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The one feature I would love to see is WebSerial support, now that Firefox has it too.

I think it was a Maker's Muse video where I learned a ton about different 3D printable materials' shear strength when he was testing them in tiny battlebot-style robots. Some things feel unintuitive but I'm glad people take the time to test them and share their results!

I'd love to be able to add 1U or 2U of blinkenlights to my rack, even if the pattern was completely random.

Yeah, and since it seems there's some competition there, the prices are decent. You can get milled metal, 3D prints, populated PCBs... crazy what you can do now and how quickly it can be turned around, if you are willing to pay.

I wish there were more regional places like PCBWay and JLCPCB in US, EU, etc (with similar pricing) so shipping didn't require circumnavigating the globe.

If you ever want to go into the KHz range, you could build a ship-scale platform to carry the antennas :D

Heh, welcome to RF; there are more rabbit holes to go down in domain specialty than I think there are grains of sand on a beach. I've gone down like... two. And I'm pretty overwhelmed.

I think that's why a lot of EEs and developers wind up getting an amateur radio license, or at least running a few fun RF projects.

There are a few knockoff options too, which are not quite as nicely calibrated, but get the job done for much less than Fluke-level prices. Like the FOTRIC TD2.

I think a few people have made homebrew versions too, like this one mentioned on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45137584

Apple actually is making M-series servers for their own internal use now—but it doesn't seem like they're intended for direct sales at all, disappointingly.

https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/apples-houston...

As another STL resident, fireworks are illegal everywhere in the County (not sure if St. Charles as well, but probably), and our local muni PD even sent out multiple warnings about prosecution.

But our inner ring suburb was similarly full of smoke last night and the smell of many amateur fireworks shows.

Only a few in my neighborhood, but they were quite the production. I remember firing a few bottle rockets as a kid, but these were definitely a few steps above that! Sounded like mini mortars, maybe those boxes with a bunch of shells timed to go after each other.

A modern author who's fairly good in this regard is Andy Weir; the main thing is you have to do a ton of research while writing and have trusted sources (I think Clancy had many) to rely on when mulling over the details.

The tough thing is, once you get "above average" in terms of accuracy, those of us who like to be a little more pedantic will grade on a curve!

Nebula's value proposition for invited creators is dubious at best, too.

They also require an off-YouTube exclusivity contract, which was especially no bueno for me.

$4,300-$6,000+, wow you're not wrong. And that's just 32 or 64 GB of RAM.

I buy physical media, and immediately rip it to my Jellyfin library.

The disc goes into a big case logic cd case, and the digital file gets backed up to two other places so there's almost an infinitesimally small chance I lose access to the content.

Seemed to be a common occurrence from Microsoft Outlook users.

If the whole thing were metal, the outer casing would transfer heat to skin too quickly, probably, for safety.

Especially on the Pi 5, which has no hardware encoder to save on power consumption for that task. It's entirely in the CPU.

(Technically the Pi 4's hw encoder doesn't go up to 4K either, though, so I guess moot point).

I do wish there were something like Oculink, but with power available over the connector. USB-C does almost everything, but it seems the chips to break out PCIe lanes for USB4/Thunderbolt for higher speed devices are still a significant cost for accessories.

Thunderbolt hubs are rather amazing now; in the past they'd either get super hot and have reliability issues, or had severe bandwidth limitations (especially if using larger displays).

The current crop has been great for my needs — a couple models have 10G Ethernet built in (CalDigit is the one I'm using now), and most now have more than one Thunderbolt port that allows a high speed storage device to be used as well (in addition to a 5K or 4K display or two!).

Thank you for your work on it! I love that I can browse most of the modern web on G4 and G5 Macs still.

If your entire goal is to create a standard... it seems like giving anyone access to the materials needed to _adhere_ to said standard is prerequisite.

Unless the goal is not to create standards, but instead to control access to said standard.

I don't understand why any standards body would consider not doing this as a default.

The US invested $8 billion into upgrades... and then killed off the program due to tons of problems with the upgrades[1]:

However, the program was unable to deliver needed capabilities on an operationally relevant timeline at an acceptable level of risk to meet the GPS constellation modernization needs.

Hopefully the newer equipment and incremental improvements can bridge over to whatever's next.

[1] https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4465...

GPS uses atomic clocks, not sure why we'd need something more precise for a timing reference on any other satellite system, unless you wanted to get like millimeter-level accuracy using nothing but satellites (and that would require a lot more than just a better clock on the sats).

"The grass is always greener", "the enemy you know", etc. etc.

I think that's an optimistic take; the load bearing portion hasn't permeated traditional development.

Like so many things popular on HN, the tools that are here are great aids for good development processes and practitioners... but they are not actually replacing them in applications that will exist after the AI bubble deflates.

Yes, I remember the GPS post, but somehow missed this one the first go-round. I love how HN can resurface an old post deserving of a few re-posts.

No this is power on after clean shutdown ("Always" is the new option Apple added, in addition to "never" and "after power failure")

I care about paying for my mortgage, sustaining my work, supporting my family... it's how I make a living.

Again, my blog is made for the more technical audience.

With Google diverting search traffic away, there's about a 1:1,000 ratio of blog visitor to YouTube viewer now.

If you don't like my YT channel, please subscribe to the blog. I write a separate and more detailed blog post for almost every video, and the titles are more technically accurate. (I also post videos on Floatplane with the more accurate titles, for direct channel supporters.)

And I care about all eyeballs, not just technical ones :)

To be fair, the number of users who ever touched an Intel Xserve is infinitesimally small in comparison to other Macs.

Oh nice—and a true classic, that's the one from Jurassic Park, right?