Quequau

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   by Quequau 7y ago

   There is a book on this: The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History, by John M. Barry. I found it fascinating.
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   by Quequau 7y ago

   I used BeOS for most of the 2nd half of the '90s and I guess in my mind at least the regrettable, messy, and unethical end of BeOS in 2001-2002 is emblematic of the Dot Com collapse. Crushed by Microsoft's anti-competitive busines
3. 243.▲
   by Quequau 7y ago

   Back in the '90s we got a dev kit for a microcontroller (Toshiba if I recall) that had language in the license that specifically forbade using the thing in terrorist acts. So I don't think this is new.
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   by Quequau 7y ago

   I've never met anyone who believed that RISC-V was going to give them a sub-dollar microcontroller that ran Linux before. That seems like a fairly unreasonable expectation, given today's market and RISC-V's position in it.
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   by Quequau 7y ago

   This: > If you want to do any OS work, you need a system that implements the Privileged ISA. Supporting the Privileged ISA is synonymous to being able to run UNIX-like systems, because it brings user-/supervisor-mode distinction an
6. 246.▲
   by Quequau 7y ago

   This has been submitted before. I found this discussion really interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18754433
7. 247.▲
   by Quequau 7y ago

   If you are interested in Rust, there's HermitCore and you can run them on the Raspberry Pi via Firecracker. https://hermitcore.org/
8. 248.▲
   by Quequau 7y ago

   Is this project still active? I don't think it is any more.
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   by Quequau 7y ago

   This has been here a few times. Here's a link to a discussion a couple of years ago. I've found it to be an interesting project, though well outside my field of expertise. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=147
10. 250.▲
    by Quequau 7y ago

    I just want an e-reader device that's A4 sized, suitable for technical documentation and other non-fiction lit, supports open sourced software (and isn't locked up in some kind of walled garden), and doesn't cost like a thous
11. 251.▲
    by Quequau 7y ago

    Sometimes I just don't get HN. I figured this would be fairly popular.
12. 252.▲
    by Quequau 7y ago

    Oh wow I'm in the same boat only I used to do embedded development.
13. 253.▲
    by Quequau 7y ago

    Surely the Github repo is a better place to link to: https://github.com/nategri/chernobyl_dice
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    by Quequau 7y ago

    Years ago I had occasion to visit my mother at work. In her department most of the worker's time was spent in a custom Windows app that was developed specifically for them... as in exclusively for that department of that company. The
15. 255.▲
    by Quequau 7y ago

    Yes. That's actually the discussion I was looking for. Good find.
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    by Quequau 7y ago

    This has been posted here a couple of times in the distant past but for whatever reason I can only find one old post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9829133 Anyway, it seemed like an interesting project the last time
17. 257.▲
    by Quequau 7y ago

    I am convinced that Italy should do something similar, only with Venice.
18. 258.▲
    by Quequau 7y ago

    Can anyone tell me how this is "Privacy-Preserving"? Like how is this different than what the major tech firms like Google, MS, and Apple offer?
19. 259.▲
    by Quequau 7y ago

    I guess the video isn't up yet?
20. 260.▲
    by Quequau 7y ago

    You know it's bad when the queen of shitty robots makes a better truck.
21. 261.▲
    by Quequau 7y ago

    Rivian and Bollinger both.
22. 262.▲
    by Quequau 7y ago

    This is objectively better than the face on Mars.
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    by Quequau 7y ago

    I am losing my hearing and I have found that this effects my understanding of German, which I learned late in life, far more than English, my native language. In fact I'm convinced that many native speakers of German simply do not enu
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    by Quequau 7y ago

    I learned German in Austria and I was taught a handful of words which we use a different article here as compared to in Germany. My recollection is that most of these words either were commercial, like Nutella, or loan words coming from ot
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    by Quequau 7y ago

    Nutella is always the word that springs to my mind first... but I couldn't tell you which article is used where.
26. 266.▲
    by Quequau 7y ago

    I am disappointed that the most famous potato in the world is not Mr. Potato Head.
27. 267.▲
    by Quequau 7y ago

    That is exactly what I was looking for, thanks! I didn't see any links to the books and what I expected to be a link to it wasn't.
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    by Quequau 7y ago

    I'm old enough to be just barely a boomer and I have to admit that I've long suspected that if all the kids, en masse , ever figure out just how much was given away or squandered to facilitate lifestyles that besides not being su
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    by Quequau 7y ago

    Am I missing something here? It doesn't seem like there's much to the site other than that those two books exist and some sparse text. The books seem interesting and I'd like to see more than just cover mock ups... maybe lik
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    by Quequau 7y ago

    OK but since we now have tech like CRISPR why can't we have house plants that do?