InternetOfStuff

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by InternetOfStuff 8y ago
> Modern electronic cars use a single bus (CAN bus) that connect all electrical systems. The brakes, the engine, the wipers, the stereo... Not true. The automotive bus architectures I know first hand (admittedly far from all of them of c
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Just git. The tool is just a detail. My point was rather that they are very much "code", and deserve to be treated as carefully as any other. My notebooks also get refactored on occasion.
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> Is there a standard in systematically walking problem space? or should doing it in my way? Yes and no. An important idea is to principally check corner cases, where potential errors lurk. What the corner cases are depends on the system
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by InternetOfStuff 8y ago
I love notebooks! They are an excellent tool, if used judiciously. They are really practical for situations where you want to play around (er even outright work with) principally not with code, but that code's output. You see, I give l
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by InternetOfStuff 8y ago
While I'm sceptical of the ISTQB certification as such (I'm certified, nobody ever cared), I agree with ahoka that the syllabus offers you a very useful guideline to understand the field of testing, especially the nuances and trad
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by InternetOfStuff 8y ago
SEEKING WORK: (Embedded Systems/IoT) DevOps development process consulting, training and coaching Location: Munich, Germany Remote: preferred I'm an experienced (>10 years) software engineer with management experience. I have a
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by InternetOfStuff 8y ago
> Cave diving was like being an astronaut. At age 16 (or so), I dived into an undersea cave in Sardinia, pretty much completely unprepared. I had scuba gear, but only a "waterproof" flashlight (read: not a proper diving lamp by
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by InternetOfStuff 8y ago
SEEKING WORK: (Embedded Systems/IoT) DevOps development process consulting, training and coaching Location: Munich, Germany Remote: preferred I'm an experienced (>10 years) software engineer with management experience. I have a
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by InternetOfStuff 8y ago
There's also mailbox.org While their offerings differ in the details, by and large they offer the same thigns as fastmail.
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by InternetOfStuff 8y ago
While I can easily see particular situations where touchscreens would be useful, I feel it would be extremely annoying to lose the sense of position afforded by physical buttons. 1. I'm a guitarist. It's super annoying when a stri
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> already approaching 30 minutes I've been having connection trouble essentially all day. As far as I can tell this has been going on for hours.
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by InternetOfStuff 8y ago
> Daimler (parent of Mercedes) reportedly rented Model X and disassembled it to learn how it works. > Apparently there are plenty of companies interested in how Tesla's cars are made. Disassembing a rental car is ..uh.. rude, but
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by InternetOfStuff 8y ago
> how are you supposed to have sex when your parents / children are in the same room? Really quietly ;-) But in all seriousness, for a big family to sleep in the same room/place was the norm for much of humanity's existenc
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I've tried it, and found it to be worthless.
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> I'll ensure it's a worthwhile upgrade for those who read the first edition as well. Wonderful. Is there a way for me to be notified once it comes out?
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by InternetOfStuff 8y ago
> I'm about to start working on the second edition of my book, Technical Blogging Great news! I read your book in (I think 2012), and found it very useful. I suspect I'll be buying the second edition.
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by InternetOfStuff 8y ago
Thanks for your comment. I think you may be right. > I think you got down-voted because you misrepresented what Telsa is actually doing, which is a difficult arbitrage between: > > - known preventable deaths from, say, not staying
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by InternetOfStuff 8y ago
> The most vexing part of this is how long it took for others to notice. This has been an open secret for years. Anyone who wanted to know, easily could. Perhaps not the existence of "defeat devices", but open disdain for and c
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Because of their process, diesels are also more efficient at partial loads (e.g. city driving) than petrol engines. This gives you an efficiency advantage right off the bat.
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by InternetOfStuff 8y ago
In a sense, yes. It might even be a good thing to remove dead code -- what isn't there can't possibly cause trouble. But it complicates product management: instead of a single binary and a bunch of feature flags, you now have a bu
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by InternetOfStuff 8y ago
I know you didn't insinuate that, but I would like to point out that there's nothing wrong with detecting test conditions, per se. It might have safety implications (e.g. deactivating airbags so they don't fire because of imp
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> I dont understand how you would expect not to do incremental improvement I wonder if we're talking past each other? Sure, incrementally improve during engineering. But don't incrementally change the safety-critical behaviour
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> And this is exactly why all of these articles recently about how "great" it is that Tesla sends out frequent OTA updates are ridiculous. Frequent, unpredictable updates with changelogs that just read "Improvements and bu
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by InternetOfStuff 8y ago
SEEKING WORK: (Embedded Systems/IoT) DevOps development process consulting, training and coaching Location: Munich, Germany Remote: preferred I'm an experienced (>10 years) software engineer with management experience. I have a
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by InternetOfStuff 8y ago
> How else would they do it than incremental? How about... not? I'm not being disingenious here. If there's autonomus tech, then I find it scary that it might change its behaviour. You see, I've learned how (say) Autopilot
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by InternetOfStuff 8y ago
Where has this been all my life? So far I've been making do with shellscripts I call ad-hoc, but dedaemon looks super convenient. Thanks for creating it, I'll certainly give it a try!
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Only for "niche blogs" that are relied on to generate ad revenue. I don't know how many those are. Most blogs I see seem to be run as a labour of love or for content marketing. Anyway, nobody expects to make money directly of
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by InternetOfStuff 8y ago
There's a wonderful miniseries called "From the Earth to the Moon" which is sort of a dramatic retelling of the Apollo program. Think the "Apollo 13" movie, but longer and more diverse. My favourite episode, "T
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You can be confident that the same stringency as was shown during the emissions debacle will be applied to these standards /s As you're apparently aware, minister Dobrindt (who was in charge of both) took great pains to deflect tr
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Some context on the source: c't is a German computer magazine that has been around since the early 80s. It has a very good reputation for journalistic quality, expertise and thoroughness of investigations. heise is the publisher that o

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