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I've probably 10 more questions, but you've already shared generously in a couple of other comments. Thanks for that. I've bookmarked, and will investigate. Best of luck with it

I forgot https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-t4-gnulinux-l...

Didn't re-read, of course

Wow, that's so very cool! Olimex are wonderful!

I'm waiting on "Code" by Petzold to arrive, which I'm hoping will scratch a similar itch, but this seems like a really great way to do it! The nand2tetris course seems so very grea…

Oh wow, it's happening there! I've followed and starred and bookmarked and all that, and will be having a browse around a bit more closely when I get a moment. I think I'm roughly …

Geez, where do I sign up? Sounds great. Don't listen to the pseudo-realists who chase dreams of grandeur rather than doing something (at least semi-) useful or good with their live…

Thank you, that's wonderful, I'll be sleuthing there and getting a feel for things. Cheers!

This may have been true at some point... in the 90s? I'm not sure if it actually was even true then. In any case, it isn't true today: https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t480/ …

Agree with the other responder, largely. I've been bothered a few times by Emacs locking up, but never enough to be actually upset about it. Bugs, I don't see it, it is very very s…

Eww, an unclosed parenthesis. Horrid! The Lisp gods will not be happy. Excuse me, HN people!

The word "free" is being ruthlessly abused here, surely... If I follow the link there, it costs 239E for a 5-day pass, where each of the 5 days must be used in a 1 month period. Th…

Lol @ "office horror software". So apt.

Hmm, reading a bit more on the same article, i.e., this one here: https://www.vegasmaster.com/gambling-tax-free-countries/ I see these relevant lines: > The laws concerning gamblin…

I only learned yesterday after reading this article that, apparently, a good many countries have no taxes on gambling wins. The reasoning is - again, from my quick bit of reading, …

Betfair, or somewhere else, if I may ask?

Could you share the name of your former employer, or if you can't, could you share the name of similar employers? I'm on a bit of a probability (gambling, sports betting, stats, et…

Does anyone have any links to political analysis of what's going on with chess.com, and its involvement in various scandals? I think your wager has something to it, in any case. I …

I loved browsing the emacsconf videos this year, really nicely presented, and such cool stuff happening. Still have lots to watch, but so far in particular the infrastructural and …

What is better, from your experience? I'm a happy Emacs user, but think having more options is great, and I've delved into some Common Lisp and certainly am eager to learn more. So…

Great to see Netflix being derided, I instantly feel soothed. One other curious and quite insufferable thing which exists now is when a show/movie/game will give an unmistakeable a…

THE WIZARD WENT WEST THROUGH THE DOOR AND INTO THE GARDEN

Now you're really on to something - someone give this person some VC money, please!

Couldn't disagree more about Arcane, I thought it was the usual pedestrian writing and mish-mash of tired tropes we've come to expect from mainstream productions. A friend was push…

A company wants to do action x. "If x leads to legal issue y, how much could it cost us?" "If x leads to reputational issue z, how much could it cost us?" -- that's my guess for th…