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by boznz 5y ago
I live 2M above sea level and 100M from the pacific ocean in New Zealand, the last two biggies I was out of my home and 10KM down the road before the aftershocks finished.. Tsunamis can also be pretty dangerous :-)
572.
by boznz 5y ago
Trained in C and Pascal in 1982 and in the mid 90's added SQL, I still only use these and can still compile some of the code I wrote back then. I sort of assumed Pascal would die first but Its now more than half my business in the form
573.
by boznz 5y ago
...and the landing party always lands in the northern hemisphere.
574.
How do you sell your business when you ARE the business
2 points by boznz 5y ago|3 comments
575.
by boznz 5y ago
Maybe we need an open source set of microcontroller package footprints so they are at least pin compatible ?
576.
by boznz 5y ago
Plenty of second-hand windows pcs and monitors get thrown away daily by businesses, a flyer dropped online, the newspaper or the local shop would probably get you one for nothing
577.
by boznz 5y ago
.. if your goal is to be a douche!
578.
by boznz 5y ago
What specifically in a newer X86 chip would justify this ?
579.
by boznz 5y ago
One mans dumpster fire is another mans BBQ.
580.
by boznz 5y ago
You are basically correct but even today I can add a PHY 10/100MB Ethernet from a low spec microcontroller understand and compile a basic TCP/IP stack, and add some simple telnet or HTTP server on top, several of my projects do th
581.
by boznz 5y ago
Spot on. I spend 3-5 years getting the perfect PC setup only to have it knocked down again every time I get a new PC and all the settings have moved, half the programs that used to work now either wont or has a replacement that's not q
582.
by boznz 5y ago
I remember this for use in the atmosphere but no follow on news and all went quiet very quick.. hmmm https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13840-invention-plasm...
583.
by boznz 6y ago
Ive got a dumb phone and an awesome laptop, fuck the apple and google duopoly and their overpriced locked down ecosystems!
584.
by boznz 6y ago
And so the Jenga tower grows (again)
585.
by boznz 6y ago
Yeah but Oracle generally only screws over companies who either can afford it easily or have used expensive external "consultants" to help make the decision, both have a low sympathy vote from me.
586.
by boznz 6y ago
Agree with everything but with a different conclusion. Yes. Regulations need to concentrate on basics that keep you safe and the infrastructure running, however most of local (and central) government these days is to micro-manage everything
587.
by boznz 6y ago
Not every country enforces radio spectrum guidelines. I made some 868Mhz lora sensors for a pacific island client in 2016. The customer had a lot of interference from the local TV station and after talking to the island mayor we just change
588.
by boznz 6y ago
Will have to be (or abstract) x86 to support the millions of legacy programs out there
589.
by boznz 6y ago
Land your UFO in the middle of the Whitehouse lawn or it doesnt exist.
590.
by boznz 6y ago
OTA Updates negates proper testing. Read this as good or bad but most everything is working this way now.
591.
by boznz 6y ago
New cars are based on black boxes that need to be coded to work together so if they break it is generally the authorised repair shop or the scrapyard.. So sad :-(
592.
by boznz 6y ago
Just a thought but I have no internet connected devices apart from PC's and laptops older than 5 years that still work as advertised. OTA Updates only work if someone at the other end is writing them.
593.
by boznz 6y ago
Most audio gear was built to last then, my sound system, speakers and amplifier is from the 80's and still sounds so sweet. The only other notable mention was my Nokia 2110 which I had for from 1996 until 2001 and was bulletproof. (but
594.
by boznz 6y ago
We're not that tough. Any house built in the past 15 years must meet the newer regulations of double-glazing and roof,wall,floor insulation. There are plenty of older properties without any of these standards and these are terrible and
595.
by boznz 6y ago
Roll on SN9 :-)
596.
by boznz 6y ago
Strangley we are getting 3 examples of this with gigafactories (shanghi, texas, berlin) so there could be hard facts in a few years
597.
by boznz 6y ago
China Invading Taiwan would be the IT worlds covid moment.
598.
by boznz 6y ago
..and the moon and space stations
599.
by boznz 6y ago
Great writeup Jay. Been working in embedded since 8031 and one of these days I will find a need for project that is not just main(){ sleep(); } with interrupts and when I do this will be my goto document, already saved it off-line just in c
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by boznz 6y ago
Delphi programs are still mainly compiled for windows desktops, I have noticed the binary for the 120K line MPR system I developed for my client has creeped up from about 8MB to 20MB since 2007. My current delphi 10.2 takes 7.2 seconds to d

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