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ICameToComment commented on US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago bbc.com/news/articles/c4g... · Posted by u/niuzeta

insane_dreamer · a year ago

Not sure about that. Brexit was irreversible. We can potentially begin to reverse this in 4 years time. But yes it could take decades.

ICameToComment · a year ago

You sure there will be a change allowing a reversal in four years? I doubt that this kind of steamrolling power will be contained by law or institutions. They came into office while blatantly disrespecting law and institutions in the first place. There will be not enough left to get back to last year's state of affairs. This is not going to be a short hiccup. This is changing the world and the path of the future and I hate to witness it happening.

ICameToComment commented on Building a Tiny Linux from Scratch blinry.org/tiny-linux/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

ICameToComment · a year ago

What is the purpose of the tinyconfig configuration? What functionality does such a kernel provide? It seems to not even provide basic tooling or "interfaces" to the world. Is this something used for embedded systems where a minimal platform is needed to run a specific firmware?

ICameToComment commented on Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen old.reddit.com/r/neovim/c... · Posted by u/konradkpl

oneeyedpigeon · a year ago

Maybe it was a form of self-enforced focus, a bit like those "distraction-free" writing apps.

ICameToComment · a year ago

No. They don't have any other hardware to work on. It's out of necessity, not choice. That reddit thread is in fact talking about a Gofundme and sending them an used laptop but they refused because they expect a lot of trouble actually getting it.

ICameToComment commented on Teen behind hundreds of swatting attacks pleads guilty to federal charges wired.com/story/alan-fili... · Posted by u/Bender

hereforcomments · a year ago

In Europe this would have been a completely different story. It's highly unlikely (compared to the US) that a SWAT team equivalent would kill anyone. The guy could have got away with 5-7 years max. I know it's a museum, but I prefer to live here.

ICameToComment · a year ago

Nevertheless European, especially German police, is obviously also prone to go all in without establishing any kind of context. One email is sufficient.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41550043

ICameToComment commented on Visualizing World War II nathangoldwag.wordpress.c... · Posted by u/gaws

ww2supercut · a year ago

I recently finished a large World War II project that covered the full timeline of the war, and Google Maps was a valuable tool to follow what was happening in any given battle. The problem is Google Maps has more detail than you need, so trying to follow something like Operation Market Garden is much more difficult than just looking at this beautiful battle map: https://www.alamy.com/a-bridge-too-far-image68088140.html. "The West Point Atlas of War" is another great resource.

Maps cover the spatial side of war, but in addition it's difficult to follow the timeline. My project stitched popular World War II movies together into a chronological series, making it easier to see what was happening across the world at any given time. You can view the episodes and the full blog post here: https://open.substack.com/pub/ww2supercut/p/combining-143-wo.... And in addition "The Second World War" by Churchill's biographer Martin Gilbert, is a chronological, 750 page book that I couldn't put down.

ICameToComment · a year ago

This should be a Hacker News frontpage posting all by itself. I'm deeply impressed.

ICameToComment commented on Software galaxies anvaka.github.io/pm/... · Posted by u/matesz

klibertp · 2 years ago

Is it just me, my extensions, or are the controls broken in Firefox?

ICameToComment · 2 years ago

I have difficulties too. "d" does nothing so I can only shift to the left.

ICameToComment commented on Weekend projects: getting silly with C lcamtuf.substack.com/p/we... · Posted by u/nothacking_

drzzhan · 2 years ago

I am so lost at the final block of code. Does every C developer have to deal with this everyday?

ICameToComment · 2 years ago

Certainly not. That's the purpose of the article where they say in the final sentence that it's entirely possible to write readable, yet totally befuddling code in C that stands a chance in the IOCCC.