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Re:Using Sun Ray thin clients in 2025 on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @08:30PM (#44439236)
I love these things. If you want to see them in action on video, check out clabretro on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@clabretro (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRO_M1S145M).
Okay, I'm intrigued. Are the custom built RFID cards physical manifestations of albums which you can use to select and play a given album hosted with Navidrome? I'd love to see your setup/some examples.
Re:Ask HN: Easiest way to create a CRUD web app in 2024? on Friday February 16, 2024 @10:59AM (#39398709)
You might find PostgREST (https://postgrest.org/en/stable/) interesting. The 'Tutorial 0' gets right to the point with what you can do: https://postgrest.org/en/stable/tutorials/tut0.html
Re:1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221 on Monday October 23, 2023 @10:33AM (#37986192)
My geometry teacher gave this to the class in high school. I love this sequence.
Re:K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @01:25PM (#37847446)
On my M1 Pro system, I have nothing but positive things to say about the experience of using Colima (https://github.com/abiosoft/colima). Quick to set up and fast to use.
I feel Richard W. Hamming fits this definition. You can find recorded lectures on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw) or books such as 'The Art of Doing Science and Engineering'.
Re:Ask HN: Best intro to programming book for 2nd graders? on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @11:15AM (#37392794)
Interesting to see this here, as I came to the thread with the intent to re-recommend QBASIC. I started around a similar age with QBASIC via 'QBASIC Programming For Dummies'. I was crushed when my dad's work laptop was upgraded and QBASIC was no longer bundled in (Windows 2000?).
In my case, I had to take a picture that showed all of my name (on a piece of paper), the model number on the back, and the power cord having been cut. I submitted this and maybe a month later I got a check in the mail. I didn't buy the unit; it was already in my house when I moved in.
I noticed a dehumidifier in the basement of the house I moved into. I did a search for the model number - looking for a manual - and found out it was recalled. Same thing - fire risk.

It's really unfortunate because I had a home inspection done after I moved in and part of that is I get an email every month about anything in the home being recalled and that wasn't part of it. Good thing I happened to search for that manual that day. I was able to get a partial refund on the thing, though, so that's good (it was quite old). It seemed to have been in a "fan" mode, not running as a dehumidifier (water tank was empty).

And for some reason some tech journalists don't account for it. "Ah, but this Thinkpad has an MSRP of $4,395, so it's much more expensive than the competition" when approximately nobody would purchase it for that price, and the consistently-on-sale price would be right in line with competitors.
Re:Pinkerton (Detective Agency) on Thursday April 27, 2023 @02:49PM (#35732844)
> In 2023, Wizards of the Coast hired Pinkerton to seize products from the March of the Machine: The Aftermath card set for the trading card game Magic: The Gathering from a YouTuber who had received them in an order from a local game store[38]. The YouTuber published a video showing their contents on YouTube ahead of the release. The Pinkertons used intimidation and threats of detention, arrest, fines and jail to force compliance with their goal[38]. According to Wizards of the Coast, this was after several attempts had been made to contact the individual in private, with no response. [39]

I did not expect to see something like this in the article. What in the world?

This reminds me of the first 25 seconds of this clip from The Matrix: https://youtu.be/Smwrw4sNCxE
Re:Java 20 / JDK 20: General Availability on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @02:27PM (#35250362)
Here are some resources I've found helpful and have read or are on my backlog to catch up with these developments:

- https://github.com/wesleyegberto/java-new-features (terse, includes links to JEPs, good jumping off point)

- https://github.com/winterbe/java8-tutorial (quick tour through features of Java 8)

- https://winterbe.com/posts/2018/09/24/java-11-tutorial/ (same for Java 11)

Books:

- Java 8 in Action / Modern Java in Action (Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Alan Mycroft, Mario Fusco; 2014 and 2018 respectively)

- The Well-Grounded Java Developer (Martijn Verburg, Benjamin Evans, Jason Clark; 2022) - not specifically focused on new features but does cover them in the context of going deeper into Java and the JVM.

One of the impacted players had an in-game character named Wi.
Re:Data Visualization: Choropleth maps with ggplot and R on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:12PM (#34615934)
Of note is that this is a chapter of the book 'Data Visualization: A practical introduction', by Kieran Healy: https://socviz.co/index.html
I believe the difference is the core module included, where (CM4 = Compute Module 4):

RPI-CM4 Lite: Raspberry Pi CM4 104000 lite (ARM Cortex-A72 quad-core, 4GB LPDDR4, WIFI 2.4 GHz, 5.0 GHz IEEE 802.11 b/g/n/ac wireless + Bluetooth 5.0, BLE)

A-06: A-06 Core module (ARM64-bit Dual-core Cortex-A72 + Quad-core Cortex-A53, Mali-T864, 4GB LPDDR4)

A-04: A-04 Core module (ARM64-bit Quad-core Cortex-A53, Mali-T720, 2GB DDR3)

R-01: R-01 Core module (RISC-V 64bit Single-core RV64IMAFDCVU @ 1.0GHz, No GPU, 1GB DDR3)

Re:Replit Mobile App on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:12PM (#33265855)
I agree. A great start would even be to do something like what iSH does, where you have buttons for tab, control, escape, and a similar joystick for the arrow keys. As of now, I can't issue a tab in the shell, for example.

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