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renw0rpon Virgin Hyperloop Has Invented the World's Crappiest High-Speed Rail

In the UK everything costs twice as much as originally estimated and takes twice as much time. I hope I will live to experience the 330km/h (operating speed of UK's HS2)

renw0rpon Virgin Hyperloop Has Invented the World's Crappiest High-Speed Rail

Sure, the faster the better, but as long as there is a couchette option 11h doesn't sound half bad.

renw0rpon Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age

Sounds like a downgrade target than an upgrade to me

renw0rpon The RIAA’s attack on YouTube-dl is not a DMCA 512 infringement

Don't forget about wasting electricity!

renw0rpon Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B

Not for much longer

renw0rpon Linux PinePhone has physical kill switches for its cameras, mic, data, BT, Wi-Fi

That's only assuming that OEMs and their employees are competent

renw0rpon The Baltic states are reconfiguring their electric grids

I don't have high hopes in NATO, but I really doubt that would happen

renw0rpon Apple commits to be 100% carbon neutral for supply chain and products by 2030

1. Reuse 2. Reduce 9. Recycle

They missed the first point

renw0rpon Dates and Times in JavaScript – A New API for Dates from TC39

And people used to complain about Java development being slow and behind other languages...

Regarding JavaScript temporals - better late than never I guess.

renw0rpon Greatest Java apps

Wasn't Google docs written using GWT?

renw0rpon Intermittent fasting works – not only for weight loss but also for heart health

I did try IF before and I'm getting back to it now. Social aspect is the main reason for skipping breakfast, not the dinner for me

renw0rpon Let Game Theory Tell You When It’s Time to Go Shopping

Considering that most people in the UK get up late and prefer to queue up around noon or in the evening/afternoon you don't need any maths to figure out that you just need to go when the store opens. So far going between 6am and 8am has been successful for me.

renw0rpon Amazon’s New Competitive Advantage: Putting Its Own Products First

Couldn't agree more. There is so much crap advertised and sold there, with fake or paid for reviews that I buy only "sold by Amazon" 99% of the time I shop there. If only I could permanently enable such a filter site-wide...

renw0rpon Zettelkasten note-taking in 10 minutes

Any idea why would Zettlr (recommended application for Zettelkasten in the article) called one of the themes "Karl-Marx-Stadt" (which is a name used for Chemnitz during division of Germany).

I know it's a bit off topic - so I guess my comment fits right in HN discussions :D

edit: I figured this out myself; the author of the application is described:

Hendrik Erz is a research assistant at the University of Bonn. His main research focusses on the nexus between Marxist economic theory, digitalisation and violence in capitalist societies (riots and terrorism).

renw0rpon Uber Eats removes delivery fee for Black-owned restaurants

how is that not consider 'racist'?

renw0rpon Spanish schedules are downright weird (2016)

You got the eating pattern a bit wrong; 9-10pm they are just leaving home to eat out; at least in Andalusia

renw0rpon Updating STM32 Over-The-Air using ESP32

I'm playing with STM32 Cube IDE right now. I got surprised that it works well on Linux (ok, I did only basic stuff, but did not have any trouble setting it up).

However I was wondering what would be totally open source toolchain and development setup? That might be too advanced for me now (and I'm happy with graphical peripheral selection in ST tools), but would like to try it in the future

renw0rpon Updating STM32 Over-The-Air using ESP32

that's the right answer!

renw0rpon Updating STM32 Over-The-Air using ESP32

thanks for the link! I have some never used esp8266 laying around! I might try to use it for my stm32 tinkering! (I have a couple of discovery boards around as well)

renw0rpon Amphibious Warship USS Portland Shot Down a Drone with Its New High-Power Laser

What happens if the beam his a person (for example on a boat)? I hope it's not a very painful death.

renw0rpon TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Semiconductor Fab in U.S.

And now is the Chinese turn?

renw0rpon A one-line package broke `npm create-react-app`

J2ee was a hell, but Java EE was quite decent!

Pragmatism - do programming to solve real life problems rather than create a broken ecosystems which requires constant changes (and learning just to be on top of them) to fix a bad design

renw0rpon A scheduling tool for bread baking

I'm in the same situation. I still have some (finely ground) wheat flour, but can't get any bread flour nor rye flour :/

renw0rpon South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux

I use Linux over Mac at home for this exact reason. What they call "Full screen mode" on Mac is a joke. Plus it's always fun to watch people trying to get external display to work with their Macs during the meetings at work...

renw0rpon A fitness watch that measures blood pressure

Anything what measures heart rate and spo2?

renw0rpon Front-End Developer Handbook

apple is the new Microsoft, and people keep throwing money at them...

also, even though the MS anti-sentiment didn't pop up out of nowhere, it's not relevant in the static-vs-dynamic typing discussion...

renw0rpon How Tokyo built its way to abundant housing

that's for sure, mostly 10-15 years after. Doesn't change the fact that this never happened in the UK; old council houses are still ugly, energy inefficient and often mouldy inside... not to mention some awful&impractical design choices

renw0rpon How Tokyo built its way to abundant housing

while definitely pre-fabricated building were grey and ugly, they still look better than British council houses in London; especially after many of them, for example in Warsaw, got renovated, insulated, covered with plaster and colourfully painted.