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by zh3 3y ago
It did read rather like something inspired by stories from 80's hacker culture. And the build systems sound like they were made by managers.
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by zh3 3y ago
Stuff that's actually innovative. ChatGPT knows a lot about existing tech - even more than people who think they're pretty steeped in it (including myself here) - but inventive stuff that doesn't show up after a bit of google
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by zh3 3y ago
I always liked the idea that there's a reason not to be visible; pretty sure I saw it mentioned on HN first, it went something along the lines of us sending out messages and getting one back that says "SHH! They'll hear you.&
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by zh3 3y ago
This seems worthwhile at first sight; another implementation (in a different language) gives us more choice and time will tell on the CVE count:user ratio.
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by zh3 3y ago
There is indeed great content on Youtube. It's just more than unfortunate that the algorithmic pull is towards the - shall we say - less informative end of the spectrum? Some people learn a lot from it. Most people just seem to gawp en
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Ask HN: What's Your Obsolescence Fraction?
2 points by zh3 4y ago|2 comments
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by zh3 4y ago
I've got a bunch of these around, either multi-booting diskless (Devuan/Debian/Windows), more than enough for browsing, video calls and light development. Spec is E8400's at 3GHz/4Gb RAM, 1G ethernet, display port a
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by zh3 4y ago
Yes, could well be you've hit it there (i.e. stackoverflow has had its day).
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by zh3 4y ago
As a 'professional coder', I've been very much pondering - and experimentinng - with how best to use AI coding tools. For big, complex, programs I work on (multiple C programs up to 100k LoC) it's hard to frame a questio
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by zh3 4y ago
As its over 30 years ago now, the closest you can get is probably Virtual Boys on eBay. Apaert from the pair I have, the only other ones I'm aware of are linked below. https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/reflec
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by zh3 4y ago
Plenty of crazies at Battle Mountain [0]. Not been, but it's on the bucket list. [0] http://www.ihpva.org/whpsc/#:~:text=The%20World%20Human%20Po... .
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by zh3 4y ago
As a bit of background, the HUD is a Reflection Technology 'Private Eye' display, which went on to become the display technology behind the Nintendo Virtual Boy. Very neat devices, powered by an 8-bit 68HC05 and very much a self-c
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by zh3 4y ago
A common reason for this (no idea on this specific case) is that the backup battery on the alarm (NiCd) is old/failed. The alarm system then keeps trying to charge it, hence the high (and possibly intermittent) drain.
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by zh3 4y ago
I started on PDP-11s and big old boards stuffed with 64x1kb RAM so I had it relatively easy. Not quite the same, but every morning the boss would boot the system with 5 sweeps across the toggle switches to key in the bootloader. After that,
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by zh3 4y ago
I once got called in to fix an SS7 stack suffering from poor performance. Pretty well written, and not obvious at first sight why it was going slow. Most of it was low-level bit fiddling, and some small strncpy's() - generally about 8
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by zh3 4y ago
I have a giant knife switch bolted to what looks like a thick slate base, which (reportedly, according to ebay seller) used to operate a lift in a goldmine in Colorado. Long term plan is to mount it to the wall, so when I leave the office a
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by zh3 4y ago
That looks like a stock LED panel, pretty cheap on Amazon/ebay and can be driven directly by a Pi (with a bit of wiring) or more simply via a Pimoroni RGB matrix driver. Search for 'HUB75' panel and you'll find plenty of
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by zh3 4y ago
A Crystalfont 2x16 LCD with 4 cursor and tick/cross keys which sits just below the middle monitor of my triple-head programming setup. Normally displays date, time, media volume and incoming email/voicemail counts. When a call arr
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by zh3 4y ago
Doesn't seem to happen to people who love their work. Wouldn't that suggest it's less of a physical thing?
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by zh3 4y ago
Interesting stuff - and thanks for digging! Here's what I just got. Q: Which is faster, a Pi Zero or a 486/33? A: It is difficult to compare the speed of a Raspberry Pi Zero with a 486/33, as they are built on different archi
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by zh3 4y ago
I did indeed do that (more than once) yet it continues to come to the same (erroneous) conclusion. Try "Which is faster, a Pi zero or a 486/33?".
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by zh3 4y ago
Why do you say that? Obviously it's not a person, it's just stats (not even logic).
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by zh3 4y ago
They should certainly make them better. I'm currently trying to convince ChatGPT that a Pi zero is faster than a 486/33 (I also asked it how to italicise text on HN, and it got it wrong twice - so I went to google for "Ed:..
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by zh3 4y ago
Indeed, if you want to make fast turns at speed on a motorbike the trick is to first push/pull the bars in the oppositive direction - that gets the bike leaning over and then the bars come back and take the natural position for the tur
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by zh3 4y ago
Comparitively, GPT has definltely worked here for less-experienced engineers. A coworker (Mech. E.) last week got ChatGPT to create a python HTTP GET for him and today got it to write the code to drive a bunch of relays off a Pi using I2C.
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by zh3 4y ago
Not really. More behind the curve (noting stock exchanges introduced 'circuit breakers' many years ago to stop computer algorithms disrupting the market).
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by zh3 4y ago
Searching the internet for information about yourself personally. It was very flattering what it said about me (and in fact was mostly wrong) so I tried it on some co-workers as well and they also found it flattering but inaccurate.
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by zh3 4y ago
I just had my first assistance from ChatGPT today, courtesy of a "junior" (I would prefer "less-experienced") engineer. He wanted to click a web button as part of his work on improving our steam engine (ok, calibration s
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by zh3 4y ago
I recall flying LA to London on New Years Eve once - there was about 10 of us on the whole plane, and someone got a cricket game going down the fuselage. When we landed in the early hours, I set my watch to UK time and it was only a day or
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by zh3 4y ago
Not many people do this (I do, and have done for many years) because they're too used to unreliable systems. A solid (likely *nix-based) system with a UPS and some sort of a backup/save to non-volatile storage on long power-outage

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