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by beachy 11mo ago
Quantity has a quality all of its own. - Stalin
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by beachy 11mo ago
I had the same experience. I was put in charge of a large ERP rewrite in C++. Being woefully unprepared we dived in and, based on the issues the existing C codes had, the first thing we built was a memory management framework - what I reali
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by beachy 11mo ago
Jason! Couldn't agree more.
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by beachy 11mo ago
First time I have heard of object-oriented obfuscation. I get it, but in general I don't get the OO hate. It's all about the problem domain imo. I can't imagine building something like a graphics framework without some subtyp
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by beachy 1y ago
I read a great article a while ago (can't remember where) when they tasked some embedded guys with building a somewhat complex front end app. When it was done, there were no bugs. Not a single issue. They asked the embedded guys how th
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by beachy 1y ago
I haven't done any RFP responses for a while but this question always used to make me furious. Our competitors (some of who had had major incidents in the past) claimed 99.99% availability or more, knowing they would never have to prov
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by beachy 1y ago
Yeah, it's all a matter of perspective. We have another project that measures levels in water tanks. A sample rate of 1 sample per minute is plenty.
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by beachy 1y ago
The article does reference pi 3b and zero W.
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by beachy 1y ago
That is very interesting, especially using SMI to talk to rpi. Never seen SMI used in anger before.
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by beachy 1y ago
I'd like to know more about the world of ADCs. I've used the ADS1115 with success but only at very slow speeds. On the current project we started with an MCP3208 via SPI. It did the job but only has 8 channels and it's slow (
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by beachy 1y ago
My mum died earlier this year. In hospital, she was approved for assisted dying. There is a mandatory waiting period as part of the process. Many/most of the nursing staff are Filipino and strongly Roman Catholic. As she lay dying and
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by beachy 1y ago
The color design is intriguing, works so well for this kind of catalog type site.
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by beachy 1y ago
> interesting that Qualcomm would buy twenty years of Arduino legacy for this rather than launching something new in the space I wouldn't minimise the effect of people just googling around and finding the name Arduino all over the p
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by beachy 1y ago
Same deal exactly for the various ESP32 boards. With the added wrinkle that some of them (like T-Display) have had pins swapped in the doc at various stages.
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by beachy 1y ago
I don't understand how you don't understand. Trying to recreate someone's internal thoughts and attitudes from looking at their search history is a pale imitation of this. Just the thought experiment of a customs officer aski
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by beachy 1y ago
I think there's truth in what you say (though if you are building something where you rely on blog posts you are probably doomed anyway). But AI has huge value in gratuitously bulking out products in ways that are not economically feas
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by beachy 1y ago
Humans sometimes yearn for the leader to put their foot down. The quiet ones may want the yapping voices silenced so progress can be made. And sometimes the yapping ones get out ahead of their own skis and don't know a graceful way to
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by beachy 1y ago
What a fantastic business. I've watched lots of digger (as we call them here) drivers in action and I'm in awe of what these machines can do and how incredibly skilled their operators are. We have several large rock walls on our p
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by beachy 1y ago
Also consider that many people are not in the US and are not obliged to wade into US politics.
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by beachy 1y ago
> Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three.
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by beachy 1y ago
It means you should try Vegemite. Many people will violently identify as a Vegemite hater and a Marmite lover, or vice versa.
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by beachy 1y ago
Holy shit, Broadcom owns Spring? Yikes.
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by beachy 1y ago
Exactly. Runaway capitalism is the fuel of our climate emergency. Boats and planes delivering container loads of plastic shit around the world. People flying to Europe for the weekend. The best fix at this time, since we humans have shown o
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by beachy 1y ago
> for whatever reason the green movement has opposed the solution for decades. Even shutting down nuclear to use more coal. This is an amusing and antique take on things. Anti-nuclear protests were frequently in the news in the 70s and
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by beachy 1y ago
I'm going to tell my 12 year old that when he leaves education he wants something like this on his personal web site: "CARA (Capstans Are Really Awesome) is my latest quadrupedal robot, following ZEUS, ARES, and TOPS. Built over t
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by beachy 1y ago
Didn't read this article but I did enjoy his interview. I think Scottie's ennui is just what we all experience at some time but with some added wrinkles. We might ask ourselves is it all worth it as we contemplate the mountain top
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by beachy 1y ago
Not everyone's wired the same. A close family member was diagnosed with ADHD and he describes his battles with procrastination as if there was a glass wall stopping him from doing whatever he was meant to be doing. So easy for someone
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by beachy 1y ago
> Literally not one country initiated combat against Nazi Germany before being attacked itself. Apart from many of the Commonwealth countries?
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by beachy 1y ago
In Aus could be Atlassian
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by beachy 1y ago
> I don't think we can stop it, but I do think (hope) we can show people how to use it in a way where the good applications outweigh the bad. That feels idealistic. About as realistic as telling people how to use semiconductors or p

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