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initramfs

493 karma · joined February 10, 2021

Seeking employment! (As of September 2026)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/giovanni-l-613654a3/

https://inavoyage.blogspot.com/

https://github.com/hatonthecat

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initramfs··on Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search
https://anycrap.shop/product/solar-powered-phone

"As dusk falls, a sophisticated LED network simulates twinkling stars across the screen's surface, recharging the battery by exploiting quantum fluctuations inherent to cosmic background radiation."

initramfs··on Clankers Die on Christmas
nor with clappers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJBAnr1lgPg https://www.curiousmindsbusybags.com/products/new-large-hand...
initramfs··on Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
Give this man a job! (If he doesn't have one already)
initramfs··on Fantasy Foundry – An fantasy football-like app, for chip design
"An Android app where users play as semiconductor architects, bidding and competing for top-tier "free agent" chips to deploy on the latest TSMC 2nm process node. The app gamifies the process of chip selection, bidding, and deployment, with educational and strategic elements."
initramfs··on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake
"But to critics of the deal, it seems weird for the US to swoop in and take stake in a company that doesn't need government assistance. The only recent precedent was the US temporarily taking stake in key companies considered vital to the economy that risked going under during the 2008 financial crisis.

Compare that to the Intel deal, where Tan has made it clear that Intel, while struggling to compete with rivals, "didn't need the money," Reuters noted—largely due to SoftBank purchasing $2 billion in Intel shares in the days prior to the US agreement being reached. Instead, the US is incentivized to take the stake to help further Trump's mission to quickly build up a domestic chip manufacturing supply chain that can keep the US a global technology leader at the forefront of AI innovation.

Investors told Reuters that it's unusual for the US to take this much control over a company that's not in crisis, noting that "this level of tractability was not usually associated with relations between businesses and Washington."

In the 2009 PBS Documentary Breaking the Bank, The Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson summoned the top 7 Banks' CEOs to Washington on Sunday, October 12th, 2008 before the markets opened Monday morning, after Lehman's Brother's went into bankruptcy the week before:

https://youtu.be/sYmGNetu-UU?t=1622

29:40

lots of doubts. >> NARRATOR: Richard Kovacevich, chairman of Wells Fargo, led the charge.

29:48

Kovacevich stood up and said, "I don't want the money. "I don't need the money. "I don't want the money. I want to have nothing to do with this."

initramfs··on How to slow down a program and why it can be useful
slowing down processors also make them low power. https://github.com/hatonthecat/Solar-Kernel/blob/main/semi-a...
initramfs··on Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine
aweso
initramfs··on What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes?
I looked up the most expensive laptop with an RTX 5090: https://marketplace.nvidia.com/en-us/consumer/gaming-laptops...

$5599.00 https://marketplace.nvidia.com/en-us/consumer/gaming-laptops...

Although you can get them with fewer specs and the same GPU for $3,899.99

https://marketplace.nvidia.com/en-us/consumer/gaming-laptops...

initramfs··on Happy BuyNothing Day
this is brilliant
initramfs··on Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died
hasn't even reached the top of Google News. The world is completely consumed in its own mess.
initramfs··on Did Craigslist decimate newspapers? Legend meets reality
The main cost today to host a site is bandwidth and electricity. Many small cities could host their own craigslist without Facebook ads. there wouldn't be as much bandwidth.
initramfs··on Compaq’s Rod Canion broke IBM's hold on the PC market
i just watched Silicon Cowboys the other Day. Great documentary.
initramfs··on Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems
I ghostwrite a seance by Steve Jobs: https://newsteve.substack.com/p/steve-jobs-back-from-the-dea...
initramfs··on The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018)
actually they do (or did): https://www.backmarket.com/en-us/p/27-inch-monitor-2560-x-14...

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Apple-27-inch-Monitor-2560-x-1440...

initramfs··on The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018)
this is excellent. I know what they mean on Windows. Because not all linux distros support ClearType-like fonts out of the box.
initramfs··on Open source can't coordinate
I think the definition of linux is much broader than what is considered today a platform for the IDE. It's kind of like the IDE is the cart, and the kernel is the horse, but 30 years later, linux is an engine with a cabin virtual machine, rather than a desktop per se. the parts interact at a different level now.
initramfs··on If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)
nice!
initramfs··on GenAI Is Our Polyester
cheap clothing is still sold..
initramfs··on Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512
thanks!
initramfs··on Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512
neat. what website template is that? I'm looking for a simple blog.
initramfs··on Withnail and I (2001)
I recognized Ralph Brown's face from Wayne's World 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E62a_RCtX4

It's a funny scene.

initramfs··on Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night
Well they could use dark solar panels to provide power at night ;) https://www.ecoportal.net/en/first-dark-solar-panel-in-histo...
initramfs··on Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night
every mom and pop store that is open between the hours of 8 am and 5pm understands the double standard of requiring a utility to operate 24/7. It's not like it's the city that never sleeps. Who needs a solar plant to provide power 24/7?
initramfs··on First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV
I did not state Catholicism is an aesthetic. I replied to vFunct's comment "vFunct The whole Catholic aesthetic is amazing. Really is the tops." "with religion is more than an aesthetic." An aesthetic is using symbols and atmosphere, architecture, to create a beauty. A religion may use these objects, but also has values that do not depend on them.

Also, another person posted: " echelon "It truly is. As is the Ancient Roman aesthetic. There's a reason why Final Fantasy, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, and many more fantasy series lean heavily into the look and feel."

So people suggesting video games and tv shows, even with lots of violence (particularly GoT) is an "aesthetic", is a lot more shallow than my basic point that religions aren't primarily aesthetic. Maybe you replied to the wrong comment.

initramfs··on First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV
funny how one downvotes a comment whenever it sounds contrary to the presumed aesthetic.
initramfs··on First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV
religions aren't an aesthetic. they're more than that.
initramfs··on Burning Mao
excellent story
initramfs··on The Dark Side of the Moomins
excellent. like Hobbits' Bag End turned upside down
initramfs··on The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden
my mom's basement is not for sale!
initramfs··on The little book about OS development
Now, where's the instruction manual for the little red OS book? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylin_(operating_system)
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