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5V * 5A = 25W, no PSU is 100% effective so 27W is reasonable requirement

Surely legend of the era. Remember some obscure court restrictions for him at the time, not quite sure they were real, or hoax, or urban legends...

nimmenon How to deal with extreme physical pain (2020)

It is surely not pleasant experience, I have diabetes and I had frozen shoulder on both sides, almost consecutively. Probably been 4-5 years in total, pain is very annoying - I'm not talking about not being able to wipe your arse, I'm talking unable to sleep, because of pain, in any position. The only good news is, from what I was told, it does not reoccur. It is strange experience to have such intensity pain for such prolonged periods. Probably nastiest for me, was experience of being handicapped, even such simple thing as severely restricted shoulder movements - bring MAJOR impact on everyday life and functions. Oh yeah, and drugs don't work, well at least most of them...

nimmenon Ryanair’s statement on diversion to Minsk Airport

Except for 6 people, 4 unnamed russians, journalist and his wife/girlfriend(who is not belarus national)

nimmenon Lithuania is paying people to trade in polluting cars for escooters and ebikes

Such small country does not have proper car industry, but there are some local electrical trolleybuses made(maybe few dozen a year), or some parts for automotive industry - like continental tire factory in Kaunas, some parts made for mercedes, etc, etc...

nimmenon Show HN: WZRD – Visualize your music with StyleGAN

Cool and interesting idea, but like most said, won't be logging in using google OAuth. Hope the demos are actual display of the tech instead of "hand made"

nimmenon FreeBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad

I used new thinkpad x220 back in the day, the only annoying thing was that lan required some driver download from vendor(realtek, if remember correctly), did not work out of the box. Don't think I've messed much with other things, so they worked ok for me out of the box(but my requirements might be different). Been user since 6.0

nimmenon Linux Observability with BPF

That's my impression also, another few decades and linux might get PF, yay... But that is good change, tried picking up IPTABLES multiples times, but always go back to *BSD or dedicated hardware

nimmenon Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?

I Am a Strange Loop, 2007 book by Douglas Hofstadter

nimmenon 310 Bitcoin challenge has been solved

To take this idea further... Wonder if it would be possible to click/mine-bait to alternative "branch" consensus :)

nimmenon Open source modular synth software lets you create 70s & 80s electronic music

Strangely xodular or automatonism don't get much coverage, I guess that "nice" UI did skyrocket vcv rack

nimmenon OpenSMILE: Open-Source Large-Scale Multimedia Feature Extractor

if any of the links(to book and software) would work, that would be great

nimmenon Tower 2

Errors on purchase page are not encouraging:

Notice: Undefined index: body style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida grande', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> in /kunden/281288_70176/apps/website_tower/releases/9b6ba7f1-20142207090452/www/lib/pricing.php on line 192

nimmenon Reinventing the Airline Industry

this all sounds nice and neat, but reality bites back. As per writers thoughts on Virgin. "Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. is set to report an annual loss of $201 million for the 2013 fiscal year and, in response, has imposed a salary freeze for the entire fiscal year, which began March 1."

nimmenon Ask HN: What do you want to know about Heroku?

that was nice article to read, thanks for sharing info. I would like to know what you use RabbitMQ for, more detailed info. Also some insights, what infrastructure improvements are in mind and why(think changing X to Y, because Z). Also some stats would be cool.

nimmenon Heroku Ruby platform suffers DDoS attack

you shouldnt point links with print

nimmenon Hacker News Jobs

i think stackoverflow job board is quite good and has a lot of similar competency folks as here(maybe more in tech sense), if you dont know it already you could try looking there

nimmenon How to write "Pretty Code"?

i read some great book about similar things you looking for, but forgot its name :/ http://www.amazon.com/Code-Craft-Practice-Writing-Excellent/... this one might be it, but i dont remember now as i dont have that book near me

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indeed

nimmenon Ask HN: The Most Important Data Structures

http://us.php.net/spl

i think most of them are here, but there are few missing(but it depends on language you are working with)

nimmenon Patch adds multiplayer support to XCOM

great patch, one the best games in history

nimmenon Ask HN: What programming language do I use?

i would go for golang, python, d (learning golang at freetime right now)

nimmenon Ask HN: PHP or Ruby on Rails

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.... i would mostly agree with this chart. ruby is on the roll, but i do not think it will catch up with php any time soon. php has many great frameworks like:

http://kohanaframework.org/

http://www.yiiframework.com/

http://symfony-reloaded.org/

http://fatfree.sourceforge.net/

and language is evolving in decent steps, has A LOT components, extensions, libraries. its easy to find solutions for your problems in search engines, or community. i like ruby too, but sorry, i will be going probably for python/golang/(maybe even java) soon (i dont like front end stuff). ruby is just too young to become something more serious in web development, and other languages are catching good ideas from ruby fast... you should define your goals more precisely and choose where you will go next

nimmenon Ask HN: Music APIs?

http://www.discogs.com/help/api