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Exorus18on Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

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Exorus18on Surprising new feature in AMD Ryzen 3000

Waiting for next side-channel attack..

Exorus18on USPS Files Patent for a Blockchain-Based Voting System

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2030/

Exorus18on XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint

Yup, during college I even created electrical schematics in MS Paint during one course, nobody believed it was done using it :) Although I must admit creating schematics in CAD software is more sane ;)

Exorus18on 50k-year-old three-ply cord fragment found at Neanderthal site

Probably not - that's why Neanderthals went extinct.

Exorus18on IKEA Frekvens LED box hack

Well, he didn't take full advantage of the hardware - he changed significant part of it (raising total final price by 1/3). Nevertheless I agree - it is very impressing ! :)

Exorus18on Cronopete – A Linux clone of Time Machine

Wonder when something similar appears named JohnTitor.

Exorus18on Flashrom – flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM and expansion cards

Cool project, very handy auto detection of memory chip model. I used it recently to flash on-board spi flash on ice40 fpga devkit.

Exorus18on Junior Developer Koans

Yes! Thanks a lot !

Exorus18on Junior Developer Koans

Something like 2-3 years ago I've read similar thing with master foo but about git. Does anyone happen to know where I can find it? I've searched for it but failed to find :(

Exorus18on 4,000-year-old termite mounds found in Brazil are visible from space

> The amount of soil excavated is over 10 cubic kilometers, equivalent to 4,000 great pyramids of Giza ...

> he mounds are extremely old--up to 4,000 years

Soo they can build 1 Pyramid of Giza per year ? :D

Exorus18on An entomologist rates ant emojis

I experienced miscommunication with my SO, she was constantly using sleepy emoji as a sad/crying emoji:

https://emojipedia.org/sleepy-face/

Exorus18on GNU Mcron

Well, I used systemd as an init system on a device I was working on (based on imx.6) because it turned out systemd was faster than sysVinit. And from my experience it is very popular now oj embedded systems.

Exorus18on A growing number of philosophers are conducting experiments to test arguments

https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3657

Exorus18on Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention (2015)

I love Lem's books, my father used to read them to me and my brother when we were young (I remember he read us "Tales of Pirx the pilot", now it is name of crater on Charon ! :D). This started my adventure with Sci-Fi books and reading in general.

Exorus18on Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?

Can anyone recommend course about assembly ? Which focuses especially on embedded systems (arm, avr, pic archs) ?