Hacker News: navaati

New comment by navaati in "Willow, Our Quantum Chip"

navaati — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:52:56 +0000

Getting strong vibes of Asimov’s novel "The Gods Themselves" here ! For those who haven’t read it I recommend it. It’s a nice little self-contained book, not a grandiose series and universe, but I love it.

New comment by navaati in "Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting"

navaati — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:33:25 +0000

You can get 25G switches/router for not much nowadays, check Mikrotik. Throw a couple Intel NICs from ebay in your machines' PCIe ports and really it's not that much of a deal.

New comment by navaati in "Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting"

navaati — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 08:19:38 +0000

> Hetzner also sells colocation

Oooooh, they do ! 120€ for 14U, now we're talking ! It's in Germany of course...

I think that indeed my problem here is that I live in too expensive a place, expensive for me, expensive for my servers ><.

New comment by navaati in "Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting"

navaati — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 06:13:49 +0000

Yes, that's my biggest "let down" with this writing: at least in my corner of the world (Paris), colo starts at 300€/month for something reasonable, or at the very least 100€ for low power 1U (so you can host... a switch). That's as much as a rent !

On the other hand you can get a nice enough dedicated server for 15€/month.

So yeah, if I'm missing something please tell me because I'd love to but I can't justify the price for hobby stuff.

New comment by navaati in "RISC-V Emulator for Sophgo SG2000 SoC (Pine64 Oz64 / Milk-V Duo S)"

navaati — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 08:51:14 +0000

Do you know https://wokwi.com/ ? I have found support for the -C3, and even Rust development. Although it's online, if you are looking for local stuff I don't know if what they use is available, or if it's a secret sauce.

New comment by navaati in "We must seek a widely-applicable science of systems"

navaati — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 16:36:15 +0000

It does not help you having a perfect and exact rule from initial conditions to future prediction... if you cannot have a complete and exact description of your initial conditions.

We might never be able to get this exact description of the internal state of a brain, this is what makes perfect prediction impossible.

New comment by navaati in "AWS Lambda Web Adapter"

navaati — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 20:57:25 +0000

At the most basic level, your process is in the D or S states rather than R state. Cloudlflare workers are not exactly Unix processes, but the same concept applies.

New comment by navaati in "Raspberry Pi is now a public company"

navaati — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:15:33 +0000

None of these have GPIOs, typically. A usecase you didn't mention is "I want a MCU to do electronics but easier to program, with Linux and a shell".

New comment by navaati in "Understanding QEMU Devices (2018)"

navaati — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 18:16:03 +0000

Hi, one probably really wants to use libvirt rather than qemu directly. That way you can create your VMs remotely with a GUI (virt-manager) using a ssh-based libvirt url, or a CLI (virsh) and it will handle all the right parameters for qemu, the required networking setup, etc. Check it out !

New comment by navaati in "New gel breaks down alcohol in the body"

navaati — Tue, 14 May 2024 21:02:37 +0000

> But it's the fun of alcohol!

Meh, I like wine more and more and being drunk less and less, one is seriously limiting the other :)

New comment by navaati in "Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021)"

navaati — Sat, 11 May 2024 10:41:14 +0000

In France (and probably many other places), supermarkets have a shelf with "close to expiry date" produces. They slap a label on each with a new price at a certain discount, from -30 to -50%, and a new barcode over the original barcode.

I _love it_. As it's a rotating subset of what's in the shop, it gives me ideas on what to cook. I basically don't go in the other aisles anymore: I enter the shop, go straight straight to what I jokingly call "the rotten aisle" and make a menu for the next 3 to 5 days from what's available. Which means that yes, I'm often eating stuff a couple days past their official date, whatever.

It's made inflation bearable for me, the flip side being that I'm now unable to buy food anywhere else, the price shock is just too much, I'm like "no way I'm paying that for food" ^^".

New comment by navaati in "Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced"

navaati — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:44:17 +0000

Oh you do: this work completely differently from sudo, there is no suid binary involved, instead it does IPC to the systemd pid 1 and asks it to spawn you process, attached to your current terminal. So if you don't have systeme as pid 1, it'll have noone to talk to.

Whether you like that or not is for you to decide.

New comment by navaati in "U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS"

navaati — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:00:55 +0000

Aluminium trays, like that: https://www.emballagefute.com/img/plat-a-four-alu-sertissabl.... Yes, it’s non-reusable, pick your poison :/.

New comment by navaati in "Unconventional Uses of FPGAs"

navaati — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 20:52:12 +0000

Well joke's on you: your website worked fine for me, however HN itself was down after reading your article :p.

Good job !

New comment by navaati in "S3 is files, but not a filesystem"

navaati — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 17:38:54 +0000

Flashback to that Clichy datacenter fire near Paris...

New comment by navaati in "Rust for Embedded Systems: Current state, challenges and open problems"

navaati — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 21:02:48 +0000

Well lucky us, Espressif is officially providing Rust packages for the ESP32 chips :) !

New comment by navaati in "Deploying fiber in the home"

navaati — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:51:17 +0000

500$ apparently: https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/cheap-fusion-splicer.html.

Not too bad, way less than what I imagined !

New comment by navaati in "Framework Laptop 16 Review"

navaati — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:58:32 +0000

What’s the advantage of Oculink over regular Thunderbolt/USB4 for eGPU ?

New comment by navaati in ""I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1""

navaati — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 12:46:22 +0000

Putting aside the (very) funny aspect... If it worked somehow, would that fall under Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ?

New comment by navaati in "Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?"

navaati — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 07:29:00 +0000

Hey, thanks for Kaella ! It helped me a lot when I was a 12 years old French kid and struggling with English :) !