Hacker News: seren

New comment by seren in "Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR)"

seren — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 07:30:42 +0000

I have already seen legacy projects that were designed using Rational Rose, but for some reason I thought it was only a commercial name, not an actual system. Thanks, I learned something today !

New comment by seren in "New mRNA cancer vaccine triggers immune response to malignant brain tumor"

seren — Mon, 13 May 2024 19:36:36 +0000

from my understanding you need a sample of the tumor to design the vaccine, so it is not OR but AND

New comment by seren in "France enshrines 'freedom' to abortion in Constitution, in world first"

seren — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 12:18:49 +0000

And closer home, Poland. So it is not a far fetched idea or fantasy.

New comment by seren in "Temenos Sinks Most in 21 Years on Hindenburg Short Report"

seren — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:49:43 +0000

This made me check Adani group stock price, it is almost back to the previous level before Hindenburg group revelations.

Some info : https://www.ft.com/content/60205ec6-2798-4085-a4f1-0f162b624...

New comment by seren in "'A slow fiscal death' awaits some countries in this 'decade of debt.'"

seren — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 14:12:56 +0000

If birth rates are quickly falling, the debt will have to be repaid by an always smaller population, it seems it will make matter worse. (Unless we find out a magical productivity gain that can be heavily taxed by government)

New comment by seren in "Lubricate Your Keyholes"

seren — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 16:38:59 +0000

https://www.ilo.org/dyn/icsc/showcard.display?p_lang=en&p_ca...

Inhalation is not recommended, particularly if it happens often.

New comment by seren in "Ask HN: What will your kids be proud of 10 years?"

seren — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:46:28 +0000

I am working on medical device software, processes are terrible, tech stack is not really up to date, but at least, I sometimes feel that I am helping people down the line.

New comment by seren in "Was an ancient bacterium awakened by an industrial accident?"

seren — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 09:44:22 +0000

Never heard of that catastrophe, but an oil rig digging into a mine under a lake is pretty terrible.

New comment by seren in "EU Integrity Watch"

seren — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:06:28 +0000

To me it sounds exactly like local American politicians blaming "Washington".

New comment by seren in "Sellafield: Europe’s most toxic nuclear site"

seren — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 19:27:04 +0000

I remember an example from another nuclear site cleanup. If you work on a part potentially contaminated you cannot used a normal vacuum cleaner that will disperse some contaminated dust, so you need a special purpose device. Then you cannot dispose easily of the dust, so you need another process. Since the device is also critical you probably need some regular maintenance or tests, so you need someone to manage them.

So basically every single step is much more complex with the associated cost.

New comment by seren in "Acceleration Robotics Launches Robotcore ROS 2 Hardware – The Robot Report"

seren — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 15:54:42 +0000

What is the benefit of using TNS, which looks like a new protocol requiring specific HW ? versus using Ethercat for example which has similar cycle time I believe.

I am not familiar with ROS 2, there is only a DDS backend and no ethercat backend ?

It seems at least one company is looking to this approach : https://www.adlinktech.com/en/software-ethercat-ros2-amr-dev...

OK I see the point if you have a slow ROS2 implementation that is up to the task you can use a dedicated FPGA HW to implement RTPS under DDS to get more predictable timings.

(And this is how a new standard was born)

New comment by seren in "My insulin pump controller has a bug"

seren — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 13:24:23 +0000

As someone working on Class III medical devices, it is true that the FDA does not check if your design is "safe", only that the documentation and process seems to have been followed, but on the other hand you are also required to monitor your install base and report any hazardous event, and in case no adequate remediation/plan to your adverse events, they have the real power to stop the commercialization of the product.

But I agree this is coming a bit late in the process if people have already been harmed.

New comment by seren in "We Idolize Assholes"

seren — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 14:50:25 +0000

I am always surprised that humility is a classical virtue but that seems to be totally opposite to the modern life. I can't really think of a lots of humble public figure.

And likely if you are too humble in the workplace, you don't exist either.

New comment by seren in "Ask HN: More Co-op games I can carry my 5 year old through?"

seren — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 13:49:36 +0000

Pikuniku is an independent platformer, where you cannot mostly not die except some boss encounter, but some part can be difficult for a 5 years old. It is mainly single player, with a small 2 player part. Available on Switch & PC at least.

New comment by seren in "The Rust programming language positively sucks"

seren — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 15:26:43 +0000

This reads like the perfect example of "if you want someone to answer your question on Internet, start with an inflammatory title"

He managed to get the maintainer of the module he wanted to integrate to answer his questions, mission accomplished.

New comment by seren in "Intel to set its FPGA unit free to pursue its own path"

seren — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 06:58:27 +0000

Some embedded stuff where the FPGA is used to implement some logic on I/Os, some processing that needs to be fast or implement some i2c, CAN, SPI controller trough IP core. Basically a more flexible way than having different chips on the board.

New comment by seren in "“Alien corpses” shown to Mexican Congress"

seren — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 10:47:16 +0000

"Mr Maussan has previously been associated with claims of “alien” discoveries that have later been debunked, including five mummies found in Peru in 2017 that were later shown to be human children."

It does not seem to be the most credible person to show evidence.

New comment by seren in "Ask HN: Why does Firefox have such a low market share anyways?"

seren — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:41:03 +0000

I am still using Firefox as my main browser, but some sites are broken with Firefox and working fine with Chrome. So unless you are particularly motivated to stay on a given platform, practically it does not really makes sense as a user to stay committed.

New comment by seren in "Europeans Are Becoming Poorer"

seren — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 08:01:10 +0000

As a European, I can still believe this is true (maybe this is some kind of coping mechanism), but at the same time, I got the impression, that overall healthcare, education, safety nets are getting worse as time goes by, so I don't know how long it will stay an advantage.

At some point, you need to have the mean to finance these services, so stagnating GDP is not that good.

New comment by seren in "Europeans Are Becoming Poorer"

seren — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 07:57:39 +0000

In an environment with rising energy prices it is hard to compete with a net oil exporter.

However, it means that Europe should invest more in nuclear and renewables to stay relevant. But the war in Ukraine is not helping I guess.

But the 2008 vs 2023 comparison is really sobering.