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by cjsuk 9y ago
You’ll find when you get into industry that a big chunk of the theoretical side is discarded and most of the job runs on intuition and knowing the gotchas and gluing bits of data sheets together then writing software. That’s what the book c
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by cjsuk 9y ago
The Art of electronics. Learned more from that than I did doing an EE degree at university. It gets used to this day even though I bought this copy in 1995. I have the latest edition arriving today.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
My life whirls around in a pool of chaos and everything sort of lines up at the end via a galactic coincidence. I tried managing and bringing order to it etc but it takes a lot of work and the outcome is the same anyway. This doesn't s
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Not yet. I’m not due for a hardware refresh for about a year yet. I’ll probably head in the direction of Lenovo then.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
PFC is required under EU law and is a good idea anyway from an efficiency and harmonic reduction POV. It doesn’t however establish or change startup currents. There’s sparking when you plug it in and there’s this which is like a small explo
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by cjsuk 9y ago
No from the Apple store. See my other post. This is poor design, regardless of where it came from. There should be a hefty NTC or inrush current limiter in the charger.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
No you are completely 100% wrong. This was one that came with a MacBook Pro from the Apple Store actually in the sealed box when I bought it. Don't assume I'm stupid. I'm actually a qualified electrical engineer and I know sw
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by cjsuk 9y ago
My Fiat is awful! ;)
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Clever software workarounds can save a board respin if you’re lucky. I’ve seen it done before.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
They’re shit. The inrush current is so high it actually damages the plugs with arcing!
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by cjsuk 9y ago
I'll have a look at KDE. I haven't actually used it for 16 years :)
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by cjsuk 9y ago
I've run Hyper-V in production with SCVMM. No thanks. More seriously, it's not portable and not something I want to invest in any further brain-wise. Plus you can't drive half of it with vagrant. I burned about 4 days recentl
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by cjsuk 9y ago
I tried that but I just can't get used to i3. I spend most of my time in tmux but there are some cases where I just can't make it work for me. I might be a dumbass or just lazy though :)
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Windows 8.1 + classic start was the last pinnacle of usability on windows. Ubuntu however isn't anywhere near what we need (yet). Gnome 3 is just vile crack smoking.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
The irony of this being is that it sucks bad enough still that I'm using Virtualbox + vagrant on my windows desktop. Windows is a window manager for Chrome, vagrant/vbox, putty. I even use OWA for outlook on windows.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
But why would you?
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by cjsuk 9y ago
This is great etc. But the problem is the user interface and programming environment is shit for anything past basic stabby finger novelty apps and no one trusts them enough to invest heavily in it. Oh and the store is a desert of turdbloss
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by cjsuk 9y ago
XML is pure on its own. Data, validation, transformation, schema, even programming. From a development perspective you’re adding more steps.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
It depends on your space settings in the DTD/schema/element. You can be explicit but very few people realise that.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Im not even talking about the data model. The manifest would be replaced, all resources wouldn’t have usable URIs, you couldn’t deserialise a stream using sax easily, dtd and schema references that ship with it would be invalidated. Those a
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by cjsuk 9y ago
If it used SQLite it’d be like serialised COM again (xls,doc). Kill me. Zipped XML actually allows us to parse and manipulate it easily with a strongly defined schema. SQLite can barely enforce any consistency. As for XML it’s actually pret
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by cjsuk 9y ago
No it doesn’t.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Doesn’t mean it’s wrong!
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Slight correction: well funded, tax immune, sovereign, pyramid shaped fairy tale circling the drain. Even CoE here in the U.K. are running hooky hedge funds. As always, money and power. At least ultra-capitalists are honest about their moti
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by cjsuk 9y ago
PSoC dev kit is also extremely cheap!
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by cjsuk 9y ago
I find the PIC peripherals better. The counter is fully async on the PICs for example which allows you to do very fast (50MHz+) pulse counting. Agree for getting things going though - definitely faster and none of that PICkit crap to deal w
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by cjsuk 9y ago
That will be because you worked with dumbasses. If you only test the expected outcome you are a dumbass.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Breaking the rules is good when appropriate. Problem is those rules are pretty amazingly good. I went through a weird phase of denial and ended up back where I started before I applied the aforementioned rules. Every exception I have shot m
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Well one of the killers I found very recently was if you open the console of the VM before it has booted it sets the caps lock on which instantly shafts entry of the grub commmand line so initial configuration of that is pissing in the dark
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Also a recommendation here against Hyper V.

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