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I've been trying to pick up a PS5 for a friend since they came out and it's been futile. I keep a watch on our local eBay and noticed there's one person who sometimes buys out all the available stock from the big electronics store, then puts them up for the MSRP. In the description they write something to the effect of "I am not making any money off of these - I just want to help people get a console for the price they normally sell for before all the scalpers buy them and mark the price up". I have no idea how they plan to prevent scalpers from buying those and charging 20% more... and also I wonder how the warranty will work since they obviously can't give you the original receipt.

I have used numerous Pi-alternatives and the compatible distros are always a mess, not to mention finding support for why some package/GPIO isn't working is hit-or-miss. Try getting developers of a $10 board to patch bugs.

I have even spent more and used e.g. Asus Pi-compatible boards and it was always a dumpster fire - the last one I picked up was advertised as supporting 4K output, but getting it to actually work was beyond my capability, and when it did work, was topping out at 10 FPS. Writing to support ended up being a waste of time, all I ever got was vague answers as to why it should work without any actual solutions.

"Substantially cheaper and more energy efficient" - 9W max is already quite low[0] and cheaper? Pi devices are already pretty cheap, and the money goes to a good cause as opposed to cheap knock-offs where the money goes where? Also the cheaper you go, the less support you will probably receive. As noted by the link, StackExchange has a dedicated site just for Raspberry Pi questions. Good luck getting even close to the same level of information about any compatible boards, which probably cut corners by using sketchy hardware which may or may not be be patched in the future in their forked distro.

[0] https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/114239/pi-4-...

Anything benefiting from a static IP address, such as running your own VPN, mail server, Bitcoin node, TOR node... the latter of which got me banned by my bank's security team because I was marked as "suspicious traffic" (wasn't even an exit node) - preventing me from using online banking. Talking to support proved fruitless, however the ban was lifted as soon as I changed my IP address.

300% compared to when? And where are you getting your info from? Googling for "gasoline prices Europe" and it's apparently nowhere even close to that.

I can't vouch for the accuracy of either of these sites but they have nice historical price charts:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/603701/diesel-fuel-price...

https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/gasoline-prices

Italy also doesn't seem to be even close to 180%: https://tradingeconomics.com/italy/gasoline-prices

Not to mention with a paid plan you can write to support and expect a fairly quick response. I also had some initial issues backing up with tons of files (during the trial) and support sorted me out after a couple back-and-forths over several days.

I also bet if they couldn't figure out the issue, a refund wouldn't have been out of the question.

Way to generalize everybody who is ever enthusiastic to work somewhere - they're all untrustworthy and horrible teammates.

Isn't that what probation periods are for?

Since when was the discussion purely feature films? Our little studio can't afford racks full of Xeon CPU renderers, so we do as GP said, using redshift, etc. and just have a ton of GPUs.

So why don't you write up an article and provide some benchmarks? You'll win lots of internet points, at least on Hacker News, as a lot of people seem pretty upset that Apple's new silicon is killing it.

I find W3Schools fine for most use cases. What would you suggest as being a better resource?

Maybe you missed the last episode but there was a lot of tension regarding CCC but it was mostly (or strictly?) between the two Germans. One of them was considered giving up the case rather than, when questioned, ask if he had any relations to CCC, who are known to have hacked into NSA, etc. Also they referenced exactly that detail, that the CCC was against patents and they were in the middle of a patent litigation case.

Spoiler: They resolved the issue by getting a charter of CCC members, whereupon neither of them was listed and thus the defense (Google) was forbidden from even asking about it.

Why can't you buy a Pi?

Congratulations professional Windows administrator. You are definitely not their target audience. And using group policies to disable the 100 different things this tool disables would be a ton of work... and I'm not even sure you can disable everything this tool does via group policies?

It's definitely not open source. In their FAQ (which is only in German):

> Wieso ist die Software nicht Open-Source? "Die Community" könnte mithelfen, die Software weiterzuentwickeln etc. …

"Why is this software not Open-Source?"

Weird banner at the top, seems like false advertising as it says a couple lines down: Expires on 2030-03-29

> Top row shows a Perlin noise texture

Side-tangent story:

I am continually impressed that an algorithm invented in the early 80s is still the go-to way of creating noise all over the place, from Pixar productions to Skia Shaders to Unity3D and beyond. I had the pleasure to meet the inventor Ken a couple years ago at SIGGRAPH in LA, where after 30 years he still shows up just to see what's new and hang out with us "normal" people. I was at a table with him chatting away for over an hour, having no clue who he was, even though his badge clearly said Ken Perlin. I didn't make the connection until my friend said "hey - you know that's the guy who made Perlin noise, right?", remembering that I had a several months prior proclaimed my joy at having discovered Perlin Noise and using it extensively in my project. I'm generally not impressed by celebrities of any sort, but in this case, I had to stop him mid-conversation to thank him many times over (including offering him a big hug) since I've had the pleasure of using various incantations of Perlin Noise over the years. Truly an awesome and humble guy.

