yeah, I guess tvs and receivers would come with active optical cables to make it simpler, but the main thing is that optical is much cheaper and faster than copper once you get the economies of scale down on the transceivers. 1 terabit over 100km, down a cable thinner than a USB cable, is no problem with the right lasers. Meanwhile, I have interference and patent issues at 0.02tbps on hdmi cables less than a meter long.
Plenty of cheap optical HDMI cables out there, but they have compatibility issues. It would be so much easier with standard mmf mpo or SMF lc cables.
apalrd did review a unique product recently that embeds a mmf transceiver into the existing HDMI for factor, though.
Build scripts are often written in bash, yes, but I would say that you should find a utility program, or write your own utility in python, if you're breaking out sed. It's very hard to read code like this, no matter the team size.
There's probably only 100-300 usages of sed in the entire nixpkgs repo, with over 100,000 packages.
I definitely agree Linux is easier to maintain and build code on than Windows, but yeah abusing sed is not really an ideal use case 😅
Displayport and hdmi are either twisted pair or coaxial I think. Low frequency RF from 50hz AC shouldn't interfere with them, but high frequency changes in current on a power wire will.
There is some contention about whether this can necessarily be attributed to the tariff. The Great Depression was already in motion before Smoot-Hawley, mainly due to financial instability, falling demand, and poor banking practices. However, the tariff worsened the crisis by shrinking global trade, hurting farmers, and reducing employment in export-dependent industries. Had it not passed, the Depression still would have occurred, but perhaps with less severity.
Monetarists, such as Milton Friedman, who emphasized the central role of the money supply in causing the depression, considered the Smoot–Hawley Act to be only a minor cause of the Great Depression in the United States.
yeah maybe my nuance leaned too much to the no side, but I wanted to explain tariffs a bit. Trump tariffs are not protectionism or coercion, they're just stupid.
There is some nuance here. Smoot-Hawley didn't cause the great depression, and there a lot of economists who say it didn't have that much of an effect at all.
Tarriffs can have some useful effects when used for protectionism, diplomatic coercion, or trade barrier reduction coercion. However, Trump's tariffs are way dumber than anything that came before, because he's trying to do all three of these at once. All of these have conflicting effects on each other, and it is literally impossible to design a tariff strategy that can accomplish all three, since raising a tariff for one purpose means that you need to lower tariffs for other purposes. All he's doing by raising across the board is causing instability in the economy and convincing all partners to ditch the US.
I was trying to ask about this at kubecon. As far as I know, Neonephos is more about making software for public cloud services with EU and German funding, and tied to SAP. Public code for public money.
I'm not entirely sure what EuroStack is, but there was an open letter from 100+ companies supporting it and a general idea of investing in European IT and open standards, and divesting from American IT. SAP and LF were not on that letter. https://berthub.eu/articles/EuroStack_Initiative_Letter_14_March.pdf
Buy used Samsung pm983s on ebay. Super cheap, super fast, and they have power-loss protection. Only downside is that they're M.2 22110, not m.2 2280. There's also a bunch of cheap Samsung and hgst u.2 drives on eBay, but you'll need an adapter.
Yeah housing can be tricky, especially in Stockholm. There is the Stockholm bostadsförmedlingen, which is good to join if you're a resident, but queue times are completely unrealistic. 10+ years for the nicer neighborhoods. There are a number of student apartments on there though that might be easier to apply for.
I highly recommend the apartments in Bergshamra and Lappkärrsberget, I have a lot of friends who live there. I think those apartments are owned by the student union. I've also seen student apartments on campus at KTH, but I think those are a special arrangement with the university maybe, not sure how you can get those.
But yeah, the unfortunate reality in Stockholm is that the easiest way to get an apartment is to put up a down payment to buy a condo in a housing coop ("Bostadsrätt"). You can search for those on the government-owned real-estate site booli.se, but it usually takes 2 months for it to clear even after you buy. A typical down payment in Stockholm is 15% of the apartment/house value, ie $30-60k for a typical $200k-400k apartment.
In a pinch, you can find a room to rent second-hand ("andrahandshyra") online, but it can be a hassle and expensive to have a landlord, and it's sometimes a bit grey-market in the Swedish system when it comes to taxes, rent-control, and BRF rules. Plenty of sites for finding those, one is blocket, and you can find many more by googling "hyra lägenhet".
Speak for yourself, the university student union runs weekend lans open to alumni and they sell 50 cent energy drinks