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by flir | 2026-01-15 12:05:11+00:00
Sometimes I get the spine guillotined off and replaced with a ring binding. Any print shop can do it for you, and you just lose the gutter plus a little margin. Easier to work with at a desk, and you can even split into two "books" if you feel it necessary.

But that's only for books I don't want to keep, and Crafting Interpreters is definitely a keeper...
by pipes | 2026-01-15 12:05:11+00:00
I'd love to buy a 500+

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-500-plus/

I can't justify it though as I've no use for it.

However I think it is way closer to their original vision than anything else, i.e. It is a lot like the 1980s computers, the magic they were trying to capture.
by frm88 | 2026-01-15 12:05:48+00:00
This happened 2025 Jan 15-17 and this year Jan 12-14 in the area I live in. Rain and fog meets icy ground and then rain turns to snow. When I was in the ER last year the 8 hours wait time were due to 26 other broken bones patients and the ER was busy until 1:30 in the morning. It used to be rare, but that changed over the last couple of years.
by appointment | 2026-01-15 12:06:08+00:00
No it doesn't make sense. Every photon that hits the Earth is eventually either absorbed as heat, reflected back into space or both (eg. partially absorbed and partially re-emitted as lower energy photons.) There is no net global increase in heat from a wind turbine or solar panel. (There might be slight local shifts.)

The only way this could change net heat if it significantly altered the reflectivity of the surface, and in practice the affected area is too small to matter. As an exaggerated example, I found an article [1] that calculated the area that would need to be covered by solar panels to generate power equal the total global electricity consumption to be 115,625 square miles, approximately equal to the state of New Mexico.

[1] https://www.axionpower.com/knowledge/power-world-with-solar/
by hiimkeks | 2026-01-15 12:06:13+00:00
No, the 340 were per month, the 40 hours are per week. I usually do back-of-the-envelope calculations with 4.3 weeks per month, which would leave them below 2 EUR/h.

Edit: But you are of course right about inflation! According to this website[1] it would bump them to 3.2 EUR/h.

[1]: https://www.inflationtool.com/euro-netherlands/2005-to-prese...
by nick007x | 2026-01-15 12:06:17+00:00
Hey, I’m working on a similar project and have uploaded Pushshift Reddit data to Hugging Face Datasets. If anyone wants to download specific files when torrents aren’t seeding well, you can use:

https://huggingface.co/datasets/nick007x/pushshift-reddit

It’s handy for grabbing individual months or subreddit slices without needing to pull the full torrent. Might be useful for smaller-scale archiving or testing.
by lvl155 | 2026-01-15 12:06:31+00:00
China is far more incentivized to champion renewable considering that they do not have the same access as the US. US is also on a path to quite literally invading other countries to extract crude and other resources. I don’t think China is in a position to do this, yet. If China invades Brunei or arrests Bolkiah, they will face irreversible repercussions.

All that said, I don’t think wind and solar are the answers. Geothermal and fusion will need to be the solution.
by xerp2914 | 2026-01-15 12:06:39+00:00
Meanwhile POTUS has his head stuck in the sand [0]:

> “All you have to do is say to China, how many windmill areas do you have in China? So far, they are not able to find any. They use coal, and they use oil and gas and some nuclear, not much. But they don’t have windmills, they make them and sell them to suckers like Europe, and suckers like the United States before.”

One of the most factually BS statements ever.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattrandolph/2026/01/12/china-d...
by unwind | 2026-01-15 12:07:25+00:00
I think this is very cool, even though I have no historical connection to the Z80 it's of course a well-regarded and firmly entrenched/popular retro CPU.

But this really is a stretch:

The Z80 Membership Card itself is a stand-alone single-board computer that can "power up" your projects, like the Parallax BASIC Stamps or Arduino microcomputers.

Both of those are very commonly called microcontrollers, not microcomputers, since they have all of those extra chips merged into the single package of the CPU.

Take a look at the Arduino Uno [1] which is a very typical (if old) example: you will see that the board is not covered in ICs from edge to edge, since all of the main functionality is in the single-chip microcontroller. I think the second big-ish package visible is for the USB, but that also disappears on more modern controllers with on-board support for USB.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino_Uno#/media/File:Arduin...
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-01-15 12:07:37+00:00
If we truly need age gates on the internet, then I think the best method is to have non-internet based age verification. I envisage going to a local shop and buying something like a gift-card that the shops only sell to adults (c.f. tobacco sales in the UK). That way, the gift-card code would be the only information required to upload to websites to prove that you're an adult and existing legislation could cover the shops requirements to not sell them to minors.
by wooger | 2026-01-15 12:08:07+00:00
Yeah yeah, and 30-50 feral hogs could burst into your yard any moment.

