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omgwtfusb··on John Nickolls "ultimately willed CUDA into existence"
The book is about the company said person worked at and they were instrumental to the success of, they probably don't have much else they could share without an NDA violation?
omgwtfusb··on I spent 5 hours learning how ClickHouse built their internal data warehouse
Looks to me close to typical DWH setup like many large corporations have, except for the ClickHouse specific settings and Docker usage (most DEs seem to be skeptical of anything that isn't SQL in my experience)
omgwtfusb··on The Malware that Hacked Disney [video]
tl;dw: it's Python-based RAT (trojan) PySilon inside a BeamNG mod
omgwtfusb··on Disney's Internal Slack Breached? NullBulge Leaks 1.1 TiB of Data
this video alleges that it might've been because he downloaded an infected mod for a game: https://youtu.be/ZGScvWIyw2E

Not sure why they would dox him, maybe to throw him under the bus after he found out he got pwned and cut them off?

omgwtfusb··on Microsoft Recall should make you consider Linux
in theory, if it has been activated once on that machine it should install without a product key and activate based on hardware identifiers, so should be fine to nuke the partition
omgwtfusb··on Color Concepts 101 (2001) [pdf]
> In theory, the combination of CMY at 100% (100,100,100) creates black, In practice it creates a muddy brown due to limitations of toner (and ink) secondaries.

i believe this may be because the combined absorption spectrum of a "full C M Y dot" still has gaps that a "full K" toner is engineered to cover?

omgwtfusb··on [dead]
nice bot
omgwtfusb··on Elon Musk: "Don't advertise. Go f*** yourself"
I am only aware of 2, the Hyperloop concept and recently Tesla’s NACS. what IP are Musk companies giving away?
omgwtfusb··on Apple to make tools and parts to fix phones, computers available nationwide
Did they change their policy on not making chips not available for purchase from manufacturers?
omgwtfusb··on Marcel the Shell
for this purpose Just[1] with a python shebang line works great

[1] https://github.com/casey/just

omgwtfusb··on CD Projekt Red devs unionise after its third round of layoffs in three months
Interesting, seems like developers unionizing is getting popular in Europe. Is there any union for general software devs in Germany? I know workers council (Betriebsrat) is popular but that's very company-dependent.
omgwtfusb··on Apple’s Vision Pro AR headset is finally here
_Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer. They draw all the attention. The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time_

from Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

omgwtfusb··on Security.txt file now mandatory for Dutch government websites
welcome to Germany
omgwtfusb··on Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls
You can hit `i` to enter insert mode, or add URLs/domains to a blacklist - works just fine most of the time
omgwtfusb··on Ask HN: Are people still using Pascal?
Kinesis keyboards config tools are written in Pascal using Lazarus IDE - I haven't tried compiling it myself but they run just fine on macOS and Wine on Linux

https://github.com/KinesisCorporation/SmartSetApps

omgwtfusb··on Open source cloud file system. Posix, HDFS and S3 compatible
I could not find it on iOS Safari, might be an UI bug then.
omgwtfusb··on Open source cloud file system. Posix, HDFS and S3 compatible
I can't seem to find docs in a language other than Chinese on the site
omgwtfusb··on Legal weed is wreaking havoc on return to office: ‘all of NY is wake and baking’
What's the havoc exactly? From all the people interviewed, the ones complaining about the smoke on their way to the office seem to be losing most productivity...
omgwtfusb··on Pcmcia Pico W Card
how would such a GPIO <-> PCMCIA interface work? the author said the CPLD handles the voltage conversion and “address decoding”, but what I don’t understand is how does the data end up on the Pi?
omgwtfusb··on Ask HN: How to cancel Adobe CC subscription without paying a “cancellation fee”?
A few months ago it worked for me. I am in EU so IIRC they are legally required to let you cancel your contract for 14 days if you entered into it remotely (phone, internet etc). It seems like changing subscription plan counts as getting a new contract with Adobe.
omgwtfusb··on Refurb weekend: New batteries for the Palm Pilots
Had to do the same with my Palm TX. Small nightmare, they went cheap and just soldered a bare LiPo to the mainboard, so had to be somewhat precise not to short out the pack.
omgwtfusb··on The hitchhiker’s guide to iPhone Lightning and JTAG hacking [slides] [pdf]
I'd watch for updates on author's YouTube channel https://youtube.com/c/stacksmashing
omgwtfusb··on Launch HN: Vital (YC W20) – API for wearables and labs
Looks great, are you looking for engineers without frontend experience by any chance?

Having looked at the job offers I see some overlap between my experience and what you need - I've been working previously as a backend dev and a data engineer, in spare time made a little go app to control a BLE enabled vaporizer - but I've never used React, my JS knowledge is kind of stuck circa 2012...

omgwtfusb··on Serially-attached SD for old PalmOS devices
They mostly used LCDs with LED backlights (not sure what they used the some early WinCE laptop style handhelds with color displays)
omgwtfusb··on RePalm
Pardon if this is off topic, but do you have any tips or resources on how to get into PalmOS programming in 2021? I have some archived SDKs and got prc-tools working but have yet to wrap my head around how to actually get a simple gui going from scratch
omgwtfusb··on Amazon warehouse employee in Poland dies at work
they ship all over Europe man
omgwtfusb··on Highlights of new technologies introduced at WWDC 2021
I could name a few:

- 3rd party AirPlay receiver apps (you can stream to Macs with new macOS)

- Universal Control looks very Synergy-like (I don't know of an iOS alternative, but surely nobody is going to try compete with Apple now)

- Xcode Cloud - arguably competition to rent-a-mac services like MacStadium

- SharePlay probably will replace SyncTube for a lot of folks