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natvert··on California's bad IoT law
Could whoever is attending the next tech Illuminati summit plz tell me where, outside of Californa of course, everyone is going to move to start their next company?
natvert··on Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
What tweaks?
natvert··on Ask HN: Why is MacOS so popular among developers?
iTerm2 for me. With command + tab and command + ` I can code without a mouse. Terminator is ok, and windows, well... Nothing is as usable as iTerm2, at least for me. Plus, it just works, no need to remove old kernels or Windows update bloat.

I even rsync all my local changes from Mac to Ubuntu for development that requires a gpu.

When fuacia or magenta or whatever it's called now, becomes a thing, I'll see if I can switch :)

natvert··on Parallel Programming with Python
Sweet, a guide! I always end up rolling my own thread pool / manager. I wish something like the parallel gem for Ruby existed in pyland...
natvert··on The new MacBook Pros with T2 chips do indeed kernel panic randomly
As much as I dislike the inability to repair or upgrade the new mbp 15", I have to agree. Mine works great.
natvert··on San Francisco Officials to Tech Workers: Buy Your Lunch
The irony is that while the Bay area is screaming for globalization and free trade, against rising nationalistic trends, city-level protectionism is the norm now and only expanding.
natvert··on iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2
Haha, ok. Thank you again for all your hard work! Iterm2 is 90% the reason I pay a premium for a Mac. I would gladly skip paying the apple tax and put the funds toward iterm2 on other platforms if it ever becomes available :)
natvert··on iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2
Yes, thank you! Perhaps this has been asked before, but is there any hope of an Ubuntu port?
natvert··on Millennials must fight for their right to housing
Paywall
natvert··on More details leak on “Snapdragon 1000,” Qualcomm’s chip for Windows 10 laptops
interesing. from https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/arm-promises-laptop-...:

"ARM's lead processor architect Mike Filippo said that the new design would "do well" against Apple and roughly match the Intel Core i5-7300. That processor is a two-core, four-thread chip running at between 2.6 and 3.5 GHz using Intel's Kaby Lake architecture. With more cache, Filippo says that even i7 parts should be within reach."

on TSMC's 7nm process

natvert··on White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech goods
yes, i don't disagree. this is all beside the point though -- the tariffs will have the opposite of the desired effect though: pushing more assembly to China and making it harder for innovators in the US.
natvert··on White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech goods
sure... price * 1.25 :) still... crazy.
natvert··on White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech goods
This is insane. The ppl it is going to hurt the most are the tinkerers and innovators. As long as you assemble your completed phone / tv in China it doesn't matter. But for hackers trying to build cool stuff or develop ideas into products, they have to pay 125% more...
natvert··on Ask HN: Resources for learning ARM Assembly?
You probably want the reference manual for the co-processor.
natvert··on Giving Up on the Current MacBook Pro Keyboard
I'm in exactly the same situation. I just wish it had coffee lake, 32gb of ddr4 and a modern gpu - e.g. an upgrade. Who cares if it's marginally thinner and lighter?

With Ubuntu 18.04, Linux is more usable than ever... already runs my desktop and I'll be switching my laptop to Linux as well unless Apple releases something more suitable for power users this summer.

natvert··on ProtonMail blocked by Vodafone Turkey
Lawyers and law makers need to remember technology will continually outpace them. Both in execution of ideas and in value creation.
natvert··on Hex-Rays IDA 7.0 freeware version
Anybody know how this new release compares with https://github.com/radare/radare2 ?
natvert··on Amazon FreeRTOS – IoT operating system for microcontrollers
How do ppl like freertos vs zephyr vs nuttx?

Have any real comparisons been done? Both on flexibility (platform support and code portability... I know... Nuttx, POSIX) and performance (interrupts, context switching, etc)

I've been looking at zephyr which seems all around better, albeit a bit less mature. I have no hard data though... Hence this question.

natvert··on Ask HN: Sell my startup for $14M because I can't raise $2M?
i can give you a warm intro. email me :)

edit: you should def. explore all your options and choose the best one. don't discount any yet though

natvert··on Drone Building 101
Good question. a) Inside / light outdoor get a tinywhoop or Chinese clone and throw a <5g all in one camera + VTX on it. The E010 is an example. You'll pry want to upgrade the motors. b) fast/racing, I'd build an X frame 210mm with an Omnibus F4 or F7 and 2204 motors, DSHOT escs, FrSky rx. If that's not possible a similar prebuilt from banggood is pry almost as good. c) camera drone. I don't have a good answer for under $349 unless you build your own F450 with a gimbal. I'd highly suggest saving up for a Mavic. It's way more user friendly, portable and has a better camera, for the cost, of any diy camera rig.
natvert··on Drone Building 101
Totally agree. I carry my Mavic everywhere I go. I'm the author of this page and it is slightly dated. Happy to answer any questions or help folks get started with their own quads. My most recent posts on the topic are here: nathan.vertile.com/blog
natvert··on What Happens When an Airplane Hits a Deer
nice. if only these stats were given as much press as anything including the word "drone"
natvert··on Trump's visa plan leaks: American techies first
Ok, but a more interesting question is that if it is true (or something very similar is in the works) is it a good idea?
natvert··on Apple proposes new web 3D graphics API
anybody else here actually build a progressive web app only to find that safari supports none of it's features? chrome + android (maybe even microsoft) are so far ahead here it's not even funny
natvert··on Apple proposes new web 3D graphics API
How about just implementing serviceworker first?
natvert··on Per realtor.com's rent or buy calculator, renting in the Bay Area is better
Even if inflation is modeled at 20%, renting is still better, at least for the cities on the peninsula I explored: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d23fzt6ygj8lekc/Screen%20Shot%2020...
natvert··on [dead]
gaaa, if only it ran osx instead of windows...
natvert··on Drones, Reverse Engineering and the GPL
Github comments from my email (since they were all deleted by progod): http://pastebin.com/raw/yLGpfgtc ooh, and i just found a github window I still had open! https://www.dropbox.com/s/00zytxtzqmfgx3y/License%20violatio...
natvert··on Ask HN: What is best programmable drone with camera
build your own multiwii based drone. you'll get a more complete understanding of the hardware and software this way: https://nathan.vertile.com/blog/2016/04/24/rctimer-u210-mini...

then for firmware, there are 3 modern forks of multiwii: cleanflight, betaflight and inav.

if you want gps navigation, put iNav on it: https://github.com/iNavFlight/inav/

if you want awesome flight performance, use betaflight

there is also a slightly more robust autopilot firmware, dronin (which is an openpilot continuation) which can run on the flight controller listed on that blog post: https://github.com/d-ronin/dronin/issues/9

full disclosure, that's my blog :)

natvert··on Ask HN: Is there a good book on IT/Silicon Valley history?
not a book, but an excellent story about the valley's early days: Something Ventured https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Ventured http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1737747/
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