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by axegon_ 5y ago
> The current IoT hype has blown over a little I don't think it ever picked up: It was trying to solve a problem which didn't exist at the time. In the mid 2010's when they started popping up, the economy was growing and m
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by axegon_ 5y ago
Two major ones: first one is the obvious - I don't see a whole lot of effort to make the first steps easier. Second one is I brought this topic on several occasions in the rust community, the closes I got to a sensible(note the word cl
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by axegon_ 5y ago
I second this and for several major reasons: 1. Prices are down(yes, lower down your guns). I'm not talking about CPUs or GPUs but embedded products. It's absolutely mind blowing that you can get the computational power of a mid-9
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by axegon_ 5y ago
Rust has been my goto language for several years for multiple projects, was a primary language at a certain point not too long ago for what it's worth. Generally depends on your background. Rust in general suffers from one... I guess y
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by axegon_ 5y ago
Rust is a brilliant candidate for embedded systems - safety, built-in package management, it's ergonomic and pleasant to work with. But it has one fundamental problem, which the entire community refuses to address: the steep entry. Sev
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by axegon_ 5y ago
> Your parents had you instead of a toy or a dog, you owe them nothing, you are their entertainment. As cringy as this may be, it's depressing how many people I can name off the top of my head who had children because they wanted a
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by axegon_ 5y ago
It's a bottomless pit of misinformation, fake news and conspiracy theories.
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by axegon_ 5y ago
Most people don't care. In all fairness my beef with Facebook is their inability to manage user data in addition to their empire of community driven misinformation empire. With some slightly above average googling skills you can find a
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by axegon_ 5y ago
Ditched Whatsapp the moment it was bought by Facebook.
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by axegon_ 5y ago
It is a slippery slope. I've never had such resources available but having said that, at this point in time I'm the wealthiest I've ever been by a considerable margin. Through a 8/h day jobs and no investing but that&#x2
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by axegon_ 5y ago
Setting the obvious facts aside, I love the subtle cynicism behind buying a 1km cable to prove a point.
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by axegon_ 5y ago
A lot of variables at play here. Personally, given that I live in an inexpensive country, I'll pay of my mortgage and take a year of in pursuit of some personal projects which have plenty of potential but I don't have the time I t
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by axegon_ 5y ago
Depends which of their products you are after and where you are located. At this very moment Mouser[1] has a very limited quantity in stock. [1] https://eu.mouser.com/c/?b=Coral
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by axegon_ 5y ago
Now that you mention it Coral products are the only thing still of some interest to me. Though with so many alternatives around I'm not completely sure they are justified. Say the SBC - even though it is relatively smaller, it's s
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by axegon_ 5y ago
At one point I lost interest in both and ML/AI in general. I think eventually I got frustrated with the insane amounts of abuses for marketing purposes and never truly delivering what was promised(I know, I know, fake it till you make
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by axegon_ 5y ago
> By realizing that the world is always changing, and by stopping to complain, we opt out of seeing the world through cynical glasses, and become part of the change. When we realize that our life can change, we can change it. The world i
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by axegon_ 5y ago
The point of https here is to serve as a guarantee that the content you see is the content that was provided by the server and not something that was injected by somewhere between the two ends of the wire. The idea that it should support ip
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by axegon_ 5y ago
http://blog.bozho.net/ should be a redirect then, that's still bad. And his twitter links to the http version so yeah...
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by axegon_ 5y ago
Well... As a Bulgarian citizen and software engineer, I can't say I'm too enthusiastic about him(or the entire new government for that matter). Apparently founded a cyber security company yet his blog is hosted on: 1. The most god
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by axegon_ 5y ago
I'm aware. What I'm trying to say is that neither 3 or 4 will become mainstream and will only become a party house for a few wildly optimistic and wildly diluted individuals, that is the evangelists and those believing that this w
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by axegon_ 5y ago
That might as well be web3 from where I'm sitting: web3 is trying to solve a problem most people don't have: they don't care about privacy or leaks even when they happen. Those of us lurking on HN maybe, but to everyone else
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by axegon_ 5y ago
Pff lost track of it all. Probably 15 things went wrong along the way, some obvious and some very subtle problems, iirc I even recompiled the kernel at one stage. I've read that the newer ones(2060 being among them), the process is far
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by axegon_ 5y ago
I've stated multiple time that I'm not biblical about open source software and I'll use the proprietary solutions if there is no good open source alternative. However nvidia is a special case(as usual). My laptop has a low en
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by axegon_ 5y ago
I think this is a pretty good thing, certainly promising: IoT protocols are by definition accessible to the general public which gives a lot of potential for future developments. Surely not with LoRa in particular, given the microscopical s
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by axegon_ 5y ago
I tried Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and never really managed to get to the end. I was somewhat disappointed cause I had my expectations up to the Hitchhiker's guide. On the subject of the Hitchhiker's guide, I li
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by axegon_ 5y ago
The intro to the first book was kind of sad, with mails from sick people and people sentenced to death asking King how it ends and he was unable to respond because he wasn't sure where he wanted to go.
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by axegon_ 5y ago
Pfffff you really asked the impossible question here. Best I can do is scan through the books on the shelves next to me: * Beyond good and evil: Nietzsche * The Temple of the Golden Pavilion: Yukio Mishima * Steppenwolf: Hermann Hese * Libr
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by axegon_ 5y ago
≥ That depends on what you are looking for, though. They're probably morons if they are looking to hire a junior developer. If they're hiring someone more senior, I don't think it's obvious that they might be morons. I t
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by axegon_ 5y ago
Many years ago I used svn at an old job. To be honest if I had to choose between mercurial and svn and death wasn't as option, I'd choose svn. Mercurial feels like the product of unsolicited help(which turned out to be the case wh
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by axegon_ 5y ago
Thing is this wasn't a 20+ year old company but a relatively young startup. Average age in the dev team must have been around 27-8. At 33 there were only 3-4 people in the entire company that were older than me. Should have pointed out

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