Flameeyes

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by Flameeyes 3y ago
Device? No. Board design? Maybe, it depends on how good a relationship with suppliers you have and how much stock you pre-purchased to manufacture it. Which is exactly why this particular problem is a lot more annoying for hobbyists rathe
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by Flameeyes 3y ago
Article author here — just to clarify a couple of points. Firstly, it appears a few people have not actually went through and read what I wrote and suggested, well pretty much the same thing I suggested on the article! If you can get away w
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by Flameeyes 3y ago
That _was_ my first choice, to be honest, but the device (and the chip itself) was unobtanium at the point I was looking at it.
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by Flameeyes 3y ago
I mean, that's the whole point why I decided to go down the rabbit hole of spending time to learn and understand it instead of just grabbing the cheapest AliExpress trigger board and hope for the best. Giving up on understanding and do
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by Flameeyes 4y ago
I mean, I have done that in the past, when I was writing about more technical topics, too: https://flameeyes.blog/2010/09/04/linux-containers-and-netwo... https://flameeyes.blog/2011/04&#
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by Flameeyes 4y ago
Leaving the casual xenophobia aside, I never said anything about "real" yak shaving. Indeed, as others noted already, I clarified that everything I'm writing is from the point of view of my niche, which (as the title implies)
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by Flameeyes 4y ago
Yup, though nobody I worked with saw it that way anymore. There's a significant drift in its meaning, and there's also dissonance between different areas in the same industry. That's why I wanted to define how this jargon end
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by Flameeyes 4y ago
See, a friend of mine suggested having some illustrations to go with the concepts to glue them in the mind of the reader. And since I have no artistic skills, I had to get them commissioned. Since I grew up with Italian Disney comic books,
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by Flameeyes 5y ago
So here you made me think for a moment if I was being inconsistent, but no, I don't think so. You see, my employment _is_ with Meta now, and was with Google before — it never was with Alphabet, of which Google is a fully owned subsidia
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by Flameeyes 5y ago
(Article author here.) Yup, there's also the more common approach of implementing extensions in C (or equivalent), possibly with an intermediate language. For example, Cython is a much more scalable approach, in my experience, than att
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by Flameeyes 12y ago
Before somebody else asks me on my blog, I have no idea. I have not posted this, I'm not entirely sure if it's relevant at all nowadays, I don't even use Firefox any more...