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epennon F-Droid 2.0

Speed. Most people are going to choose a fast binary download + automated integrity check over compiling from source, regardless of their reason for using F-Droid.

epennon Systemd 261 released with systemd-sysinstall, IMDSD, and storagectl

I misread IMDSD as IMDB and still thought yeah they might as well throw that in too at this point.

epennon Spanish archaeologists discover trove of ancient shipwrecks in Bay of Gibraltar

While I can't speak for these wrecks specifically, archeology as a field is chronically underfunded. They have to pick and choose their battles.

epennon Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

Hopefully the negative responses in that thread + the conversation here on HN might help them realize that totally removing Code access for Pro users isn't a good look.

And with no free trial period on top of that, nobody is going to want to pay $100+ just to check it out. I can't imagine the conversion rate of that test being positive.

epennon Mozilla Thunderbolt

It was originally codeveloped by Apple and Intel.

Though from Thunderbolt 3 onward Intel has been the sole developer.

epennon Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS

Very cool! This reminds me of ARDI Executor [1] - a piece of (discontinued) commercial software first released in 1990 that took the same API-level reimplementation approach used here. And it did so jaw-droppingly fast considering that it was running on 90s PC hardware. As a little kid using it to play a few Mac games on my Windows PC, it was genuinely inspiring to me to see that this was possible at a time when I was first learning how to code. :) Great to see something with a more modern implementation doing this as well!

It was discontinued in 2005, but the developers subsequently open sourced it and put the code on GitHub a couple years later. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executor_(software)

[2] https://github.com/ctm/executor

Bonus: One of the engineers from ARDI, the startup that created Executor, was very briefly featured in Bob Cringely's 1996 documentary Triumph of the Nerds talking about the lifestyle of working at prototypical mid-90s Silicon Valley startup.

epennon Doom has been ported to an earbud

In light of this I propose "Doom's Law" as the ultimate expression of late stage capitalism:

- Society continues to produce more and more powerful devices.

- More and more of these devices begin running Doom.

- When this reaches the saturation point, society becomes Doom.

epennon Archaeologists Find First Whole Sentence Written in Canaanite. On a Lice Comb

Minor nitpick, but I would say Phoenician is to Canaanite as Byzantine is to Roman. It gives a name to the local continuity and further development of the Canaanite culture in the northwestern coastal region of Canaan, i.e. Phoenicia, at a time when Canaanite culture to the south developed related but distinct branches of its own.

epennon uBlock Origin for Microsoft Edge

You can install a Chrome extension manually. The store is convenient but not required.

epennon Slack client for Commodore 64

You don't have to eat the cake to sharpen your baking skills.

epennon Homebrew 1.0.0

I'm fairly certain you misinterpreted that. He was complimenting the smooth process.

epennon Austin Startup Sees a Big Future for Little Homes

Please be safe to live in... then please, please, please build these in Boston.

epennon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2015)

I'm a full-stack engineer seeking a new adventure. Feel free to shoot me message!

Location: Pittsburgh, PA (but willing to relocate)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C, C#, Java, Python, Rust, Javascript, React.js, HTML, CSS, MySQL, Oracle, AI / Cognitive Systems

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericpennington

Email: eric [dot] pennington [at] gmail [dot] com

epennon Lost Island of Ancient Greece Discovered in Aegean Sea

Yes and no. They believe the peninsula where they may have found the city of Kane used to be a separate island. They think there used to be a channel that filled in over time, converting the island into a peninsula.

epennon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)

Location: Pittsburgh, PA (but willing to relocate)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C, C#, Java, Python, Javascript, HTML, CSS, MySQL, Oracle, AI / Cognitive Systems

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericpennington

Email: eric [dot] pennington [at] gmail [dot] com

epennon Now Shipping Soylent 2.0

I would love to try the pre-bottled version, but unfortunately I'm allergic to soy. I wish they would give an option of the type of protein used since soy is a fairly common allergy.

epennon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2015)

Location: Pittsburgh, PA (but would like to relocate to SF Bay Area, Boston, or Seattle)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Unix, Rust, C, Java, C#, AI / Cognitive Systems

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericpennington

Email: eric [dot] pennington [at] gmail [dot] com

epennon All United Flights Grounded Due to Mysterious Problem

I only have a Mac 512KE. :( But it's featured prominently in one of my rooms if that gets me any bonus points.

epennon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2015)

Location: Pittsburgh, PA (but would like to relocate to SF Bay Area, Boston, or Seattle)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Unix, Rust, C, Java, C#, AI / Cognitive Systems

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericpennington

Email: eric [dot] pennington [at] gmail [dot] com

epennon Fearless concurrency with Rust

I <3 linear types. Also just thought I'd say hello from over in NSH. :)

epennon Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python

> I with IPython Notebook had spell check, but it doesn't seem to.

I got a chuckle out of this. :) PS, I love the presentation thus far.

epennon Distributed systems readings

As a supplement to these I would also recommend checking out the lecture notes for 15-440, the intro distributed systems class. I took it spring of 2013 and thought it gave me a really good grounding in the material.

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/15-440-f14/index/lecture_in...

epennon Eco: A Language Composition Editor

Personally I'd rather see this class of problem solved at the language level [0] through strong typing of DSLs, rather than at the editor level. Nonetheless this is still an interesting approach.

[0] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aldrich/wyvern/

epennon HackMIT Puzzle Guide

Does anyone have a breakdown of how many people made it to/through each part of the puzzle?

epennon Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal

So I felt a certain degree of whatever that German word is for "serves you right, you bastards".

Schadenfreude.

epennon US-CERT recommends not using IE until use-after-free vulnerability is fixed

It should end when XP's market share is vanishingly small. Given that as of a couple weeks ago it still has 27% among Windows users [1], we are nowhere near that point. Microsoft should do everything they can to help customers, especially corporate users, upgrade to the current version. Presumably they're already doing this, but in the meantime they should continue at least providing XP security updates given its sizable user base.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/08/windows_xp_istilli_h...

epennon Show HN: Handcrafted standing desks from reclaimed materials

I like the idea of using salvaged materials, but the price seems way off the mark, even for something custom made.

epennon Am I really a developer or just a good Googler?

It isn't a crime if you occasionally need to google something. It is a crime if you copy and paste a solution you find without understanding how it works. This leads to cargo cult programming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming

epennon Ask HN: MIT, Harvard, or Stanford?

If you go to MIT you can cross-register for courses at Harvard as well. That would get you out of the area where you grew up, give you a great engineering degree, and allow you to better round out your liberal arts. I don't know how well that would fit into your specific degree requirements, but it might be something worth exploring while you're making your decision.

epennon Minecraft creator says he’s canceled talks for Oculus Rift version

I don't really understand this decision. From an experiential standpoint, the Rift seems like a pretty obvious platform to have a release of Minecraft available. Within a short time it will likely have a solid user base which makes it a good business decision as well. Now support for that platform is being pulled, not because of any technical, financial, or licensing issues, but because Notch thinks the new owner is creepy? That seems like a knee-jerk reaction drawn more from emotion than logic.