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serenon Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR)

I have already seen legacy projects that were designed using Rational Rose, but for some reason I thought it was only a commercial name, not an actual system. Thanks, I learned something today !

serenon New mRNA cancer vaccine triggers immune response to malignant brain tumor

from my understanding you need a sample of the tumor to design the vaccine, so it is not OR but AND

serenon France enshrines 'freedom' to abortion in Constitution, in world first

And closer home, Poland. So it is not a far fetched idea or fantasy.

serenon Temenos Sinks Most in 21 Years on Hindenburg Short Report

This made me check Adani group stock price, it is almost back to the previous level before Hindenburg group revelations.

Some info : https://www.ft.com/content/60205ec6-2798-4085-a4f1-0f162b624...

serenon 'A slow fiscal death' awaits some countries in this 'decade of debt.'

If birth rates are quickly falling, the debt will have to be repaid by an always smaller population, it seems it will make matter worse. (Unless we find out a magical productivity gain that can be heavily taxed by government)

serenon Lubricate Your Keyholes

https://www.ilo.org/dyn/icsc/showcard.display?p_lang=en&p_ca...

Inhalation is not recommended, particularly if it happens often.

serenon Ask HN: What will your kids be proud of 10 years?

I am working on medical device software, processes are terrible, tech stack is not really up to date, but at least, I sometimes feel that I am helping people down the line.

serenon Was an ancient bacterium awakened by an industrial accident?

Never heard of that catastrophe, but an oil rig digging into a mine under a lake is pretty terrible.

serenon EU Integrity Watch

To me it sounds exactly like local American politicians blaming "Washington".

serenon Sellafield: Europe’s most toxic nuclear site

I remember an example from another nuclear site cleanup. If you work on a part potentially contaminated you cannot used a normal vacuum cleaner that will disperse some contaminated dust, so you need a special purpose device. Then you cannot dispose easily of the dust, so you need another process. Since the device is also critical you probably need some regular maintenance or tests, so you need someone to manage them.

So basically every single step is much more complex with the associated cost.

serenon Acceleration Robotics Launches Robotcore ROS 2 Hardware – The Robot Report

What is the benefit of using TNS, which looks like a new protocol requiring specific HW ? versus using Ethercat for example which has similar cycle time I believe.

I am not familiar with ROS 2, there is only a DDS backend and no ethercat backend ?

It seems at least one company is looking to this approach : https://www.adlinktech.com/en/software-ethercat-ros2-amr-dev...

OK I see the point if you have a slow ROS2 implementation that is up to the task you can use a dedicated FPGA HW to implement RTPS under DDS to get more predictable timings.

(And this is how a new standard was born)

serenon My insulin pump controller has a bug

As someone working on Class III medical devices, it is true that the FDA does not check if your design is "safe", only that the documentation and process seems to have been followed, but on the other hand you are also required to monitor your install base and report any hazardous event, and in case no adequate remediation/plan to your adverse events, they have the real power to stop the commercialization of the product.

But I agree this is coming a bit late in the process if people have already been harmed.

serenon We Idolize Assholes

I am always surprised that humility is a classical virtue but that seems to be totally opposite to the modern life. I can't really think of a lots of humble public figure.

And likely if you are too humble in the workplace, you don't exist either.

serenon Ask HN: More Co-op games I can carry my 5 year old through?

Pikuniku is an independent platformer, where you cannot mostly not die except some boss encounter, but some part can be difficult for a 5 years old. It is mainly single player, with a small 2 player part. Available on Switch & PC at least.

serenon The Rust programming language positively sucks

This reads like the perfect example of "if you want someone to answer your question on Internet, start with an inflammatory title"

He managed to get the maintainer of the module he wanted to integrate to answer his questions, mission accomplished.

serenon Intel to set its FPGA unit free to pursue its own path

Some embedded stuff where the FPGA is used to implement some logic on I/Os, some processing that needs to be fast or implement some i2c, CAN, SPI controller trough IP core. Basically a more flexible way than having different chips on the board.

serenon “Alien corpses” shown to Mexican Congress

"Mr Maussan has previously been associated with claims of “alien” discoveries that have later been debunked, including five mummies found in Peru in 2017 that were later shown to be human children."

It does not seem to be the most credible person to show evidence.

serenon Ask HN: Why does Firefox have such a low market share anyways?

I am still using Firefox as my main browser, but some sites are broken with Firefox and working fine with Chrome. So unless you are particularly motivated to stay on a given platform, practically it does not really makes sense as a user to stay committed.

serenon Europeans Are Becoming Poorer

As a European, I can still believe this is true (maybe this is some kind of coping mechanism), but at the same time, I got the impression, that overall healthcare, education, safety nets are getting worse as time goes by, so I don't know how long it will stay an advantage.

At some point, you need to have the mean to finance these services, so stagnating GDP is not that good.

serenon Europeans Are Becoming Poorer

In an environment with rising energy prices it is hard to compete with a net oil exporter.

However, it means that Europe should invest more in nuclear and renewables to stay relevant. But the war in Ukraine is not helping I guess.

But the 2008 vs 2023 comparison is really sobering.

serenon Firefox address bar

Nice, I hadn't seen it, thanks !

serenon Firefox address bar

I love them, use them every day on desktop and I don't understand why it does not work on mobile

serenon Macron's call to 'cut off' social media during riots sparks backlash in France

Getting inspiration from Iran does not sound like a good idea

serenon The Rise and Fall of CORBA (2006)

I am still working on a code base that has slowly evolved from around 2000 with as its core CORBA as the internal communication bus between actors, so we still use it. We likely want to remove it because it is a bit an overkill in our application, but at the same time it is working and no one wants to pay for a rewrite.

serenon US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs

But according to Fravor's report, the 2 planes were sent there by their ship because the radar at picked up something. So it means that if it is made up, it involves the 2 pilots and their 2 weapons specialist, plus an undetermined number of radar operators, and their chain of command in the USS Princeton who dispatched them.

So from my understanding, it was picked up by at least one type of sensor.

There is still a probability, there was an artifact on the radar, AND the crew then decided to make up a story, but, Alex Dietrich, the second pilot had just started a few weeks earlier, and it was her first real world mission. I don't think that typical people tries to do a prank on one of their first assignments, on the spot, more so with colleagues they don't know very well.

But it is still possible I guess, even if I have hard time what could be the motivation of everyone involved.

serenon UFOs or not – something is up

I don't see the point where a nation (or private actor) outside of the US could have had a breakthrough (China ?). The only issue with that theory is that if you have something incredible why keeping it secret and using it only for military purposes.

Still that would probably also be filed under unnerving outcome.

serenon Jobs in a field that help people or create a real product?

Medical devices, even if there might be issue around safety of the patient, or over prescription, overall I believe it helps people in the end, rather than harm them.

serenon Show HN: Slint – A declarative UI toolkit for embedded and desktop

Thanks for the answer !

serenon Show HN: Slint – A declarative UI toolkit for embedded and desktop

Do you support any kind of integration with Vxworks 7 on some platform ?

Vxworks has some Rust support so I wonder if you already had some integration with vxworks drivers

serenon The UFO Whistleblower Is Back with More Crazy Claims

From my understanding, he cannot reveal any information publicly because they are classified but he also claims to have provided name, date and locations to Congress in July 2022.

So allegedly, there is enough to start an investigation, and check if what he claimed is true or not. And it should be rather easy to disprove as a matter of facts.