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Absolutely, employees leave bad managers, they seldom want to leave the employer itself – Or at least this was my personal experience, always on the run from dead woods.

Syberia 1, 2, 3 from the late master Benoît Sokal. Or Spore, come to my mind as some of the most striking examples.

As far as I know, at this stage this book is available only in electronic form and is not sold on Amazon.

I may try to build something similar just out of fun, replacing the Pelican case with the strongbox that came with my COROS Vertix adventure watch, as it is now laying around with no other use.

As already pointed out by others, Mil-spec GPIO female connectors would probably be more versatile and easier to use than male ones in the present design. More durable storage and e-ink display would be also nice.

> i don't really agree with this - the money used to purchase financial products don't disappear, because for every product bought, there was a seller. This seller now has cash, which would be invested elsewhere.

Make no confusion, please. Quantitative easing was intended to give credit institutions greater ability to lend money to entrepreneurs, so as to boost real economy. When capitals are invested in financial products the entities closing their positions (e.g., selling stocks) and, in turn, getting the cash are not necessarily credit institutions (i.e., they are typically fund managers and private investors) – which is to say they pocket the money.

Speak for yourself.

I don't know about you, but I don't have time for reading everything gets published on the web – this is why I framed my sentence in the hypothetical. Reading my comment would have clarified my own point of view.

I do not get it. Ancient or modern the today's satire is still resorting on the same rhetorical strategies employed by Aristophanes, Horace, and Juvenal in the antiquity. Target changes; the need to poke fun – and invite the audiences to rethink those in power – stays.

If for 2FA they mean a cellphone for the "offband" communication of a code, I am out.

Value to his stakeholders? Definitely. We should try to imagine whether all Musk's companies would be equally valued by their customer's base without his bold leadership. In full honesty I doubt so. Not only Musk has managed to succeed to recruit very talented people – without whom none of his endevour would have succeeded – but he proved to be (one of) the most iconic figures of our times, who has the ability to execute very fast on his ideas. Today I cannot envision any other leading his projects.

Impressive indeed! Thank you so much for this reference.

> > commercially exploited

> I feel like this is an odd way to put it

Actually this is the standard way to put it, at least in my corner of the globe (i.e., europa.eu)

So, Hy allows "to freely mix imperative, functional, and object-oriented styles of programming."

I wonder: 1/ Shall we mix multiple paradigms of programming in the same project? 2/ Should we adopt a single programming language that supports multiple programming paradigms and utilise single paradigm for each given project, for the sake of minimizing the skill set required to the development team and – not necessarily –the learning curve?

I wonder how this line of research will be commercially exploited.

Although the reached depth of field was much shorter, this work reminds me about Lytro [0] Illum, a camera capable of refocusing the image after being taken. Announced in 2014 it received significant hype, but it never reached commercial success. One factor that hindered its adoption was the absence of a standard file format and the corresponding viewers for their "living pictures" – adopters were forced to publish their images on Lytro's website in order to allow viewers the ability to refocus the image.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytro

There are at least four more Raft implementations in Erlang, ranging from Ra (RabbitMQ), to rafter (Andrew J. Stone), to zraft_lib (Dreyk), and huckleberry (0xYUANTI). How WARaft compares to them?

""" If we limited our talent pool to a commuting radius around our offices, we would be at a significant disadvantage. The best people live everywhere, not concentrated in one area. And by recruiting from a diverse set of communities, we will become a more diverse company. """

1/ I pick challenges I want to solve, which are amenable to be approached through the lens of the language of choice I want to learn (e.g., a highly available app in Erlang, a system level command line utility in Rust). 2/ I source books, code bases, and papers that can inform my practice oriented learning process. 3/ Start hacking.

