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RIP Gilles Castel.

This is mentioned in the tweet at the end of the post

just curious, which API are you using to get this data (the hotels)?

I wish NNW would support notifications on Mac with the app closed, maybe with a helper that's always running. I use it to get alerts on hardware availability but I don't want it always taking up space on my dock.

Tesla hires a lot of game developers :)

these are pretty elementary in the grand scheme of things!

Negative. I’ve been using it since the update with no issues.

Falcon Heavy could send Crew Dragon to the Moon. They’d just have to rate it for human space flight.

and it’s already on libgen ;)

You can see it more clearly on the Israel-Egypt border

They’re not going to be launching the whole rocket, just the second stage (Starship) for hops between cities. Also, even if they land say 20-30 km outside of the city limits and then transfer by train/hyperloop that’s still way faster than a plane, even the Concorde.

I find it very funny that this article came out right after the deadline for university applications passed here (Greece).

Anyway, I chose a CS Bachelor’s program with just enough EE classes to qualify for a MEng in EE later. I was thinking about starting from EE (I’m equally interested in both subjects, if not a bit more in EE) but I was discouraged by comparing salary info and seeing many dissatisfied electrical engineers. If things look better in 4 years I’ll do my Master’s in EE.

I would prefer if I could do both degrees at the same time, even if it meant more coursework and slightly longer time to complete. I can do a version of this with the degree I chose, studying n subjects in CS and n subjects in EE instead of 2n in only one of these, but ideally it should be 2n in both.

What motivates people to make up nonsense?

the events took place in 2010.

I went through the same phase at 12. I am nearing 18 now, and I am very thankful for nondeterminism.

Wouldn’t the unique copies be 10000*9999?

I would just render each page of such a PDF in two colors (black or white without shades) and turn the images into a new PDF to upload. If that doesn’t make the steganography fail, maybe add a lot of static? Or censor illustrations anyway since many journals provide them independently of the text.

it's arguably much easier (nowadays) to use an off-the-shelf app like TimeLimit[0] to achieve the same kind of functionality on smartphones, without ever having to flash custom firmware using undocumented/unsupported techniques. Granted, back in <=2014 this probably made more sense.

[0]: https://timelimit.io/en/

I imagine all commands have to get signed for the rover to accept them, but even if their keys were compromised and some vulnerability was found in the software, wouldn't you also need a network of really big dishes (see DSN) to actually send the commands to the rover?

or they are just taking the first derivative of ƒ. who knows, really!

I tried setting it up a few times and gave up after having to swap hard drives twice for BIOS to load (?!). Maybe I will try again after reading these. Thanks! I also ran FreeBSD for some time but I couldn't get graphics to work right on my OPTIMUS laptop.

That sounds like Wikipedia!

that would actually be cool. I could see it boosting productivity.

The best Raspberry Pi available right now is a bit faster than a modern entry-level PC. It has 4 ARM cores running at 1.5 GHz and 8 gigs of RAM.

Security by attrition.

Right. I was surprised to see they chose to implement social coding after integrating with Ethereum, but it makes sense considering all the hype.

Thank you for saying this. As a high-schooler from a lower middle-class family in Greece, I feel this pain every single day. It's therapeutic to see it is not as personal as it feels.

I know my generation has free access to almost all of human knowledge online, I know hard work and study can pull me out of this hell. I start every day hoping to do just that, but my accomplishments remain depressingly few regardless. Honestly, it's even getting worse over time, I was a far brighter and gifted kid once. I live in fear of how much smarter some of my peers are getting and I can't catch up.

It's like, every time I try to escape this mess, I fall back to a predetermined state of idleness. Most of the blame is on me; I was actually given some good opportunities to better myself by teachers who cared, I was a step away from scholarships at private schools and studying abroad etc. and I blew it all away. I never worked hard enough. Some of my failures may just boil down to luck.

Still, it is sad to think (with hindsight) how much different everything could've been, if my starting conditions were just a bit better. If I had been given a nudge in the right direction at challenging moments, instead of having to rely on self-study and self-help. If my parents had made me play an instrument, learn math earlier, read more books or make friends. God, it would've been so much better had I known somebody who had already done the things I wanted to do.

Breaking out of the loop is very, very hard without help. It is like the Münchhausen Trilemma. Anyway, I hope this comment is not inappropriate for HN, I just have nowhere else to vent. Sorry.

Even George Hotz does it. Although he did write a debugger.