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by rcoder 4y ago
I literally can’t tell if this is a joke. I’m going to treat it as earnest, because even if you’re trolling this is HN and every mention of cryptocurrency will get _someone_ nodding along in support. Censorship resistance is only meaningful
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by rcoder 4y ago
I’m a huge eink display fan, to the point of owning multiple tablet-shaped devices with larger EPDs. I agree that the reading experience for effectively static text and b/w images is great, but once you introduce any scrolling or trans
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by rcoder 5y ago
“…a recovering alcoholic talking about the dangers of just one drink.” So, one of the things you learn pretty early in recovery is that there is no “normal” when it comes to addiction. However, there are _patterns_ of denial and implicit so
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by rcoder 5y ago
Note: several folks have pointed out that I was totally wrong about Caddy. Sorry! I should look at it again before I spout off any more opinions about it. Unlike nginx or Caddy^H^H^H^H^H, the Apache design and community encouraged writing m
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by rcoder 5y ago
You can build a Merkle tree from any data that is append-only; Git does this, as do ZFS and Dat/Hypercore. That lets you make strong assertions about data integrity, even without blocking local writes. Now add a mirror: git upstream, F
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by rcoder 5y ago
I've been about 90% standing/10% sitting for the last several years, and while standing is great for me, the ergonomics of switch to and from my Aeron -- bought 15-ish years ago from a startup closing up shop -- felt less so. I pa
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by rcoder 5y ago
Just in case the word "conduction" triggered the question about health risk: in this case it just means the sound is transferred by direct contact of the resonator on the speaker with your cheekbone (well, as direct as going throu
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by rcoder 6y ago
RK3399s make great bang-for-the-buck boards, but the idle power consumption is pretty high. I’ve been kicking around one of the Khadas VIM3s which has a newer Amlogic SoC on it and like what I’ve seen so far. It’s a significantly more expen
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by rcoder 6y ago
One thing I haven't seen mentioned here yet: Thonny explicitly supports Micropython for embedded systems development: https://github.com/thonny/thonny/wiki/MicroPython IME Thonny is a great sketchpad for
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by rcoder 6y ago
If you're online interested in limited quantities, this Sharp display might well fit the bill: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4694 It's a "memory LCD", which has very low no power drain when idle,
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by rcoder 6y ago
There's nothing stopping you from doing your development, testing, and deployment against the base OS on your Pis. Even beyond pure learning opportunities, though, there are good reasons to containerize applications even on a system as
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by rcoder 6y ago
If you're running one of the recent Debian-based distros for these boards software compatibility isn't a big issue. Each SoC has its own funky firmware + GPU blobs needed for bootstrapping, they almost all use the same ARM64 ABI a
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by rcoder 6y ago
How would you power and cool such a beast? What kind of workloads would benefit from that much RAM while running happily on a CPU that fits on a typical SBC layout? If you want a tiny workstation-class system, there are entirely decent mini
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by rcoder 6y ago
The ARM SoC (system on chip) CPUs these boards use often cap out at supporting 4GB of RAM. It's also much more expensive and power hungry to stuff a bunch more DDR4 onto a tiny board, and often messes with the layout (i.e., of you need
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by rcoder 6y ago
Do you live in Portland? How about your family: kids, parents, siblings? Do you own businesses here? Have you spoken to anyone involved in the protests, or local business leaders? All of the above are true for me, and I was born here, and I
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by rcoder 6y ago
I've done a fair bit of tinkering with ePaper displays attached to little Linux and MCU boards, and it is not trivial. Few if any have touch overlays, the graphics APIs are usually at the level of: magic initialization happens in this
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by rcoder 6y ago
...and if all car manufacturers bought engines from the same factory (TSMC), used the same satnav (except one brand, who had a slightly-worse in-house clone), and an accelerator and gearbox from exactly one source (Google search) would you
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by rcoder 6y ago
FWIW I'm regularly able to get ~12 hours on a charge on my PBP with normal terminal and qutebrowser or epiphany sessions running. That's closer to 3W under load, not 5W at idle. Also, while power usage does go up a bit when the CP
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by rcoder 6y ago
My personal stance towards high-risk startups changed dramatically a few years ago when I took on a big chunk of responsibility for my parents' retirement. My "nest egg" that could be absorbed in a pre-revenue startup has mor
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by rcoder 6y ago
There's plenty of prior art beyond Rosetta to look at. MS has already done this for Windows on ARM, and simultaneously across ABIs via WSL. Linux offers QEMU-based "on the fly" emulation of different instruction sets based on
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by rcoder 6y ago
If you imagine "IoT" as "a bunch of Linux boxes pushing around multi-MB JSON payloads over fast network pipes" then yeah, this would be a bad deal. For datagram-based protocols like CoAP which are explicitly designed to
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by rcoder 6y ago
Semi-related to this and the recent Haiku R1/beta2 announcement: just for giggles, I installed that inage on a USB3 external SSD and fired it up under KVM, and was suddenly greeted with a faster, more polished desktop environment than
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by rcoder 6y ago
So just to make sure I'm clear: the author of this post is (according to the "about" page on the linked site) is "an angel investor, founder, podcaster, author, and general startup-helper" who is wildly speculating
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by rcoder 6y ago
This IMHO defends, not defuses the preceding argument. When there was risk of the market crashing, the federal government injected trillions _into the market_. This primarily benefits those with significant capital investments, not those wh
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by rcoder 6y ago
> It's not perfect, particularly for lower income people... I don't think many minimum-wage retail or service workers can just "vote with their feet" and easily get another job, especially if you don't consider m
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by rcoder 6y ago
Re: perks, based on my own experience working remotely, in traditional offices, and those with very nice perks I have to respectfully disagree. Invitations to "casual chats" over breakfast or dinner in the office cafeteria are IME
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by rcoder 6y ago
One of the most competent contract lawyers I've ever had the pleasure of working with came to every meeting we had in jeans and seasonally-appropriate "outdoors" shoes, coats, etc. He charged a healthy but not exorbitant amou
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by rcoder 9y ago
We bought a small one-bedroom condo in downtown PDX for my brother to live in ~3 years ago b/c it seemed like a better investment than random stocks/ETFs. He lived there for a year, and we rented it part-time for another four mont
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by rcoder 9y ago
/me sighs The Equifax site appears broken in at least some browsers. Transunion wants me to sign up for an online account, and Experian charges a $10 fee in my state to place a freeze. All three want to collect my name, DOB, SSN, etc.
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by rcoder 9y ago
My family lives in Portland, OR, which isn't nearly as expensive as (say) SF or NYC but has seen significant housing cost increases in the last 5-10 years. My wife works as a transportation consultant, which is a solidly white-collar&#

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