards a gate.
I had the same thoughts (high-energy). I would have worded it slightly differently -- more engaging posts.
You could measure in two ways:
1) raw score for the post. Look at the distribution of total scores and remove the low scoring posts. I personally think this will remove more negative posts than positive. (Note: this would be another way to look at this: for the posts with an overall negative sentiment, does the post score more or less).
2) total number of unique people participating in the discussion. The more dynamic posts tend to be more positive, or at least balanced in my mind (might be wrong, but that's my gut feeling).
3) You could also look at the peak rank of the post -- if the post stayed on the front page for more than 1 hour, but this seems more arbitrary and difficult.
I think the idea here is that posts aren't created equal and some have different engagement patterns. What I'd like to know is if a post is skewing negative, does it get more or less traction. What are the incentives for the poster vs the commenter? Both get karma points, but does a commenter get more for being negative vs does a poster get more points for submitting articles expected to have a negative discussion?
There are a number of other questions, like are there keywords that tend to produce negative posts (for example: are posts talking about AWS more positive or negative). Or - are there topics that generally perform better? Are "expected" posts better? Are more "unique" posts better? Are "Show HN" posts more positive than other posts?
I'd be happy to help - info in bio if you're interested.
The Fermilab herd was always one of the highlights of visiting there. I always thought that was a really good use for the space inside the accelerator, a nice version of nature and science coexisting. I have it in my head that we used to be able to just drive through Fermi to see the Bison (late 80s/90s).
I had a similar issue, but with Jekyll. I had a customized theme and some update along the way broke everything. So, I very much agree with a sibling comment about not needing to update static site generators and it’s not just a Hugo thing. Sadly, my site was also being hosted/generated by GitHub, so I had no real choice in the update matter. (I’m not sure if pinning would have helped.)
Because of their existing product lines, I look at this more like marketing or market research. I'm pretty confident that this will actually be made. For one, the company actually has experience making and selling devices. This is a bit more ambitious than an accessory keyboard, but it's at least experience making something. Second, the pre-order reservation is about half of the full pre-order price. Unlike most Kickstarters where you have to front 100% of the money.
At some point, Kickstarter (et al) campaigns switch from high-risk speculative products to marketing pitches (get in early!). I think this is one of the later. You're right that they could probably have (or have already) funded the product development themselves. I think this pitch is trying to build a market early in the year before potential competitor products are announced.
I was trying to make an attached Linux machine for my iPad instead of using a cloud VM. It was pretty effective, but at the time the ARM distributions were difficult to run what I wanted. Now, however, it would be significantly better.
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