#MP3 #music #humor parody of Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the Soundness” by the CSE band at U Washington, praising the programming language ML.
#Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup. “One of the things that has kept #C++ viable is the zero-overhead rule: What you don't use, you don’t pay for. Making member functions virtual by default would violate that and make it much harder to provide efficient concrete types. Making virtual the default is “obvious” to people who think of classes as huge things living in complicated hierarchies.”
#PG explains how a 1% wealth tax is roughly equivalent to a 20% increase in the capital gains tax.
#Yt-dlp is abandoning the #Bun #JS runtime because #Anthropic has discarded the old #Zig codebase and switched to #Rust generated by #AI #LLMs. “As of the next yt-dlp and/or ejs release, only Bun versions 1.2.11 through 1.3.14 will be supported.” #neural-networks
#I-did-a-thing #video on his #pulsejet powered boat, mostly the struggles of making it.
#M5stack #Cardputer Zero #hardware is going on sale for an “early bird” price of US$59. Raspberry Pi Compute Module 0 (BCM2837, quad-core 1GHz #ARM Cortex-A53, 512MB LPDDR2 RAM, 46-key shitty keyboard, 1.9-inch ST7789v3 LCD screen, 1500mAh LiPo, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth #BLE) in credit-card 85×54mm form factor, but much thicker than a credit card
#electronics #video #toread about an Uher 4000 Report Monitor repair
#news #video of #Ukraine soldiers shooting at #drones with a CNN reporter, showing in detail a net-covered road and the tactics the soldiers use to survive while under drone attack
#LilyGo has a US$87.35 “pager” that looks exactly like the first-generation BlackBerry but with a better screen (480×222 IPS color), two deployable antennas, and #LoRa support, called the “T-Lora Pager”. It’s advertised as a “LoRa + ESP32-S3 Handheld AIOT Programmable Development Device” and they show it here running #MeshCore. 16MB Flash and 8MB PSRAM. #ESP32
#M5stack has already been shipping some other versions of the #Cardputer, like this “Cardputer Adv”, which are #ESP32 based rather than Cortex-A based.