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by camtarn 5y ago
Ooh, I'd forgotten about the wrapper scripts. And yeah, the other thing that made it work, I guess, was having the machine image be very minimal, very tightly controlled, and very infrequently changed - so you didn't have to worry
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by camtarn 5y ago
Don't know if they still use it (I suspect so!) but at least as of 2015 Amazon was using a homebrewed deployment service called Apollo, which could spin up a VM from an internally developed Linux image then populate it with all the sof
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by camtarn 5y ago
Definitely recommend this textbook as a great read - it remains one of the very few textbooks I've read end-to-end and genuinely enjoyed.
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by camtarn 5y ago
I barely use my printer, but here's some anecdotal evidence of why I still have one: - I printed out my COVID vaccine certificates and lateral flow test proof to get entry to a club, because it's in an area of the city with poor m
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by camtarn 5y ago
Here's another nice video where the author is doing some more involved modelling, without any talking. It's good at 2x speed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7h-8McvQe0
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by camtarn 5y ago
Yeah. Something like a standard set of protocols on top of an existing peer-to-peer bus, with a good set of supporting libraries, would have been great. I love the idea of service advertising and standard service APIs.
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by camtarn 5y ago
Although, thinking about it, I wonder if the connector is designed for sequencing (power/ground first, then data) and if the linear insertion of the jack plug caused issues with that, since when the plug is being inserted the connector
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by camtarn 5y ago
Ah, was that the origin of the name I wonder? Definitely would have been a nice idea. I'm also not fond of the custom connector.
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by camtarn 5y ago
I guess the differentiator is that Jacdac is a higher level protocol. RS232, RS485 and CAN are just 'send some data down this pipe' deals, and RS232/RS485 don't even have a particularly standard way of framing data. I ha
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by camtarn 5y ago
Or you hit something else, like a building, tree or very unfortunately located aircraft ;)
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by camtarn 5y ago
I find this point of view utterly mystifying. Making sure you don't miss your flight only costs a couple of hours, and the effort of being organised enough to leave on time. Missing the flight has a cost of lots of money, many more hou
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by camtarn 5y ago
TL;DW - prior to the invention of the jerry can, forces used fragile thin-walled disposable canisters to transport fuel. These often leaked, causing logistical issues. Pre-WWII Germany sunk a surprising amount of time into designing the per
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Jerry Cans: The True Secret Weapon of WWII [video](youtube.com)
5 points by camtarn 5y ago|3 comments
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by camtarn 5y ago
I'm reminded of Honda Motorcycle and its habit of making odd small-run bikes, such as the Valkyrie Rune or the NM4 Vultus. Both of those are in the premium segment of an already premium market (at least in the US/UK/etc) but
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by camtarn 5y ago
You missed this bit? "Meanwhile, on LetsRun, some users had posted contact information for Meza’s employers. A handful of people left negative online reviews for him."
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by camtarn 5y ago
Ah, is the WARC format the reason it's called 'Warrior'? It seems like a very strange name for an archival program.
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by camtarn 5y ago
Thank you for the clarification :)
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by camtarn 5y ago
It has rather different connotations in Britain. As far as I understand it from Americans I know, quite a few people in the US have a fascination with where their, and others', ancestors came from, so it could be a fairly innocuous q
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by camtarn 5y ago
Yeah. It's not actually the original title of the blog post either, which is 'Standing with Our Community When It Matters Most'.
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by camtarn 5y ago
Yes, the barrel connector actually has three contacts. The inner and outer part of the metal barrel are insulated from each other - the outer is ground and the inner is +V. The pin in the middle only carries data.
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by camtarn 5y ago
Yep. Fun fact: parenthesis / parenthetical can mean 'a word or phrase inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage which is grammatically complete without it, in writing usually marked off by brackets, dashes, or comm
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Running Forever with the Raspberry Pi Hardware Watchdog(diode.io)
4 points by camtarn 5y ago|0 comments
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by camtarn 5y ago
Huh! It's a lot more colourful than I'd expected, given its origins as a military base. I guess that having something bright and colourful probably helps a lot in the grim weather.
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by camtarn 5y ago
The blog about the camera is fascinating too, especially the shutter mechanism: http://amosdudley.com/weblog/SLO-Camera
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by camtarn 5y ago
It can be drastically different from team to team. After I joined Amazon in 2007, I referred a friend from Uni who joined a few years later. I had a fairly laid back experience - after a good start, I became depressed and burned out, but so
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by camtarn 5y ago
This is a very long and very detailed five part introduction, disassembly and reassembly video about the General Motors Hydra-Matic 4-speed Automatic Transmission, originally designed in the 1930s and first incorporated into a car in 1940.
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The First Mass Produced Automatic Transmission [video](youtube.com)
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by camtarn 5y ago
Hm, I really like all the snapshotting features! And the M.2 slot and hackable hardware are definitely a plus.
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by camtarn 5y ago
We use routers from the FriendlyElec/FriendlyARM NanoPi range - they're pretty much the same deal: custom firmware built on top of OpenWRT. The advantage with the NanoPis is they're tiny, and cheap enough to be almost disposa
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by camtarn 5y ago
Well, this one is built on top of OpenWRT. I guess it depends whether what they've built has added enough utility to be considered different from it?

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