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Re:Surprising new feature in AMD Ryzen 3000 on Friday August 28, 2020 @08:26AM (#24304029)
Waiting for next side-channel attack..
Re:USPS Files Patent for a Blockchain-Based Voting System on Sunday August 16, 2020 @04:49AM (#24176273)
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2030/
Yup, during college I even created electrical schematics in MS Paint during one course, nobody believed it was done using it :) Although I must admit creating schematics in CAD software is more sane ;)
Probably not - that's why Neanderthals went extinct.
Re:IKEA Frekvens LED box hack on Monday April 06, 2020 @06:08AM (#22792250)
Well, he didn't take full advantage of the hardware - he changed significant part of it (raising total final price by 1/3). Nevertheless I agree - it is very impressing ! :)
Re:Cronopete – A Linux clone of Time Machine on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @05:12AM (#22683035)
Wonder when something similar appears named JohnTitor.
Cool project, very handy auto detection of memory chip model. I used it recently to flash on-board spi flash on ice40 fpga devkit.
Re:Junior Developer Koans on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @07:18AM (#19490717)
Yes! Thanks a lot !
Re:Junior Developer Koans on Monday March 25, 2019 @10:33AM (#19482712)
Something like 2-3 years ago I've read similar thing with master foo but about git. Does anyone happen to know where I can find it? I've searched for it but failed to find :(
> The amount of soil excavated is over 10 cubic kilometers, equivalent to 4,000 great pyramids of Giza ...

> he mounds are extremely old--up to 4,000 years

Soo they can build 1 Pyramid of Giza per year ? :D

Re:An entomologist rates ant emojis on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @10:24AM (#17558655)
I experienced miscommunication with my SO, she was constantly using sleepy emoji as a sad/crying emoji:

https://emojipedia.org/sleepy-face/

Re:GNU Mcron on Saturday May 05, 2018 @02:30PM (#17003091)
Well, I used systemd as an init system on a device I was working on (based on imx.6) because it turned out systemd was faster than sysVinit. And from my experience it is very popular now oj embedded systems.
I love Lem's books, my father used to read them to me and my brother when we were young (I remember he read us "Tales of Pirx the pilot", now it is name of crater on Charon ! :D). This started my adventure with Sci-Fi books and reading in general.
Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:54PM (#16746620)
Can anyone recommend course about assembly ? Which focuses especially on embedded systems (arm, avr, pic archs) ?