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by bpye 3y ago
The vaccine doesn’t give you 100% protection against the risk of long COVID either. A review published in 2022 put the rate of long COVID somewhere between 7.5% and 41% of non hospitalised cases [0]. If it falls anywhere within that range y
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by bpye 3y ago
I looked at Apple a long while ago - and whilst they certainly have teams doing interesting work - relocating to California will always be a hard no for me… They have positions elsewhere but much less varied.
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by bpye 3y ago
> Fitbit was a great product and for Google to axe the founders says “we care about monetizing users not serving them.” Is this really a surprise to anyone at this point?
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by bpye 3y ago
My first and middle names are both relatively long - this caused me issues when getting a US SSN. On a UK passport they are both in the “Given Names” field - and both ended up on my I-94. This was too long when the person at the social secu
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by bpye 3y ago
Someone on the blog post linked suggested implementing the BIOS calls in AVR code with some sort of mode switch, I guess you could go further. Port CP/M keeping syscall compatibility but use a CPU emulator for application code.
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by bpye 3y ago
There is also the MNT Pocket Reform [0] - if that floats your boat. [0] - https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/pocket-reform
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by bpye 3y ago
It's been done before - but apparently the performance is pretty poor - https://spritesmods.com/?art=avrcpm
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by bpye 3y ago
I find that even something like the 15 Pro is borderline too big. It’s already quite hard to use one handed, adding a few mm from a case makes it noticeably worse - for me at least.
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by bpye 3y ago
Xmos [0] still exists which, whilst not the same as the Transputer, does fabricate MCUs with hardware parallelism and a variant of C called xC with CSP primitives. [0] - https://www.xmos.com/
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by bpye 3y ago
The killer for me is the web browser, that’s how I access Reddit on my phone these days and it can be a big time sink…
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by bpye 3y ago
I would be tempted by something like the Light Phone if I could still use it to message people with WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. almost nobody I know uses SMS these days. I do agree that, often times, my iPhone is an undesirable distraction. Ed
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by bpye 3y ago
A minimal RISC-V implementation is quite simple. There is a RISC-V implementation of xv6 - though that’ll require slightly more than the absolute minimum RISC-V implementation, specifically you’ll need CSRs, M, S and U mode and paging. If y
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by bpye 3y ago
Aren't the smaller transistors going to be more susceptible to damage and bit flips though?
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by bpye 3y ago
There are also entitlements you still can’t use and a 3 app limit with a free account, at the very least.
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by bpye 3y ago
Switzerland actually - https://youtu.be/8scpGwbvxvI
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by bpye 3y ago
Granted - the hardware is open so it doesn’t have to be the original manufacturer coming up with new CPU modules.
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by bpye 3y ago
I really want to like the MNT Reform and especially the MNT Pocket Reform - but it’s really hard to justify such a big perf delta with my M1 MBP.
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by bpye 3y ago
> Windows RT can't run Win32 and ARM can't run x86, at least not without significant caveats; people can't use Windows computers like that to Get Stuff Done(tm). Whilst what you say is true for Windows RT, Windows 11 on AR
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by bpye 3y ago
Digital watches also exist, last years on a single cell and some have a solar cell to extend that. A cheap Casio F-91W is accurate to 1 sec/day and I imagine you’ll find others that can do better.
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by bpye 3y ago
> and education quality was crap compared to my average elementary school in California. Even if this was once true - I doubt it is (on average) any more. The recent PISA rankings put Canada above the US in every area - especially so for
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by bpye 3y ago
Certainly depends on your definition of better. I find the summers in Vancouver borderline too hot - and it’s supposedly cooler here than Melbourne so…
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by bpye 3y ago
I agree that smart home stuff can be excessive however I really like the Hue white ambiance bulbs. I live in Vancouver and so in the winter it gets dark early - and the days are often gloomy too. I can have cool. Lighting from morning to ev
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by bpye 3y ago
Related: Another Vulnerability in the LPC55S69 ROM https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30778778
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by bpye 3y ago
That seems believable - the UK saw 390 million passenger rail journeys in the last quarter [0]. Amtrak saw just under 23 million in all of FY22 [1]. That’s before accounting for the UK having a population around 1/5 that of the US. [0]
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by bpye 3y ago
It does look like this is missing the West Coast Express in the Lower Mainland - but that’s strictly a commuter service with a number of trains into Vancouver in the morning, and out of Vancouver in the evening.
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by bpye 3y ago
Yep, I really like the train from Vancouver to Seattle but you get two trains each direction each day, one in the morning and one in the evening. Because of how long the trip takes it doesn’t really work as a day trip sadly - you’d be spend
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by bpye 3y ago
Multicast does get used for IPTV doesn’t it?
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by bpye 3y ago
I have 10Gbps between my home server and desktop. Is it overkill? Sure, but I do use my home server for networked storage in Lightroom etc so having it be even slightly faster is nice.
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by bpye 3y ago
When I was a uni student in an old house with thick walls these were worth it. My bedroom had terrible WiFi - power line networking got me a few hundred mbps but the latency suffered.
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by bpye 3y ago
That’s exactly what it is. 20MB/s isn’t 20mbps, it would be 160mbps.

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