Gibbon1

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by Gibbon1 9mo ago
I have some firmware that runs an event loop. There is no malloc anywhere. But I do have an area which gets reset event handler after each call. Useful for passing objects up the call stack. One other thing I tend to do anything that needs
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by Gibbon1 9mo ago
For an example one can look at California. Batteries deleted the duck curve.
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by Gibbon1 9mo ago
I ran into him and the group of obsessed hangers on in 1997-8 or so. He was a nutjob then.
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by Gibbon1 9mo ago
One thing I've become obsessed with is people trying to solve problems in the wrong domain. I think these sorts of things are because people try to allocate resources according to the 'moral domain' instead of basic need. Hav
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by Gibbon1 9mo ago
There is the C.A. Thayer which is a restored lumber ship. https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/c-a-thayer.htm The ship they found "measures about 92 feet long, 30 feet wide and 20 feet tall. Exp
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by Gibbon1 9mo ago
The deranged thing about RS485 and modbus is it's old cheap and just works.
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by Gibbon1 9mo ago
Telling to me was Scott Adams couldn't get laid in San Francisco in the 1980's. Hard not to conclude women found him repellent.
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by Gibbon1 9mo ago
Something I've seen noises about is time of flight systems for traffic. I think the idea is you can put those systems on traffic lights, cars, bicycles, and pedestrians and then cars can know where those things are.
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by Gibbon1 9mo ago
ght get it liYou mike this though
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by Gibbon1 9mo ago
Having BART more frequent running with more stops running next to Caltrain faster with less stops would be interesting.
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by Gibbon1 9mo ago
I've wondered about running BART from Fremont to East Palo Alto and Redwood City via Dumbarton. Not sure what the ridership would be though. I looked at the Dumbarton bridge traffic and it's the least of the three bridges and pale
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by Gibbon1 9mo ago
My dad has a story from the late fifty's. He was at a party at his cousins house in Stockton. And the cousins brother in law had just been hired as a country sheriff and was boasting about how he was looking forward to killing his firs
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by Gibbon1 9mo ago
Yeah the Apple II floppy drive read and wrote the sectors using a tight loop of a couple assembly instructions. So yes couldn't do anything at all.
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by Gibbon1 9mo ago
My feeling is because we build little in the way of new units of housing most places. All the money being injected into the real estate industry is from the price-debt spiral.
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by Gibbon1 10mo ago
For English capitalization is a trivial problem. I think for Hungarian or something similar the rule set is like 6mb.
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by Gibbon1 10mo ago
There is the whole thing where if no suitable victims can be found they'll make do with whoever is available.
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by Gibbon1 10mo ago
Worth also mentioning leaf blowers are terrible for air quality because they blow a lot of dust in the air.
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by Gibbon1 10mo ago
My Prius isn't boring the way I drive it honey.
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by Gibbon1 10mo ago
When I've looked at the power and energy requirements of vehicles it seems to follow some sort of log(size) law when it comes to speed and energy per mass distance. But not for acceleration which is linear. What that means is a small v
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by Gibbon1 10mo ago
I remember some story that early on they thought function calls had little overhead and so used lots of little functions. And then found that actually no they were spending a lot of time doing function calls. But turned out no one cared. To
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by Gibbon1 10mo ago
My learning experience was when Idi Amin was overthrown people thought that now he was gone things would get better for Uganda. Did not.
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by Gibbon1 10mo ago
You encourage war and murder. What you just said is that while the Palestinians in Gaza aren't strong enough now to kill and enslave the Jews and Arabs in Israel they will be in the future. And once they are they will do that. And the
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by Gibbon1 10mo ago
For me I think the issue is the way you think of memory. You can think of memory are a store of register sized values. Big endian sort of make some sense when you think of it that way. Or you can think of it as arbitrarily sized data. It&#x
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by Gibbon1 10mo ago
Yeah people need to stop doing that going forward. It makes driver code a royal pain in the ass.
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by Gibbon1 10mo ago
Just a reminder pushing people to start wars they can't win is shitty.
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by Gibbon1 10mo ago
Palestinians patrons need to tell them they aren't going to win militarily against the Israeli's
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by Gibbon1 10mo ago
Reminds me there are startups looking at vat grown protein using hydrogen and CO2 to feed nitrogen fixing bacteria. An interesting thing is solar farms are maybe 30-50 times more efficient than corn. So the above isn't insane on the fa
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by Gibbon1 10mo ago
My mom always made a couple different exams to hand out so you couldn't just copy answers. A lot of my professors had a rule if you aced the final you got an A in the class. I think that was also done to not reward cheating. Having to
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by Gibbon1 10mo ago
Small brained primate comment. With embedded firmware you only flash the .text and and flash to the device. But you still can debug using the .elf file. In my case if I get a bus fault I'll pull the offending address off the stack an
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by Gibbon1 10mo ago
That's my dad who worked at NaSA doing aeronautics stuff said. Pilots fuck up all the time so blaming them doesn't excuse anything. And I find myself butting heads with people over that all the time. Coworker (smug satisfied voice

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