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Re:Covid Killed the Raspberry Pi on Monday March 13, 2023 @03:57PM (#35141567)
This video from Linus Tech Tips presents some alternatives to Raspberry Pi 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvCVw1yONQ
Re:Tiny-C Compiler on Monday March 13, 2023 @08:16AM (#35134647)
It’s worth noting that this is a compiler for the Tiny-C language, and not as one might think a tiny compiler for the C language.
Re:Europe pushing for lunar time zone on Thursday March 02, 2023 @03:53AM (#34993547)
Sending good vibes to the engineers who will have to add Moon time support to the Java DateTime class.
Re:I had ChatGPT write a Decemberists song and recorded it on Saturday February 11, 2023 @01:47PM (#34755024)
I find it revealing that while somebody with experience in songwriting finds the result dull and mediocre, I who knows next to nothing in the domain finds its nice and totally fine.

Same goes for other domains: philosophy, coding, writing, ...

It's telling me that this AI can generate content in many domains way better than an untrained human would with minimal efforts, while not (yet?) reaching the level of experts in the domain.

It empowers all the non-experts in these many domains to touch things they never could have before. This is an amazing tool.

Re:CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions on Friday January 20, 2023 @02:38AM (#34450168)
Found longer! Ford F150 https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/bmw-isetta-1955-1-d... not by much though
Re:The YAML Document from Hell on Thursday January 12, 2023 @06:07AM (#34351873)
This is not claimed by the article afaict. It's stated though that json spec/syntax is simple, and that it's simple as a language; my interpretation is that this means "simple/understandable/predictable for humans".
Funny that the story is told by Sherlock and not Watson, that's not idiomatic of the series afaict.
Re:One Thing – Put a single task or goal in your menu bar on Friday December 30, 2022 @03:34PM (#34189761)
I made for myself something similar, for display in my shell prompt https://github.com/netgusto/tax
Re:Ask HN: How do you deploy your side-projects? on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @08:58AM (#33968890)
For key/value storage there's Cloudflare KV * https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/kv/

For document storage, Durable Objects is amazing: * https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/durab... * https://blog.cloudflare.com/durable-objects-easy-fast-correc...

For relational data, there's now D1 (open beta): * https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/

For bulk storage, there's R2: * https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/

Re:Why we’ve decided to decommission Gov.uk PaaS on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @07:00AM (#32068102)
There's https://scalingo.com/ Works well.
In english: https://www-stern-de.translate.goog/auto/e-mobilitaet/unzufr...

TL;DR "The mood is shifting mainly because of unequal wages [...] Because new hires would be paid better than other employees."

Writing Usable Code

Hey HN! While working at my previous company, I wrote this blog post that sums up some of the topics that were most appreciated by my mentees.It's about structuring code in a way that helps you keep it sane in the long run. At the time I applied it with Go, but parts of it can be applied to many other imperative programming...

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Re:Hidden Italy: The Forbidden Cyclopean Ruins (2013) on Saturday April 02, 2022 @09:09AM (#30887976)
How Lovecraftian. ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Wow such a coincidence! I recently toyed on such a spec for my shell prompt task manager https://github.com/netgusto/tax (I display it in my prompt and my tmux session bar, it's nice to keep current work in focus)

I'm certainly going to look into implementing the spec.

Some questions/suggestions:

    * do you plan support for text unrelated to tasks ?
    * do you plan support for sections / nested sections?
    * idea suggestion: in tax (linked above) we use markdown bold to notify "focused" tasks and sections, ie the one(s) that should be front and center; ex:
        - [ ] **This is a focused task**
ah! TIL, I always thought it was a real word.
The durations are expressed in ‘ship time’, ie the perceived duration from the pov of the ship. This is explicited further in the document.
I use it with pi-hole [1], and as a Tailscale [2] bridge.

I tried to use it as an alternative workstation (running on sway over arch); the 4K display output is nice, but limited to 30hz, and the machine just isn't peachy enough for my use-case.

[1] https://pi-hole.net/ [2] https://tailscale.com/

Re:Flexible monocopter drone can be completely rolled up on Monday November 15, 2021 @05:27AM (#29225798)
Amazing tech. Combined with a fast fixed cam it would maybe be possible to get a 360 degree FOV.
Re:Ask HN: Functioning hidpi setup on Linux, how? on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @06:56AM (#29093029)
Yes! Tried that on Sway with code-insiders, but the experience is unstable (random crashes). What distribution are you running?

Ask HN: Functioning hidpi setup on Linux, how?

How do you manage to have a functioning hidpi setup on Linux?With X, all monitors must share the same pix density, and with Wayland, X apps (running via XWayland) are blurry, like VS Code for instance (scaled up on hidpi displays).

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I made a prompt todo reminder that could nicely complement this project! https://github.com/netgusto/tax

Also, reminds me of the blockchain oracle systems and smart contracts.

Cool idea, neat project!

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