Cool! While I never had the chance to work with Zenith Z-160 or a TRS-80 Model 1, I can relate! My first PC was an Olivetti M19 (1986), which featured, like the Zenith, an ISA slot backplane and CGA graphics. No hard drive but a couple of 5 1/2 inch drives. It was powered by 4.77Mhz 8088. [0] I never had more fun than with that tiny box. It was my first machine I used to connect in dial-up to BBSs too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_M19

Aha, I know how does it feel! I have my first programs lost on a bunch 5 1/2 inch floppies, which, I know, will require some serious tinkering. I hope one day I will feel the urge to go after all of this.

I also have a collection of 8 inches floppies that belonged to my father. However in that case accessing them again would require some sort of "computational archeology". To begin with I don't even have any longer 8 inches drives... :-)

Kudos! It is wonderful to see how the computers from Commodore's age invite us to explore them in full.

Well noted, thank you for letting me know!

Nice! And congrats on the care you put forward to keep those machines in good working order. In Italy we had a very similar videotex network called Videotel, whose terminals are still being resold on eBay. I was considering using one of those as a distraction-free terminal. However I still have with me a few Olivetti VT100 and VT220 terminals from the 1980s that would serve the same purpose very well, and have not enough space for everything. Thanks for your answer, and happy hacking!

As we are here, let me ask you what is the most vintage computer, or computer of historical interest, you still enjoy tinkering on nowadays?

This is not the future; it is history. It happened in 2005:

The Million Dollar Homepage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage

Sam, please do it! I am always eager to learn more; I will be happy to hear from you, and I thank you for the opportunity to exchange a few ideas here on HN. Wishing you all the best with your personal and intellectual life. – Alfonso

Some design ideas for those of us willing to build our own insect hotels

https://learninglandscapesdesign.com/insect-hotels/

Indeed! As far as I recall, the use of error correcting codes were explored in the context of digital watermarking at least since the ECRYPT - European Network of Excellence in Cryptology – in the early 2000s. However many notions of steganography have been broken ever since. Now we have Meteor which proposes a notion of steganography which is provably secure. And, although we know that what is provably secure is probably not, I was wondering whether this newer notion can incorporate some form of ECCs. Food for thought!

Research question: Would be possible to design a cryptographically secure steganography resistant to transformations such as printing and scanning (i.e., a provably secure steganographic algorithm where the encoded message can be decoded after printing the image and acquiring the image via scan or photograph)?

The peers negotiate a session key from their ephemeral public keys in a two rounds exchange.

In the vision of DJB this was designed to work with DNSCurve, where network domain names are authenticated at the packet level.

Hi Sam, good to talk with you again :-)

Ai Weiwei would definitely count! In reality all western contemporary art, and to a more limited extent also contemporary art made artists in other regions of the globe, is political art. Political art here doesn't mean art related to the institutions of politics, as sometimes it is assumed in some circles. All art that raises questions about how we relate to each other in our societies is inherently political. (We are reminded that the etymology of politics is the Greek polis, the city-state in the Ancient Greece.)

So I could provide you with countless examples of political art/artists, from Claudia Andujar, to Trevor Paglen, to Forensic Architecture, to name just a few that influenced me the most – And I am sure you are familiar with true superstars such as Banksy, don't you? But this is just the tip of the iceberg; there is a galaxy of artists doing politically engaged art. Some of the most recurring themes nowadays are: gender politics, power, and sustainability.

Before leaving, as you mentioned the Ask HN re alternative career paths, I will take this opportunity to tell you that I am a (concerned) cybersecurity technologist by background with 20+ years of professional experience, who has approached, at mid-career, the arts as a way to distill my thoughts and raise questions about the world and time we live in. Some of the societal challenges related to my professional career form one the main thematic areas for my oeuvre. In my practice, I examine the aesthetics and politics of surveillance, traumatic memory, and sustainability. I will leave you below a few links:

* LI: https://it.linkedin.com/in/alfonsodegregorio * Artist practice website (to be updated): https://www.escapingphotons.com * Latest body of work: https://phmuseum.com/adg/story/retained-reports-1b29a4727a