For moving yards of mulch, topsoil or concrete blocks, almost anyone in my country, including people in construction would just have that delivered to the site, next day, by the seller.

No clue what van you're imagining, but weather alone makes many things much worse in an open bed. Moving a couch is a very common use of vans, people rent them specifically to move furniture all the time.

minivan != van.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-01-15 12:08:40+00:00
Good points.

I suspect a lot of folks are asking ChatGPT to summarize it…

I can’t imagine just letting an LLM write an app, server, or documentation package, wholesale and unsupervised, but have found them to be extremely helpful in editing and writing portions of a whole.

The one thing that could be a light in the darkness, is that publishers have already fired all their editors (nothing to do with AI), and the writing out there shows it. This means there’s the possibility that AI could bring back editing.
by reify | 2026-01-15 12:08:53+00:00
I'm all in.

As of today Ive dumped blackarch.

My aim?

To disable all of big tech worldwide, starting with X, and rule the world from my comfy cyberpunk armchair.

Thank god for ai.

I will go to my grave, happy, knowing I have saved all of our future grandchildren from the dangers of surveillance Big Tech.

Rise up all you armchair script kiddies. AI is the future

The world needs you -->>

where are anonymous when you need them? They are a bit quiet lately
by d4rkp4ttern | 2026-01-15 12:09:10+00:00
Specifically for coding agents, one issue is how to continue work when almost fill the context window.

Compaction always loses information, so I use an alternative approach that works extremely well, based on this almost silly idea — your original session file itself is the golden source of truth with all details, so why not directly leverage it?

So I built the aichat feature in my Claude-code-tools repo with exactly this sort of thought; the aichat rollover option puts you in a fresh session, with the original session path injected, and you use sub agents to recover any arbitrary detail at any time. Now I keep auto-compact turned off and don’t compact ever.

https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools?tab=readme-o...

It’s a relatively simple idea; no elaborate “memory” artifacts, no discipline or system to follow, work until 95%+ context usage.

The tool (with the related plugins) makes it seamless: first type “>resume” in your session (this copies session id to clipboard), then quit and run

aichat resume <pasted session id>

And this launched a TUI offering a few ways to resume your work, one of which is “rollover”; this puts you in a new session with the original session jsonl path injected.
And in the new session say something like,

“There is a chat session log file path shown to you; Use subagents strategically to extract details of the task we were working on at the end of it”, or use the /recover-context slash command. If it doesn’t quite get all of it, prompt it again for specific details.

There’s also an aichat search command for rust/tantivy based fast full text search to search across sessions, with a TUI for humans and a CLI/JSON mode for agents/subagents. The latter ( and the corresponding skill and sub agent) can be used to recover arbitrary detailed context about past work.
by dismalpedigree | 2026-01-15 12:09:38+00:00
Yes. The Hailo chips are mainly for AI vision models. This is the first time I have seen them pushed for LLM. They are very finicky and difficult to setup outside of the examples. Documentation is inconsistent and the models have to be converted to a different format to run. It is possible to run a custom yolo8 model, but is challenging.
by frm88 | 2026-01-15 12:10:15+00:00
Equally as difficult, except for very small ones that go on a table - these are more of a decorative item than a bucket. Enamel in general has gotten somewhat rare. I found one (!) factory in Germany that does these. One.

Edit: I just checked:10l is max. There are no bigger ones and now I wonder why :)
by vladdoster | 2026-01-15 12:10:28+00:00
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by aniou | 2026-01-15 12:11:04+00:00
"And it's just plain better at writing code than 60% of my graduating class was back in the day".

Only because it has access to vast amount of sample code to draw a re-combine parts. Did You ever considered emerging technologies, like new languages or frameworks that may be a much better suited for You area but they are new, thus there is no codebase for LLM to draw from?

I'm starting to think about a risk of technological stagnation in many areas.
by globular-toast | 2026-01-15 12:11:14+00:00
> Heidu Mountain Scenic Area

Not so scenic any more... I get it, electricity good, but man are we destroying places just to get this stuff. In the UK I reckon within my lifetime it won't be possible to go to the sea any more. I mean, the sea how it used to be, without wind turbines in it. Fossil fuels gave us too much. If only we could figure out how to want less.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-15 12:11:49+00:00
Fullsize vans don't offer AWD at a reasonable price point.

