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by wiremine 6y ago
In a situation like this, what are the best "status" sites to be watching?
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by wiremine 6y ago
I never played around with the 8080 before, and wasn't sure where to start, so I googled some quick resources. Wondering if anyone knows of better resources? * The original manual - https://altairclone.com/downloads&#x2
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by wiremine 6y ago
Previous conversation about this topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23869858
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by wiremine 6y ago
> I'm under the impression that UV-C is very dangerous to eyesight. Yes, among other things. It also has negative side effects on the surface it's cleaning. But there's some interesting IP in the space to maximize the effe
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Nice! I would recommend making the link clearer: unless I knew it was there, I would have missed it.
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> Of all types of institutions, why should we be giving the banks the right to decide which businesses should be recession proof or not? Your underlying point is well made, but it's important to understand the process: The banks iss
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by wiremine 6y ago
Great idea! The video on the homepage is very useful; have you thought about linking to some examples?
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> It’s crazy to think supporting a five year old device is now considered ground-breaking. I wonder if this is slowing down, or speeding up? At some point it feels like we'll find a equilibrium for phones, similar to what we have fo
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by wiremine 6y ago
I agree, it is a very small part of the market, but I'm not sure I grok your point. I think Apple's has leapfrogged Intel in some ways?
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by wiremine 6y ago
One of my favorite book series, geeked to finally see a trailer!
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by wiremine 6y ago
I was most excited to hear about the virtualization support. Any links to more details on that?
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> I'm surprised we didn't get any performance numbers. It makes sense that they wouldn't: 1. Its dev hardware, not final production hardware. They'll want to compare the A13 or A14 (or whatever SoC they finally use) f
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by wiremine 6y ago
If the PowerPC to Intel transition was any indication, they'll do just fine. Most consumers won't care, or will want to wait until Apple works out the kinks. To put it a different way: the initial sales of the ARM-based chips won&
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by wiremine 6y ago
This is a good start. I always thought it would be great to have a "no X today" button, where I could mute all political content, all sports content, all WWDC content, etc.
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by wiremine 6y ago
Does that data set factor in inflation? I could't tell from write up. If not, The 1997 number would be ~$2,200B, after adjusting. That would still only be a slight decline.
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by wiremine 6y ago
I remember this being a theme during the 2001 recession. I can't find the link right now, but I remember more than a few articles about this trend back then. I was able to find VC capital investment. [1] Clearly there was more silly mo
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by wiremine 6y ago
> If this is the sort of "growing and learning" you're talking about. No, it's not. The key phrase is "growth mindset" [1]. That does not mean throwing away knowledge or blindly accepting the shiny new objec
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by wiremine 6y ago
> But if a candidate is motivated to take a job because they get to use shiny new technology I'm not sure it's about shiny tech, but the opportunity to grow and learn, and use those skills to become more marketable. The best de
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by wiremine 6y ago
These are well-reasoned defaults. I think the same can be said of architectures, not just technologies. I.e., when you're starting out, a monolith is likely a solid approach: it's easier to reason able, easier to deploy and debug,
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by wiremine 6y ago
Cool, thank you very much!
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by wiremine 6y ago
I have a lot of experience with ORMs (the Django one in particular). I'm having a hard time finding a quick overview of how Prisma's model is different. Are there any good overviews of the similarities and differences?
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by wiremine 6y ago
Thought the same thing. Scanned other articles on the site, and seems... not typical HN fodder.
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by wiremine 6y ago
Once you get in the habit, using pyenv/pipenv (in my case) is incredibly quick an easy. I use it for almost everything Python related I touch, except for quick scripts of the REPL.
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by wiremine 6y ago
> Edit: I realise [sic] COVID. But that's the excuse, not the reason. Not sure how it's not the reason? (Or, at least a major reason?) I think there's two things going on: 1. The long-term vision at Boing: the investment i
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by wiremine 6y ago
This is a great list. I'd add a few things: IoT Greengrass - Edge computing that can run Lambda functions and ML models on prem. IoT Core - Managed MQTT broker, state management and rules engine for devices with intermittent connectivi
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by wiremine 6y ago
Disclaimer: I'm VP of Engineering for software consultancy focused on IoT. We work with startups, midcap and several fortune 500s. I agree vendor lock in must be avoided. I also disagree that Open Source is the best approach in all sit
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> Don't think you can make a statement like "100% not related". That's likely true. Would be interesting to see ad revenue figures for a good cross section of the industry.
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by wiremine 6y ago
The thing with microcontrollers in general is that they tend to come in MANY variations to support all the various use cases out there. So, it really comes down to your use case. Once you have that figured out, it's much easier to pick
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by wiremine 6y ago
I was about to say "that's wrong!" but checked the Wikipedia article on it. [1] Thanks! I learned something today: I always thought it was a bug. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition
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by wiremine 6y ago
This isn't a knock per Perl, but looking back, it's really interesting to see how the two communities handled their respective transitions: Python 2 to Python 3, and Perl 5 to Perl 6 (now called raku [1]) I say it isn't a kno

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