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jdcon Germany is slowly losing it's “best of the class” image

...in terms of COVID deaths per capita

jdcon Linux 5.10

It matters to kernel API users (see io_uring), gamers and heavy virtualization users to name a few.

jdcon Show HN: Curated List of Online Learning

https://www.classcentral.com/providers

jdcon Reddit user fixes Cyberpunk 2077 steam controller input bug through decompiling

See also Slide, a FOSS Reddit client for Android

https://github.com/ccrama/Slide

jdcon A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM

Sounds good motivation for more better device documentation and open-source firmware.

jdcon How and why to use Lynx – the faster web browser

And the send-to-device feature doesn't crash it anymore!

jdcon Encryption Lava Lamps (2017)

What's the best entropy bang--for-your-buck < $100?

jdcon How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb?

Let me take you back to the 1970s. Like Gates, some 20 years later, Lucas decided to diversify his product line. And he got to work on making vacuum cleaners. Unfortunately, it was the only product he ever sold that didn't suck.

jdcon Weather Service faces bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data

John Oliver did an episode on this chicanery last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8

jdcon How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb?

2 to claim the bulb is working as intended and blast the user for doing it wrong

jdcon Obarun – Arch Linux based distro with skarnet s6/66 suite

What has this got to do with TFA?

jdcon Understanding Peer-to-Peer Git Forges with Radicle

Right, the answer ofc is "put another coin in the machine" where machine does not mean some powerful central authority.

jdcon Why a land-value tax is inevitable

I'm sure they'd get capture credits.

jdcon Is Probability Real?

What is easy or useful for one person to understand is often much less so for another.

jdcon Let's Solve the File Format Problem (2019)

I think the problem is the user needs to know where to look, and that gets difficult when you bring in sprawling, deeply nested directory trees.

jdcon “To be safe allocate 5 bytes more than you need”

Nim too

jdcon Apple Silicon and losing our legacy

You're right in that a stable ABI goes a long way to keep old binaries working!

My point is about this sort of thing:

> [...] anybody who has read the Old New Thing blog (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/) or Raymond Chen's chapter on Windows backwards compatibility (http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321440303/samplech..., PDF) will be both impressed and horrified at the lengths the Windows team went to in order to avoid breaking programs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13450629

jdcon Apple Silicon and losing our legacy

Except it's really the OS doing cartwheels to keep them going.

jdcon Google Cloud SQL now supports PostgreSQL 13

Why is that?

jdcon American Airlines Is Quietly Bringing Back the 737Max

Is it not an intrinsically imbalanced aircraft?

jdcon NoisePage – Self-Driving Database Management System

They have to limit the scope somewhere.

jdcon Ubuntu Linux Jail on FreeBSD 12.2-Release

macOS seems to do alright

jdcon Ask HN: How are you downloading YouTube videos?

Still using youtube-dl but will probably be using youtube-dlc in the not too distant future.

jdcon Mendoza: Use stack machines to compute efficient JSON diffs

Would be cool if there is were a way to plug this into git

jdcon figlet – a program for making large letters out of ordinary text

How many more lines of code?

jdcon GM, Ford knew about climate change 50 years ago

Having Jack Dorsey or some intern at some fact check org decide for me what is and isn't reasonable is much worse[…]

No one's saying that he should, so this is a strawman. Also let's not conflate social media (dumb-pipes for following anyone) with newspapers and cable "news" (editorial, selective).

jdcon YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

Try GitLab.

jdcon Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency

How is revealing systemic domestic surveillance at zero value in your mind?

jdcon How to Hide from a Drone

Detection and Localization of Multiple R/C Electronic Devices Using Array Detectors[1]

Locating Noncooperative Radio Receivers Using Wideband Stimulated Emissions[2]

A Practical Superheterodyne-Receiver Detector Using Stimulated Emissions[3]

1. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6857348

2. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6329437

3. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5699393

jdcon Simulating Machines in Clojure

> (1) Maybe Elements of a Clojure? Not sure that’s it; it was a book referenced on HN which has a whole chapter on naming things.

That's correct.