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All their work is amazing. Perhaps I will post all of these here as posts individually? Someone should...

1. A DOTS reader looks sort of like an external DVD/tape/floppy drive

2. Data is recoverable not via just a DOTS reader, but with a normal camera/microscope if need be. Imagine a mixture of QR codes and logos, like a business card might have.

3. Instructions on reading DOTS data and building an actual DOTS reader can be "drawn" on the medium itself in a human interpretable form (see: Voyager record)

4. DOTS media is essentially a piece of durable metal that takes precise and dense impressions from a laser, which makes it mostly immune to things like EMP blasts, chemicals, extreme temperatures, etc

5. No price is listed, but the media block shown was 1.2TB

Shamus will be missed! RIP.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41348000

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Someday soon, we will see Godot eclipse Unity in the same fashion that so many other proprietary juggernauts were slowly cannibalized by laser-focused open source projects over the years:

In 2022, the split among GMTK participants was 16% Godot to 61% Unity. In 2023, it was 22% Godot to 49% Unity. This year, it was a whopping 37% Godot to 43% Unity: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVfo5-0WQAAIMAQ?format=jpg

This is major, because Godot has just had another round of home run improvements that brought in even more developers. I think 2025 is the year that Godot effectively replaces Unity for new developers.

Seeing as Raspberry Pi has no dog in the game, and simply wants to offer the best product possible, I wouldn't be surprised if this is their intentional way of giving people RISC-V with the intent to allow them time to port their code to it so they can eventually pull the ARM stack. I say this because Jeff Geerling has a video about the Pico 2 where he explicitly says you can only use RISC-V or ARM cores. Not both sets at the same time.

I think it's probably because a full migration to RISC-V would allow them to innovate a bit more and cut prices, although I don't know what the restrictions really are with ARM's IP control and pricing. At $5, every penny counts though.

I switch the URL to old.reddit and poof! Performance problems are magically gone.

A person harboring the most replication of a virus is more likely to produce a prolific strain.

An immunocompromised individual is also much more likely to harbor other viruses that can share genetic material with each other when replicating.

If any human body in the world can be predicted to produce a radically different new strain, it's one whose body doesn't suppress viral replication.