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Funnily enough, today I am I am (re)starting my post secondary education after a decade and counting in the military.

Your comment reminds me of one of the misconceptions that friends have of me/military. I am not as it happens a particularly good shot/fighter/camper/adventurer. However the military has more then prepared me to wade through a bureaucratic swamp to tell a room full of people paid more then me that they're wrong and will fight to the proverbial death over it.

That being said, other then some culture shock, not expecting anything too dramatic, ought to be a good time really.
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some religious communities may be what you are looking for. unfortunately not all of them. some just tell you that you should improve but leave you to figure out how all on your own.
TIL. It's too late for this book, but I'll try it in the next one.
BazziteOS is far superior and gets faster updates than SteamOS. It even supports secure boot, FDE and other important security enhancements. SteamOS didn't even had a login mechanism on release
It's funny, I drive a 22 year old car, by far the oldest at my workplace parking. I've been talking about getting a newer car but haven't been able to bring myself to spend 35K on one. It's running joke in the office, colleagues will ask if I've bought the new car yet every week.
> But rpi 3 was launched for €32/$35

It also had 1GB RAM, 1.2GHz CPU and 100mbit Ethernet, while the RPI 5 has 2.4GHz CPU, iGPU, hardware HEVC decoder, 2GB RAM, Gigabit Ethernet and more.

But yeah, overall I agree, they seem to be slowly raising the prices (even when accounting for inflation) which isn't too hopeful to see, but at least they seem to have some footing to raise the prices, as the new ones has a lot more features than the old ones.

In the end, there are alternatives that will give you more performance/spent money, although probably with worse software support...
FWIW, while it is true that a smaller pointer lets you have smaller minimum fixed size objects in your pool, as your new footnote suggests, the space concern I was mostly alluding to in [1] is all the references in your client code { such as the BST code I linked to where each binary search tree (BST) node has 2 pointers (or 3 if they have parent pointers to give BST nodes "doubly linked list-like autonomy") }.

This can really add up. For example, like 20 years ago, I did a `print sizeof` in gdb for some g++ STL map node with a data payload of like 4 bytes and it was some obscene size approximately >= 1 order of magnitude bigger than necessary (like 80 bytes instead of, say 8 with 2Byte ptrs). While main memory is cheap, CPU cache memory is not and for "linky" structures, it often pays to be more cache-friendly. It's pretty easy to imagine a 10X smaller thing fitting into an L2 CPU cache where the larger thing would not even fit in L3, netting you a big latency boost (though the more root-ward levels of the tree likely always stay in caches in a hot loop).

EDIT: Anyway, you don't have to believe me. Others did an x32 ABI for x86_64 mostly to have "merely 2X" smaller pointers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42643410
Utopia? I never experienced it myself, but the footage of the American roads in the video looks as dystopian as it can possibly get already... Somehow, the elevated freeways and what's below them remind me of the worst cyberpunk sprawl nightmares. I guess being free from the constraints of dealing with any buildings or areas older than 200 years doesn't necessarily lead to better designs...
And yet nature has historically found balance. Humans, on a large scale, seem incapable of doing the same. At this point humans have become a perpetual extinction event with no end in sight.
It's more complicated for cars, because you often can't get a 2000s-quality car even if you want to. There just aren't any cars on the market today with the size and (lack of) features my current car has; whenever I need a new one, I'll have to either buy another ancient car from the 2000s or pay more for extra features and dimensions I don't need.

With TVs, though, Best Buy sells 2000s-quality TVs for like 60 bucks. I don't think it makes sense to say that TVs haven't really decreased in price just because most people would prefer to buy the fancier ones.
People travel around the world and pay a lot to see a small handful of big-name sports. The long tail of olympic events is watched mostly by people who came for the big-name sports (or lived there already) and figured they might as well catch something else while they were in town.
How can housing prices drop if most people invest most of their wealth into their house and they expect a return on the investment?
> You need a history of the assumptions so that new developers can know what's legacy and what isn't.

Isn't this (at least in part (and perhaps only approximately)) what Architecture Decision Records are for?
It is a little like modern aircraft disasters. A technical failure or combination of failures, perhaps even minor ones, combined with bad/wrong immediate management of the situation when the fault is detected, compounded by some matter of policy. In this case a refusal to acknowledge at the highest level that the system could possibly be wrong. "Clearly it must be the sub-postmasters stealing".

Edit:
I would also add that successive governments have shamelessly dragged their feet over this.
IDK, to me there’s a difference between “not full-time employed as an athlete” and “not helped with expenses for participating in the Olympics”
Are those still a thing? I thought that was a novelty three years ago, and not really needed anymore.
It depends on the context! Trying to Americanize Godzilla, for instance, has largely failed because Godzilla is an allegory for the unique horror of nuclear bombing which Japan experienced. Making him just a lizard that walks through New York is kind of stupid.

