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It’s not surprising, but I find it interesting.

I had the Hp15c (and still have) but always deeply longed for the hp28s, which was the first to implement a lisp-like programming language in a calculator. Had I bought that one, who knows how different my computing life would have been…

The HP28s is amazing. The manual even has a program to convert an algebraic expression to rpn.

In high school it was mind blowing.

But I didn't do anything serious with programming. Normal languages seemed annoying, usr/rpl useless limited as it was to a 4 bit calculator.

Maybe if someone had told me usr/rpl is just lisp. But, it's for the best. I loath computer screens today.


I still have my 28s from the late 80s. Also really rugged except for the achilles heel of a battery door.

Same. HP should sell a replacement battery door.

(Edited) Actually it's not so much the door but the housing.


Maybe I’m getting senile, but the article lacks even the tiniest amount of detail and contains no link to the implementation. I found also nothing on the intarweb about it, other than this article and a few clones of it. I wonder if this is real at all. It’s an IEEE article, so it should be. But I find this lack of detail very depressing.

Original article author here: There's isn't anything on the wider web about this project because it is a bespoke creation for IEEE Spectrum's Hands On column! If you're not familiar with the column, it's always written at a pretty high level. That said, I will be putting all the code up on a public repo, once I get a chance (hopefully very soon!) to verify a cold install on a fresh machine does work.

Thanks! To be clear, it’s totally fine to write articles like this, obviously. I just felt that some who goes above and beyond on such an esoteric subject would be vibrating with energy to share as many details with likeminded enthusiasts:)

If I had more time, I’d like to play with this (and trying to recreate an old style stand alone tnc for packet radio) :)


I'm normally pretty good about writing close to length, but the first draft of this 950-word article was over 2,000 words long. :) I only get three pages per issue though, so even though sometimes it's painful deciding what lore to leave out, it has to be done :)

This is just me, but I would have written the 2000 word article, and made it it a md file on github as future home of the code you're going to drop. Then link it from the 950 word IEEE article. Then you'd already have a crystallization point for future work.

Thanks, I thought I was going crazy but yeah, I feel the same way. There are soooo many links in the article, and they're almost entirely irrelevant. It feels like browsing the web with adware installed on your computer in the early 2000s

Litestream releases 5.9 and newer have a bug that causes instances to sync an insane amount of data. a DB with <10K of data in it and practically no writes/reads causes something like 10GB of daily replication traffic. For my toy project that got needlessly expensive.

I've been following litestream for a while, and it seems like the project has been hijacked by a vibe coder. I wouldn't trust it for critical tasks anymore.

Is this bug logged?

Looks like https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream/issues/1197. Still open as of now, with a potential cause noted in the latest comment.

This is one of a bunch of issues that have been popping up since a vibe coder took over the bulk of development on this project. There's a (probably also AI generated) list of a big portion of the issues here: https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream/issues/1221. That proposal has been open for a few months, and it seems (from my POV) unlikely to be resolved any time soon.

Also, Mr. Goldfinger would like to have a word.

Yeah, this reads like right out of "Burn notice".

if it came with a good insurance policy and included review/approval of footage.

I'd like it to redo our outside water sprinklers, please. involves a lot of digging. Also installing a hot water recirculation loop. Pretty much unaffordable.


Maybe the insanely expensive ($400 +, for no good reason) kitchen mixers?

Though, one can buy inexpensive chinese ones if one knows where to look.


And speech was from 1yr ago. The view has probably not improved since ?

Here's a video from this year from a French General that is more up to date on the current vibes https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XQJ5YEsNQws

And for some more data than anecdote, the current polling where the US is now 14 points behind China in net approval. https://news.gallup.com/poll/707945/china-edges-past-global-...


The video is kind of funny. Although in terms of military procurement you have to think past the present administration really.

Eh, the US was also hated in Europe as Biden was sending lots of money to Ukraine in the wake of Russia's invasion:

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/06/11/views-of-the-u...

You can see even with Biden as president, around half of Europe's population regarded the US unfavorably. This was at a time when the US was sending more aid per capita than almost all European countries:

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1hd7aud/military_ai...

There's no point in trying to please these people. They'll accuse the US of warmongering one year, then demand that the US help them fight a war the next year.


The very statistic you presented, shows that the USA was seen as neutral, slightly favorable. The fact that there is now an unprecedented animosity towards the emerging autocracy of the USA, does not mean there were no issues before. They just pale in comparison.

You didn't give me enough good grades for my actions, therefore I run amok now, doesn't sound like healthy behaviour.


>shows that the USA was seen as neutral, slightly favorable

Yep, we could've gotten the same level of favorability by doing nothing, just like Switzerland. All of that stuff about the "soft power" we supposedly get from defending Europe is nonsense.

>You didn't give me enough good grades for my actions, therefore I run amok now, doesn't sound like healthy behaviour.

I'm not defending Trump's foreign policy. I'm an isolationist. I'm simply saying there's no reason for the US to try to please European public opinion. You'll never get anywhere.

Europeans just don't like the US. That's been true for as long as I can remember. If they aren't criticizing our foreign policy, they will criticize our domestic policy, as though how we handle our internal affairs was their business. Europeans essentially view the US as a vassal state.


Remember that Trump also had a term before Biden where he undermined cross-atlantic relations.

Under Obama you had the reputational fallout from the Snowden leaks.

Before Obama you had Bush Jr's wars, with especially the Iraq war being very controversial.


>Remember that Trump also had a term before Biden where he undermined cross-atlantic relations.

Sure, tell me about Trump's first term where he made statements about Europe's relationship with Russia that look incredibly prescient with the benefit of hindsight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpwkdmwui3k

>Before Obama you had Bush Jr's wars, with especially the Iraq war being very controversial.

Yes, I'm an isolationist. I say the US should end all defense commitments and warmongering. Starting with Europe. US should withdraw from NATO, because Europe complains about US foreign policy the most. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.


I think most people wouldn't care either way. On HN, maybe 95% ppl care; outside, not so much.

So the PR risk here is I think reasonably low.


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