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The MiSTer FPGA project is fun and easy to get started with.

You need:

1. The FPGA board from Terasic (Linux ARM host, has USB, HDMI) for $130

https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/terasic-inc/P0496/...

2. To run the cores for the vast majority of supported systems you need a custom 32 MB SDRAM board. For timing reasons the DDR3 memory on the FPGA board can't be used.

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki/SDRAM-Board

I bought mine for about $30 from someone in the MiSTer forum - there are a bunch of hobbyists that sell them there.

3. Some of the more complex cores (Amiga etc) need a custom IO board (VGA, SD card slot, etc):

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki/IO-Board

This one also seems to go for around $30 in the forum.

You really wish for a paranthesis counting pen when you have to write pages and pages of LISP (I think it was Common Lisp in our case) on paper for an exam.

Oh, you mean like

1) Skype: https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/17/12951996/skype-london-off...

2) Nokia: cruelly killed-off for no particular reason.

Feel free to point out actual instances, or even better, trends backing up that statement.

So, I assume everyone else's first thought after reading this was: Let's build a vanilla flower pollination robot using deep learning to process RGB camera images and help guide the robot actuators. Startup, anyone?

Edit: turns out this is, in fact, not a unique thought:

"Implementation of Automated Vanilla Pollination Robotic Crane Prototype, 2017":

https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2017.79949...

(No deep learning, but I guess these people weren't desperate for funding.)

Sure, statistically speaking well-informed guessing at an industrial scale, but still guessing.

Maybe let the voters decide policy and the tech companies deal with the tech?

Extrapolation = guessing.

On the upside for Swedes, routing between europe-north1 and Stockholm seems good. Typically around 10 ms for a roundtrip.

I was misinformed (or remembered incorrectly) about the founding/media blitz sequencing. Thanks for informing me.

Here's a light-hearted comparison between the airline and PC world:

Motherboard/integration - Boeing/Airbus - a bunch of Taiwanese conglomerates, but the core design comes from Intel

OS - Boeing/Airbus - Microsoft/Apple

CPU/Engine - Rolls-Royce/GE - Intel

RAM/fuel - Saudi Aramco/etc - Samsung/SK Hynix/Micron

..

I don't know if it's useful in any way, but I found it interesting to do this exercise.

The truth is that in the alternative timeline where Theranos had a male founder they would never gotten their initial founding.

Holmes and Theranos rode the perfect wave built by the media being thirsty for a young, smart (blonde) female. It's so obvious when you look at it in hindsight.

Hilariously, even after the total collapse this topic is often taboo.

I can't help but feel for sorry for the young women out there creating actually useful innovations.

Addendum:

Platforms are because of the market dynamics remarkably long-lived. In the case of iOS, the APIs date back to like 1985, with Next Inc. In the case of Android, back to 2003.

The platform-level APIs and frameworks tend to be grown organically, in a way that is quite far away from the yearly fads.

It's really hard to hire people who are actually good at the core aspects of these platforms - most new devs seem to get sidetracked by the latest shiny framework, that will then die 3-5 years later. Meanwhile the platform APIs live for multiple decades, and take a lot of effort to master.

Based on your description on what you like/hate I think you should go for something slowly changing, like ObjC/Swift or Java/Kotlin. Something were mastership is rewarded as opposed to just copy/pasting sort of working code from some random example on the web that you barely have time to understand because of its inherent complexity.

Explicitly don't go for React (Native) or anything else that has come out of the crazy world of javascripters doing mobile.

> They didn’t have lawyers actually advising them? They just unilaterally shut off access to millions of people out of an abundance of caution?

Those two statements are not mutually exclusive. I think they did have lawyers who advised them. They concluded that the potential risk is larger than the gain (in ads - europeans love their privacy and adblockers; and ad rates are comparatively quite low outside of the UK).

One, I think they should have hired european lawyers for this.

Two, comparing with the FATCA risk is amusing.

Well, if a particular news site blocks europeans I would guess they are not expecting any kind of revenue from there.

I find it hard argue against a service that unblocks this kind of news site for europeans from an ethical POV. Copyright law is of course different, but it was you who introduced the ethics aspect.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that. Seems like it's 3h 55m now; when I did it was at least six hours, I think.

I hope you don't miss out on seeing the incredibly scenic Bavarian landscapes and villages. I could do without looking at the mostly industrial landscape further up north though.

That site does work great with WSJ.

I was thinking of creating something similar for all of those US news sites that have blocked EU-based readers from accessing their sites out of a mostly unfounded panic. (PS: love your HN username.)

Is there a list of which paywalled sites this awesome tool is capable of handling?

(Seems to be the same as archive.is)

I rode that train (Munich to Berlin) after I got stranded in Munich during the 2014 Bardarbunga, Iceland volcano eruption. It was kind of slow for an ICE at the time, and quite expensive (IIRC like 150 EUR in second class).

It was one of the nicest train rides I've ever taken though - you got to see so much of Germany. The onboard restaurant was awesome.

I explicitly wrote that I did not mean that, thinking that someone would inevitably misunderstand.

Ok, gotcha. I'm also kind of shocked by that kind of behavior by Google. This goes against so much of their employer branding that they've spent so much on.

(Was it in Ad sales? - I guess I could see that unit being run in a more "rough" way - sales teams tend to be super macho.)

Let me answer this with a counter-question. If you're pregnant and somehow hiding it really well, do you think it makes sense for you to job-hunting six weeks before you're due to give birth?

How many days/months/years between a) joining the company and b) informing of the pregnancy?

I know the law doesn't care, but I care. There's a difference between informing your manager one month after you're hired that you're pregnant (been there, felt totally fooled - as the manager, that is) and will need to take time off quite soon, and doing it like a year or so later.

The "always positive performance reviews" bit implies some sizeable amount of time before the announcement, which is why I'm asking.

So I just had to Google this.

According to https://newsroom.inter.ikea.com/news/ikea-develops-a-veggie-...

"The hot dog at IKEA has a long history: In 1981, and true to his vision for IKEA to be affordable for the many, Ingvar Kamprad set the price of the IKEA hot dog at 5 Swedish Krona – which was half price compared to competitors in Sweden at that that time. It was the beginning of the success story of the IKEA hot dog that today is served at IKEA all over the world."

So, Ikea Sweden introduced a hot dog priced at 5 SEK in 1981. (The USD was super cheap at that time; my best guess is that this corresponded to like $0.90.)

According to Costco themselves, their hot dog enterprise started in 1984:

http://www.costcoconnection.com/connection/200903/?u1=texter...

Myself: I don't think IKEA in Sweden were even on the radar for these Costco people in San Diego in 1984. I don't think they "copied" this concept.

But it's safe to say that IKEA did not got this idea from Costco.

Interestingly, the price for a hot dog at IKEA in Sweden is still 5 SEK, 37 years later.