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Re:John Nickolls "ultimately willed CUDA into existence" on Thursday October 17, 2024 @07:15PM (#41874775)
The book is about the company said person worked at and they were instrumental to the success of, they probably don't have much else they could share without an NDA violation?
Looks to me close to typical DWH setup like many large corporations have, except for the ClickHouse specific settings and Docker usage (most DEs seem to be skeptical of anything that isn't SQL in my experience)
Re:The Malware that Hacked Disney [video] on Sunday July 21, 2024 @10:34AM (#41025392)
tl;dw: it's Python-based RAT (trojan) PySilon inside a BeamNG mod
this video alleges that it might've been because he downloaded an infected mod for a game: https://youtu.be/ZGScvWIyw2E

Not sure why they would dox him, maybe to throw him under the bus after he found out he got pwned and cut them off?

Re:Microsoft Recall should make you consider Linux on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @06:24PM (#40591309)
in theory, if it has been activated once on that machine it should install without a product key and activate based on hardware identifiers, so should be fine to nuke the partition
Re:Color Concepts 101 (2001) [pdf] on Monday May 06, 2024 @05:19PM (#40279621)
> In theory, the combination of CMY at 100% (100,100,100) creates black, In practice it creates a muddy brown due to limitations of toner (and ink) secondaries.

i believe this may be because the combined absorption spectrum of a "full C M Y dot" still has gaps that a "full K" toner is engineered to cover?

Re:Vintage Fashion Style in 2024 on Monday May 06, 2024 @06:59AM (#40273229)
nice bot
Re:Elon Musk: "Don't advertise. Go f*** yourself" on Thursday November 30, 2023 @03:05AM (#38470967)
I am only aware of 2, the Hyperloop concept and recently Tesla’s NACS. what IP are Musk companies giving away?
Did they change their policy on not making chips not available for purchase from manufacturers?
Re:Marcel the Shell on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:53AM (#37996435)
for this purpose Just[1] with a python shebang line works great

[1] https://github.com/casey/just

Interesting, seems like developers unionizing is getting popular in Europe. Is there any union for general software devs in Germany? I know workers council (Betriebsrat) is popular but that's very company-dependent.
Re:Apple’s Vision Pro AR headset is finally here on Monday June 05, 2023 @03:12PM (#36201824)
_Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer. They draw all the attention. The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time_

from Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

welcome to Germany
Re:Vimium – The Hacker's Browser on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @02:30AM (#34966635)
You can hit `i` to enter insert mode, or add URLs/domains to a blacklist - works just fine most of the time
Re:Ask HN: Are people still using Pascal in 2023? on Sunday February 26, 2023 @12:20PM (#34947266)
Kinesis keyboards config tools are written in Pascal using Lazarus IDE - I haven't tried compiling it myself but they run just fine on macOS and Wine on Linux

https://github.com/KinesisCorporation/SmartSetApps

Re:Open source cloud file system. Posix, HDFS and S3 compatible on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @08:49AM (#34707944)
I could not find it on iOS Safari, might be an UI bug then.
Re:Open source cloud file system. Posix, HDFS and S3 compatible on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @06:01AM (#34706548)
I can't seem to find docs in a language other than Chinese on the site
What's the havoc exactly? From all the people interviewed, the ones complaining about the smoke on their way to the office seem to be losing most productivity...
Re:Pcmcia Pico W Card on Thursday September 22, 2022 @08:01PM (#32946225)
how would such a GPIO <-> PCMCIA interface work? the author said the CPLD handles the voltage conversion and “address decoding”, but what I don’t understand is how does the data end up on the Pi?
A few months ago it worked for me. I am in EU so IIRC they are legally required to let you cancel your contract for 14 days if you entered into it remotely (phone, internet etc). It seems like changing subscription plan counts as getting a new contract with Adobe.
Re:Refurb weekend: New batteries for the Palm Pilots on Sunday September 18, 2022 @12:08PM (#32888691)
Had to do the same with my Palm TX. Small nightmare, they went cheap and just soldered a bare LiPo to the mainboard, so had to be somewhat precise not to short out the pack.
I'd watch for updates on author's YouTube channel https://youtube.com/c/stacksmashing
Looks great, are you looking for engineers without frontend experience by any chance?

Having looked at the job offers I see some overlap between my experience and what you need - I've been working previously as a backend dev and a data engineer, in spare time made a little go app to control a BLE enabled vaporizer - but I've never used React, my JS knowledge is kind of stuck circa 2012...

Re:Serially-attached SD for old PalmOS devices on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @06:12PM (#31089991)
They mostly used LCDs with LED backlights (not sure what they used the some early WinCE laptop style handhelds with color displays)

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