While that might be true and the industry has evolved and learned about "better" ways, the old systems still exist. I don't see any reason to complain about it.

Yes, we can do better. Yes, we probably should do better. But in some cases you really have to think through every edge case and in the end someone has to do it. So just be grateful for what we have.

For old systems -- yes, of course. But designing a new, incompatible API around errno is just backwards.

I don't think this is an "old system" though.

Works on my machine!

This. My understanding of 10x engineers was, even if a bit tongue-in-cheek, always positive. They are the smart guys and girls that know what they are talking and think ahead a few miles. It sure can be overwhelming when you hear them talk, but if you let it sink it in, it makes sense.

But we as a society should not pretend that this is what you have to be. There are just some smart people in the world, but they are rare. You don't need to be one to be a good person.

Oh nice, recently I had some question about RISC-V extensions and iirc I found your article and it was the one that explained it the best. Thanks for the write up! You helped a minimum of one Person enjoying their journey through the ecosystem :-)

I believe I was reworking the instruction decoder on my own core and the specification sheet left some open questions

Thanks, it was a lot of fun writing it too. I learned a lot of unexpected things about extensions, including that at the instruction encoding level they are not as distinct as I expected, and that there are just so many of them now.

I've been using keepass for quite a number of years now. I have my database and a security key. I sync my database with dropbox (because I am too lazy to self-host something like nextcloud) between devices and just manually copy my key on everry device. My key was never synced through the internet.

I hope that's secure enough and works fine for me. I guess syncthing is just smaller and obviously doesn't need a third party?

This for me, too.

Maybe more block-diagram-ish than directed graph. Depends on the software.

I am not sure how this has evolved since I am doing VHDL/FPGA design, but especially there I have the actual block diagram of what I want to build inside my head and just have to "look at it" and type it out with my hands. When it's software, then it's similar. The path the data flows

I like tetris. I found these two to be the most fun for me:

- https://www.goodoldtetris.com/ - http://farter.cn/tetr.js/

First one is "NES-style" with fast lock in, no ghost and so forth. Second one is for fast play, with ghost and no fast lock-in. I have no clue about current tetris, but i think that's the modern style, no???

Edit: I believe tetris friends was the website where i started playing more tetris some years ago and the version from farter came closest to it, after it got shut down

>Could be just me but I think a lot of older generations share this experience.

I am only 32 and wouldn't consider myself old.

I used to get very uncomfortable, maybe even angry, when people at the cashier in the supermarket just did not get off their headphones and just leave a simple hello to the person at the counter. Nowadays I am just mildly irritated sometimes, but I still think it's stupid. Especially if the cashier is a really nice and polite person. Leaving on your headphones and not saying a word, sometimes not even giving them a look, feels like a f- you in their face. Just be nice to other people and it even works if you are a very socially awkward person like me. The world can be nice and even give you a smile every once in a while.

This obviously got worse since corona. Germany used to be a cash-heavy country, but now since "everyone" is just paying by card, they just pull it out, wave around with it to signal that they want to pay with it, so that they don't even have to say one single word. So weird.

Can I read a book with it, too? Or just enjoy the boredom without much digital interaction?

you can use the iPad kindle app and it works great.

For some people, maybe. For most people not.

To me it looks like a very slick, hacker gadget built from a very enthusiastic person. Good finish and highly over-engineered. For me, as a user, it'd be too expensive, but my hacker soul could imagine building something like that too.

Nice product, but at that price point probably not for a big audience

I recall seeing little USB lights on Amazon that accomplished the same thing for $30. Turn red when your calendar/webcam is active, green when free. Of course, I would be suspicious of the software integration privacy, but different problem.