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markedathomeon Show HN: I made a community sourced fitness routine database

Runtastic had apps that used to do this, where you held the phone and it counted the reps, push-ups, sit-ups etc. There were apps for each activity, which gave you reps, a count, and a timer, along with cooldown, with voice prompts.

Then Adidas bought them out and closed the individual apps and released a replacement for the main Runtastic app.

There were numerous threads on reddit asking for similar replacements, and I don't think there has been one. So I gave up looking.

markedathomeon EA got hacked and games source code leaked including new game Battlefield 2042

Ubisoft and Crytek were also hacked last October

markedathomeon Ask HN: Literature on crisis response?

The CDC has the Crisis & Emergency Risk Communication (CERC) manual[1], as well as a website covering this topic[2].

[1] https://emergency.cdc.gov/cerc/ppt/cerc_2014edition_Copy.pdf https://emergency.cdc.gov/cerc/manual/index.asp

[2] https://emergency.cdc.gov/cerc/index.asp

markedathomeon Online Hacker Simulator

Another set of hacker games, Hacker Evolution, Hacker Evolution Untold, Hacker Evolution Duality released their source code[0] along with the games on steam for around $10

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/364750/Hacker_Evolution_S...

markedathomeon The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Review

In the linked video[1], Raspberry Pi foundation show an extension cable being used to move a card away from the IO board. They indicate that they expect most manufacturers to alter the design of the IO board to more closely match the product requirements, and not leave an NVME drive, or PCI express card poking up.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiHgmNBOzkc

markedathomeon 2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone to read

hu hum...digs out "Managing UUCP and Usenet" by Tim O'Reilly and Grace Todino, revised 1994.

p293 " ! Should only be used when sending via UUCP. This should be the only special character in the address (called a path). The path indicates each site through which mail will be routed, starting at the left and going towards the right. Mixing ! with @ is not considered good. That is, use:

uunet!ucbvax.berkeley.edu.edu!smith

not:

uunet!smith@ucbvax.berkeley.edu.edu"

In other words because UUCP was dialup and long distance expensive, email was routed through specific known hosts, which is why sometimes people ended up with long bangpathed addresses.

markedathomeon Is Cyberpunk Dead? A Conversation with Bruce Bethke

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/11/william-gibson...

markedathomeon FCC approves Amazon’s internet-from-space constellation of 3,236 satellites

https://amsat-uk.org/2014/02/12/brown-university-led-cubesat...

markedathomeon UASP makes Raspberry Pi 4 disk IO 50% faster

You have the Compute Module versions of the pi with embedded storage.

The reasoning behind the SD cards on the consumer pis is that they are quick to swap out, and don't have the problems that "bricking" the OS could get you into with booting from onboard storage. There is the possibility to use USB booting in the latest boards (certainly with the 3+ not sure about the status of the 4) which has a flag set in the onboard eeprom so you can use external SSDs/USB drives.

markedathomeon YouTube to limit default video quality around the world for a month

Could watching over VPN to other territories be an issue? or would that just be noise in the metrics? I'm primarily thinking of something like watching disney+ from countries outside their current distribution

markedathomeon HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus vs. Gen10 Hardware Overview

the UK price includes VAT@20% so you are looking for around £524 (629), £699 (839), and £770 (922) respectively, which doesn't look terribly far off the US pricing given the standard UK markup.

The normal UK server resellers and disties (including the one I bought my gen8 microserver from) don't seem to have them listed yet.

markedathomeon HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus vs. Gen10 Hardware Overview

> Also I was not able to find a price. Hoping for the best. Buying Gen8 for $300 with cheap iLO key was a great purchase

UK Pricing direct from HPE - expect sticker shock

https://www.hpe.com/uk/en/product-catalog/servers/proliant-s...

HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus E-2224 S100i 4LFF-NHP 180W External PS Server P16006-421 £ 839 * inc VAT

HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus E-2224 S100i 4LFF-NHP 1TB 180W External PS Server P18584-421 £ 922 * inc VAT

HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus G5420 8GB-U S100i 4LFF-NHP 180W External PS Server P16005-421 £ 629 * inc VAT

HPE iLO Advanced 1-server License with 1yr Support on iLO Licensed Features 512485-B21 £ 394 * inc VAT

HPE iLO Advanced Flexible Quantity License with 1yr Support on iLO Licensed Features 512486-B21 £ 394 * inc VAT

HPE iLO Advanced Flexible Quantity License with 3yr Support on iLO Licensed Features BD506A £ 444 * inc VAT

HPE 16GB (1x16GB) Dual Rank x8 DDR4-2666 CAS-19-19-19 Unbuffered Standard Memory Kit 879507-B21 £ 236 * inc VAT

HPE 8GB (1x8GB) Single Rank x8 DDR4-2666 CAS-19-19-19 Unbuffered Standard Memory Kit 879505-B21 £ 174 * inc VAT

HPE Trusted Platform Module 2.0 Gen10 Option 864279-B21 £ 66 * inc VAT

HPE MicroServer Gen10 SFF NHP SATA Converter Kit 870213-B21 £ 11 * inc VAT

HPE 1TB SATA 6G Entry 7.2K LFF (3.5in) RW 1yr Wty HDD 843266-B21 £ 96 * inc VAT

HPE 4TB SATA 6G Midline 7.2K LFF (3.5in) RW 1yr Wty HDD 801888-B21 £ 419 * inc VAT

HPE Mobile USB DVD-RW Optical Drive 701498-B21 £ 119 * inc VAT

markedathomeon Blender GIS

Ubisoft/Massive Entertainment's "Tom Clancy's The Division" (New York - Brooklyn and Manhattan), and "Tom Clancy's The Division 2" Washington DC both have extensive GIS imported locations, cleaned up with LIDAR and post-processing for trees/vehicles. I know there is a video about Division 2's use of GIS as I remember seeing it, but can't find it at the moment. I think it might be a game developers conf video.

https://wtop.com/entertainment/2019/03/washington-wasteland-...

markedathomeon The worst sales promotion in history: Hoover's free flight fiasco

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argos_(retailer)

established 1972

markedathomeon The AI That's Too Dangerous to Release

> If trained on massive sets of source code and briefs (or perhaps a set of unit tests), could it spit out functioning code based on a problem statement?

Microsoft's latest Visual Studio 2019 beta (v3) has intellicode[0] support which is supposed to ML "guess" 'code' based on equivalent github similarities. I don't think it is quite near to what you are asking, but certainly part of the way there.

0. https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/intellicode/

markedathomeon Remastering Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with Machine Learning

An update to [0] was posted in the last day or so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZWNGq70Oyo

markedathomeon An optimization guide for assembly programmers and compiler makers (2018) [pdf]

Zen of Code Optimization 1994 ( https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Code-Optimization-Ultimate-Softwa...) is the follow up to Zen of Assembly Language 1990 (https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Assembly-Language-Knowledge-Progr...)

markedathomeon Hatari: An Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

Steinberg pro 24, or Cubase. as studio-class software. Usually hooked up to akai s900/s1000 samplers, and Yamaha DX7s If it was notation, then C-Lab Notator

GFA basic or Hisoft basic (along with the many other dev languages that Hisoft had)

Calligrapher in the UK, Pagestream, Calamus.