Took this picture close to the place where I’m living, people just come home with the cart and then drop it outside. This is Germany https://ibb.co/rGXfb0PY
Yeah, looks like NRW alright
Readit Newssnovymgodym commented on Why don't people return their shopping carts? behavioralscientist.org/w... · Posted by u/ohjeez
snovymgodym commented on Run ancient UNIX on modern hardware github.com/felipenlunkes/... · Posted by u/doener
Robert Nordier's port of v7 to x86 probably didn't get the attention it deserves.
It's what it sounds like: v7 Unix ported to x86. Unix v7 was portable enough and the PDP-11 architecturally similar enough to x86 that almost all the code works without change. (Many of the changes from v6 to v7 were to make Unix more portable; it was already running on at least 4 different architectures by 1980.)
I wonder if the obscurity is because the x86 v7 source was an archive inside an archive? Seems a minor thing but not having it to browse online is likely to be an off-ramp for most.
https://www.nordier.com/v7x86/v7x86-0.8a-all.tar.xz has releases/v7x86-0.8a.tar.bz2 (you'll want to use a -C prefix it explodes in the current directory). Source is in usr/sys and usr/src like normal for v7 Unix.
And yes, your modern Linux system's GNU tar is reading the ancient v7 tar format just fine. Neat, eh?
You might find the modern "file" command can still recognize the v7 a.out binary format too:
$ file usr/bin/compress
usr/bin/compress: a.out little-endian 32-bit executable not stripped
Wasn't Xenix just Unix V7 ported to x86? (Albeit originally 16-bit x86)
snovymgodym commented on AMD continues to chip away at Intel's x86 market share tomshardware.com/pc-compo... · Posted by u/speckx
(On desktop systems)
snovymgodym commented on Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again popularmechanics.com/cars... · Posted by u/2OEH8eoCRo0
I do not like the Cybertruck, the company that makes it, nor the man who owns said company.
That being said, I still appreciate seeing them out on the road as an example of what's effectively a concept car that made it to production. It also looks cool and stands apart aesthetically from pretty much everything else on the market, even if the giant 1-piece wiper and black plastic wheel well trim pieces mar the clean lines of the original design.
I'm not sufficiently familiar with the data to say whether or not Cybertrucks or Teslas have significantly more design problems or QC issues than other manufacturers, or if news outlets just latch onto the stories more because Musk's public behavior makes him such a lightning rod for controversy.
Regardless, I think the Cybertruck will go down in history as an iconic car and a symbol of the 2020s, even if it was an objectively bad product (think DeLorean).
> Felsenstein was influenced in his philosophy by the works of Ivan Illich, particularly Tools for Conviviality (Harper and Row, 1973). This book advocated a "convivial" approach to design which allowed users of technologies to learn about the technology by encouraging exploration, tinkering, and modification. Felsenstein had learned about electronics in much the same fashion, and summarized his conclusions in several aphorisms, to wit – "In order to survive in a public-access environment, a computer must grow a computer club around itself." Others were – "To change the rules, change the tools," and "If work is to become play, then tools must become toys."
I highly recommend Tools for Conviviality, it's extremely poignant and ahead of its time.
Yeah but this is ignoring how if it becomes out of control it drinks everyone else's milkshake and large parts of the economy go into recession while the bubble keeps interests rates artificially inflated. This current bubble is a vampire that is hurting more Americans than helping. Hurting them badly.
Is it even responsible to cut interest rates now given tariff inflation?
snovymgodym commented on Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race nbcnews.com/politics/elec... · Posted by u/jsheard
This is a bit of an aside, but why isn't medical tourism more popular in the US? If you could set aside a couple tens of thousands of dollars, as a rainy day fund, you could get close to the very best possible care for even serious conditions from countries that have highly developed medical tourism sectors.
Granted, I acknowledge, that the US will likely still provide better care at the absolute high end, and asking most people to save that much can be quite a tall order, but from what I gather, a lot of people either bankrupt themselves, and end up paying much more than that and/or receive substandard care for conditions where treatment regime is established like treatable forms of cancer or congestive heart failure.
I remember Trump blasting Obama about Medicare, and proposing to 'open up' the system, introducing competition to drive prices down instead (which is the real problem of the US system, socially subsidizing it is just a bandaid fix imo). I guess not much has come off that.
It's fairly popular, especially for elective surgeries.
snovymgodym commented on Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else? · Posted by u/urnicus
Huge swathes of business software run on stuff built in the 80s and 90s with only incremental changes since.
snovymgodym commented on Free software scares normal people danieldelaney.net/normal/... · Posted by u/cryptophreak
The problem is that everyone wants a different 20% of the functionality.
Actual good UI/UX design isn't trivial and it tends to require a tight feedback loop between testers, designers, implementers, and users.
A lot of FOSS simply doesn't have the resources to do that.
This entire discussion sounds crazy to me. If you want socialism, vote for socialism. If you want raw unfiltered capitalism, vote for the billionaire. You can't vote for the billionaire and expect safety nets. That's madness.