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by rektide 4y ago
> One principle duct tape programmers understand well is that any kind of coding technique that’s even slightly complicated is going to doom your project. Duct tape programmers tend to avoid C++, templates, multiple inheritance, multith
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by rektide 4y ago
Seems accurate. Good rules for being cool. Do it.
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by rektide 4y ago
To all of you I'd ask, what do you think constitutes general systems research in this age? What are potentially transcendental pieces of computing, that can value all applications? What would making computing at large better? What
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by rektide 4y ago
You're talking about specific cases, but I think the problem is cultural, has metastatized into a place where radical change in wide ways looms, has to blow away a corrupt fallen shitty & malignant way of thinking that has taken ov
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by rektide 4y ago
The 1-2 layoffs rto makes me supremely skeptical. It makes the layoffs look less like a business decision & more like conditioning for various abuse, such as aggressive RTO.
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by rektide 4y ago
So much yes. Streaming is a huge threat to the right of first sale world. We rapidly have accelerated towards a new Dark Ages where content is again vastly unavailable to the future, where DVDs or other real media aren't made.
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by rektide 4y ago
Can we fix the link? Currently pointing at a pay walled archive.org cache. Real link is: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/04/28/yuval-noa... And the archive.ph link, for those looking for it:
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by rektide 4y ago
I admit it's one of the first potential drone services I don't detest & that I think has potential. I really really don't like the idea of loud buzzing large drones being in urban spaces. Staying high & dropping the p
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by rektide 4y ago
Very real question, especially considering the two decades of trained helplessness that has been so successful. Most software is resistant to understanding. Most software obfuscates & conceals. Getting out of this trap requires more tha
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by rektide 4y ago
I really wish this team had actually figured out ways to promote & talk about the work across the past 3 years. Just searching HN for opentitan reveals very little interesting detailed discussion. Maybe the submissions just didn't
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by rektide 4y ago
Super cool post. Good range of tweaks to make here.
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by rektide 4y ago
2-4GHz bursts from likely but not necessarily planet induced emissivity. Inner planet with a 2 day orbit. Mercy these are extreme absurd rates. What causes emission in the first plausible case? Can you imagine a planet with a 2 day orbit? I
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by rektide 4y ago
Big "The cruelty is the point" move. Shocking & stunning, and alas expectable too.
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by rektide 4y ago
Computing has such a bad challenge in general. We sell so much software by saying, gee it's a so hard, pick this tool & you'll never have to think about things again, everything will be easy & amazing! It sells on fear. It
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by rektide 4y ago
It'd be so awesome if we could make a lightweight mini drone that can travel around spacecraft & tap or prod at things. A 2 lb insurance payload to help with small mechanical glitches.
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by rektide 4y ago
Every single country deciding for itself what is truth & demanding any other view be taken down. That's where this is headed. Nations don't have sovereignty over the whole internet. If your citizens connect overseas/afar,
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by rektide 4y ago
Reminder that hotter water carries less oxygen, which affects sea life. We talk about the human crisis, about economic damage & suffering, mkre volatile weather, drinking water, riding sea levels, but there's things afoot bow the w
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by rektide 4y ago
One of the more important cases. Ughh RED, trying to obstruct whole industries. Alas, no real progress for the rest of us. Nikon claimed, as others have, that Red's patent on compressing RAW on camera is invalid (fuck yeah it's to
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by rektide 4y ago
I hadn't heard of DDS until an hour ago, when I did some preliminary research into GM's just open sourced Eclipse uProtocol, their car IoT system built on Protobuf & CloudEvents. Among some usual suspect transports (http2, mqt
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by rektide 4y ago
The protocol is called Eclipse uProtocol. Slide deck intro here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yfJ_ynBGHQTcnG1GhyMQ... Protobuf, CloudEvents... Url based routing. Semi abstracted transport, atop http2, a
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by rektide 4y ago
Of of curiosity, how configurable are sqlite builds? Can one disable json support, for example? I'm not sure what other "categories" of features three might be. Certainly there's a lot of builtin functions; how configura
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by rektide 4y ago
To their credit, the gpu drivers have continued getting much much better, much faster. Intel has long understood the value of drivers, has been one of the primary contributors & drivers of really good open source (albeit with some frust
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by rektide 4y ago
It's extra bitter to see Intel exit NAND because they largely invented & drove NVMe. The p3700 was the first mainstream NVMe drive, July 2014, & is still a beast, still pleasantly fast with stable & high iops, albeit lackin
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by rektide 4y ago
The "GX" motors are a series of long long standing Honda high quality commercial small engines. Badging this the eGX is a fairly incredible honor. https://engines.honda.com/models/series/gx
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by rektide 4y ago
The great de-twittering continues. This online space has no plans to ever make itself better & more connected. Unaffordable for most. Strictly worse from here on out.
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by rektide 4y ago
The lack of any counter-forces against the anti-social/genuine-pieces-of-shit is getting awfully problematic. I really want to believe in society, in believing in one another, in treating each other ok. When people consistently act lik
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by rektide 4y ago
The car is the most interesting most powerful most capable most multi functional peripheral most users have. It's exciting as fuck to see GM start to take some responsibility over making this peripheral useful, trying to undergoes some
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by rektide 4y ago
You need to disconnect yourself if you are going to have authoritarian stances over every place your people can connect to. Your fake dominion over others will never happen nor should it. What a trash fire impossible facetiously crap un hac
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by rektide 4y ago
I actually kind of agree with you, but my god man. Nothing may change today except the ability to innovate forward without living in fear of breaking shit. This is huge. We are on a site called hacker news. What the hack with the ignorant b
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by rektide 4y ago
I tried to see what the actual tooling would do. But all the links to discord & GitHub are broken on https://opensource.contentauthenticity.org/

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