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mbureeon Many of the most nutritious foods are also the most sustainable

I thought it was pigs due to their genetic defect that makes them unable to produce warmth from muscle contractions/shuddering? Why they also get comparatively fat and build nests, but save a lot of energy

mbureeon Ask HN: What'd be possible with 1000x faster CPUs?

I'll switch to emacs the day they implement an Acme or Sam emulator, until then, ed.

mbureeon Running a Docker Host under OpenBSD using vmd(8)

Is it really incomprehensible that people like a BSD better than Linux?

Along the lines of "BSD is for people who love Unix, Linux is for people who hate Microsoft."

mbureeon The rush to mine lithium could dry up the high Andes

The volume of a kg of lead and lithium is also just vastly different

mbureeon Ask HN: What'd be possible with 1000x faster CPUs?

Exactly, 1000x faster CPUs would result in new software filling in the extra speed in no time at all

mbureeon Epson printer no longer recognizes third-party ink after firmware update

How hard was it to get firmware/flash it in the first place? I assume the driver updates are easy to get but the actual flashing tools always scare me enough to never try stuff like that myself.

mbureeon Epson printer no longer recognizes third-party ink after firmware update

I have another dot matrix printer, 24pin LQ. Wouldn't want it uf I had to print more than 5 pages a day because of the noise. A single page takes about 10-40 seconds depending on quality and content, the 'images' it can do really slow it down.

But the cheap cartridges are all worth it.

mbureeon Video shows GOP fake elector giving 'unauthorized access' to voting equipment

There's a small but significant advantage to some partys when using voting machines, just with touch screen being more likely to malfunction in humid/hot weather, which really is only an issue in poor districts lacking AC.

mbureeon Magnus Carlsen resigns against Hans Niemann in the second move

Stop the heartbeat in morse code of the next move. Communicate with the device via blood pressure

mbureeon Arm execs: We respect RISC-V but it's not a rival in the datacenter

Android without the closed source Google parts is pretty useless for the average consumer. E.g. just having each app open a persistent connection in the background for it to receive notifications instead of one centralized one is pretty bad for battery life.

mbureeon Building the Future of the Command Line

Then 99% will give up. I mean just try to read the man page of any modern GNU utility, it's so long and filled with options that nobody will ever read that through.

mbureeon LibreRPi – open source replacements for RPi firmware

https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware

The paragraph 'Does it boot Linux' should answer your questions

mbureeon Google loses challenge against EU antitrust decision, wins 5% fine cut

The number in the article does look a little weird, XXX.XXX millions

mbureeon Europe’s Drought Might Force Acceptance of Gene-Edited Crops

But not yet the C4 cycle, right?

mbureeon Benefits of ‘looping’ kids with teachers for multiple years

There are also the sorts of teachers I hated having as a teenager, but am deeply grateful in terms of what they taught us, after all.

Many of those were pretty much universally disliked often mainly due to the amount of work we'd have to do compared to others.

But when our class would get merged and we'd get one of the more 'popular' teachers, we were often kinda surprised how little the other half knew/had learned.

mbureeon Prenatal cannabis exposure associated with mental disorders in children

On the other hand coffee is addictive, but I have yet so see someone go down the drain mentally for drinking coffee all the time.

Sure, not a lot of pot users do, but there's the minority that seems to spend 80% of their free time smoking.

mbureeon Is bin-opening in cockatoos leading to an innovation arms race with humans?

Seems like a straight pushing job, so you could probably get away with using a stick. But someone who has used one of these may want to chime in.

mbureeon Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a Super-Productive Programmer (2011)

Many people are very critical of his coding style and 'paranoia', but still, he wrote some of the most bug free/solid programs and has been right with his predictions far more often than not.

mbureeon Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite network capacity

https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/faraday/

Make of that what you want

mbureeon Flat-to-curved screens have an identity crisis

It claims 2400 lumens - I have a couple of flashlights in excess of 6000 and yeah, the light beam is visible in daylight but I can't see any way you'd project something with decent contrast even with that.

mbureeon Nine million people in city 170km long; is world ready for a linear metropolis?

> In other words, a single vehicle breaking down can take down the entire transit system.

Eh. It's the same way for most train tracks around the world, single track and double tracks without frequent crossing. You could still push/pull them along with the next train, in case they have a single point of failure.

Other points still stand, but with that quite ambitious completion date well see sooner than later

mbureeon The tyranny of the rocket equation (2012)

Just need to go a bit further, like, almost 36000km

mbureeon A Special Kind of Hell: intmax_t in C and C++ (2020)

And glibc, but most people interested in static linking are using musl/dietlibc/uclib anyways

mbureeon JavaScript hydration is a workaround, not a solution

By moving from one OS to the other you really mean Windows/OSX/Linux, right? Because thanks to modern web(browsers) you can almost but forget using another one, regardless of someones checkbox design.

mbureeon The dictatorship of the articulate

I suppose the more experienced (and more valuable I guess) knew most dangers and pitfalls and were better able to navigate amongst them. Some people also seem to be inherently more clumsy/likely to misstep/hurt themselves and they'd get sorted out sooner.

Not that that was any good, but I don't think enough builders died to make a difference in productivity.

mbureeon A Regular Expression Matcher (2007)

He writes about that in the article? And mentions how grep has the same problem while egrep solves it...

mbureeon Samurai: Ninja-compatible build tool written in C

Ehhh, the creator also works on a minimalist Linux distro (Oasis) and one of their goals is to build with cproc (a C frontend for the QBE backend), all written in ISO C. He uses Samurai in his distro, so it all fits together pretty well

mbureeon Italy carries out its first assisted suicide

Yes, programs such as this, like in Switzerland (well, I think you gotta do it yourself there, still), have totally ended the homelessness and drug addiction problems.

mbureeon Ambulance waits: 'Can you please tell them to hurry up or I shall be dead'

You also don't have this problem if people just can't afford them and drive themselves.

Seems a bit cheap to directly jump to "socialized healthcare bad"

mbureeon Network DDoS

And what you Russia gain from that?