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This video from Linus Tech Tips presents some alternatives to Raspberry Pi 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvCVw1yONQ

It’s worth noting that this is a compiler for the Tiny-C language, and not as one might think a tiny compiler for the C language.

Sending good vibes to the engineers who will have to add Moon time support to the Java DateTime class.

I find it revealing that while somebody with experience in songwriting finds the result dull and mediocre, I who knows next to nothing in the domain finds its nice and totally fine…

Found longer! Dodge RAM 2500 https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/bmw-isetta-1955-1-d...

This is not claimed by the article afaict. It's stated though that json spec/syntax is simple, and that it's simple as a language; my interpretation is that this means "simple/unde…

Funny that the story is told by Sherlock and not Watson, that's not idiomatic of the series afaict.

I made for myself something similar, for display in my shell prompt https://github.com/netgusto/tax

For key/value storage there's Cloudflare KV * https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/kv/ For document storage, Durable Objects is amazing: * https://developers.clou…

There are a lot of resources out there about distributed state management. Do you know any book/resources that stands out?

There's https://scalingo.com/ Works well.

In english: https://www-stern-de.translate.goog/auto/e-mobilitaet/unzufr... TL;DR "The mood is shifting mainly because of unequal wages [...] Because new hires would be paid better…

Hey HN! While working at my previous company, I wrote this blog post that sums up some of the topics that were most appreciated by my mentees. It's about structuring code in a way …

How Lovecraftian. ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Wow such a coincidence! I recently toyed on such a spec for my shell prompt task manager https://github.com/netgusto/tax (I display it in my prompt and my tmux session bar, it's ni…

ah! TIL, I always thought it was a real word.

The durations are expressed in ‘ship time’, ie the perceived duration from the pov of the ship. This is explicited further in the document.