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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero 3W and Pi 4 Model A spotted in device trees
on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:19PM (#50268955)
For a Zero, that’s a big BoM item given this would be used by relatively few people.
Re:Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on...
on Friday October 23, 2026 @09:22AM (#50208596)
Another benefit is you don’t have a permanent black hole on the wall. You no longer have to force the room layout to focus on that space.
Re:Addressing the Controversy on the Reevo Hack [video]
on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @10:52AM (#48733532)
Seth from Berm Peak talks about how he used some LLM tools to make a local controller for a (terrible) e-bike gated behind an abandoned app.
Re:Why have papers by one of history's most famous physicists been ret...
on Friday June 26, 2026 @02:50PM (#48690452)
Donations hasn’t been a successful path for the wider internet, no reason to expect any difference here. Ads embedded in the images, or perhaps listen to a message from our sponsor while we prepare your PDF?
Re:A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown – CNN
on Sunday June 14, 2026 @01:58PM (#48530444)
I was addressing your statement that Earth is always changing. Yes, of course it is, obviously at +/- 20°C little that we recognise now would survive, but the transition is a lot less painful for you and yours if it happens over millions of years rather than a few centuries.
The one hope is that renewables and batteries continue to reduce in cost, and grids everywhere develop around that paradigm. Economically, it’s inevitable, but there’s a lot of (to be stranded) money, social, and political will against it.
Re:A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown – CNN
on Sunday June 14, 2026 @12:22PM (#48529040)
Your car can go at 0 kph and 100 kph. It’s the rate of the change that kills you, not the speed.
Re:A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown – CNN
on Sunday June 14, 2026 @12:07PM (#48528810)
It’s also been tried (endlessly), but society is too enamoured with consumption and GDP as the principle guiding metric for it to have had much effect. Some large number of people, wilfully or otherwise, reject intellectualism as a whole.
Re:Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time
on Thursday June 11, 2026 @01:12PM (#48493186)
Regulation aside, a significant issue is physical area. Most people won’t have access to enough area in the right direction to make it a primary source.
Re:The UK Government's Low Value Purchase System Is a Waste of Time
on Friday May 29, 2026 @10:04AM (#48323269)
I'm don't think it's ridiculous - it's simply a positive acknowledgement you've seen the message, even if there's no action required. The alternative would be repeated reminders until some timeout. I would imagine that timeout might come with an enforcement order, even if you have nothing to declare.
Re:AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing ch...
on Thursday May 28, 2026 @09:27AM (#48308683)
This is not the case here as the software is required to use the hardware they’re selling at any quantity. The software is cost entirely for them, if you’re not buying the hardware you’re not using the software. Given they support Linux for the paid version, its development is already paid for. Absolutely say you won’t provide support for free tier users. Today’s free tier users are tomorrow’s purchasing managers. FPGA is not a big market, so you have to capture comparatively few people for each unit of market share. Good silicon without good software is just very expensive sand.
Re:Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI
on Thursday May 21, 2026 @05:30AM (#48219975)
No, you don't have to. If you are employed through a company, stay below £100K income and don't have other income then (generally) you don't need to do a tax return - it's all handled automatically through pay as you earn payroll. However, as shown, a lot of people are self employed, want to claim deductions, have some side income etc. However, for those that do need to, it is really straightforward.
Re:Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI
on Thursday May 21, 2026 @04:30AM (#48219529)
A lot of people in the UK file their taxes (~12 million, roughly 35% of employed adults, not taking into account those unemployed with assets and pensions), but the self assessment is straightforward and very easy to use.
Re:UK: Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds strongly
on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @01:32PM (#48025742)
Yes, the newer suppliers have EV and solar friendly domestic tariffs. Plug it in overnight, and the supplier determines when the charge happens and charges at the reduced rate.
Re:The Joy of Folding Bikes
on Sunday April 26, 2026 @05:47AM (#47908901)
N=2, but my Decathlon bikes have well over 50000 km between them with no issues, beyond the usual wear and tear. Value wise, they are fantastic. They are road bikes, however, not the folding specifically.
