manuel_w

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by manuel_w 5y ago
A bit unrelated but still: Can someone recommend quality USB(-C) ethernet adapters brand? I'm building an embedded system in a professional context and need to connect some of our own custom in-house built embedded devices (usb-c only,
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by manuel_w 5y ago
> I'm willing to bet it was this, because I was so struck by it I saved it: This is indeed what I was looking for. I too was struck by it. Thank you SO much.
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by manuel_w 5y ago
> He was hospitalised due to exhaustion and became the subject of a series of medical experiments to test his eating capacity, in which, among other things, he ate a meal intended for 15 people in a single sitting, ate live cats, snakes,
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by manuel_w 5y ago
I once read a comment I wish I'd saved. It goes along the lines of: W beats X, X beats Y, Y beats Z; in terms of what principle you'd like to apply to your code. One of these letters was essentially representing DRY. I summed thin
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by manuel_w 5y ago
Agree. I really like the dense/space saving presentation. It reminds me of these stock exchange screens.
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by manuel_w 5y ago
Thank you so much for posting this. I never understood how domain name resolving really works in GNU/Linux. There are just too many moving parts. This article looks like it would sum everything up. Splendid!
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by manuel_w 5y ago
Because we enjoy HN as one of the few places on the internet where meaningful discussion can still occur, which is what comments like yours ("communists grow giving their whole lives to intrigue") undermine. The world is a lot mor
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by manuel_w 5y ago
> that they think they will trick communists, people who grew giving their whole lives to intrigue Please don't do that here.
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by manuel_w 5y ago
Need to give that one a try! Also, the overnight train connection from Vienna to Hamburg is really convenient. I took it some years ago. If I recall correctly, the train departed at around 20:45 and arrived in Hamburg at 6:45.
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by manuel_w 5y ago
The linked document has 5 (or six?) pages, would you mind to provide a short summary what to find there?
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by manuel_w 5y ago
Oh, I read [1] too late. It's a (GNU/?)Linux VM with the special hardware already made available. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29129554
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by manuel_w 5y ago
> They're pretty rad. You can even get a few (dozen) for free: https://blog.gpt4.org/jaxtpu > Incidentally, that blog runs on a TPU. You can just SSH into them. As someone without machine learning background, I a
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by manuel_w 5y ago
Congratulations on your cool project. You mentioned it 8 times in this thread alone. While I wouldn't call your comments spam (they do refer to their individual parents, though), stumbling over the same link so many times while reading
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by manuel_w 5y ago
I'd never expected ssh to have an interactive shell. Thanks for sharing that.
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by manuel_w 5y ago
Bookmarked your page. Am building embedded devices and thought about having them keep reverse tunnels to some gateway server. Cool, that there's a dedicated service for that! Have my own domain but am still eager to outsource this part
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by manuel_w 5y ago
> once they've established themselves. I only recently learned about the term "strawman argument", and I think this is one. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) Parents post was not about SW devs who established themselves, but
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by manuel_w 5y ago
Had a coworker die and the company explicitely allowed everyone to violate core time for that day. As it became apparant that quite a few people would attend (it was a well-respected collegue, a genuinely nice man) they even booked a bus to
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by manuel_w 5y ago
> It's the most powerful nation on earth and runs laps around everyone else combined on pretty much every metric. Guess you're talking about number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are re
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by manuel_w 5y ago
That would be very interesting. Some other data researcher has dipped into this a bit: SpiegelMining – Reverse Engineering von Spiegel-Online (33c3): * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YpwsdRKt8Q * English version: https:&
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by manuel_w 5y ago
Native german speaker here. Have no clue about UI conventions nor grammar, but I'd expect either "Öffne Ticket" or "Ticket öffnen". "Öffnen Ticket" is wrong, just as "Ticket öffne". I suppose th
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by manuel_w 5y ago
SDcards are said to die often/easily in Raspberry Pis. I heard someone say they die when there's a write access going while the Raspi is taken from power. Is that true? That would mean running a Raspi from SDcard is fine as long a
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by manuel_w 5y ago
> by an agent working for Russia You're talking about Jan Marsalek, right? That he worked for Russia is new to me. According to [1], he did business in Russia, but that doesn't make him work for Russia. If you have more in
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by manuel_w 5y ago
> I use Make as the standard way to interact with every repo I own. This allows me to type `make build` instead of `$some-language-specific-command-I-forget-in-2-weeks`. I also used to do this until I switched out Make by Just[1]. I find
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by manuel_w 5y ago
Well, they don't have to, because it simply doesn't cost $10M there. My understanding is that the United States medical system foremost goal is to generate profit (for shareholders?), and I think that artifically inflates the pric
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by manuel_w 5y ago
I used an Intel NUC running Debian Stretch as wireless access point for month. All I had to do was to assign all the interface (the internal ethernet one, an USB-ethernet adapter, and hostapd, the access point daemon) to the same network br
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by manuel_w 5y ago
> But don't think for a second that the US won't force a diplomat's plane to land even outside their jurisdiction just because they believe an enemy of the state is on it. It's all about interests. https://
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by manuel_w 5y ago
Fun fact: Wooden doors propagate fire less then metal doors. That's because metal doors just heat up and set what's behind the door on fire, while wooden doors consume the heat. The opposite side of the doors stays cooler than a m
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by manuel_w 6y ago
How does Debian GNU/Linux run on System76 devices? Can anyone comment on that?
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by manuel_w 6y ago
One thing I absolutely love in the Autocad version we got teached back in school was the way the selection rectangle worked. Drawing the selection rectangle from left to right selects all lines fully covered by the rectangle. Drawing the se
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by manuel_w 6y ago
It's been running as well for me. I'm 35 now and have never been much of a sports person. At the third lockdown, I felt I couldn't endure being in my home 24/7 anymore. (Was working from home then.) So I started to run,

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