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New comment by aeastw in "Social dynamics of toxic metal industry in medieval Europe"

aeastw — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 07:04:29 +0000

I grew up in Hope, near Castleton, and worked for several years as a tour guide at Speedwell Cavern which is a failed lead mine from the 1700's. This was a fascinating read as I knew lots of the later history, but as the article points out, the earlier history is much less well known.

New comment by aeastw in "Ask HN: Did you ever fall out of Love with a Programming Language"

aeastw — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 22:08:03 +0000

Yeah I'm in the same boat here. Go has become my go to instead of python. For me the packaging/package management side of python has become messy and really detracts from the whole developer experience.

New comment by aeastw in "43 km line of sight with USB WiFi stick (2005)"

aeastw — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 16:15:38 +0000

I'm fairly sure water follows the curvature of the earth...

New comment by aeastw in "Visual Studio Code Comes to Raspberry Pi"

aeastw — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 14:24:49 +0000

I really don't understand how this is an issue. The raspbian distro is designed and fundamentally revolves around being a learning environment with as little friction/barrier to entry as possible. So having the repo available makes sense. If there is a need to be in complete control of every aspect of what is installed in the distro then there is always the option of creating your own distro that is completely controlled using something like the Yocto Project.

New comment by aeastw in "Microsoft Repo Installed on [Raspbian]"

aeastw — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 15:20:12 +0000

I don't really understand how this is an issue. The raspberry pi/raspian distro is made primarily for education, so making it easier to install VSCode which is a popular tool (and also one of the recommended tools for developing for the new Raspberry Pi Pico) is a good thing. It's not like VSCode is being forcibly installed on all raspberry pi's, just because the repo is in the source lists doesn't mean you have to install anything from it.