Jokes are an example of something translators can do really well - things like puns don't work 1:1 across languages. A good translator will find a corresponding, appropriate line of dialogue and basically keep the intent without literally translating the words.

Food is kind of silly because it's tied to place - if a setting is clearly Spanish, or a character is Spanish, why wouldn't they talk about Spanish food? Their nationality ostensibly informs something about their character (like Godzilla) and can't just be fine/replaced.
Every topic has typical comments that are predictable.
Unless it processes images on the fly to do some sort of image-based steering or target recognition, an Arduino or comparable microcontroller should be beefy enough [1].
In mobile applications, power consumption of a RPi quickly becomes an issue.

[1] https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot
I haven’t tried Wine lately but I will say many applications I’ve used over the years in business environments businesses to some degree depended on for some function did not run in Wine very well and almost always required a Windows machine.

I can think of at least 3 applications in my current environment where Wine almost certainly wouldn’t work and we either get Windows machines or spin up VMs for those applications that aren’t just legacy, they’re in active development.

Some industries build application specifically assuming the client will run them on Windows. The world hasn’t entirely moved to SaaS and until that happens, having local native environments for certain applications will still be needed, albeit for a friction of total use cases across most businesses, but still some fraction will remain for awhile. I look forward to the day that fraction is 0.
i actually felt dizzy just watching that
Expectation vs. Reality
The average price of what is considered a good TV in any given year has gone down over the years. While the GP did get a better TV each time, absolute price also went down each time, likely without even factoring inflation in.
That's cool that you heard from one.

What I really wanted from a developer was the i960. Specifically, the version with the object protections. That might be worth buying today for secure, embedded work. If I found the right person, I'd ask them to open-source, or at least dual-license, the i960. For embedded systems, leave it as a RISC-V alternative or port it to RISC-V.
How come this topic dropped off the main page in a flash? One second it was there and then literally a few seconds later it had disappeared... just wondering..
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42620278
As much as I’d love to not just use but daily Linux, unfortunately it’s nowhere close to Windows (and presumably MacOS) in user friendliness. Good design is discoverable. A CLI unless well designed is not, a GUI with only buttons is (as you can keep clicking and navigating).

I’m not saying all this to voice my personal issues with Linux (lots have already spoken about it). I’m saying this because I seriously doubt the general public would be able to use Linux as easily as windows unless they only use chrome all day long (which, to be fair, is a lot of people). When it’s easier to root an android phone than understand which version of files Fedora uses to edit the GRUB menu, it’s disappointing if you were rooting for Fedora, pun partially intended.
Lessig in books and talks explained it very well, why reliance on money - people and corps funding parties and candidates - in elections keep the elections elitist and undemocratic. It needed reform and it still needs reform, more than ever.

I naively hoped that his well laid out arguments would make a difference, but here we are much later and it didn't help a single bit.
Earth has an ice and deicing ability. For some reason it has decided to "ice" these two areas.

I joke but I bet the planet plays a role in how that entire mass stays so cold.
Anyone else remember when Steve Pavlina trialled polyphasic (30 minute nap every 4 hours) sleep for a year or two? https://stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/

I just checked the dates and it was 20 years ago. Soooooo old....
The way software is treated in law is one of the greatest problems this has revealed; despite being a SWE I am convinced that, had I been in the positions of these subpostmasters, I would not have been able to sufficiently document and present the issues to avoid criminal charges.
This narrative about building houses out of sticks also rubs me the wrong way. It's an extremely naive take on why it happens. The reason most homes in America are wood framed is really down to economics. Europe does not have as vast of a forest stock for lumber as the US/Canada does. Over time we have specialized in building wood framed homes and because of lumber, its cheaper.

These homes would have been destroyed regardless of building material. The bigger issue is most of these homes have probably not properly gone through fire mitigation steps.

https://www.insurance.ca.gov/01-consumers/200-wrr/Safer-from...
This type of scams prey on the ego of the target. In the attention economy everyone wants to project an aura of expertise. Someone interested in your expertise is just about the perfect bait. Literary agents, publishers, VCs, sponsorships, etc.
It doesn’t seem worth much to you because it’s not your vocation.
I hope that rpi6 goes nvme and usb c. I would love full size hdmi but I can see going usb c for displays as well
7060 with i7-8700T. Got two from eBay and one from a local classified ads service.

Some vendors on eBay allow you to make an offer for a lower price, it’s worth a try.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_Poland#Viewing_s...

There are 6 football games with higher viewership than the 2002 Olympic ski jumping.

