btashton

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by btashton 8y ago
ODM - Original Design Manufacturer, the specifications and some design work is done by FB and then this company goes and actually designs and builds the equipment that FB buys.
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by btashton 8y ago
People actually get more trusting as they age, putting them at even higher risk of behind taken advantage of. https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2013/01/trust-rises-age
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by btashton 8y ago
If you are looking for something that will run on even smaller embedded devices I highly recommend LittlevGL. I have used it to throw a UI on a few projects, and found it to be surprisingly easy to get going, and fairly responsive long as y
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by btashton 8y ago
I actually really enjoyed it as a short illustrated story. If this was written as a formal NTY article, it would have been five sentences and not particularly memorable.
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by btashton 8y ago
Normally I would agree, but I think they were referring to "bamboo kun" which is how the bamboo plant fights off fungi and was thought to provide some antimicrobial properties, although at least in textiles seems to be ineffective
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by btashton 8y ago
> Do people really use voice commands for, well, anything? On my phone it's rare unless I'm getting in my car and having it pull up directions. Where I found I use it all the time is with the Amazon Fire Stick. When I have a sh
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by btashton 8y ago
There was a window where they were a nice option for small SSD backed instances when EC2 was still doing low performance spinning disks for their bottom tier.
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by btashton 8y ago
Interesting I did not know about that. Seems like it is part of the git suite, but usually packed separately (Fedora it is the git-gui package) and requires gitk.
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by btashton 8y ago
I also very much related to this, the two exceptions I find awkward from the command line are: * Doing partial adds with `git add -p`. I see the hunk it presents see what I want from it, but then sometimes have to go through several iterat
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by btashton 8y ago
I really don't understand why you are blocking Sentry, it's for error/exception logging and makes the developers behind the product so much faster at fixing stange issues that you might run into.
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by btashton 8y ago
Yes! I buy technical books here from the Seattle Goodwill "store". If you are in Seattle you can let them know you want to pick it up and they will refund you the shipping and you can usually pick it the next morning.
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by btashton 8y ago
But the native library issue is what makes it hard for Python as well. A large part of conda existing is to help data science people not have to worry about compiling native libraries for numpy or whatever ML library they happen to be using
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by btashton 8y ago
This is exactly how I feel every time I try and use some project using React or other project using "modern" JavaScript/Typescript. I have seen the impressive things people have done with this to solve real problems, but rea
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by btashton 8y ago
Last year he took a position at Arizona.
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by btashton 8y ago
My comment was more just trying to address this statement. >A lot of the things C was trying to cope with have largely died off or been relegated to incredibly niche platforms. This particular property of C is not uncommon in the embedd
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by btashton 8y ago
XAP2 you will still be allocating a 16bit value. So you if you create an array of 2 uint8 you will still be allocating 32bits of memory.
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by btashton 8y ago
They still list IoT and automotive as areas they are going to continue to develop. Bluetooth is such a large part of their business and fits into these areas, so I fail to see how they would leave that space. My comment is that they actual
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by btashton 8y ago
I guess it depends on what you mean by application processors. There are a lot of low cost Bluetooth chips out there that run the application logic of the device.
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by btashton 8y ago
I wrote 16 when I meant 8bits. For this arch you cannot have 8 but types. Casting a int16_t* to char* won't let you access upper and lower bytes as most people would except (c standard does not define this behavior).
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by btashton 8y ago
I find it interesting that they have the restriction that 'bytes' be 8 bit. The XAP2 architecture is likely the third most common by volume, and sizeof(int) == 1. I get that embedded systems are not the main focus of rust, but the
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by btashton 8y ago
They are really great chips for power consumption and price. I have used them in several products and the team behind them really knows what they are doing.
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Learning SIMD with Rust by Finding Planets (2018)(medium.com)
3 points by btashton 8y ago|0 comments
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by btashton 8y ago
It's not uncommon at all to do AOI on all or a percentage of the PCBs. X-ray is more useful to identify solder issues or defects in the raw PCB itself.
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Bug Hunting Inlined Code(linuxjournal.com)
2 points by btashton 8y ago|0 comments
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by btashton 8y ago
Except that I am almost 100% certain [1] that they are using the RS9113 which as I suspected IS updateable (in some cases wirelessly) [2]. In fact in the Linux Firmware tree they have multiple firmware images depending on how you want the
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by btashton 8y ago
> We went with Redpine Signal as their chipset does not require a firmware download at runtime like other vendors; having a downloadable firmware would violate the Free Software Foundation’s RYF requirements. This really does not resonat
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by btashton 8y ago
what was written is clearly a simplification, but outlines the high level architecture differences. Say you want to do this with a 10 megapixel image, clearly you are not going to fully parallelize that, but you could load the whole thing
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by btashton 8y ago
I really wish companies were more careful with the colors used in graphs. The colors used for Model 3, e-mini, and BMW iX3 are nearly indistinguishable for some forms of color blindness. There are good palettes out there already, please u
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New Attack Recovers RSA Encryption Keys from EM Waves Within Seconds(bleepingcomputer.com)
8 points by btashton 8y ago|0 comments
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by btashton 8y ago
Unfortunately a lot of that focus on c spine has been driven by insurance providers (public and private). The costs of someone surviving with a long term spinal injury are much higher than someone who dies. In wildness first responder tra

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