Either AWD/4wd is necessary when you're going to other people's property because you can't guarantee any given property isn't an icy shithole and when you're a professional being paid by them to be there for a specific purpose the last thing you wanna do is slip out trying to do a 25-point turn on their stupid sloped driveway and put a tire in the landscaping.
by kranner | 2026-01-15 12:12:12+00:00
I did miss the sarcasm you pointed out in the separate mail to me (I should have paid more attention to the word "otherwise", I guess). I did not mean to lecture at you at all. I thought it was something you built very quickly with LLMs, but clearly this was a passion project, whether or not you used LLMs.

My apologies.
by thatsit | 2026-01-15 12:12:17+00:00
Being used to European style ski maps, I don’t really understand why you would paint a ski map. A ski map is a map and should convey all the information you need without being overwhelming. I don’t get it why it would show different trees or why the colors need to be natural. A map is a man made thing, nature is outdoors. There is no need to reflect it on the mapy

I appreciate the artwork though.
by TrackerFF | 2026-01-15 12:13:39+00:00
Also, the statement "From a spiritual perspective, there are only two career paths one can take: farmer or artisan. Anything else unavoidably involves doing evil or is essentially meaningless." is just so wrong that it's hard to take rest of the blogpost seriously.

Helping people for example is neither farming, nor artisanal, and is quite arguably the least evil and most selfless things one can do. The world needs caregivers, health workers, etc.

I'm not saying that to be mean, not at all. I just find it odd that for someone who has gone through such a spiritual journey/awakening, become a devout Christian even, to then declare all other careers as evil or meaningless. For every ex-white collar professional now LARPing as a micro-farmer, there are tenfold more people not receiving adequate care.
by mindcrash | 2026-01-15 12:14:23+00:00
> I think Raspberry lost the magic of the older Pis, they lost that sense of purpose. They basically created a niche with the first Pis, now they're just jumping into segments that others created and are already filled to the brim with perhaps even more qualified competition.

I don't think you will find anything on the market enabling you to create your own audiophile quality AMP, DAC, or AMP+DAC for a pretty attractive price except a Pi 3/4/5 with a HifiBerry (https://www.hifiberry.com/) HAT.
by DannyBee | 2026-01-15 12:14:53+00:00
Ignoring people, what sort of effect does it have on materials (plastics, etc)?

The only studies i can find suggest this is an issue. For example:

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/7/4141

The results of the study showed that far-UVC irradiation causes significant color degradation (∆E00 >5) in all the polymeric materials tested, after 290 J/cm2 radiant exposure. In addition, significant changes in mechanical properties were observed when evaluating elasticity modulus, elongation at ultimate strength, elongation at break, and tensile strength. A particularly large decrease in elongation at break (up to 26%) was observed in fiber-reinforced composite materials.

Is there anything that suggests this will turn out okay?

I don't think "stop using polymers in any place where far-uvc may exist" would fly. So it's cool that we've made something that isn't going to hurt humans, but if it destroys the stuff humans depend on, not sure that works either?

I also don't think the world is going to move to UV-stable polymers for everything just to make far-UVC work (in some cases this isn't even possible). We almost always just make things more UV-resistant instead of UV-stable.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-15 12:15:40+00:00
>AWD is a luxury outside of the most extreme of extreme locations.

Only in the most strictly technical "I'm not touching you" sense.

Either AWD/4wd is necessary-ish when you're going to other people's property because you can't guarantee any given property isn't an icy shithole and when you're a professional being paid by them to be there for a specific purpose the last thing you wanna do is slip out trying to do a 25-point turn on their stupid sloped driveway and put a tire in the landscaping.

Even if it's some megacorp's facility that "should" be plowed and salted, it might not be when you show up at 6am on the dot to service something.

>I grew up in Minnesota driving rear wheel drive cars to start. They worked fine even in the olden days where plows would take a couple days to clear the country backroads and even rock salt was applied sparingly due to the expense.

>Not a single one of my vehicles had winter tires - all seasons were perfectly serviceable. You’d get stuck once in a great while but that’s what the bag of sand and shovel in the trunk were for.

I completely agree but the past isn't coming back. Those standards of performance are unfortunately no longer acceptable, especially in business settings.
How to make spamming us uncomfortable for LinkedIn and friends
by zx8080 | 2026-01-15 12:15:40+00:00
I've got an email from Linkedin:

> ## colleagues from your company already solved LinkedIn puzzle games

Are you f%%n serious, Linkedin? This is a freaking spam from "Linkedin games".

