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s3graham··on We ran a Unix-like OS Xv6 on our home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler (2020)
That looks like the game-version of nand2tetris which I enjoyed doing a while back too (as another suggestion).
s3graham··on Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills
Please let me know when you're ready/able to ship another batch.
s3graham··on U.S. Woman Dies from Mad Cow-Like Brain Disease That Lay Dormant for 50 Years
> In other news, apparently hgh used to be extracted from cadavers.

Creatine too.

s3graham··on The Death of Daydreaming
I'm trying this strategy at the moment. https://www.shesabeast.co/the-diy-dumbphone-method/

The main things I needed to remove are the web browser and email client to make it ~ a dumbphone. I don't find myself wasting time staring at maps, or a weather app, or a calorie tracker, or camera/photos so I don't feel there's any reason to forgo those. (YMMV of course!)

s3graham··on Comparing Fuchsia components and Linux containers [video]
I think the reasons have probably changed over time, but my recollection is mostly to have a stable Windows-style driver API so that kernel and drivers can be maintained separately. Making such an API on top of Linux was prototyped, but was unsuccessful.

(Historically, that's one big reason that there's lots of Android phones that get a fork of whatever release was current some months before they shipped, and never get substantial updates.)

s3graham··on 'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised
"""Many tech experts also argue that apps are generally more secure than websites..."""

"Many", like, maybe the ones who are trying to sell you on an app development contract? But not many others!

s3graham··on Show HN: Uscope, a new Linux debugger written from scratch
Keep at it!

raddbg is one worth watching too (currently only Windows x64) https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger

s3graham··on No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard? Here's why
> Do you want to be one of the 21 million humans out of 8 billion that own a full BTC?

No?

s3graham··on Tilde, My LLVM Alternative
This looks pretty cool. I've been looking at all the "small" backends recently. It's so much nicer to work with one of them than trying to wrangle LLVM.

QBE, MIR, & IR (php's) are all worth a look too.

Personally I've settled on IR for now because it seemed to match my needs the most closely. It's actively developed, has aarch64 in addition to x64 (looks like TB has just started that?), does x64 Windows ABI, and seems to generate decent code quickly.

s3graham··on Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?
I remember hearing that it was possible at Netflix a long time ago, but I assume not any more.
s3graham··on Louisiana Requires Ten Commandments to Be Displayed in Public-School Classrooms
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/19/ten-... non-paywall (similar content I assume, since via AP)
s3graham··on Safe Superintelligence Inc.
> We are assembling a lean, cracked team

What does "cracked" mean in this context? I've never heard that before.

s3graham··on Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays
Unfortunately Dr. Rosling died pre-COVID-19.
s3graham··on GM says it's dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto because they're unsafe
"s3graham dropping GM vehicles because their infotainment system is garbage."
s3graham··on Common fungus candida albicans might fuel Alzheimer's onset
Sounds like a medical practitioner that ... doesn't mutate any state.
s3graham··on Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
I would like to use this if it was the magic thing you described. :)
s3graham··on Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
I definitely have this problem, but... do you find the QR code setup improves on a piece of masking tape on the side of the box?

I feel like I still continue to be lazy and not put stuff in the right box, not return it to its spot after use, etc. :/

s3graham··on Waste plastic can be recycled into hydrogen fuel and graphene
I assume the idea would be to avoid the carbon emission from doing so?
s3graham··on GitHub code search is generally available
I've been using it for a few weeks, and it's a great improvement, congrats on the launch.

(Pleeeease make the right click context menu just be the normal default menu though, I (apparently) "Right-click > Back" a lot when using a mouse rather than a trackpad and I keep getting that goofy Emoji dialog.)

s3graham··on DIY 1,500W solar power electric bike (2022)
Suntrip has had lots of great ones. I love Justin and Anne-Sophie's rig from a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIMM25unnU8 . If you check their channel, their small company does bespoke conversion work and they profile/demo some other interesting riders too.
s3graham··on AI converts between hundreds of programming languages
Sample 2, TypeScript -> Common Lisp... might be a recursion joke? :)
s3graham··on A run across Mexico
https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/two-time-nyc-marathon-c...
s3graham··on SoCal man says computer on his Tesla froze, causing it to be stuck at 83 MPH
It hadn't been driven in a couple days, and it was slightly below 0 C. So I guess it's possible something froze, but it wasn't excessively cold out.

I am mostly a one-pedal/regen driver, but the brakes had to have been working a few days prior because the car doesn't fully stop without using the hydraulic brakes to go from low speed -> stopped.

But after low speed testing in the parking lot I turned into I couldn't reproduce any failure so I barely had anything to report that would have been credible.

I also learned that you can't slam on the parking break (what I would have called an emergency brake in other cars!) because it's software-disabled above very low speeds.

s3graham··on SoCal man says computer on his Tesla froze, causing it to be stuck at 83 MPH
I had brake failure in my 2014 Model S, completely unable to stop, and I sailed through a red light before regen slowed me down enough to turn off into a driveway.

I know you're thinking it was pedal error or something similar and I would definitely dismiss someone else's story the same way. It was not reproducible. But I am 100% certain that the brakes were not responding even using both feet on the brake. My best guess is that something was unexpectedly frozen given the outside temperature at the time.

[ I still later traded it in and bought a new Y though, lacking better EV options at the time. /shruggie ]

s3graham··on Go 1.18
The silly things that bothered me the last time I tried to use it: 1) lame un-opininated formatter (no line wrapping); 2) obtuse-but-mandatory directory structure for modules once you move beyond a single file (maybe this has improved?); 3) embarrassingly large binaries.
s3graham··on Show HN: Ishim – find available one-word domain names
("TLD", not "LTD"; there's a few instances on your front page.)
s3graham··on Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest
I feel like it's indeed very fault tolerant, but we're smashing nodes pretty quickly and all over the place.
s3graham··on How to Get Promoted
Damn, Slava's gotten pretty burned! Let us reminisce about the good old days noodling around with Weblocks.
s3graham··on Editors (Vim)
Heh, "how you access ex commands shipped with Unix since like the 90s"
s3graham··on My favourite Git commit (2019)
My personal favourite commit (as opposed to commit message) https://chromium.googlesource.com/crashpad/crashpad/+/badfac...

(Sadly, the commit message isn't great, but clearly it's worth that hash.)

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