jdboyd

Looking at that Dallibor Farney company and how hard it is for them to get new nixie tubes to be a sustainable business, I shudder to think how much more effort it would be to get new, high quality CRTs off the ground. It would be cool though. A good start might be bringing back tube rebuilding more widely.

Clicking on the link shows: Hi! It looks like you might have come from Hacker News.

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I don't know what Dang's side of these accusations are, but it certainly sounds bad. In the mean time the title of the link doesn't match the content served.

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I am a 20+ year experienced developer.

Most of my work has involved embedded development (Linux, RTOS, baremetal, C/C++/uPython), including various forms of networking and distributed systems, audio/video, as well as backend services (usually using Python, Django, and Go), deployments (AWS, DO, Ansible, Docker, etc). I also do iOS and Android development. I do some frontend work, but that isn't my specialty.

I love helping people develop new products to meet their goals and needs, especially with a focus for getting it in use and making money as soon as possible to demonstrate utility and make money. I also have extensive experience taking over existing legacy code bases.

I am available for part-time or full-time contract work, long-term or short-term. I would love for every project to turn into a lasting business relationship.

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What really grinds my gears is the amount of systems with TPM 2.0 that they won't support, such as many Skylake and Kaby Lake (Dell and HP Core Ix-6xxx and Core Ix-7xxx systems, as well as Broadwell Xeon E5 v4 systems) even if TPM 2.0 is present. Pinning requirements to specific features is fine, but this arbitrary cutoff of CPUs without feature differences is just so infuriating.

The PiKVM V4 Mini is $274.95 when in stock (currently not in stock at US retailers), versus the $69 that JetKVM wants for the kick starter version. They also claim that the latency will be dramatically lower, which could be a big deal to some users.

Personally, I really like the form factor of the BlkKVM PCIe device (which isn't really a PCIe device, disappointingly, but does fit internally in a PC).

Assuming that they (JetKVM) carry through with the open source promise, it wouldn't be bad to see competing projects, and maybe they can also benefit each other.

Also, considering that PiKVM doesn't forsee supporting Pi5 or CM5 devices, it would be cool to see devices that help expand the SoC ecosystem that can be used for such devices.

There are already people doing M1 (and newer) flash upgrades by de-soldering the old flash chips and putting in new ones. I don't know the price, but potentially this kit could take out some of the steps and special hardware (involving USB flash adapters and a separate PC) required to do the job (by have the removable part already configured), and while it won't reduce the difficulty in removing the old chips without damaging the motherboard, potentially it could be easier to solder in place than the new flash chips (although I'd call that a big maybe). I'll be waiting until I see someone else using the kit before getting to excited though.

What I'm immediately looking forward to is someone making after market flash modules for the M4 mini, which uses a proprietary card format similar (but not compatible) with the Mac Studio (which does have after market cards available now).

The follow up video does note that.

Usually, proxmox is the base OS (meaing replaces whatever Linux/Windows/FreeBSD/etc that there was before). It is possible to run Proxmox inside KVM, but that isn't the usual choice.

That is what I really want to see next from them.

Direct link to that section: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/radeon/en/latest/index.ht...

They don't list anything as compatible lower in cost than an RX 7900 series card. It isn't clear to me if this means they have removed all support for RX6x00 cards or just aren't talking about it. It continues to baffle me that they aren't willing to support most of a consumer family, such as the RX7600 and above.

I moderately frequently wonder what is next for me after WordPress. The drama has nothing to do with it though. I don't use WP Engine (have long thought they seemed off), and I don't see the drama causing wordpress.org or wordpress.com to fall.

Minecraft Bedrock is one of the main things holding me back from doing that.

Why not byte the bullet and just go Linux now?

Rebuilding it today and how I would build it then if I knew what I know now are two different questions. There is also the question of what went wrong. I don't like the block editor introduced in 2018.

If I were building it today, I would write it in golang and I would offer the ability to export static sites. I would make comments an optional or external module since spam has largely ruined comments sections for anyone who doesn't get many legitimate comments. Why golang? Because it typically has the easiest deploy story, IMO.

If I were writing it then, I would have written it in Python and chosen PostgreSQL as the database. Of course, back then that is what I would have chosen as well.

> For example on SGI boxes you had "hardware raid" with cache, which essentially is a sort of embedded computer with it's own memory. That cache had a battery backup so that if the machine had a crash or sudden power loss the hardware raid would live on long enough to finish its writes. SGI had tight control over the type of hardware you could use and it was usually good quality stuff.

Most of the SGI machine I've used of various sizes did not have hardware raid. In my experience, you were more likely to run into hardware raid on a PC than on traditional SGI or Sun servers (I don't have much experience with AIX or HP-UX), unless the unix server was in a SAN environment.

I've had good luck slapping an Extron IN-1606 in front of a projector to make all the compatibility problems go away.

I agree with the basic difficulty you express, but I think there are a few clear areas to consider drawing a line in cases like this. First, mandate certain types of medical device makers publish certain types of repair information. Second, mandate that certain types of medical device must be supported for a certain amount of time, probably at least 10 years.

I'd live to know more about this than seems to be in the tweets.

If I sold equipment like that, it would probably include such modems by default and I would change support prices and warranty if I had to leave it out for a customer. They are too useful for diagnosing customer issues and a small price to add for something costing many thousands of dollars, so I can only imagine how much more valuable for something in the millions.

How is flutter when I already have an extensive c/c++ code base?

I worked at a small company that used Qt using the LGPL version of Qt with paying a cent to Qt. I thought we should probably pay for it, but the terms of the commercial device license made that unbearable.

While Autodesk is a big company, I could see trying to use a commercial licence as impractical for them. If they tried, what would it mean for their no cost editions, what would it mean for their plugin developers, what would it mean for their customers who do custom development on to of it? I think the paid licenses would be a disaster in all cases.

I think MS is asking you to re-buy your library.

I like the idea of openscad and sometimes use it, but the fact that it is no good for producing drawings suitable for machinists or 2d CAM programs is too much of a limitation. I wish someone would extend the idea to be more universally useful. Also, I wish I could afford for that someone to be me.

I just love new software for old machines (especially multi-tasking systems).