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Timethyon Ask HN: Does anyone here have an art degree?

I moved to an out of state university and began a 4 year comp-Sci program. Flunked out in year two due to partying. Moved back home, enrolled in community college and finished a fast track AA in Graphic Design. Then, a semiconductor company came to our town to recruit technicians. I tried out and aced all the tests. Now I'm a 16 year fab veteran, and I enjoy programming and graphics stuff in my time off. Weird path but I couldn't be happier with the results.

Regarding the impact of my art background on the job: im recognized as the team expert on making charts, visualizations, and documentation. I have been able to improve our processes by applying a clean visual approach to describe and document our work.

Timethyon Diesel cars produce more toxic emissions than trucks and buses, EU study says

YouTube for Rolling Coal

Timethyon LEDs may cause retinal toxicity at occupational domestic illuminance

In my opinion neon lamps emit the most pleasant colors to look at.

The only sodium lamps I'm familiar with are high pressure sodium, which emit a garrish orange hue.

Timethyon Ask HN: The habit adopted in 2016 that had the greatest impact on your health?

Same! I'm 8 weeks in and already feeling the benefits. I'm 39, 190 pounds and my goal is 170.

Timethyon Show HN: 8bitworkshop IDE for Atari 2600

One of the most illuminating technical books I have ever read. I now grok 2600 and can die happy.

Timethyon Total Nightmare: USB-C and Thunderbolt 3

But it's still too thick for charging my wireless earbuds so let's include type D mini... Or was that micro? So much for universal. USB has lost its way.

Timethyon Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

http://elm-chan.org

A one man hardware & software powerhouse. He is an old-school EE in Japan and his personal projects are astounding in breadth and depth.

His SD Card and FFT libraries are classics. His hand wired SMT circuits are works of art.

Timethyon Ever wondered how many open FTP servers there are?

It's been a while but I believe that's a response from Apache server not ftp.

Timethyon A fundamental introduction to x86 assembly programming

Sunburst the Ascent of Sun Microsystems. Terrific stories, so many lessons.

Timethyon How CGA Graphics worked [video]

That BASIC looks way ahead of it's time. Thanks so much for sharing.

Timethyon Upcylce Old Speakers with C.H.I.P

Sounds like the CHIP guys are desperate for use cases. That LePai amp already plays MP3 off USB and SD card.

Timethyon JavaScript's popularity appears to have peaked

Is the reader written in Javascript? Very laggy on mobile.

Timethyon Show HN: Hangman in 3 lines of Python

My favorite Apple II periodical "Nibble Magazine" had a regular feature called One & Two Liners, neat little type-in BASIC programs. I learned a lot about programming by trying to decode the techniques. Thanks for sharing.

Timethyon Microkernels are slow and Elvis didn't do no drugs

Hi MBCook the reader view works on my iPhone for this article.

Timethyon OpenBSD Jumpstart: Learn to Tame OpenBSD Quickly

Where do you experience this lag? Graphics? Disk? Io?

Openbsd has always felt turbo fast to me. Easily the tightest Unix experience, in my experience.