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New comment by andoma in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

andoma — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:59:48 +0000

Go multi-cloud they said...

New comment by andoma in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

andoma — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:03:15 +0000

Can confirm

New comment by andoma in "“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”"

andoma — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:23:33 +0000

I visited Bletchley Park museum this summer when in London. Can recommend and it's also really easy to get there; just a 50 minute train ride from London Euston station, and 5 minute walk to the museum. Entire family enjoyed the museum (have two teenage kids). There is also the "National Museum of Computing" located next to it which contains the Bombe, Collosus and related equipment. As I understand it most (or all?) of the original hardware was destroyed after the war to avoid leaking any information about the British code breaking skills. Thus, the machines on display are replicas, but should be fully working.

The computer museum also exhibits post-war computers all the way to modern machines. I'd say that museum is more for the geeks while the Bletchley Park museum is definitely worth a visit even if you're not into computers.

New comment by andoma in "Amiga Hardware Reference Manual 3rd Edition (1991)"

andoma — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 13:13:31 +0000

Still have my copy on the bookshelf. Only for nostalgic reasons obviously.

New comment by andoma in "Flunking my Anthropic interview again"

andoma — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:20:55 +0000

Hear hear. I joined a company which made a prosumer product I truly loved using. However, shortly after jointing i realized the company was nothing that I hoped for (Ancient tech, toxic culture, micro-management. All red-flags you can imagine). Fortunately a small startup made a blipp on my radar and after interviewing with them, as I apparently made a good impression, I got an offer so I immediately switched. I didn't realize it at the time but this happened to be a major inflection point in my career (technologically, socially and economically) for which I will be ever thankful. Not exactly OP's experience but my takeaway is that sometimes, even if you think you want to work at a place, it might not be the best option for you. There are so many more opportunities out there.

New comment by andoma in "Maximizing Battery Storage Profits via High-Frequency Intraday Trading"

andoma — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:10:40 +0000

Our house have geothermal heating (heatpump conncted to 160m drilled hole, pretty common in Scandinavia). The heatpump supports having a coolant loop for cooling the house in the summer. Thus the heat pump pretty much exchanges heat from the house to the well (heating it up ever so slightly). It would certainly be possible to insert a resistive dummy load on that loop and just store that heat in the bedrock as well.

New comment by andoma in "Intel RealSense Stereo Depth Cameras"

andoma — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 06:54:47 +0000

The final version of the Kinect, called "Azure Kinect" was based around the ADSD3100 time-of-flight sensor from Analog Devices. The Kinect has since been abandoned by Microsoft. However, Analog offers a match-box sized module ADTF3175 integrating the ADSD3100-sensor, optics and VCSEL (940nm laser illuminator) with MIPI 4-lanes output. A devkit [1] also exist and is available from mouser, digikey, et al.

[1] https://www.analog.com/en/resources/evaluation-hardware-and-...

New comment by andoma in "Developers should embrace creative coding again"

andoma — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:35:07 +0000

At work I've introduced various in-house tooling based on Dear Imgui and people are just blown away by how fast everything is. "I didn't know computers could be this fast and responsive". I say, well just think about the fact that the machine at your fingertips can do billions of calculations per second and it shouldn't be that much of a surprise really.

New comment by andoma in "Beyond BLE: Cracking Open the Black-Box of RF Microcontrollers [video]"

andoma — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 16:29:38 +0000

Yup, Rolled my own BLE Peripheral stack on NRF52 relying on nothing but Nordic's docs and the BLE specification. It's not fully feature complete but works well enough for me to communicate with the mcu from my MacBook using l2cap connections.

New comment by andoma in "Buildroot"

andoma — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 10:20:05 +0000

At work I've developed a buildroot based "embedded OS" för intel machines. Our buildroot system gets bundled into the kernels initramfs and we boot straight into that from UEFI. For upgrades we kexec() into a new kernel-image so generally we never write anything to disk (The original image can still be upgraded if deemed necessary). All applications are then regular docker images. All this is managed by an in-house developed deamon. Works quite well. That said, we're not really using buildroot for anything other than building a few libs + this in-house daemon so I'm leaning towards getting rid of it and just rely on busybox+musl+a few other deps built using a simple script.

New comment by andoma in "Apple Maps on the web launches in beta"

andoma — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:26:13 +0000

I’m on both iOS, macOS and Linux. One thing that’s keeping me using Google Maps is not having Apple Maps in the browser (on Linux). This definitely could lower the switching threshold.

New comment by andoma in "Tesla Q2 2024 Update [pdf]"

andoma — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 20:46:05 +0000

Yeah, seems OK now, must have been a temporary (CDN ?) fluke.

New comment by andoma in "Tesla Q2 2024 Update [pdf]"

andoma — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 20:14:10 +0000

404 for me?

New comment by andoma in "Making USB devices – end to end guide to your first gadget"

andoma — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 14:58:08 +0000

FWIW, for my own personal projects I resort to vendor id 6666 (Prototype).

New comment by andoma in "America's dramatic shift from gas power plants to batteries"

andoma — Fri, 17 May 2024 13:00:47 +0000

FWIW where I live in Sweden the delivery is charged based on peak usage also for residential customers. Based on average of top three peak kWh/h in a month.

New comment by andoma in "Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?"

andoma — Tue, 07 May 2024 18:24:16 +0000

imtui looks interesting. A text based backend for Dear ImGui. Never tested it myself though.

https://github.com/ggerganov/imtui

New comment by andoma in "Speeding up C++ build times"

andoma — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:45:06 +0000

Yes, but we are not exactly there yet: https://arewemodulesyet.org/

Edit: Saw after posting this was already posted in a top level comment.

New comment by andoma in "U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades"

andoma — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 16:11:29 +0000

This reminds me of a funny event when in fourth of fifth grate. When the class was supposed to stand in line we always had to sort based on last name. My last name started with Ö (Last letter in alphabet in the Nordics) so I always ended up last. Then one time, the teacher said something like "Let's reverse the order today, but wait, we also sort on the first name". My first name starts with an A so I ended up last in line anyway, much to the joy of everyone :)

New comment by andoma in "Ask HN: Happy 404 Day. Whats your favorite 404 error page?"

andoma — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 17:42:30 +0000

I think it's a missed opportunity that Roland doesn't have a https://www.roland.com/global/products/sp-404mk2/ on their 404 page.

New comment by andoma in "RFC 9512: YAML Media Type"

andoma — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:21:22 +0000