The question is, how to stop it not like unsubscribe, but how to make it painful for them to do spam us?
by stonecharioteer | 2026-01-15 12:16:23+00:00
That my colleagues like me despite me being a bad fit for the role here at my company. I feel good, I really like them here at Chatwoot but I'm not who they need right now. It's my last week here, and it's only been 3.5 months but they feel like family. It's sad that I had to quit but I'll miss these good people.
by lapcat | 2026-01-15 12:16:26+00:00
> There’s quite a difference between a one time $5 fee and an annual $99 fee for the economics of publishing a free browser extension.

Yes? I didn't deny that. I said your initial comment didn't mention cost.

> Given almost 100% compatibility with the same Web Extension APIs that Chrome uses, I think you’d expect near-parity in extension availability between Chrome and Safari if that barrier didn’t exist.

It feels like you ignored the points I made in my last comment. Why would you expect near parity in extension availability when you can't even develop Safari extensions on Windows and Linux computers?
by carlosjobim | 2026-01-15 12:16:33+00:00
> Pretty much everything a government can do is going to qualify as "oppression" if you use the term so broadly

Yes, and that's why great care and respect should be applied to how the government uses the tax money which they have raised from oppression.

Paying somebody to work for free for a giant corporation is not a justified use of that money. Those corporations should pay for their labour themselves.

I can't think of any worse oppression than taxes, bare forced labour. When it's done to pay for an army to defend ourselves against enemies, for the justice system to protect all citizens, or for healthcare to save lives, then that's palatable. As well as for a myriad of other things. But to pay a programmer so that he can make server infrastructure so that Amazon doesn't have to pay him? That's not palatable.
by Mashimo | 2026-01-15 12:16:57+00:00
Correct. But when I looked into it a few years back fir OrangePi it was not as easy as downloading raspbian. All the images made for the pi would not work, you had to download a kernel from another place or something like that? Sorry I don't remember the details, but it was not as easy as a pi.

How much cheaper then 50 bucks can a tablet get? With the pi I can quickly in a hacky way connect rotary encoders with female-female dupon cables, use a python GPIO library made for raspberry pi.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1461079634354639132...

I can also use it for Zynthian. And if I'm done with it, I can build a new printer :P
by reactordev | 2026-01-15 12:17:01+00:00
I have three tools dedicated to this.

save_memory, recall_memory, search

Save memory vectorizes a session, summarizes it, and stores it in SQLite. Recall memory takes vector or a previous tool run id and loads the full text output. Search takes a vector array or string array and searches through the graph using fuzzy matching and vector dot products.

It’s not fancy, but it works really well. gpt-oss
by mindcrime | 2026-01-15 12:17:57+00:00
It wasn't literally today, but about 2 days ago I discovered the -H (and --host) arguments to systemctl. These allow you to pass a hostname of a remote server, so you can use systemctl to manage systemd services on remote machines. It layers over ssh, so the cleanest way to do it is to have passwordless ssh with certificates set up to the remote host. If you do, running systemctl commands remotely is totally seamless.

https://www.tecmint.com/control-systemd-services-on-remote-l...
by theBobBob | 2026-01-15 12:18:14+00:00
In Ireland we were very late to the postcode game and when we introduced them a few years back they actually uniquely identifies a single address. We also continued our "interesting" habit of renaming everything to make them sound more Irish so they are called Eircodes. In theory you could just put the single 7 character Eircode on a letter and it would be enough although our postal service has said we can't do that.
by danw1979 | 2026-01-15 12:18:28+00:00
My local beaches on the Yorkshire coast have some of the biggest wind farms in the world.

We’re never going to reduce energy consumption. It’s a balance between gas and wind here, just pick how many wind turbines you want, and burn gas to fill in the gaps.

Your ruined horizon is my safer future for my kids. I like seeing them there. I wish there were more.
by _flux | 2026-01-15 12:18:39+00:00
> Now please tell me what information the geolocation prompt actually provides to the website that cannot be taken from the IP address, which is already tracked and processed by google and every single website tracking tool.

Show me the bus schedule for the nearest bus stop, show me the nearest store, share my location in a chat..

The browser's IP-based geolocation (as per what https://mylocation.org/ can find out from my session) is kilometers away.
by seer_seer_seer | 2026-01-15 12:18:43+00:00
Is farming not helping people to produce the food they need? Can you categorize jobs and the actions involved in them into the path of “farmer” (those who do standard work to produce for many) or “artisan” (those who do unique work to solve problems for few/many)?

Maybe it’s overreaching, but I like to see it as the writer saying unless your job provides a “good” to world and doesn’t just move bits from one database to another then its a good path.

Theres flaws with that approach too, but one I would give them benefit for.