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Re:How Microsoft Office Moved from Source Depot to Git on Thursday June 12, 2025 @04:13AM (#44255224)
There are some other solutions (like jujutsu, which while using git as storage medium, has some differences in the handling of commits). But I do believe we reached a critical point where git is the one stop shop for all the source control needs despite it's flaws/complexity.
I believe it is done that way because it helps replacing the component if needed without having to order a new bespoke pcb

Edit: Also, the rp2040 is harder to solder than the other chips in the board due to the different packaging, so that might play a role on it

Re:SuperTux on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @07:37PM (#39532346)
While you're not wrong, I believe that the effort was made with the intent of supporting everything in-house instead of relying on the community. The UI(KDE) of the Linux Caixa Mágica (Magic Box) was worked on to be user friendly and translated in portuguese as back then everything was still a bit rough around the edges, it was also pretty well documented for parents. I think my first linux was that one, and I learned a lot with it. Unfortunately I can't say the experience was universal, as the lack of teacher training(the education system evolves very slowly) and lack of resources that involved it lead to a complete flop in the classroom environments.
Re:SuperTux on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @05:22PM (#39530963)
I've got a bunch of these Magalhães at home due to having my parents work at schools. If I recall correctly, SuperTux was exclusive to the first version of the laptop(there were two) and you can still turn heads nowadays if you take one out in public, which is pretty cool. Too bad that, despite their ruggedness, the Magalhães 1 had a very frail hard drive whose death meant that the BIOS would lock up completely when booting, not even allowing you to get to the setup menu, which for a kid meant that it became a paperweight.
Re:Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @06:43PM (#38848760)
Done! I actually had forgotten where I had got them, but it's great that their original repos are still up!
Re:Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @06:16PM (#38848464)
Nice to know Dillo still gets some love! I've got a lot of dillo plugins stored up that I managed to get from scuttlebutt a while ago(dillo-adb, dillo-dat, dillo-finger, dillo-git, dillo-gopher, dillo-gemini, dillo-ipfs, dillo-ssb and dillo-ytdl), and if you're interested I can zip them up and send it to you to be forked and worked on the project
Re:Download all of Wikipedia on your phone on Monday November 27, 2023 @10:34AM (#38433438)
This reminds me of Aard2, it does the same job as the one mentioned in the article, but the dumps are really small (for example, the wikipedia english one uses around 20 something GBs) No images on it, but the app loads them from the source when needed
Re:Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers on Monday October 16, 2023 @05:10AM (#37897360)
It is not null, I'll tell ya. It's a bit of a tradeoff between cpu cycles and ability to do actual tasks. You can't really investigate much a server with it unless you're investigating a machine in a cluster from a main broker because the panel can and will get sluggish to navigate(there's no good alternative to physical access or ssh in extreme cases), but hey, at least it won't drop you easily, because the frontend responds well to high latency.
Re:Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers on Monday October 16, 2023 @02:46AM (#37896544)
I've actually been running webmin on my raspberry pi 4 practically every since I got it, the night version of the authentic theme(one of the default) actually looks and feels relatively modern and is updated as well every now and then. My only nitpicks are the obsolete set of tools/panels available (it was the core reason why it took me so much to move from apache to nginx, because there's no nginx panel on the default set)
It is technically possible, but it will only hold homebrew at best, due to licensing nightmares. They published a video recently of a PoC of it happening in their discord

I think this could replace the likes of Universal Updater (3DS's main homebrew browser) if it gets to public. Not that UU is bad, it just lacks the tiny eshop dudes :)

According to their website, it's "Optimal for: low latency, text summarisation, classification, text completion, code completion"
Re:Tell HN: How would you solve my telecom problem? on Monday September 25, 2023 @03:59AM (#37640759)
Yes, I am suggesting that. Unless you believe that one can't think about work duties while cooking dinner. Otherwise she would forget entirely about your person at home. But I want to tackle this from a more serious angle, have you researched common signals of romance scams? The black site excuse to not use a phone is very suitable for a guy pretending to be a woman so he doesn't need to get a phone number and a voice modifier (a poor job at either would lead to destroying the scam)

Plus... wouldn't a black site also not have mail?

Re:Tell HN: How would you solve my telecom problem? on Monday September 25, 2023 @03:45AM (#37640678)
I think something is amiss here, her brain doesn't get wiped once she gets out of the black site, she can remember your number even if she gets out of the base without a piece of paper containing it. Have you two met before she went to the black site? If not, this reeks of a romance scam
Re:Why WebAssembly is innovative even outside the browser on Sunday August 08, 2021 @05:05PM (#28110112)
Doesn't that require a language to be engineered to output java bytecode? For example, rust can't be compiled to java bytecode because it does things that jvm can't do. A real polyglot can't only understand a language by requiring it to speak its native language Wasm supports languages that weren't created with wasm in mind, just by requiring a compiler with the right output, without restraining the language.
Re:Why WebAssembly is innovative even outside the browser on Sunday August 08, 2021 @03:58PM (#28109601)
Uhh, how is it polyglot if it only accepts one language (Java)?
Is it though? We are in the middle of a chip crisis where prices are raising to record levels...
Hello! Just checked it out, and I really liked it. I might consider adding it to my toolset. Meanwhile I noticed that on mobile, when you click a button twice(to take away the like/dislike), the button still behaves as if it is still clicked, taking a bit to update to its regular "unclicked" state. Is it a bug or a feature?
It doesn't give a good first impression, but failing miserably is somehow even worse...
Re:Apple Lightning on Thursday July 02, 2020 @07:12AM (#23711976)
It doesnt actually matter what the almost exclusive use case is, the sheer ability of being able to transmit data in this case and other available uses makes the apparent need of a chip. Keep in mind these chips bring safety to the exposed pins and some negotiation is needed to understand whats on the other side of the cable in order to better handle it. (That and to make it possible to control 3rd party market accessory) A charger is considered an accessory because it is merely a utility for a device, it is made to charge stuff. Take a purse for example, it merely holds stuff and nothing more, you can change a purse and the other one will do the exact same job.
Re:Ask HN: How does Cloudflare deals with their hardware? on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @12:47PM (#17664248)
well I dont think so... because when they(cloudflare) are being attacked, at least the networking boards get spammed,and get hot, ending with damage

Ask HN: How does Cloudflare deals with their hardware?

I was here thinking... So cloudflare does ddos protection, right? So they must get alot of damaged hardware(because of hard and damaging attacks) How do they deal with it? Throw it all on trash? Reuse it for less powerful demands? Give the usable(but not for their tier) away?

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Your boss may not be technical but did you try to get your teammate to explain step by step how did he thought while making the library?
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on this weekend? on Saturday July 28, 2018 @02:55PM (#17634439)
Im trying to make a torifier for windows.
Re:Ask HN: What is more reliable, a DVD or an Hard drive? on Saturday July 28, 2018 @02:54PM (#17634436)
I dont usually make long term backups(mostly due to not enough recources), but the ones I do are to hard drives(internal and external). I dont trust dvd due to how easily they are scratched
Re:Ask HN: Is there any pro tip to help increase karma? on Saturday July 28, 2018 @02:48PM (#17634418)
Thanks :)!
A good alternative for FUN programming projects would be http://www.meccano.com/meccanoid-programming It is drag and drop. It may be not as good as raspberry pi or arduino but it is at least easier