Also, viewers per year would be a better metric, one single event with a lot of viewer probably gives you less ad revenue than an event every week with half the viewers.
Don't give Joe Rogan or Alex Jones any ideas.
I'm not sure the parents are necessarily to blame here.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/22/us/mother-arrested-missing-so...
I've had some success with converting SQL to Mermaid Markdown diagrams.
> FTFY: subsidize people living in red states

Please leave politics out of this discussion, it's immature.
Victim blaming is not cool. These types of over-the-top legal threats in response to good-faith engagement are extremely common and it's why bug bounties have safe harbor protections.
Using AI to ship a paid product in <10 hours
I’m not a developer – I can get around a bit in HTML and CSS but definitely couldn’t reasonably market my skills as a front end engineer. So after seeing the promise of these AI coding tools, I thought I’d test them out to see how far they could take me.
Can someone explain what efforts will be made to rebuild if any? How could they rebuild knowing this can just happen again next year? It’s not like hurricanes where buildings can be made to withstand category 5 storms.
> Unless, that is, I agree to work on a comparable solution for the university focused on solving the underlying problem I was building HuskySwap for. They would presumably own the IP and were clear that I wouldn’t be compensated. But it was implied that they would then remove the hold, allowing me to graduate.

I'm really baffled here because the code Kaim published is itself MIT licensed. The university could use it however they see fit after his version, and perhaps make a modified version which they then incorporate in to their system as the 'official' version.

Perhaps this code being public may expose potential flaws (logical, security, etc) which they don't want to have to deal with. Or might even be known flaws they don't want to expose.
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Gold has been going nowhere but up the last 15 years. I suspect it has something to do with money supply / low interest rates / inflation that’s not reflected in official measures.
Sounds like a bash 3 issue.

$ bash --version

GNU bash, version 5.2.32(1)-release (aarch64-apple-darwin23.4.0)

$ declare -A aaa; aaa[a]=a; aaa[b]=bb; for i in ${!aaa[@]}; do echo "$i --> ${aaa[$i]}"; done

b --> bb

a --> a
I think most people buying RPis for the GPIO would be better served by a small microcontroller devboard like the Arduino Uno acting as the intermediary between the computer and the wires. This way if anything goes wrong (overvoltage, short) then the Arduino takes the impact and is much cheaper to replace.
I think that popularity isn't random but comes from the region, and in those cases they are in fact paid well.

E.g. ice hockey in Canada, makes sense that people living in such a cold place are going to gravitate to such a sport.

EU countries - guessing those near the Alps right, not say Portugal? Biles - because it was their country winning. Outside of that they didn't care about the sport.
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Do these cars have a big orange button that connects you straight to support? Or do you have to get out your phone and open the app and dig around for the right button while your ride is spinning in circles?
I don’t mind the size but it does make it prohibitively more difficult to travel with compared to the Switch (slightly) but especially so compared to old handhelds like the DS and Vita.

I generally keep my Steam Deck at home and play from the couch. It’s awesome to be able to pick it up, play a game for 15 minutes, hit the power button to suspend. Come back later and pickup where I left off. The Switch does this as well but the Steam Deck supports games more my genre and style so it gets more use.
You can post this in the monthly hiring threads at the beginning of each month
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

Job postings are otherwise offtopic on HN.
> the IOC generate billions in revenue so there obviously is value to a lot of people in it somewhere.

There's value in the Olympics, sure, but that value is concentrated in a handful of big-name sports. The smaller ones come along for the ride rather than generating value themselves.
"Apes together strong"

Even Koba learned to hate.

And, despite the last movie ending on uplifting note, the very end showed the humans in a bunker ready to attack again.

Nothing survives the fight for resources. In-Group/Out-Group.

It will take some real tragedy to bring Left/Right back together. Like a real (more severe) virus where Republicans are like "wow, we be dying, I'm all for distancing now, get away from me, where are the scientists, give me a mask".
Unfortunately not. Maybe I'll write another online book like this in English, after building a more practical microkernel-based OS. It's a very interesting topic indeed :D
This looks really cool, thanks for sharing!

I recently tried to implement a workflow automation using similar frameworks that were playwright or puppeteer based. My goal was to log into a bunch of vendor backends and extract values for reporting (no APIs available). What stopped me entirely were websites that implemented an invisible captcha. They can detect a playwright instance by how it interacts with the DOM. Pretty frustrating, but I can totally see this becoming a standard as crawling and scraping is getting out of control.
if anything, thanks for letting us all know that University of Washington blackmails their students in bad faith. hopefully this will save at least one other kid from being taken advantage of like you are clearly being and go to a superior institution that doesn't do these kinds of things.
Lessig founded "Rootstrikers" to strike at what he thought was a fundamental root of the problem of politics in the US. I don't even know if that organization is active anymore. Their thesis is that special interest money, political corruption, and the reliance on money to even get to be a candidate in elections is a root of the problem.

