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70rd··on MIT researchers develop a paper thin loudspeaker
Kind of reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device).
70rd··on A microcontroller board with a camera, mic, and Coral Edge TPU
What are the alternatives with these specs (power draw, mainly)?
70rd··on I use Org Mode for personal logging/journalling
In the meantime, there's https://github.com/tecosaur/emacs-everywhere.
70rd··on Ask HN: How to Learn to Type Faster?
Annoying click?!

To each their own, but tactile keyboards are usually favored by typists because there's physical feedback from actuation. Also, MX browns are actually strictly speaking a tactile switch, just the bump is very muted.

70rd··on Poll: Is the leetcode grind necessary to land a high paying remote job?
I think the truth is the exact opposite: the biggest proponents of white board interviews are FAANG who have extensive data on the hiring process and realized that these interviews are the least discriminatory. 'Traditional' chatting or behavioral interviews are biased because the interviewers will often preder candidates they find likeable.
70rd··on UK schools receive 300k CO2 monitors in gov initiative to reduce COVID19 spread
https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...

^Great and accessible write up on the misconceptions of aerosol transmission and droplets.

70rd··on The benefits of intermittent fasting the right way
Back when I had looked into the literature, the consensus seemed to be that it was not more effectice than CR for weight loss.

If that's still the case, it would depend on what you find easier to maintain over long periods of time. For some people, eating healthy/less and or tracking calories is a lot harder than just eating one big meal a day.

70rd··on In Response to My first impressions of Web3
An ERC-20 token with supply of 1 is non-fungible.
70rd··on Crypto Cities
> Lots of things "don't need" to be written in python, but they're written in python anyway.

This is a weak argument. Many things shouldn't be written in python, because it would the wrong tool for the job. Networking libraries that require bare metal performance, high assurance systems that are easier to write in strongly typed languages.

Block chains solve untrusted writing in the presence of byzantine faults. Not all applications require this. Most don't.

> Like... why _not_ dump Merkle roots on-chain?

Because the data isn't merkelized?

70rd··on Show HN: Plain Org – A new org mode app for iOS
http://www.orgzly.com/ is a FOSS alternative for Android.
70rd··on Sci-Hub is fundraising
Start buying ETH and donate it once the beacon chain merges with ETH1. Transaction fees will go to validators instead of miners.
70rd··on The Perils of M1 Ownership
Bizarre. I'm on Linux and only really ever tested it with dd (use it for backups/installing Windows on metal so I don't have to deal with PCIe pass-throughs with a VM), but the results have been great for me.
70rd··on The Perils of M1 Ownership
Were you getting those speeds with random reads or sequential? I have one of the Orico enclosures and it works great.
70rd··on Emacs Love Tale by sdp
Emacs pinky is a function of keybindings, which are yours to rebind. Evil and modal editing are quite popular across the Styx.

Elisp is just a product of its time (and Stallman's dogmatism). The lack of namespacing, lexical scoping (until recently) and first class concurrency really show its age. Nothing like the UI locking up because some function is blocking in the background.

70rd··on Emacs Love Tale by sdp
https://archive.is/isH3s

I believe this is the reference.

70rd··on Build a RISC-V CPU from scratch
They're working on it for the Xilinx 7-series.

https://symbiflow.github.io/

70rd··on The Long Boom (1997)
Ars Technica is perhaps the spiritual successor to the Wired of old.
70rd··on The power of imagination, and other parenting lessons from Calvin and Hobbes
It was clearly tongue-in-cheek...
70rd··on Xilinx Opens Up Vitis HLS Tool for FPGAs
> Speaking of open source FPGA tools, I recently saw a video on Twitter of someone programming an FPGA (TinyFPGA, I think) using a 100% opensource toolchain. Has anyone seen that?

Could it be https://symbiflow.github.io/? Symbiflow aims to be "gcc for FPGAs".

70rd··on Wikipedia is 20
What's the issue with the page on Falun Gong?
70rd··on The Cycle from ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ Comes to Smithsonian
Why do we dislike Reddit?
70rd··on Attempting to Use GNU Guix
Just out of curiosity, why not use distcc?

I have a recent i7 and still compile essentially all packages on my homelab, I feel that the benefit would be even more marked for you.

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