Hacker News: timakro

New comment by timakro in "Rusty ownership and the lifecycle’s stone"

timakro — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 17:29:50 +0000

Small correction: contrary to what the post claims this does not compile:

    fn main() {
        let s = String::from("hello");
        foo(s);
        println!("{}", s);
    }

    fn foo(le_string: String) -> String {
        println!("{}", le_string);
        le_string
    }

This does, which is probably what the author meant:

    fn main() {
        let s = String::from("hello");
        let s = foo(s);
        println!("{}", s);
    }

    fn foo(le_string: String) -> String {
        println!("{}", le_string);
        le_string
    }

Great post!

New comment by timakro in "Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan"

timakro — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 23:57:08 +0000

Amazon makes it easy to sell especially with FBA. That's as much a good thing as it can be misused. It allows new businesses to get started when they cannot afford to handle shipping to customers themselves.

New comment by timakro in "Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk"

timakro — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 19:25:08 +0000

So it turns out the default on Debian is mawk which does NOT support Unicode. Thanks for pointing that out. This simple test gives different results for gawk and mawk.

  $ echo 'ö' | awk '{print length}'

New comment by timakro in "Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk"

timakro — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 19:04:57 +0000

I believe no distro actually ships this version of awk by default. They ship GNU awk which has Unicode support anyways.

New comment by timakro in "Library Writing Realizations (2015)"

timakro — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 21:49:09 +0000

Even though I'm a prospective developer I read the title as "realizations I had when writing in a public library". I was hoping for tips or insights when working in public spaces.

Answering 'OK' May Make Millennials and Gen-Zers Think You're Mad at Them (2019)

timakro — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 12:06:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/ok-kk-millennial-gen-z-words-terms-misunderstandings.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29209216

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by timakro in "I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old"

timakro — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 15:44:17 +0000

Maybe if we'd do it more software would actually learn to deal with it.

New comment by timakro in "On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story"

timakro — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 09:42:08 +0000

Some banks in Germany support chipTAN which doesn't require a phone. You can find a list of banks supporting chipTAN here: https://www.kostenloser-girokonto-vergleich.de/diese-banken-...

Subtleties of configuring Nginx’s auth_basic to “remember me”

timakro — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 16:25:33 +0000

Article URL: https://tschumacher.net/subtleties-of-configuring-nginxs-auth-basic-to-remember-me/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28051090

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Vimpc is a client for mpd with vi-like key bindings

timakro — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 15:45:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/boysetsfrog/vimpc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26752042

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by timakro in "Quadcopter Programming Part 2: Using the CMSIS Library and First Takeoff"

timakro — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 07:13:00 +0000

Great! Be sure to check out the first part if you have trouble getting started. Best of luck :)

New comment by timakro in "Quadcopter Programming Part 2: Using the CMSIS Library and First Takeoff"

timakro — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 13:28:36 +0000

SWD is purposefully exposed on that board and instead of flashing via the bootloader I got flashing with gdb via SWD with the `load` command working. I just use a male header with some jumper wires for the connection. It seems stable enough. Some pictures of the debug port here:

https://files.timakro.de/IMG_20191201_142259.jpg

https://files.timakro.de/IMG_20191201_142246.jpg

Quadcopter Programming Part 2: Using the CMSIS Library and First Takeoff

timakro — Sat, 30 Nov 2019 13:48:37 +0000

Article URL: https://timakro.de/blog/quadcopter-programming-part-2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21669936

Points: 71

# Comments: 18

My Windows Gaming VM with PCI Passthrough and First Thoughts on Arch Linux

timakro — Sun, 26 May 2019 13:57:19 +0000

Article URL: https://timakro.de/blog/new-hardware-switching-to-arch-linux/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20014951

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New Hardware, Switching to Arch Linux and PCI Passthrough for Gaming

timakro — Tue, 07 May 2019 14:37:12 +0000

Article URL: https://timakro.de/blog/new-hardware-switching-to-arch-linux/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19849809

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by timakro in "EU Abolishes Tan Lists and Banking Apps on Rooted Phones Ridiculousness"

timakro — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 06:19:06 +0000

It stands for "Transaction authentication number", in Germany this term is widely used, not sure about other European countries.

And yes you are correct, this is a one-time password you enter to authenticate a bank transaction.

EU Abolishes Tan Lists and Banking Apps on Rooted Phones Ridiculousness

timakro — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 16:27:29 +0000

Article URL: https://timakro.de/blog/european-union-abolishes-tan-lists/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19483952

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by timakro in "Bare Metal STM32 Programming and a Quadcopters Awakening"

timakro — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:07:13 +0000

Thanks, I updated the post.

New comment by timakro in "Bare Metal STM32 Programming and a Quadcopters Awakening"

timakro — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:24:03 +0000

Nice series you got there, I just took a look and found some really interesting projects. I would be honored for my article to be featured there!

New comment by timakro in "Bare Metal STM32 Programming and a Quadcopters Awakening"

timakro — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 06:27:06 +0000

Fair enough, my first idea was actually to use MicroPython. With a megabyte of Flash that would have been possible, but 64K is just not enough.