I would guess that they swiped that idea (among many of the core features of VSCode) from IntelliJ a good 10 years after they implemented it. Too bad they can't steal more sane ideas from JetBrains' IDEs, I might actually consider switching ;)

A friend of mine was in the Marines and witnessed a guy blow his hand off after someone else bet him that he wouldn't hit a 50mm round with a hammer.

So who was this deplorable seller, so that we may also avoid them?

So then why are all other sources showing much lower infection rates?

I can't find what the date ranges are for John Hopkins' data. OurWorldInData says Feb 2020-Aug 27, 2021. The CDC link from GP says February 2020–May 2021.

Maybe from John Hopkins[1]? According to them, U.S. had fatality rate of 1.6%, albeit they use confirmed infections of 38.7 million vs. CDC estimates of 120 million.

Edit: It seems like CDC is inflating their infection rates compared to almost every other source. According to this[1] they also are more in-line with John Hopkins infection rates.

To note, mortality is rather similar in all sources I can find, but only CDC says 120 million were infected.

[0] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality [1] https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid?country=~USA

This link posted above stutters reliably on my box, always at the same spots: https://go.ludotune.com/hui4

Win10, FF 91.0.1 64-bit

Stutters at ~24 seconds, ~32, maybe 1:30ish, 5 seconds after that... then I lost track. Not very often but when it does it's very jarring. Happens if it's running in the foreground or background, even if I'm not moving around or anything, just listening with tab in focus.

Did they say the "quadcopter" was flying 100mph sustained for an hour, or just short bursts of up to 100mph to avoid being caught?

Relatedly, just imagine if the entire world's population could enjoy the privileges most of us HNers generally take for granted. Access to free (higher) education, internet, higher paid/skilled job market, cheap hardware, et al. I would guess at minimum a ten-fold increase globally of engineers, IT-experts, scientists, etc. who could contribute their knowledge and skills, thereby potentially benefiting everyone on Earth.

There's a button in the upper-right corner "Send us your tapes" - you should consider submitting whatever you have.

I think both of you are making a lot of assumptions without providing any sources to back up your own anecdotal experiences. Also related, but HN could really use an optional country-flag next to each user's name so that we could at least see what country people are referring to respective their experiences which they state as "the way it is".

> Home temperature is fairly consistent over the day.

You must live in a mild climate where the outside temperature doesn't change much because everywhere I've lived in the world, you constantly turn on/off heating/fans/air-conditioning depending on the season and time of day.

> Commuting costs completely dominate in terms of energy costs.

Assuming usage of cars. Leave the US and generally public transportation is a thing used by most people. The trains/trams/buses still travel the same routes and times as before-pandemic times.

> The running the same computer hardware at home or the office

Why is that? My PCs at work each use ~150W and I never turn them off because Wake-On-Lan doesn't always work. I presume it's the same for most of my 700 co-workers who also WFH. That's a lot of KW and not to be scoffed at.

> Radio’s use minimal electricity ~25w

You are taking the minimal example of radio. I would guess that more than a negligible amount of people have something more substantial at home which uses more than 25w (including amp/speakers/wifi to connect to Alexa, etc), granted it's probably still not much and could even balance out with people who don't listen to radio while working? Who knows, IMO it's futile to even try to calculate this value globally.

To contribute to the anecdotal evidences, at our company I would guess 25% and AFAIK they all live in the suburbs and drive to the nearest subway station in the city and use public transit the rest of the journey because traffic at start/end workday hours is a nightmare.

As a counterexample, my company pays us 3€ per day that we WFH in order to compensate for using personal resources. They are also paying for necessary equipment such as office chair, monitor, etc.

Than again I presume almost everyone in this thread is speaking about American companies, not that it doesn't happen elsewhere, but generally these (as you put it, "sane") company stories tend to be in the US.

LHA was released as freeware and included some source code to help with porting, whereas PKZip was released as shareware and as the article mentions, it's hard to find actual implementation details around i.e. it was probably easier/cheaper/smarter to go with LHA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHA_(file_format)

Your question reminds me of Rome Sweet Rome: https://www.reddit.com/r/RomeSweetRome/

It started out as someone on AskReddit asking how modern military would fare against ancient Roman military. The full story is on the right side of that sub-reddit under the section FAQ as a PDF, or here's the first section: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k067x/could_i_de...

A lot of people are still (after 9 years) waiting for the studio who acquired the rights to actually make a movie or a series based on the story (which Prufrock451 sold, good for him/her!). I for one hope Netflix/HBO/Amazon picks it up and makes a series out of it someday.