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by buescher 4y ago
Ok just to come at this from another angle: my own (embedded C) code, after it had been gone over by a much more experienced and skilled maintenance programmer to bring it up to company standards. It wasn’t beautiful, even then, but it w
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by buescher 4y ago
UML statecharts are great, but I’ve not yet used them end-to-end and I’m not mourning the passing of UML-driven OO methodologies.
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by buescher 4y ago
Listen to the song “Common People” and get back.
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by buescher 4y ago
This example is actually one I would trot out to bolster the author's arguments. Good luck optimizing one of those things, period. Really, try building one, let alone manufacturing them. Hansen & Collin's Small Antenna Han
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by buescher 4y ago
Everybody hates a tourist.
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by buescher 4y ago
That plant is now the Tesla plant.
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by buescher 4y ago
Yes, but how deep?
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by buescher 4y ago
Yup. The poor man’s ESD gun.
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by buescher 4y ago
This blew my mind, a software defined FM radio demodulator in Pure Data: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-puredata-maxmsp/ Obvious-ish in retrospect, right? Not before.
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by buescher 4y ago
Sure. It depends on how much you value time, how much else you have to do, and what the goal of the design is. I don't work or lead on one-offs much anymore, myself.
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by buescher 4y ago
If you have a tip that is too small, then you will not have enough heat, i.e. thermal flow, getting to your solder joint. Note that heat is different from temperature! A bic lighter is hotter than your oven but it will not roast a turkey.
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by buescher 4y ago
Some of the prototypes he shows in his videos are really beautiful, or I'd just be echoing the "just lay out a board" chorus. There are people you will never get away from this kind of prototype/one-off construction and
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by buescher 4y ago
Well, I wasn't really looking for any but I was wondering what anyone was doing with it now. (It appears, basically getting it up and running to take a look). There are still people developing for the ST, aren't there?
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by buescher 4y ago
I poked around, but didn't see any application software for OpenGEM/FreeGEM. Is there any or are the people that use it just using it as a graphical shell and file manager? Ports of Atari ST software maybe?
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by buescher 4y ago
Wow. It had been observed and tracked, which seems surprising at first, but of course the Victorians and Edwardians would do that, and I would expect that activity and sharing of information goes back much further. A history would be fasci
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by buescher 4y ago
Koopman's more recent "Better Embedded System Software" is a great overview of its subject.
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by buescher 4y ago
Not too hard to look them up. It used to be so, before stability control systems. Not anymore.
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by buescher 4y ago
GE Appliances designs and makes appliances, and never stopped, but they've been owned by Haier, not GE, since 2016. Sort of a subtle distinction, but it matters.
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by buescher 4y ago
TIL that MSX-DOS was CP/M compatible.
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by buescher 4y ago
I'm not really sure who the target market for things like skidl and jitx is: people who think schematic capture is a laborious, tedious, and error-prone technique for entering data before you can get started on a layout, instead of a u
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by buescher 4y ago
Sure, but nobody in academia is going to get anywhere describing their work as writing a replacement for Excel, right?
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by buescher 4y ago
That's been done - Wolfram Alpha.
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by buescher 4y ago
Blitz Basic has always looked like fun. I've never tried doing anything nontrivial with it or any other contemporary BASIC. Maybe someday, because James Hague wrote this memorable piece: "Slumming with BASIC Programmers" ht
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by buescher 4y ago
What a great interview question!
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by buescher 4y ago
Steam reforming of methane from natural gas to product hydrogen is in fact very efficient (up to ~85% iirc). It is not, however, carbon-neutral. At a system level, the weak point is the fuel cell and they can be about 50% efficient. So y
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by buescher 4y ago
I have not used their libraries or tools, but Miro Samek's book is great. There's a C implementation covered in it also. It's a bit of a master class in embedded C programming with careful use of structs and function pointe
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by buescher 4y ago
Labview (1986) and Simulink (1990 or thereabouts) for graphical dataflow programming. For oss and IoT, node-red looks nice but I haven’t used it. Notebook interfaces - Mathematica has had one forever (1988) and still leads. For oss, every
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by buescher 4y ago
That's very impressive. I hope he writes it up. I'd like to see the bibliography.
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by buescher 4y ago
Security and safety are different domains and only tangentially related - i.e. it helps in both domains for code to be correct, but it's not sufficient in either.
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by buescher 4y ago
What happens when you're using a really nice sharp serrated bread knife and a terrible cutting process?

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