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541.
by boznz 5y ago
And a lot of new cars from this century are specifically designed to not be reverse engineered in some cases to the extent of having encrypted CAN messages or having to pair a failed module with the ECU cryptographically to discourage 3rd p
542.
by boznz 5y ago
If it transfers data through serial it is generally pretty easy to capture the traffic and reverse engineer, two of my jobs have been projects exactly like this. Only on one occasion have I had to replace the control electronics in the mach
543.
by boznz 5y ago
windows phone?
544.
by boznz 5y ago
Very trivial to include a bill of materials and/or a link to the schematic on most PCB's I do it with all my industrial designs but it doesnt necessarily help if 99% of the logic is in the microcontroller flash unless you also pub
545.
by boznz 5y ago
I've often wondered about the talk of always needing 10,000 x more processing power before we can emulate something like the human brain, seems to me it should be possible now but running at 10,000th of the speed. I would still be impr
546.
by boznz 5y ago
Have a google at home thing in the kitchen which we ask the occasional "what/where/when is XXX" "Call XXX" or "Play XXX" but basically Nothing cool because they understand shit when you speak normally
547.
by boznz 5y ago
I'm an EE and never had a chip fail when working inside its recommended operating parameters and properly protected and I have devices in the field over 20 years, I do see failures when poor soldering or electrolytic gone bad compromis
548.
by boznz 5y ago
GPS sends time in its data stream so doesnt need external clock, most car clocks use this now I believe though my nissan leaf is exactly 4 hours out to the microsecond so some programmers ignore timezones :-)
549.
by boznz 5y ago
I am the sole programmer and support for a very large companies production system. The company has flagged the problem and has tried to re-write the system for several years but have never managed to retain a coherent programming team long
550.
by boznz 5y ago
I'll give 1 or 2 a try :-)
551.
by boznz 5y ago
Boot-to-Basic Computers are great fun and excellent for learning but just do not have the stack to build real world applications in 2021 on eg SQL, sockets, SSL, etc I would love to be able to just turn on the computer and have a simple bas
552.
by boznz 5y ago
Agree, probably the easiest out there, a port for a RPi is well overdue.
553.
by boznz 5y ago
I bet Apple are wishing now they bought Tesla 6 years ago.
554.
by boznz 5y ago
What are the overheads and dependencies compared to say QT, C# or Delphi/Lazarus ?
555.
by boznz 5y ago
I dont have any issues with this. Modern petrol and diesel engines should be serviced every 100-300 hours depending upon how they are driven but Brushless Electric motors have no such requirement and can run for many thousands of hours, the
556.
by boznz 5y ago
Anyone who reads history knows these things never end well.
557.
by boznz 5y ago
As soon as AI learns to write code I guess all bets are off.
558.
by boznz 5y ago
Shit stories like this is why you need a downvote button on the home page
559.
by boznz 5y ago
I would think with a million cellphones with sensitive accelorometers you could get the data much quicker and much more accurate (a million+ data points gives you a lot of options)
560.
by boznz 5y ago
Same in Europe and Australasia but without the guns.
561.
by boznz 5y ago
There is only one main problem for linux and it is the catch 22 that most software is still mostly written for windows. I'm not talking about the generic off-the-shelf software like office/paint/browsers which have pretty goo
562.
by boznz 5y ago
More like hardware is now hiding the .Nets overheads
563.
by boznz 5y ago
Nope, its everywhere. Even the best managed countries have their share of idiots and rule-breakers. If the leaders are sensible they can mitigate a lot of this but obeying the law and common sense are not a given.
564.
by boznz 5y ago
car insurance is optional in some countries like NZ
565.
by boznz 5y ago
nissan leaf does
566.
by boznz 5y ago
if we are going to 48V then pretty sure all power switching would use solid state relays/MOSFETs, Any mechanical switch would just be the input to a micro at 5V or lower. You could also just switch the HV (400V+) bus directly down to 4
567.
by boznz 5y ago
Where's Captain Nemo when you need him ?
568.
by boznz 5y ago
Sounds like government needs to step in if its a safety hazard
569.
by boznz 5y ago
DOS + USB.. I'd rather stick with serial
570.
by boznz 5y ago
I still occasionally use Freedos and a wordstar compatible editor I wrote in 1991, I dont even go to the DOS prompt I just boot strait in to it. The biggest problem is still getting my work off this machine to a networked one so I can back

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