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renw0rp··on Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise 
My cousin died in 2021 at the age of 28 after AstraZeneca vaccine. Quite unfortunate, they starter increasing the age group of people receiving that vaccine literally days after he got it. His parents obviously are obviously still struggling with it and will never really accept it.
renw0rp··on My home network observes bedtime with OpenBSD and pf
it's a 2015 computer, surly we can (or at least used to be able until recently) get cheap computers in the UK
renw0rp··on Russia's Kinzhal Missiles Are Too Fast to Shoot, So Ukraine Jams Them with Music
I really hate to say it, but makes it feel like not everything that Putin said was a lie.
renw0rp··on Grok 4 Fast
How do you manage sending and receiving requests to multiple LLMs? Are you going it manually through multiple UIs or using some app which integrates with multiple APIs?
renw0rp··on Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?
Raspberry pi didn't have built in WiFi until raspberry pi 3 in 2016 (of course you could use a usb adapter). I think around similar time esp 8266 (cheap microcontroller with WiFi) started becoming popular
renw0rp··on We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept ISO 27001 with Ansible
My colleagues were talking about salaries in the range of $40-60k... About 8-10 years ago. And I don't think it got any cheaper
renw0rp··on ARPA is funding cheap community-owned gigabit fiber to neglected neighborhoods
In the peripherial Europe, like the United Kingdom, fiber optic became available only in the last couple of years, definitely not early 2000s. There are still places within 80KM from London, near main train lines, where you can't get more than 50Mbps, so while probably most of the population of Europe has access to fast Internet, your statements are not entirely true. In 2012 average internet speed in the UK was 7Mbps and now it's probably around 75Mbps.
renw0rp··on Colossus, the first large-scale electronic computer
National museum of computing [0] in Bletchley houses a rebuild of the Colossus computer. The people who volunteer there are great and always happy to explain the history.

PS. Bletchley is around an hour on the train from London Euston. Bear in mind that even though the museum of computing is located in the old Bletchley park complex, it requires a separate ticket from the main Bletchley Park museum.

[0] https://www.tnmoc.org/colossus

renw0rp··on This G15 is the Oldest Running Digital Computer in America [video]
On the topic, the oldest original running computer[1] can be found in the UK in the National Museum of Computing based in Bletchley Park (where Alan Turing and many others worked breaking German cryptography). The museum requires a separate ticket from the "main" Bletchley Park museum. It's around 1h trip from London Euston. Well worth a visit! Among other items, they have a working "Bombe" replica

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

renw0rp··on Raspberry Pi IPO
Slightly tangential, but if anyone is wondering how profitable could be running a charity in the UK: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/chari...

Last section shows salary breakdown for top (60k+) earners.

TLDR: Eben earns £450-500k and most probably his wife is somewhere there at £150k+

renw0rp··on Show HN: Aldi Price Map
We have Costco the last time I checked, at lest in the UK and Spain.
renw0rp··on STM32 family grows to microprocessor/Linux level with STM32MP1
When I tried their drivers, eclipse based IDE and microcontroller pin configuration generator (cube something) 2-3 years ago it worked well on Linux
renw0rp··on Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)
I've asked my mother the exact same question a couple of weeks ago. She said, that as salt is hygroscopic "table salt" comes with anti-cacking agents. Salt which comes as larger crystals doesn't need them.
renw0rp··on Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard
Can you point me to multi device, Bluetooth enabled (and reliable) keyboards in $60 range?

I would see myself buying one of those if it was a bit cheaper (they will drop in price for sure) and if I didn't have enough keyboards.

renw0rp··on One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine
Russians doing what they have been doing for a hundred years: lying, blaming, spreading clearly false propaganda, stealing, murdering and raping people.

Meanwhile people in the west, or at least outside of the conflict zone, discussing about free speech.

Nothing has changed.

You can be proud of yourself and your principles.

renw0rp··on Fast (2019)
What is needed to make energy transformation happen on such an impressive timeline rather than taking 30 more years?
renw0rp··on The big automotive semiconductor problem
And, as someone mentioned above, usually a RLC filter
renw0rp··on Folding bicycle small enough to fit in hand luggage
The only thing I can come up with is last mile commute, but for that probably a bit larger foldable bike would do.

Btw. In UK on certain routes or during rush hours you can only take a foldable bike onboard.

renw0rp··on Desynchronization of nickel production and consumption
So why do we even allow entities which are not interested in actually delivering/receiving physical goods to trade futures? Genuine question
renw0rp··on Qualcomm is adding AV1 support, which could be huge for online video
Some codecs might be more suitable for encoding video streams which are known ahead of time and utilize similarity of frames both before and ahead to maximize compression (multi pass encoding); they might also require larger buffer. With real time video calls you can't really do that. There is no codec-fits-all solution unfortunately.
renw0rp··on Decrypting your own HTTPS traffic with Wireshark
This idea is used in some "corporate security" tools. For example companies which use ZScaler install zscaler certificates on employees machines and use ZScaler servers as MitM kind of proxy which allows them to scan all traffic, including SSL/TLS.
renw0rp··on How to Set Prices for Handmade Goods
Cheers, good enough for me!

If someone asks me about my competency I will refer them to this thread.

renw0rp··on How to Set Prices for Handmade Goods
Can I get certified as a small business coaching certificate authority?
renw0rp··on Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing
Storing, updating and deleting varchars is what most of enterprise and startup developers do for living. It can't be that hard.
renw0rp··on Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing
I just wanted to say that you could try a bit harder to justify the price rather than just saying it's "negligible". I think that's very subjective and I personally don't think it's a reasonable price to pay for just storing markdown files in the cloud.
renw0rp··on Daily chart: A new low for global democracy
I'm missing this information from the news, so maybe you could elaborate if you know the answer.

Didn't they apply for the permission or it's not as easy as you claim (at least in the times of COVID and lockdowns)?

renw0rp··on Daily chart: A new low for global democracy
What is the difference between democracy and hybrid regime?

Even though I don't like polish government, I really don't think the country is not democratic (but if course all depends on the definitions). I would even argue that many western countries are less democratic after seeing for example some videos from protests in the Netherlands[0]

[0] https://youtu.be/VICeJG_bayg

renw0rp··on New evidence suggests that Seattle’s soda tax is working well
Or what are the effects of artificial sweeteners...
renw0rp··on LG’s new 16:18 monitor
This would be my preferred choice as well, but I haven't seen anything new coming to market, especially bigger diagonal/higher resolution.

It's not exactly what I was looking for, but I'm tempted to try Huawei 28.2 2:3 monitor if I get a chance

renw0rp··on A cryptocurrency loophole only Congress can close
I would argue that most of young people don't understand it either
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