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sbisson | 1 year ago | on: Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

Yes. There are multiple UI projects that build on the WinUI 3 components in the Win App SDK.

There's the first party MAUI which is an updated version of Xamarin Forms. The two best-known third-party implementations are AvaloniaUI and Uno. I prefer Uno, it has more cross-platform targets.

sbisson | 2 years ago | on: 1D Pac-Man

Someone has read the impossible game sections of Iain Banks’ Walking On Glass…

sbisson | 2 years ago | on: Moonbase Alpha Travel Tube Details

There's a fair bit of detail in the recently released Moonbase Alpha Technical Operations Manual, one of a series of in-universe documents from various Anderson shows.

sbisson | 2 years ago | on: First ROM Shadowing

I had a third-party shadow ROM kit for a BBC Micro in 1984; it let me back-up and load add-on ROMs into its memory and switch between them quickly.

sbisson | 3 years ago | on: LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado

It and others regularly go pat my home. It’s a great view!

sbisson | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?

Two things for me. An electromagnetics finite element analysis package that was then used to design the actuators for the landing gear for the 737NG-series; where millions of people’s lives have depended on that landing gear working. And the coupling filters for the HF amplifiers in the Australian over-the-horizon radar array.

In all these I was only part of the project, but everyone’s work added up.

sbisson | 3 years ago | on: I love my GPD Micro PC

I recently put Ubuntu one one. A nice little device!

sbisson | 3 years ago | on: Steve Jobs negotiates Apple's deal with Microsoft (1997)

Based on the classic book of computing history “Fire in the Valley”. A recommended read for anyone interested in the history of our industry.

sbisson | 3 years ago | on: London’s Lost Ringways

Ringway 2 would have been right behind my home. Instead I have an electric railway and a lot of trees…

sbisson | 3 years ago | on: The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk

Amusing to see that the last line of the piece refers to "sci-fi on speed", as amphetamines were the drug of choice for the spiritual forefather of the movement, Philip K Dick...

sbisson | 4 years ago | on: A few things to know before stealing my 914

Reminds me of my first car, a Mini Clubman estate with the fake woody panels on the side. The only thing you needed to know was that it had been re-engined with a hill-climb tuned Cooper S engine. Great on an island with a 40mph speed limit and too many rich folk with Ferraris and the like, as it could out accelerate them anywhere on the island. Sure it wouldn't go faster than 50, but that was fine as it got to that speed almost instantaneously.

sbisson | 4 years ago | on: Badger 2040 – Fast updating RP2040 based e-Ink badge

It is a snakerboard

sbisson | 4 years ago | on: In the 1800s, Jersey Island Was Covered With 12-Foot-Tall Kale

They do have their own teams, but the governing bodies don't let them play internationally.

sbisson | 4 years ago | on: In the 1800s, Jersey Island Was Covered With 12-Foot-Tall Kale

I used to go blackberrying on the common above the cliffs at Portlet with my grandfather’s cabbage stalk cane to hold back the thorns…

sbisson | 4 years ago | on: Sensor Network Technology in Vinge’s a Deepness in the Sky

Vernor is a proponent of ubiquitous sensors as an alternative or as an adjunct to AI; the example he likes to use is what he calls the "localizer", a simple sensor that can detect its position relative to other nearby sensors of the saem type.

So instead of complex vision systems to find, say, a part in a bin in a warehouse, a locator attached to the item would inform the network that it was "Two items down and three across in bin #243. Oh, and I am upside down", allowing a robot to quickly retrieve the item. It's an interesting approach to what Robert Forward called "artificial stupidity".

sbisson | 4 years ago | on: AWS Private 5G

See Azure Private Edge Zones, part of the full product. Azure is offering both network-provided and private 5G as options in the same service.

sbisson | 4 years ago | on: AWS Private 5G

Catching up with Azure, I see. Edge Zones has been available since May.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/private-multi-ac...

sbisson | 4 years ago | on: YARP – Microsoft toolkit to build fast reverse proxy servers

An example of inner source becoming open source; YARP began as a way to unify multiple internal .NET reverse proxy projects. Once mature and used internally it was opened up to the rest of the world...

sbisson | 4 years ago | on: Amazon to stop accepting UK Visa credit cards

Exactly; with a credit card paid off monthly by direct debit and an interest paying current account, you're earning interest on your cash and not paying any on your purchases. What's not to like getting what's basically free money with a little bit of no-brainer arbitrage?

sbisson | 4 years ago | on: Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

It’s not quite as bad as presented here; yes Microsoft is in the process of deprecating kernel mode drivers as part of its current security push, however it’s following Linux and implementing eBPF as a more secure alternative that runs mostly in user land and in a sandbox in kernel space. For the type of thing that this app does, it’s a logical change of direction that does not require the same level of EV code signing.