Re:Mark's Magic Multiply
on Sunday April 12, 2026 @05:27PM (#47744701)
Link to Mark Owen’s excellent QFP library for soft float on Cortex-M0+ (ARMv6-M) and Cortex-M3/M4 (ARMv7-M).
https://www.quinapalus.com/qfplib.html
Nice write up here, too, I like the idea of a firm float.
Re:BIO: The Bao I/O Coprocessor
on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @03:23AM (#47499509)
My feeling about programmable IOs is they’re fun, but not the right choice for commodity high speed interfaces like USB. You obviously can make them work, but they’re large compared to what you would need for a dedicated unit. The DVI over PIO is a good example: showed something interesting (and that’s great!) but not widely useful. Also, a lot of protocols, even slow ones, have failure and edge cases that would need to be covered. Not to mention the physical characteristics, like you’ve said for high speed USB.
Re:Maybe There's a Pattern Here?
on Saturday March 07, 2026 @12:35PM (#47289657)
One person in the Lords raising the issue in no way constitutes widespread calls for conscription.
Re:Maybe There's a Pattern Here?
on Saturday March 07, 2026 @02:09AM (#47285223)
I haven’t heard a peep about conscription, can you provide a source? There was some vague national service proposal for school leavers a couple of years ago, but that was it.
Re:Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully consci...
on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @01:11PM (#47155300)
Re:Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions
on Sunday February 08, 2026 @02:03AM (#46931958)
Maintainance and upgrades. These big shared facilities they are shutdown regularly and researchers work flat out while they're up.
Re:Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S...
on Saturday February 07, 2026 @07:54AM (#46923467)
https://github.com/evansm7/pico-mac
Mac on the RP2040.
Re:U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded
on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @10:12AM (#46602025)
Hah, also fair point - there are plenty of people who would say this completely earnestly! :)
Re:U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded
on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:23AM (#46599606)
I read this with a large /s on the end...
Re:Where Do the Children Play?
on Monday November 17, 2025 @07:04AM (#45952878)
Maximum power output and maximum (assisted) speed are generally legislated. In the UK, an e-bike is up to 250 W and 25 kph. More than that, it would classify as a motorbike and you'd need a license (not particularly onerous). The bike itself is often built differently to accommodate the different power profile.
As a pedal cyclist, I feel that's a reasonably sensible limit as much faster than that you should be more experienced as a cyclist to control the bike and anticipate the conditions.
Re:Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fue...
on Friday October 10, 2025 @04:20PM (#45543337)
Why not? It's a factual report stating that the AAIB has opened an investigation into a potentially dangerous incident. There's not any editorial bias evident. See other extensive comments as to why this is not just a case of "it landed, so what's the problem?".
Re:Show HN: Coding Agents swarming your codebase
on Monday September 22, 2025 @08:22AM (#45332413)
Based on the title, I was hoping this would be a new subclass of tower defence. Vibe coded, naturlich.
Re:Will AI be the basis of many future industrial fortunes, or a net l...
on Sunday September 14, 2025 @03:45AM (#45238236)
I chuckled seeing it in the first presentation of the conference. By the end of the conference, it was numbingly banal.
Re:The HackberryPi CM5 handheld computer
on Thursday September 11, 2025 @09:21AM (#45211295)
The Raspberry Pi SoCs optimised for cost rather than power consumption (or maximum performance). This is an engineering trade off, not a criticism. More power partitioning requires more area, more complexity in design and verification, and more expensive external components to support the internal voltage domains.
Another comment mentions the RP2xxx microcontrollers. If you look at those, they are optimised for compute power and data throughput rather than low power operation. I think it's a reasonable choice - the Pico boards are pretty sturdy and the original target is people running MicroPython, Arduino, etc rather than looking for µA standby currents.
Re:TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds
on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @12:43PM (#45200334)
It seems that the very long videos are a reaction against the very short clips. Usually the topics and density of information are not enough to consistently fill that amount of time, whereas it would be perfect in 10-30 mins. 60 secs: too short to convey much, 60 mins too long to convey too little.