fast enough for a million users on a $4 budget.

When you get to 1% of the world population, you can switch to rust/go

The only two langauges that have better error handling are golang and rust.

but not having to context switch from python to another language is worth it for 95% of applications.

get a - roomba create 3 for 400 - arm built of dynamixel servos for 200 - camera for 100-500 (stereoscopic will set you back but its worth it) - nvidia jetson nano orin nx (500)

for about 2k, you can make a robot that can clean your house and is probably smarter than a dog/cat

Regarding the arm, are you thinking of a particular kit?

Those servos look really interesting, so you can read their position via a UART type interface? I've only played with cheap PWM servos before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39902205 - saw this a few months ago, was going to make like 6 for 3 robots to build legos or playdough sculptures or something

Thanks, that's very interesting, bookmarked! I found https://github.com/thomashiemstra/fred whilst searching, which also uses dynamixel motors, but very expensive ones.

It does look very smooth motion-wise though!

magnus carlsen basically quit because computers ruined chess. As did kasparov.

Fischer was probably the last great player who was unassisted by tools.

Carlsen plays still at the highest level. He just didn't want to do the world championship anymore, wasn't worth the effort after winning it so many times.

?? Carlsen is very much active -- look up the YouTube channel EpicChess for an extremely entertaining recap of what he's up to recently.

would it be a bad idea to rewrite the emacsLisp interpreter and other OS parts in a multi-core friendly language like preferably GO but rust would work too?

my reasoning is that it would add another 100 years to the shelf life of emacs. its good enough i dont have any reason to switch, but if the single threaded perf i s still a bottleneck in 5 years i'd probably switch to ZED.

GNU Guile implementation already supports Emacs Lisp. But I believe having Emacs Lisp implementation is still far from being proper Emacs.

https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Emacs-Li...

Have a look at remacs (an experimental Rust port of emacs, now discontinued) [1] and its successor, emacs-ng (also in Rust) [2]

I haven’t followed closely, but I am sure there are som valuable lessons learned there that would answer your question.

[1] https://github.com/remacs/remacs

[2] https://emacs-ng.github.io/emacs-ng/

GOLANG, TAILWIND, and HTMX

closed source will always fuck you in the ass

i think kids would be self-motivated with the right system.

I got a lot more motivated to learn when i learned programming.

during the pandemic, the world was in shock, so of course kids are going to play video games when their parents are anxious and filled with cabin-feever.

I do wish people on this website would stop using themselves as an example of the median anything.

> I do wish people on this website would stop using themselves as an example of the median anything.

HN readers, in my opinion, are a decent median sample of the group of "self-motivated learners". :-)

subscriptions should just be illegal

so sick of these bottom feeder apps praying on users forgetting that they are subscribed so they can keep extracting life-essence from your empty husk of a corpse