Today I learnt you can estimate the age of a machine by looking at SMART data!
$ smartctl -a /dev/sda
9 Power_On_Hours Old_age 9335 (92 144 0)
12 Power_Cycle_Count Old_age 3900
I bought my ThinkPad second hand and it's had an amazing number of boots.
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Further tinkering with diagnostics, following feedback!
* Two lines of context above and below now.
* The caret is included in the line below where possible.
* Syntax highlighting of keywords.
I kinda feel that smart context sizing would be better. What do you think so far?
I find it really interesting how some areas of tech are widely expected to improve radically (e.g. LLMs and smart home tech), others gradually (CPU speed, battery capacity) and others very slowly (e.g. compiler optimisations).
Predicting the future is hard.
Smart contract security assessments are surprisingly readable: https://certificate.quantstamp.com/full/nomad
It's clear what's being audited, the issues identified are clearly categorised, and the maintainer responses are shown.


