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thatannoyingguy | 2 years ago | on: I walked across Luxembourg

I don't want to be one of those people, but: Woohoo, our tiny country has been mentioned on the Internet!

thatannoyingguy | 2 years ago | on: Teardown and review of a new 386 system: Hand386

Wow that is more than double the retail price. You usually find them new for $1300. Alternatively, you could look into a used GPD Win 2 (Released End of 2018). In my area, I find them for €350 used.

thatannoyingguy | 2 years ago | on: Teardown and review of a new 386 system: Hand386

The Pandora was renamed to Pyra I think. But the solution you are looking for could be the GPD WIN Max 2. it checks all your boxes.

thatannoyingguy | 3 years ago | on: I still don’t have the multiplication tables memorized – Daniel Lemire's blog

(2008)

thatannoyingguy | 3 years ago | on: CIRCL: Cloudflare Interoperable Reusable Cryptographic Library

Not to be confused with the Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg: https://circl.lu/

thatannoyingguy | 3 years ago | on: G-3PO: A protocol droid for Ghidra, or GPT-3 for reverse-engineering

That's awesome! I also wanted to combine Ghidra and GPT3, but I was unsure about its capabilities to explain code. I made a plugin where you highlight part of the listing view and it explains what is going on with the help of ChatGPT. Link for the curious: https://github.com/SourceDiver42/Ghidra-ChatGPT

thatannoyingguy | 3 years ago | on: Map of the Internet

I was surprised that there is a TLD for sàrl, given that it is only used in some french-speaking countries. Interesting.

thatannoyingguy | 4 years ago | on: Help HN: Can't open childhood files

I don't know if you found the program for your family tree or if you inferred that from the filename, but you could try this one: Sierra Generations Family Tree, which uses the CHT format. Do you recall using that piece of software?

thatannoyingguy | 5 years ago | on: 13-Year-Old, Nicholas Sharkey, Creates a RISC-V Core

I got my first certification at the age of 15. It is truly amazing what young people can achieve nowadays, as long as they are surrounded with the right people and technologies. I read something some time ago, where a 13-year-old built a fusion reactor in his home.

thatannoyingguy | 5 years ago | on: The Uncertain Future of Ham Radio

In my country (Luxembourg) is only one place where you can take the courses. That place is in the south of the country and the courses are held in the evening. Their schedule is impossible to combine it with public transportation and their sessions/courses are only done once per year, meaning that I'd have to wait an entire year to be able to apply to their courses. As a young person, it is nearly inpossible to participate without relying on somebody with a car or living somewhere closer.

thatannoyingguy | 6 years ago | on: Windows 10 will support Linux file systems inside File Explorer

They should clarify in the title that they are about the WSL filesystems and not the filesystems you use on your daily Linux distribution like ext4 for instance.

thatannoyingguy | 6 years ago | on: Apple II connecting via acoustic coupler modem and rotary phone (2015) [video]

I was about to get myself an Apple II but I couldn't decide which model and in the end I got myself a C128D which I am restoring at the moment. The Apple II is still on my wishlist.

thatannoyingguy | 6 years ago | on: At Astra, failure is an option

Yeah I was about to write that as well.

thatannoyingguy | 6 years ago | on: The Most Dangerous Writing App

This reminds me of "suicide linux" (available as a deb and docker image). If you type a typo in a command, it gets converted to rm -rf /

thatannoyingguy | 6 years ago | on: Musk: Hyperloop Tunnel Is Now a Normal Tunnel – ‘This Is Simple and Just Works’

Having the car on a sled means no wear on the tyres. Furthermore the sled is specifically designed for the rails and acts as a guide for the car, which is more reliable than having the autopilot cruise through the tunnel with the danger of the user being able to disable the AP and blick the tunnel. The sled therefore makes the Tesla some sort of a bumper car without making any damage.

thatannoyingguy | 6 years ago | on: YouTube “Let's Play”s are preserving video game history

But there are people who are constantly downloading the let's plays of those youtubers, so there will nearly alway be a copy of a video if it isn't on youtube and it might end up on archive.org later on

thatannoyingguy | 7 years ago | on: Banish missing glyphs with Unifont

"I am not arguing that you should serve an extra couple of MB on every webpage (although modern sites are so bloated it probably doesn't matter...) - but perhaps you should bundle it with your webview apps." The author already mentions the idea that it should be bundled with webview apps which also refers to browsers. A browser plugin could be a good starting point until the patched browsers are released.