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871.
by aa-jv 3y ago
>more or less based on the idea that bloodletting and rectal feeding and wound probing were medical "best practices" of the past and now seem so obviously ludicrous to us now I often remind myself that the Australian aboriginal
872.
by aa-jv 3y ago
>Most of 20th century Australia was tough. White Stolen Generation here, checking in. Can't stand the place, personally.
873.
by aa-jv 3y ago
A Kelly Kettle: https://www.kellykettle.com/ .. cheap, light, and easy to operate, it has made my outdoor expeditions so much more comfortable, and for some reason provides peace of mind since, if the grid goes kablooey, th
874.
by aa-jv 3y ago
Taradov's sniffer is great - if you can get the parts, and can afford to wait for the PCB to ship, have a surface-mount oven, and so on - but alas he isn't selling them. So I opted for a Cynthion instead, which also isn't shi
875.
by aa-jv 3y ago
An RC airplane, built out of an old arrow I found in a field, some foam boards cut for the wings using the Kline-Fogelmann wing form [1], and various sundry electronics rescued from the parts bin, including a DVD motor to power the prop. Th
876.
by aa-jv 3y ago
I'd love to find some authoritative papers on the subject but this is based on 40 years of experience with the subject of computing and RSI, and I have never had any reason to question it because it works for me and was the best advice
877.
by aa-jv 3y ago
I guess that depends on whether you were motivated to manifest their stated purpose, or not ..
878.
by aa-jv 3y ago
Build more Starships! Psyche 16 or bust!
879.
by aa-jv 3y ago
Why would someone fund the Georgia guide-stones? Same motives, imho: misanthropy.
880.
by aa-jv 3y ago
Just FYI, re-training muscle memory is how you avoid RSI with keyboards/mice. Its important to switch up your input devices every few months and give the muscles in your hands a chance to de-calcify from the previous ergonomics.
881.
by aa-jv 3y ago
You must be doing something very, very wrong. Lets hear the special needs you have.
882.
by aa-jv 3y ago
You really should. I encourage you to do so. There is still so much potential in the embedded world to "get it right" - i.e. undo all the cruft and bloat of the desktop/web/etc. But, be careful, its requires just as mu
883.
by aa-jv 3y ago
Get things cold enough and you can pop off most BGA-based packages from the boards ..
884.
by aa-jv 3y ago
Embedded. Things are getting fat and wide enough that you can apply all of that tech to an embedded system and, hopefully, no one will be any wiser that you've done so. SOM-based development (system-on-module) in the embedded Linux wo
885.
by aa-jv 3y ago
Threads are but one way to handle the concurrency/parallelism problem on a given set of processors, old or new. So what are some other ways of handling multi-core code that you were taught?
886.
by aa-jv 3y ago
Its not entirely bollocks, you may have just missed the point: technology is cyclical, according to its application . Once, Ruby on Rails was the badass , non-boring way to write apps, now - because it was once so badass - it is &#x2
887.
by aa-jv 3y ago
>We do have a choice though. I took the choice: to run from the web with my hair on fire, screaming. Towards embedded, where none of this matters, and where the crux of the whole thing is really, really important: its the atoms, then t
888.
by aa-jv 3y ago
Well, thats the case where too much responsibility is being off-loaded onto the framework providers and someone hasn't quite grok'ed TANSTAAFL. I never use a Framework I won't feel comfortable modifying ..
889.
by aa-jv 3y ago
Anecdotal counter-argument from applying frameworks successfully over decades: the framework is there to help us get up and running .. we get up and running .. we build out the weaker parts of the ship while we're sailing, only when th
890.
by aa-jv 3y ago
Enshittification starts at the keypress, yo. We are all responsible.
891.
by aa-jv 3y ago
This has been a thing since before databases were relational. 4G languages (Progress, etc.) were especially nice for their ability to wrap a queue table around a series of reversible transactions, if you coded things right .. meaning a lot
892.
by aa-jv 3y ago
Sure, Mach is great. No argument from me here. Well except that, a new developer-focused Mac Pro with that centralized campus feeling, sounds great to me. I can only wish it would have both x86 and ARM cores onboard, though, to get that tr
893.
by aa-jv 3y ago
"Being done", I'm not sure anything is happening here other than a happy user pointing out that Apple have some advances in this area, but .. your point is that this has been there all along. Alas, if only there were the hard
894.
by aa-jv 3y ago
Yes, this surely has industrial ramifications. Finally, someone has found a way to build a better mouse-trap.
895.
by aa-jv 3y ago
At first I thought this was being done to pump us up for new Mac Pro hardware that might be on the horizon, but then I wasn't sure, but now I'm also still not sure it isn't .. ;) But, regardless, the subject of using a Mac
896.
by aa-jv 3y ago
Don't ask, do. This is a fascinating subject. I'd be quite happy to see how a fat MacOS machine is being used as a build-server for multiple generations of MacOS versions, as well as how it could be used (via Linux VM's) to
897.
by aa-jv 3y ago
Sure. This is why nukes were sent to Turkey...
898.
by aa-jv 3y ago
Bah, this is just another example of how Americans' can be convinced to buy their own doom by packaging it as exceptionalism instead. Human rights supersede citizenship, which is as it should be - especially for those human beings who
899.
by aa-jv 3y ago
The "Cuban Missile Crisis" started with the USA attempting to forward-deploy its nuclear arsenal in Turkey. Seems everyone forgets the US' forward-deployment doctrine whenever its inconvenient to mention it ..
900.
by aa-jv 3y ago
It SHOULD be law and legally binding, though, as it provides greater protection for human rights than the US Constitution does, by far.

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