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by dare944 1y ago
Nest made an implicit choice of tools back around 2010 when it selected the particular SoC that powers the early thermostat. Options were more limited then, and vendors often provides kernel tools and libraries that included proprietary cl
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by dare944 1y ago
As an early Nest employee who worked on the first-gen thermostat I can tell you definitively that you're way off base here. That doesn't mean that Google shouldn't have done more to keep these units alive (and indeed that&#x
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by dare944 1y ago
Nope. Try TIG on aluminum or titanium. I will never be able to do this well enough to get certified because, simply put, I'm well past my prime dexterity years. But I can still write some damn fine embedded code.
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by dare944 1y ago
Manufacturers have been shipping cars with detuned engines forever, and tuners have been tweaking them to unlock the hidden power for just as long. Back in the beginning of the century I owned a 2000 Audi S4 twin-turbo. The torque curve on
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by dare944 1y ago
This argument is ridiculous and purposefully inflammatory. The issue at hand is the requirement for client attestation while using passkeys. So in that light, can you describe for us the scenario in which grandma, who is undoubtedly using
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by dare944 1y ago
Grandma is self-hosting what???
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by dare944 1y ago
Not sure what your point is. The ability to manufacture silicon chips will only ever be in the hands of a relatively small group of people worldwide. So of course all of us are dependent on these people/businesses to do any form of mod
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by dare944 1y ago
Since such a sentiment was never expressed here, your comment is a non-sequitur.
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by dare944 1y ago
My name is Jay. I guess I was one of the "lesser" magicians. I worked on the Telescript side, doing infrastructure for the Telescript engine. But I got to interact with both Bill and Andy, and Phil and Tony, who I followed to fu
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by dare944 1y ago
Yep. I can be seen briefly in one scene, listening intently in the background while Marc Porat waxes poetic.
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by dare944 1y ago
Off-topic, but I have to... (From the photo caption) "Bill ... with his iphone prototype" Nope. That's a Sony Magic Link, built by Bill (and others, myself included) during his time at General Magic. I feel General Magic i
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by dare944 1y ago
HomeKit was not the basis for Matter, although obviously some HomeKit concepts (and I suppose actual HomeKit code) were contributed by Apple. The dominant input technology to Matter was actually Nest Weave. This can been seen by comparing t
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by dare944 1y ago
Thread is an IPv6 network stack. So if you're using Matter over Thread, you're using TCP/IP (or more specifically, UDP over IP). TCP/IP and its associated network and transport protocols are not going to be outdated in
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by dare944 2y ago
I think these same core frustrations have been voiced literally for decades, and certainly since the birth of the Unix and what evolved to be the modern shell (Ritchie's /bin/sh). As an example, the frustrations I experience
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by dare944 2y ago
Yeah, no. The author's suggestion is reminiscent of the way Windows apps tend to dump their icons and directories straight onto the Desktop. It creates a God-awful mess that effectively hides anything the user tries to put there. Imagi
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by dare944 2y ago
"bit of a sensationalist" is reasonable feedback; no slack needed. After all, this is how they learn.
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by dare944 2y ago
Having done both for a long time, I have to agree. However, generally, there's more choice as to whose games you want to play with startups. And being a startup with limited resources means there's only so many games that can be
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by dare944 2y ago
Everyone has a different interpretation of "substantial", but I'll say Nest.
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by dare944 2y ago
> However, the occurrence of the Makefile effect in a simple application suggests that the tool is too complicated for that application. The author's overall point is fine (specifically, that one should consider developer cut-and-pa
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by dare944 2y ago
Maybe they'll hire some people back as bodyguards for the CEO?
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by dare944 2y ago
Selection bias
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by dare944 2y ago
I can only conclude the word myth was chosen for attention. Modern CPU memory systems (with or without their caches) certainly resemble idealized RAMs.
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by dare944 2y ago
> because every company out there fucking hates you They don't actually hate you. Rather, they love your money and they have a depraved indifference for you.
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by dare944 2y ago
Incidentally, once the author gets his Ethernet interface work he could use this to test it: https://github.com/jaylogue/tiny-echo-server
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by dare944 2y ago
Totally get and applaud that. Indeed, I built a high-performance Ethernet driver for the STM32F4 chips just because I wanted to say I've done it. But his stated goal is to build a TCP/IP stack, not futz around with SPI and the pa
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by dare944 2y ago
I'm baffled as to why the author is using STM32F401 with a W5100 Ethernet shield when they could just as easily use an STM32F407 board, which includes a built-in Ethernet MAC, coupled with a cheap (2 for ~$12) Ethernet PHY board. Lots
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by dare944 2y ago
"Empty too, was the rest of Google’s behemoth campus. Their numerous buildings are surrounded by beautiful, park-like pathways with no one to enjoy them but the groundskeepers. They follow the paths with their lawnmowers, weaving betwe