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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023) on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:57PM (#36199257)
The 3dverse link'd in has: "There are no jobs right now."

Also no careers link on your website?

Re:Network bandwith statistics in your terminal: ifgraph on Sunday January 15, 2023 @07:20PM (#34395193)
Light-weight tool to graph bandwidth use aggregated over multiple network devices. For Linux. Zero dependencies.
Re:The $8 Linux Computer on Saturday December 17, 2022 @02:02PM (#34030976)
Heh... I do feel like a dinosaur at times.

Do you have a suggestion for a better platform?

Re:The $8 Linux Computer on Saturday December 17, 2022 @02:01PM (#34030960)
OP here...

My first linux computer was a 33Mhz i386. I can't remember the amount of RAM, but it must have been 2MB or maybe 4MB.

This thing has 64MByte of RAM, after login, 44MB of it is free.

Re:The $8 Linux Computer on Saturday December 17, 2022 @01:55PM (#34030904)
OP here...it got a little better with a patched picoprobe.

I wrote up part 2 here: http://thelittleengineerthatcould.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-8...

But yeah, not plug-n-play. I still have to find out how to get network or SD-Card.

Re:The $8 Linux Computer on Saturday December 17, 2022 @01:53PM (#34030893)
Yes, but those are microcontrollers. This is a computer on a chip with mmu, and three cores, 64MB ram.
Re:The $8 Linux Computer on Saturday December 17, 2022 @01:52PM (#34030884)
It is a SoC with MMU. It just looks like a MCU.

64MByte RAM, (45MByte of it free after logging in.)

Re:In Defense of Dumb TVs on Saturday March 06, 2021 @02:24AM (#26365809)
Does this cause issues with HDCP2?
Re:Show HN: Monitor CPU frequency scaling under Linux on Saturday December 19, 2020 @11:50PM (#25483953)
Yesterday, I released freqtop.

It is a linux tool that runs in the terminal and shows a live view of the frequencies that the CPU cores are scaled to.

Core frequencies in linux are dynamically set by a governor based on the load.

Sweden at one point, had marginal income tax rate EXCEEDING 100% for some people.

Look it up. It is very hard to believe, but true. That exceeds communism.

102% income tax rate, people... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomperipossa_in_Monismania

Re:Gathering Intel on Intel AVX-512 Transitions on Sunday January 19, 2020 @11:53AM (#22092366)
Would disabling “Intel Turbo Boost Technology” be advised to avoid this?

If it never uses turbo, it should not suffer the transitions?

Re:Show HN: Simulating Galaxies in 2D on Saturday January 12, 2019 @06:11PM (#18893861)
Now released as free download for Linux/Windows:

https://bram.itch.io/sprinkle-sprinkle-little-star/devlog/63...

Re:There is more to high house prices than constrained supply on Saturday November 24, 2018 @05:06PM (#18524222)
The double star * * 'power' operator was removed from my text.

(925/650.0) raised to the power (1/20) is 1.0178

1.0178 raised to the power 20 is 1.42

Re:There is more to high house prices than constrained supply on Saturday November 24, 2018 @05:04PM (#18524214)
Your personal rent example: 650 -> 925 in 20 years is very meager growth, well below inflation: 1.78% per year.

So yes, less than 4%. A lot less.

>>> (925/650.0) (1.0/20)

1.0177975914387338

Note that 20 years of +1.78% per year does +42% compounded.

>>> 1.0178 20 1.4231442772353857

In real money, the rent for your place has gone down, not up, ignoring the furnishing.

Does this statistic consider cap gains only?

Or did the author take dividend into account?

I'm not surprised that cap gains are concentrated in a few stocks, but overal wealth creation? I have my doubts.

Re:Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) on Saturday January 20, 2018 @01:51PM (#16194746)
It sounds like it would be far easier to pour concrete steps instead? Gravity will take care of making each step perfectly horizontal, at least.
I would go home for weekends, and during the week sleep in a van in the parking garage. This works even better if you can make your work week 4 long days, then 3 day weekend away from the city.
Re:Everything Is Crazy and the Markets Aren’t Freaking Out on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:52PM (#15494289)
And why wouldn't the stock market go up?

Companies are growing their revenues, and are making healthy profits.

A good chunk of those profits are paid out as dividends. If dividend yield is much higher than those tiny interest rates, why wouldn't you borrow money, invest, and enjoy dividends? It's the rational thing to do, and hence, demand for stock is up, stock price is up. But as long as the corporations keep distributing, it makes sense.

Re:Ask HN: Are you a millionaire? If so, how'd you get there? on Sunday September 03, 2017 @12:19AM (#15159670)
Real Estate. I bought into Vancouver's RE bubble. Bubble still grows though.

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