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mburee··on Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave
Wouldn't Fritzl's victims beat that by like 20 years?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case

Disturbingly, also Austrian...

mburee··on Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY&t=0
mburee··on Effective Spaced Repetition
Basically trying to do exactly the same thing, do you have any recommendations on decks or are you maintaining your own?
mburee··on XML Appliance
Could you share some examples? Genuinely interested as I really only know those god awful and huge Maven configs as things one would mostly edit by hand
mburee··on Synthetic Memory Protections: An update on ROP mitigations [pdf]
OpenBSD?
mburee··on Bourbon and Branch Water (2013)
With coffee it's also a thing of covering defects, milk is amazing in it's ability to mask bitterness and take away from the harshness, sugar's great for very acidic brews.

I love my specialty filter coffee but I often get gifted pretty dark and rather cheap blends, which work just fine for a milk coffee drink or other combinations

mburee··on Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says
Could also be related to hay fever if you have that. [1]

I had allergies for basically all my life but the food stuff only started at around 10 or 11 years. Now I can't really eat any uncooked fruit, vegetables or nuts. Interestingly enough, most citrus fruit are just fine, something with not being exposed to those pollen maybe...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_allergy_syndrome

mburee··on Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?
https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/wiki#user-content-spawning-ne...

Maybe something like this could do the same? But could also rely on that specific terminal emulator

mburee··on Initial support for guided disk encryption in OpenBSD installer
Can't you just not select the X-related file sets during installation?
mburee··on Initial V: A BMW shifter converted to a Bluetooth keyboard for use with Vim
Damn, I'm guilty of that too
mburee··on Emacs is on F-Droid
If you give Termux the storage permission you can use all of your regular storage just fine
mburee··on Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, optimized for Plan 9
The term is 'recreational computing' ;)

But actually most older thinkpads are pretty well supported, you can even get Wifi with OpenBSDs drivers.

mburee··on Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, optimized for Plan 9
With xls2txt(1) and the doc versions of the tool you can at least dump most of the text from the Office files

[1] https://man.9front.org/1/doc2txt

mburee··on Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, optimized for Plan 9
What's the problem with GC? Between C and Go (and maybe Scheme) there's not much choice of languages on plan 9 today.

So not having to think about memory management in a browser pet project is surely the best choice when it comes to a relatively ambitious project as this.

Also of note, Limbo (the language the successor was written is) is also garbage collected, so it's not like it's against the spirit of plan 9. The predecessor language, Alef, supposedly was abandoned in part because it didn't have GC.

mburee··on French police probe multiple cuts of major Internet cables
Why would they go after domestic connections and some intermediate cables instead of the big subsea cables?
mburee··on Students break acceleration world record for electric vehicles
Why wouldn't they incorporate design from top fuel dragsters? They reach 100mph (!!) in under a second.
mburee··on Medium Covid Could Be the Most Dangerous Covid
How far apart were your infections?
mburee··on Aerc – a pretty good (terminal) email client
Also sway, but hacker news doesn't always hold him in that high of an opinion, probably mostly of his Rust criticisms...

But I use many of his tools, all top notch!

mburee··on Halfix – A portable x86 emulator written in C99
Can't take more than a couple of hours, if booting linux to an X session only took about a day on an AVR
mburee··on A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools
As much as i love Plan9, it's in dire need of bugfixes if you're gonna expose it to the net. Last official release was ~15 years ago
mburee··on ThinkPad’s 30th Anniversary: An Insider’s Perspective
I have the same model (gen 1 at least) and don't have any such issues, for what it's worth.
mburee··on Ask HN: Have you successfully learn the barbel exercises without a coach?
I also highly recommend pretty much anything from Renaissance Periodization (YouTube, more on their website, but that's paid).

They cover a lot of theory, mostly about hypertrophy rather than strength, but really high quality stuff!

Also just stay skeptical, many 'universal' truths by people like Mark Rippetoe and friends are questionable. Starting strength is still a great resource for getting through the initial beginner stage though.

mburee··on Ask HN: Best book to learn C in 2022?
Well when K&R C was released the compiler landscape did look very different. I'm sure back then you could get away with a lot more UB than nowadays, where LLVM and GCC will use every millimetre of leeway you give them to break your programs.
mburee··on C Programming on System 6
May be easier with one of the derivatives which come in with smaller code bases.
mburee··on EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
Something to do with massive brain drain after/during WW2 and the Holocaust? At least for the atom bomb and spaceflight that seemed to be the case...
mburee··on RootMyTV is a user-friendly exploit for rooting/jailbreaking LG webOS smart TVs
It says right there, it's purpose is to jailbreak your TV. Why do they have to spoonfeed users ideas for what to do after?
mburee··on Security in Plan 9 (2002)
rfork is also just a really elegant system call
mburee··on Bash 5.2
Because pulling in a huge python installation on small/embedded systems is fun, just because some people are unable to keep their scripts POSIX compliant
mburee··on At 4.4 miles, Wyoming team sets new rifle shot world record
0.556 cm ;)
mburee··on Starlink broadband speeds slow as subscriber numbers grow
And init7 is starting to provide 25GBit. Not even 10 km from their nearest endpoint, the best I can get from my local ISP is 400MBit for twice the money
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