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stdatomic··on Transformers Explained Visually
I expected electrical transformers, then Transformers with a capital T, but not this. (still, very very cool!)
stdatomic··on US 10-Year Breaches 5% as Inflation, Supply Worries Mount
They'll just say economy was doomed because of Biden anyway, and that it's not their fault.
stdatomic··on I fixed a tractor using John Deere's self-repair service. Farmers aren't sold
We're seeing "it's never enough" play out right in front of our eyes.
stdatomic··on AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
I mean, aren't a lot of sci-fi authors' predictions coming true? It might not be exactly the same as they predicted, but we're heading there.
stdatomic··on How to build a printer
From the 4th line in the article:

> But getting stuff onto it was tedious. I had to join its hotspot and open a little upload website in my browser. Yuck.

Anyway, very creative, I like the idea a lot.

stdatomic··on The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)
> Ok it’s not exactly $60 but you can get the board itself for that amount of money on eBay if you’re lucky

I guffawed. And then closed the tab.

stdatomic··on Stop Making TUIs
Sometimes I wonder if people are just writing these for the sake of having written something.
stdatomic··on eigendrum
Had no idea it had ads. Thank you ublock origin <3
stdatomic··on Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum
I just entertained myself with this for 30 minutes.
stdatomic··on As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
It can't. People will simply stop clicking links.
stdatomic··on The Cold Email
Yeah people replied to cold emails back when they received one once every 3 months. Now we get dozens a day. Straight into the garbage.
stdatomic··on Guy took Jupiter photo with Game Boy Camera, giant telescope, publishes tutorial
I don't know why I was expecting to be amazed by the photo.
stdatomic··on Pros and Cons of Solo Development
I really wanted to work on making a niche game with one other person. Never found that person.
stdatomic··on Programmers need to start meditating
No. What they need is to stop being told "ok this is good enough now we need you to implement this other highly-necessary half-assed feature using ai as fast as possible."
stdatomic··on (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010)
First day of paradigms course in the 2000s and prof says "if your opinion of Scheme is too many parentheses, then you're an idiot."

Needless to say that was my opinion and every day I think, more and more, how right he was.

(later I did make some gui apps that included scripting and chose s-expr syntax because of how simple it is to implement it)

stdatomic··on News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development
It used to be that raspberry pi was a cheap pc. Well it's not longer cheap.

And at their price point, you could just get a mini PC and have better performance, or if you want to use it as a microcontroller, you can just use an arduino, esp32, or an actual microcontroller for a fraction of the price and power consumption.

So, what do people actually do with these pies?

stdatomic··on EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products
Really hits hard when you have to go to Home Depot to buy 6 spade connectors for $7.99 to use in a project with 3.3V 300mA max, when you can buy about 500 of them from Aliexpress for the same price.
stdatomic··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
> meanwhile, the real issue is wealth distribution

This is so mind-boggling to me. Why do the poor keep defending the billionaires?

stdatomic··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
So many words just to say you want more money.

> Younger workers have zero political leverage to change it because our demographic is just too small to matter at the ballot box.

Because:

> can't wait to move to the US once I get a suitable H-1B offer.

stdatomic··on Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
There was a time back in covid days where you had to have an app on your phone to go through customs clearance in Canada.
stdatomic··on Show HN: Rust but Lisp
Can you translate this for those of us who don't speak rust?
stdatomic··on Why TUIs are back
Web interfaces aren't any better. They're designed to for aesthetics and not functionality. Not to mention the fact that they all have their own UI idioms that you have to pick up on.
stdatomic··on Ti-84 Evo
Not only did we use it several times every week for 4 years, I spent 4 years writing tons of programs on it. Best $100 ever spent, thanks mom & dad.
stdatomic··on Meetings are forcing functions
This sounds like something straight from LinkedIn...