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Build with stone blocks. Even if it gets knocked over the blocks just need to be reassembled to be useful whether as a wall, a tower, a road, or another house.

Anyone interested in this kind of stuff (i.e., the Western Esoteric Tradition) would enjoy The Secret History of Western Esotericism podcast. Lots of great scholars and scholarship on this understudied aspect of Western civ. https://shwep.net/

In my view, both nihilism and foolish optimism seem to be coping mechanisms. Very few can really look this issue dead in the eye and still live a joyful, productive life. It’s a serious, pressing issue at a scale that is hard to imagine.

The current report is quite a bit worse than this sanguine take. The pending report appears to be even more worrisome. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/23/leaked-un-report-wa...

Nasa's JFET tech is being developed by Ozark IC to create a Silicon Carbide RISC-V chip for just this purpose.

https://www.ozarkic.com/2020/05/26/ozark-ic-to-continue-ultr...

I'd love to see a text-only version. That would be fun to develop against and almost any FPGA should be able to run it. Might evolve into an interesting embedded platform over time.

Never thought I’d see my old workplace on the front page of HN. Congratulations everyone! :)

Any option for a non-JavaScript HTML/CSS front end?

https://writtenrealms.com/ client is pretty nice.

Perhaps the natural discomfort many face when confronted by this challenging formulation instead indicates that a limitation of the real number system has been perceived? I would encourage those who have this reaction to study hyperreal and other alternative systems as mentioned in the article. If this clicks for them they may help lead us in new direction mathematically and advance the state of the art.

You know, when the integrity of the office of the President of the United States is at stake one would think burning a HUMINT or other asset might be worth it.

I really like my Librem 13" ... it's very hard to find a system approaching modern that runs flawlessly with no closed firmware required. Coreboot is available for those willing to take on a fairly serious hack but it's not shipping yet from what I can tell. I honestly don't think they deserve the hate I see leveled at them. I needed a replacement and they provided it no questions asked.

For those wishing to run Linux, which of laptops require no (or minimal, I suppose) closed source firmware? I tend to prefer Debian sans non-free but I'm practical enough to just weight that as one factor among many.

Or, YOU can only entertain such ridiculous thoughts because YOU live in a society that IS totally controlled by criminals. I don't want to live in a country optimized against the assumption of control by criminals.

Is Mirage on L4 something that, if realized, would provide application developers with a more secure basis for building their own applications? I'm but a simple application developer but I do care about security and if there were a platform I could develop against that gave me confidence my code was far less likely to be undermined by kernel or TCP stack vulnerabilities I think I'd be encouraged to do a better job of security myself. This might not be the ideal human attitude toward secure programming but I might not be alone in feeling like my best efforts rest on shaky foundations and that's somewhat demoralizing.

That's pretty good but if it were me I'd pry the ICs out of the motherboard and microwave them every month as well. /s

Some of this is crazy advice unless you're DPR or trying to help some oppressed people somewhere. That said, I end up reinstalling every month or so naturally because I like to alpha-test. :P

Color me skeptical. This sustained outage got very little coverage outside the part of the twitterverse inhabited by cybersecurity specialists like @ericgeller

Why is this flagged? Is there a simple way to figure this out?

This precisely.

Perhaps but it's far easier to imagine it's the result of knee jerk over classification which is well understood to be a terrible problem through the organs of the body politic.

Great work on the integrated terminal. I'be been waiting for this. Might even fire up Windows 10 with Ubuntu shell and see how everything works together.

Yes, except thanks to the wild card that is technology, seemingly towards its own destruction.

Dual gigabit Ethernet ports and USB 3 round out the impressive X-15's impressive features. It's not available yet but should be by the end of the month or early July based on the wiki. If it runs OpenBSD I might choose it over Soekris.

I'd call it an almost complete breakdown of the parliamentary process in this country. The unwillingness of Congress to advise and consent with regard to filling a supreme court vacancy is unprecedented and the media is essentially ignoring it given the constitutional crisis it truly represents.

I really like my new puri.sm laptop (the librem 13") ... especially the fact that it doesn't require any non-free bits in the distribution (in my case, debian stretch). I know some folks have issues with the fact that there are non-free bits under the hood (bios, etc...) but if what you're looking for is a solid, compact laptop with modern internals (I'm looking at you, my beloved Thinkpad x200) that can run a "pure" OS sans non-free components it fits the bill.

I should also note there was a recent price drop for the 13" model. I also love the hardware wifi/bluetooth and camera/mic on/off switches.

I'm using IntelliJ with the golang plugin at the moment and am spoiled by the integrated terminal. A quick Google search seems to indicate that the atom editor has a terminal plugin so maybe that would be a good basis for a port. VS Code feels much snappier than IntelliJ so I look forward to the day with an integrated terminal is available.

I have the puri.sm librem 13" and really like it. The only issue I have so far is that I have to build a custom kernel if I want to use the more advanced touchpad features on a stock debian install.

The only thing holding me back is the lack of an integrated terminal. This is absolutely essential to my *nix workflow and I can't for the life of me imagine a reason to not include it. Otherwise, I love what I'm seeing here.

Just a follow-up to correct the record as much as possible. I believe this motorcade was related to the Prime Minister of Malaysia's visit to Apple per the following tweet. Hat tip to the redditor @frenvedd over on r/apple for this information!

https://twitter.com/DelFazli/status/700133655444746241

Honestly, I didn't feel at liberty to ask and none were volunteered. I've been hoping someone from Apple would pick up on this thread and post them here.