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by zh3 3y ago
> We often hear that making small incremental improvements every day can lead to great things. This popular piece of advice rings true... A journey of 10,000 miles starts with a single step. You can only cross a chasm with a mighty leap.
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by zh3 3y ago
Pretty much every business (mostly start-ups) I've been involved have been a combination of hardware and software; anyone who can work both is never going to be out of a job. These days I tend to mix both of those things with bicycles
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by zh3 3y ago
Could be but most sites render fine. Pretty stock setup, Dell monitors on Nvidia graphics, no tweaking.
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by zh3 3y ago
Is that a condemnation by faint praise? :) Could be because I'm reading on desktop and it works better on mobile.
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by zh3 3y ago
It may not have a zillion libraries, but surprised that a site trying to be zippy uses low-contrast text (obviously, I am not a fan of the "increases engagement time" school of thought).
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by zh3 3y ago
Governments run on alcohol and parties (at least in the UK, as demonstrated by Johnson et al.) Not really my area (or even my hemisphere) but US presidents have had a varied history of leadership success and alcohol use (anyone got a chart?
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by zh3 3y ago
UK experience (some years back) of a platinum card was that the few places who accepted it preferred Visa or Mastercard. Minimal utility, basically.
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by zh3 3y ago
Here's a Vulcan landing with unsafe nose gear; hold back on the stick to keep the nose up (but not so long it comes down with a bump). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxshOMFTZdM
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by zh3 3y ago
On of the more evocative things (esp. for those in the UK) was a Spitfire helping out a Vulcan (XH558 no less) with nosegear issues in 2015. https://theaviationgeekclub.com/that-time-a-wwii-spitfire-he...
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by zh3 3y ago
By buying github, they got the ability to suck down all the code on it, at scale. If I understand correctly, it was then used for AI training - so perhaps more like open source being co-opted than supported.
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by zh3 3y ago
>Microsoft has gotten so much better with integrating and supporting open source over the years. Eh...integrating yes, support? And effectively declaring themselves in charge of MIDI specs, hmmm ("...no longer under NDA etc").
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by zh3 3y ago
'tr' and 'cut' are also very useful; 'tr' can be used to get rid of extra spaces and to conver commas to spaces and vice versa (and to handle text data with pretty much any character used as a separator). &
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by zh3 3y ago
Probably not a popular opinion in a systemd world (and being responsible for a lot of critical systems where things don't change much but absolutely have to work every day), the nice thing about sysv is all you need to know a little bi
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by zh3 3y ago
The Adafruit nrf52940 feather is a great companion to the DK, since it has the 10 pin header on it for SWD programming. When the cable is connected, the DK switches to programming the offboard (Adafruit) nrf52840 so it's pretty much tr
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by zh3 3y ago
You missed 'deprecating the alternatives' :) Somewhat jaded opinion after many years in the business, but these companies exploiting OSS for profit have learnt from how Microsoft's moves have played out over the years (and ar
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by zh3 3y ago
I imagine the search and rescue effort have checked the seismograph/ocean sounds/other networks, AIUI an implosion at depth makes quite a bang, so not detecting one would be a positive.
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by zh3 3y ago
RT-11 on the PDP-11 (all in PDP-11 assembler). Back in the early 80's you could rebuild it in several different ways, depending on whether you wanted it "single job" (as it was back then) or not. As an example, here's th
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by zh3 3y ago
Has dang got a day off? Previous discussions:- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22030928 (2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34859102 HN discussion (2023)
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by zh3 3y ago
Reference the statement that several employees were ill in the months leading up to the outbreak, these were tested and (reportedly) did not have Covid antibodies - this also seems to be missing from the article.
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by zh3 3y ago
Or post-installation. Basically install sysvinit-core, copy inittab to /etc and reboot (systemd can then be removed/autoremoved/purged according to taste).
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by zh3 3y ago
No problem running lightweight distros on them, though the really thin clients tend to be underpowered for web browsing. Available very cheaply on ebay, and pretty much all support remote boot so easy to run diskless (assuming some minimal
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by zh3 3y ago
Quite a lot of this resonated. A long way through though:- > What if you began each morning with a status meeting in which your team confronts its task board? A plan could then be made about which handful of things each person would tack
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by zh3 3y ago
A Pi HQ camera with a lens of your choice. It's easy to synchronise any number of Pi cameras together, and with the RAM on them each camera can store a long sequence of frames (add an RF-trigger flash using BBC microbits to each one to
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by zh3 3y ago
Yet.
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by zh3 3y ago
I always liked the intro. Police busting into someones apartment, Edison Carter (jourrnalist) wanting to know what the problem was. Cop flips over a pillow by the TV, says something like:- "It's an off switch. She'll get yea
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by zh3 3y ago
Even as a retro-grouch (with a bunch of 386 and 486 boxes, some still in use), this makes sense. Not mentioned, but wondering what sort of TPM/DRM bolt-ons will become mandatory as part of this?
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by zh3 3y ago
There's definitely a trend (and to my eyes a lowering of quality) on this site over the past couple of years. That's easily attributed to the downturn (possibly allied to the increasing social influence of the site) - so I'd
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by zh3 3y ago
More on this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-65610337 I'd have expected multiple new submissions on this (given it's Sam Altman) but can't see anything and my submissions (one with
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by zh3 3y ago
Just write the desired governor to /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu${X}/cpufreq/scaling_governor, e.g. powersave, performance etc. Poke about in there to see what governors are available, and do it in a loop to
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by zh3 3y ago
I see it as more there are degrees of "consciousness" (whatever it is). Human consciousness varies in a single human over time (sleeping, tired, alert, drunk etc) and the range appears to vary (let alone across species, I'd g

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