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Age of consequences, indeed.

It really does feel like we (humanity) are on the precipice of something. We're smack in the middle of an era that entire books will be written about. I really don't like thinking about the decades to come and what kind of world our grandchildren will have.

Huh, this story sounds familiar. I read a HN comment the other day telling this same story. They didn't just turn a random HN comment into a news article, did they?

Yup. They did. At least they cited it I suppose.

> Perhaps one reason is that OSS system programmers are washing their dirty linen in public; not a matter of "many eyes make bugs shallow", but that "any eyes make bad code embarassing".

I've committed sins in production code that I would never dream of doing in one of my published open source projects. The allure of " no one will ever see this" is pretty strong

The Thinkpad TrackPoint mouse has over 20,000 nerve endings

Prague is fantastic if you can avoid the tourist crowds.

I lived there briefly with a Czech roommate who took me on tours through the "real" city. Also had a British friend there and we went through the usual tourist destinations now and then. The astronomical clock was neat, but the castle was so much more interesting and far less crowded than the old town.

Incidentally, I didn't drink before said roommate introduced me to Czech beer. What I wouldn't give for a nice frosty Kozel here in the states...

For quite a while before I built my homelab, my git server was a flash drive plugged into my OpenWRT router.

Honestly I still kind of prefer that to gitlab et al. It's nice to not have to leave my terminal to setup a new repo. It takes so much more effort to log into a website and dismiss a bunch of notifications before I can click even more buttons to create a new repo.

I like having all my repos accessible through the website, but I really just want to create new projects through ssh like a civilized person.

I doubt that wireless energy transmission at this scale and distance will ever be practical. It will probably never be economic compared to terrestrial panels and batteries.

If/when we build space elevators, then orbital solar might make sense to use the tether to transfer power. Even with the lower cost of putting mass in orbit, I don't think it'd be any cheaper than terrestrial solar.

Besides, by the time we figure put space elevators, we'll already have commercial fusion, right?

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Because the work is remarkably intricate. It requires you to get real close and personal with the work, usually with magnification. It requires complete and unimpeded dexterity of your fingers, so bulky gloves are absolutely not an option.

Depending on the work, it may also require frequent trips to the hearth for torch work. You really don't want to use an oxy/propane torch in a sealed glovebox.

In short, it's too much hassle and makes the work more difficult and much slower.

> When are people going to realize that telling customers what they want, reducing value and quality, and ignoring their complaints is not a good business model?

Just as soon as they realize that short-term immediate profit is not the only goal that any business could ever possibly have.

Pretty much the day after never, or right after the collapse of capitalist society. Whichever comes first.

Okay, that would be a normal amount of bonkers thing to suggest in C or another language with real pointers.

But in C#, that is a batshit insane thing to suggest. I'm not even sure if it's even legal in C# to take a pointer to an arbitrary address outside of your memory. That's.. That's just not how this works. That's not how any of this works!

For anyone actually interested in this technology, it's something you can do on your own with nothing more than an ESP32.

I've seen research papers on using this method to do gesture detection as well.

> it works by directly reading the NTFS tables rather than spidering through the directories

Maybe I'm just ignorant of linux filesystems, but this seems like the obvious thing to do. Do ext and friends not have a file table like this?

> tyre

Believe it or not, the UK is not the entire world.

In the US, we have vast stretches of highway with nothing in sight. You can pretty easily find yourself many miles away from the nearest town and with no cell service to call for help. If you get a flat in the middle of the actual desert we have, you're absolutely fucked without a spare. Your options are to wait and hope someone else drives by to offer help or just start walking. Maybe you'll find a gas station before you run out of water. Even in the more densely developed areas of the country you can find yourself stranded a long way between towns. It's happened to me twice before and it's not at all an uncommon story.