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Nice to see such an incredibly long and detailed writeup. Sounds like the 68k environment made a "good enough" VM for most applications.

You can still achieve this by saving video (configured either to be continuous or triggered by motion) to a micro SD card.

Incidentally, and naively, I have to ask: Is there a business model that can promise customers a product that's immune to eventual usurpation? It's a hidden cost to build your world around a product only to see it turn into pay-to-play.

What is the antidote to this trend?

Sadly, it seems the kind of caution you advocate is conspicuously absent from cable "news" punditry. Even worse, there are millions of viewers who feel that they are being informed by this kind of caustic debate.

There's a question of values here. VC may be the path for maximum monetary gain and maximum growth, but maybe it's not if you want to _make_ something that represents your values. Once your 50% slips to 49% and below, it's game over.

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The PineTime watch has this vibrate-on-the-hour feature:

https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/

> The project no longer involves collecting new bat samples or working with live viruses. WIV has no role beyond contributing more than 300 whole and partial genome sequences of SARS-related bat coronaviruses from its collection, Daszak says.

I join others in their skepticism, but, as a layman, I'd like to know: Is this gain-of-function research as described? What are the risks if the research doesn't involve live viruses?

This link is giving a 404. Archived copy at:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230509073604/https://www.princ...

15 years and counting here!

Any other Wyze camera users here who've been experiencing poor availability since a major update to the app around New Year's?

Rich countries only manage sewage and garbage to the extent that it's out of sight and out of mind. Arguably nobody is "responsible enough."

It's not dead for baseball fans in the NYC Metro area!

Note the included PIC32 simulator in tools/virtualmips, inherited from RetroBSD:

https://github.com/RetroBSD/retrobsd#simulator

The latter, but also 2.11bsd does not have virtual memory, and thus does not require an MMU. It was written with the segmentation features of a PDP-11 in mind, which so happen to adapt to PIC32 as it has kernel/user separation and memory protection via a kseg/useg segmentation (as opposed to a TLB with individual page protections).

Seems like a bit of both. Serge Vakulenko of RetroBSD has responded recently to issues filed on RetroBSD, but has stated that he has limited time to work on adding ports for other architectures.

https://github.com/RetroBSD/retrobsd/issues/87

Wealth has curious ways of keeping you in arrested development.

The moral: stop worrying about productivity and get back to living and loving.

Also, stop wasting hours a day reading HN.

> We should stop telling children that they’re the “experts on their own lives” and repudiate a static model of selfhood as a fait accompli at birth. Sure, some inborn essence is particular to every person, but it’s a spark; it’s not a fire. We could stand to return to the language of forming character and making a life for yourself, while urging teachers to exercise the guidance they’ve been encouraged to forsake.

This resonates. I feel that I was fortunate enough to be raised during a time and in an environment where the adult world was separate, mysterious and alluring from my young perspective. My parents, like many of their peers, had beliefs and values that they held up and lived by. They didn't stoop down to coddle us, and they gave us room to grow. Sure, kids didn't have as much of a voice in such a world - and that wasn't always a good thing. But the polar opposite that we see today just seems absurd.

The mature world was what my young self yearned to be a part of, and it was pretty clear that membership was something to _work_ towards, not to be bestowed.

It's hard to give an answer without knowing other variables - namely, what else is happening in your life.

I can relate to this sentiment over the past few years. The other variables, for me, are that the demands of raising a young family have grown, my day job has shifted into more of a maintenance mode with less latitude for creative development, and my family has recently suffered a tragic loss. During this time, I've been astounded how much more difficult it has seemed to accomplish fairly straightforward tasks compared to just three years ago. So I've also wondered if my mental ability has been on the decline.

Yet, this past year I've had two new interests spring up - one possibly a new career path, the other an avocation - and despite having precious little time to devote to them, I have been finding that I'm learning at a rate that I might never have achieved before - even in my 20s. I've somehow found myself with a "beginner mind" again, and at times I feel like I'm on fire. And I'm in my mid 40s. I can't explain where any of it came from (one path quite literally took off after reading a post on HN!) - it all seems spontaneous.

My little piece of advice is to be aware of these kind of nagging thoughts that take hold in your mind. Ask yourself if they are provably true and, whether true or not, they could cause harm. You never know what's around the corner, so it may behoove you to stay open and keep these nagging thoughts out of the way!

An analog signal recorded to tape is subject to all manner of distortions that don't apply to digital recordings, including frequency-dependent phase shift, crosstalk between tracks, print-through, tape hiss, and saturation.

I can never buy the argument that analog recordings are better _because_ they are more faithful. I do think they can sound very beautiful and be aesthetically pleasing, however.

New production, Type II cassette tapes are available from ATR Magnetics, e.g.: https://www.atrtape.com/products/atr-magnetics-colbalt-silve...

For your listening pleasure!

> For months, the BLET and other unions had pushed for fifteen paid sick days for rail workers. Currently, railroaders get none. In those final hours before their strike deadline on September 15, the union agreed instead to accept three unpaid sick days, with thirty days notice, to be taken on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.

In other words, be sure to plan your sickness well in advance.

> However eventually I want to come back home.

Make a move before it's too late. Or convince them to move close to you.

If you love being with your parents, your window of doing so is fast shrinking.

I wish I had understood this sooner.

...beats expectations that it would just immediately fall over onto the floor

Professors need not administrate themselves, but school administration should, above all else, serve the needs of educators and those being educated.

This isn't specifically PDP-8-related, but the story of Bell Labs going to extraordinary lengths to hire Ken Thompson is a hoot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o

...not to mention Ken's story of Doug McIlroy writing a compiler for TCG on a sheet of paper, then using it to compile itself - by hand - thus "feeding his sheet of paper his sheet of paper."

Sounds pretty reasonable...amortize the fixed costs over larger facilities and greater utility.

Why was this downvoted?

Normal don't make it right!!