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by archi42 7y ago
Well, I'd suppose if this becomes a web standard, it will come with an eventually stable API. And I wholeheartedly vote for "write a (lovely) webpage that still functions in a decade" over "write an app that might b
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by archi42 7y ago
Reminds me of a story about a professor. He has framed an old request for a grant and put it up in his office: > I need 20000US$. That's all it reads (with value converted to today's dollar-value for easier interpretation) - an
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by archi42 7y ago
Unpopular answer: Meh. I see your point, but we are already using specialized algorithms to solve problems on generic hardware (CPU). You can move to different generic hardware (GPU/OpenCL/...) which might be better suited (depend
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by archi42 7y ago
Ah, you're right, thanks - I had that mixed up anyway because until now I wasn't interested in using BT in my hobby projects at all. So that's a nice excuse to order an ESP32 or two or three.
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by archi42 7y ago
Maybe Apple just doesn't need this for anything (yet)?
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by archi42 7y ago
Oh, this is neat :). I was recently thinking about how to configure something on an ESP8266 from my phone - with the ESP potentially being out of range of the WiFi; so HTTP or attaching the ESP to my MQTT server will not be a reliable optio
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by archi42 7y ago
I just want to second this! I think I just ordered a LX100 for that price (plus 25US$ for shipping to ol' Europe). //edit: Next thing tomorrow: Order the stuff necessary to program this (or check if I can use company equipmen
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by archi42 7y ago
This sounds like one example out of many? Disclaimer: I don't know the involved persons and their personalities, and I'm only a remote spectator to the whole thing playing out in the US. But here is my take at the issue: There is
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by archi42 7y ago
So if $villain goes to the hardware store, says he needs a good hammer since $villain is feeling like hitting $someone with it - then the hardware store should sell a hammer? After all, $villain may go to the competing hardware store and ge
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by archi42 7y ago
This still leaves the "talking about politics is banned"-point-of-criticism. Since you're the CEO: How did problems discussing politics manifest at GitLab that you feel this step is necessary? Or is this a "preemptive st
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by archi42 7y ago
I meant middle ground as in "you can talk about it, but you're neither forced to nor is it banned". Also, there used to be a political spectrum and not just "progressive" and "conservative": This is someth
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by archi42 7y ago
You have a point there (and hence no downvote from me ;-): GitLab is a 961-strong company (all remote, says the website). However, we have much larger nations and, as a society, we should try to get along with each other, despite difference
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by archi42 7y ago
I think that the point is McDonalds doesn't empower $villain to do $badstuff (that is, unless he is literally starving - in which case it would be inhumane to not give him food). However, technology empowers us to do things that would
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by archi42 7y ago
> I don’t understand why it’s encouraged (in some companies) to discuss politics at work in a way that leads to internal issues. There is a middle-ground between "talking about politics" is "encouraged" and "forb
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by archi42 7y ago
We actually do this quite often, and that's even though our field is not concerned with politics. But maybe that's a cultural thing? (Edit: Also, views at work vary. In US terms the spectrum is probably from Bernie-Sanders-left to
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by archi42 7y ago
Enen with tech workers complaining about the high rents, I wonder how bad teachers fare? Or are these districts in "cheap" areas?
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by archi42 7y ago
In an ideal world, routing money from defence anywhere makes for a more productive society (except maybe black jack and hookers - and I am not even sure on that). Of course investing into the future (kids and environment) has the biggest lo
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by archi42 7y ago
Ouch. GP mentioned int/float conversion differences, and coders using the wrong [string/unicode] types doesn't help. I wonder if these are symptoms of duck typing? Edit: 2to3 is what I'm talking about https://
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by archi42 7y ago
Recently I had to port some code from the legacy version of an internal DSL to our newer version. I just wrote a primitive parser that would understand 98% percent of the code (in a safe way) and lowered that into the new DSL. Worked like a
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by archi42 7y ago
My 2013 Volvo can be fitted with exactly these as an original part by the dealer (it seems they were not available with the original order); the module is placed into the Volvo logo, and the driver sees a split image in the infotainment dis
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by archi42 7y ago
I don't speak Russian, but assuming GP does: Maybe it's a pun? Both meanings convey propaganda about him.
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by archi42 7y ago
Here we have ChipTAN - I put my card into a special reader (some photodiodes plus keypad and display), hold the diode-end of the reader onto my PC display and a flickering image on the website transfers some info to the reader. On the reade
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by archi42 7y ago
So the only trust anchor remaining are the kernel and the hardware. It seems an attacker has to build a kernel module that detects the bootstrapping process and injects the (self-replicating!) bad code while building the final gcc. I like t
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by archi42 7y ago
> It is better if [...anyone...] include a security warning / specific reason the code is sent with the password reset pins and similar credentials. I think anyone building such systems (either via e-mail or SMS or whatever) should
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by archi42 7y ago
> Can you provide an "enterprise class embedded OS" to device manufacturers and address post-deployment updates? There is already vxWorks, they don't have to start from scratch and they're already widely used in the i
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by archi42 7y ago
I didn't use Blender, but the way I understood it, it is more like modelling. Opposed to that, Inventor is technical drawing. E.g. I could: Draw 2D plane 10x10 mm; extrude; on one surface, create a diagonal helper line; put three circl
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by archi42 7y ago
This is what I use as well, plus repetier printing server on my old raspi B. I've setup everything once about 2 years ago, and should probably update the toolchain (klipper is awesome).
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by archi42 7y ago
I read this often, and since people tend to do overengineering, this isn't bad advice. However: Some things can only be reduced so much. Rebuilding the product we ship at $dayjob, and which I enjoy working on, with a comparable feature
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by archi42 7y ago
I partially agree with you: The notion of "programming as a hobby" starts to fade for some once they're doing this professionally. Since I'm working 40h/week as a software engineer I find much less motivation to d
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by archi42 7y ago
I'm quite happy with Autodesk Inventor. Though I get it a the student rate (for free), and would not pay for it since I just design simple things for 3D printing.

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