He did this TED talk long time ago (and several other talks) and it made a big impression on me, but it didn't catch on(?)

https://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_...
Private companies needed to obtain license [0] from the govt to start or to expand.

Some companies were even prosecuted for producing more than what was allowed. This was at least Nehru's (first Prime Minister) version of Democratic Socialism.

[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_Raj
You left off 3 zeros those numbers!
I am Italian and I remember very well when, around the 90, I frequently go to the computer shop to buy copied games in 3.5 floppies with handwritten labels.
They cost the equivalent of 2.5€ and frequently this was the best way to get a virus.
Great question -- I run Microsoft Money -- it's managed my finances since 1995 -- I've got 30 years of financial transaction history in there I don't want to bail on. Sure it's old but it's always got the job done, I have no complaints other than it can no longer update stock prices from the internet. It's actually my most critical app to me, much more than gaming.

Last time I ran Wine it wasn't up to the task, graphical glitches etc. My financial package is too critical to me to live with downtime. I thought about trying to import to Quicken etc but all of the mainstream financial apps have become online subscription services -- that seems like a downgrade to me. Open to any suggestions here.

So, for the time being I'm still running windows. Until recently it hasn't been much of a problem for me. But with each upgrade Windows is becoming more and more of a thorn in my side. With Windows 11 being force fed to us it seems I'm going to be forced to migrate to Linux this year. Not looking forward to the transition of my daily workflow. I just want to run my apps, not play with a new OS. The pain is real.

Any suggestions on what Linux distro I'll have the easiest time migrating to?
My first job was as technician, then, as an EE (well, I lie, my first job was as a dishwasher, at a nursing home, but that was when I was 16).

The nice thing about that job, was that I got to do both the hardware and the software. In my case, I designed the electronics, and things like the chassis, so I was working with the metalshop, and whatnot.

I linked to my first project, in a previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42637454
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My minor nitpick regarding the code is the choice of variable names, but other than that, it is indeed easy to read and it is how I implement data structures and whatnot.

I like that there is a more or less exhaustive blog post about it which happens to look nice as well.
I would say - it's still not a loss. Not every game is available on Linux, at all, or if it is it's not very easy for a regular person, or if it is there might still be a better experience on Windows. It's amazing progress, but it's a long way off what you're describing.
i am not sure i would say it was "just driving around a parking lot" it was not spinning but it _was_ just going in circles, watch the steering wheel and the background.. right turn pause right turn pause etc you see the same buildings etc. my spouse would have probably barfed all over that back seat
They’re exactly alike. The question is “why doesn’t an upstream supplier just use its own products and cut their customers out?”

If you prefer, we can ask why TSMC doesn’t cut Nvidia out and just design AI chips. It gets to the same place: expertise as a supplier in one stage of a value chain is not fungible to all stages.
It's very location dependent regardless of the laws, I spent the holidays in eastern europe (large cities) and saw hordes of kids playing around in the snow, even kids under 10 playing without supervision, I'm back in the west and I only see groups of fat kids smoking vapes, eating junk and doomscrolling on public benches, I wish I was exaggerating... it's so depressing. idk what kind of future we're training them for but I think they'll struggle hard in life
I never liked video calls. Or even phone calls for that matter. I put up with them because most of the rest of the world wants to be remote these days. I'm very much an “in person or in writing, not comfortable with the middle ground” sort.

Seriously considering a change in career (away from dev & related tech) to something where I and colleagues have to be in the same place by necessity at least some of the time (perhaps some sort of lab work?) but that means a drop in salary temporarily as I'll likely have to start much nearer the bottom than I am now…
> Generally people have a good handle on what's good and what's bad for them

Hard disagree, the cultural norms play a huge role and the changes are slow. I'm like 95% sure the unabated addiction to social media so prevalent nowadays will be regarded similarly to how smoking and drinking is seen now.

We should be really extrapolating what we know about tobacco now and the things they claimed in the past towards currently relevant issues e.g. "Facebook papers"-type materials.
Well duh, that's a recurring theme between true performance sports and spectacle sports.

Top performance in Greco Roman wrestling is harder than in WWE. 10m rifle/pistol is harder than IPSC. Formula 1 is harder than monster truck races. Marathon is harder than wife-carrying, though for sure the opposites are much more spectacular.
This is basically going to become a monopoly program. Stores and governments will start mandating it for sales like energy star. Then because UK is the administrator, the costs to certify will skyrocket. Basically this is going to ensure the only devices you can buy are those made by a select few megacorps.
Looked through their entire collection (https://luna.amazon.es/subscription/luna-plus/B085TRCCT6) and there seems to be one game I'd be willing to play, although I already own it locally. For 10 EUR/month, getting access to ~100 games where most of them are cheap IP cash-grabs, seems like a very Amazon approach to video games.