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by dave78 1y ago
Yeah, it's far from ideal, but in my experience its accuracy is better than most anything else readily available, including the official status pages maintained by most tech companies.
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by dave78 2y ago
There are plenty of IoT devices that people want to execute commands on (anything remotely controlled, basically). Polling for commands on a periodic basis introduces lag into that process which is irritating. Furthermore, polling at a freq
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by dave78 2y ago
I'm 24 years into my career now. I think you just get used to this after a while. I've worked on several big (at the time) software products that our company built and shipped to customers for a while, that we have since abandoned
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by dave78 2y ago
Agree in spirit, though again if it does go viral and they become embarrassed the most likely thing is they'd shut down public access to the cameras - which would be a lousy outcome for everyone. My county has traffic cameras available
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by dave78 2y ago
Isn't the most likely outcome here that the city will simply stop allowing public access to the camera feeds? This feels like it has the potential to be a "this is why we can't have nice things" outcome even though I don
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by dave78 2y ago
> Can't wait for the first "subscription" product. They've already hinted at it with Raspberry Pi Connect. https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-connect/
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by dave78 2y ago
Illinois is awful with this too. I disabled Amber Alerts after too many alerts for someone in the St. Louis area when I'm in northern Illinois.
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by dave78 2y ago
Did Sable give up ALL its patents, or only the patents involved in the Cloudflare case? The picture of the document refers to the "Sable Patents", which I would suspect are defined in the context of the court case and therefore
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by dave78 2y ago
I'm sure if they have opinions they would share them with NASA and probably their families, and of course if it comes out that NASA ignored their concerns and they perished that would be pretty bad. However, I imagine that part of beco
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by dave78 2y ago
At this point, now that the SpaceX alternative has been officially acknowledged, I really don't see how anyone at NASA would be comfortable risking the return on Starliner. If they do and it fails and the astronauts die, everyone will
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by dave78 2y ago
SQLite being released in the public domain has to be up there as one of the greatest gifts ever given to the global software development community. I'd love to know what led to the licensing decision. The wide-open rights to use it how
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Raspberry Pi Pico 2(raspberrypi.com)
49 points by dave78 2y ago|1 comments
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by dave78 2y ago
Pico 2, using the 2350, seems to be announced: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-pico-2/
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by dave78 2y ago
I think this is true for many states, however I personally am not interested since callsigns are easily looked up online. I don't really want to be driving around with a giant sign on my car telling every random passer-by who I am. I d
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by dave78 2y ago
They offer a nice (free) secondary DNS service, which I use for all my domains. From my limited interaction with them, they seem like a great company. They also provide some nice IPv6 tutorials as well, and offer free IPv6 tunnels for those
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by dave78 2y ago
Curious - what specifically about it bothers you?
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by dave78 2y ago
Fair enough. I've taken digital logic classes etc. in college but when it comes to practical circuit design I'm mostly self-taught, having worked my way up from all through-hole components with ATmega and similar devices to dippin
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by dave78 2y ago
> Especially for hobby projects, I don't think anyone is really in the business of counting up the savings of 0.01" in the hobby world. Like, how small are you actually aiming for, and is it really so bad that you can't ad
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by dave78 2y ago
> Is there a way to do everything from the commandline with FOSS tools and without installing e.g. the Arduino-IDE? Yes. In fact, the official getting started guide[0] is all command-line based, with an optional chapter later on about us
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by dave78 2y ago
I agree with all that and would add that the documentation is fantastic, and the software tooling and SDK is well-done. That's a big advantage that vastly outweighs small differences in cost (unless you're selling millions of some
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by dave78 2y ago
I built a custom RP2040-based board by designing it KiCad and then sending it off to JLCPCB to be fabbed and they assembled the SMT components. I didn't do a direct comparison, but it was cheap - cheap enough that it's possible th
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by dave78 2y ago
I used to work on a product where we did exactly that, and the devices literally ran on mountain tops. Our development and testing process was very rigorous and would be unrecognizable to most developers today, however. We certainly weren&#
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by dave78 2y ago
They are not recovering it this time. Once they demonstrate that it can achieve a controlled "landing" at sea, then they will move on to trying to land it back at the launch site.
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by dave78 2y ago
The difference in presentation between the launch of Starliner yesterday vs Starship today was stark. For most of the Starliner launch, all we got to see was a Windows desktop showing some basic animations that look like they're from t
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by dave78 2y ago
I did this once for an experimental project and found it really difficult to keep the version of gVisor I was using up to date, since it seems like the API is extremely volatile. Anyone else had this experience? If so, is there some way aro
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by dave78 2y ago
Interesting to think about. I know Starliner lands in Utah. I don't know where, but I'm guessing it's somewhere very remote. I wonder if the effort to get out to the ocean to recover a ship is significantly different than get
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by dave78 2y ago
Is that a feature or just a difference? I assume there's trade-offs with both - is landing on land significantly better?
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by dave78 2y ago
Sounds like there's a problem with the cooling system using more water than expected. If I understood the comms correctly it sounded like they switched to a backup system to try to alleviate the issue.
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by dave78 2y ago
I've been using Chromecast Audio devices in my house for something like 8 years now and they work perfectly. Some are just the audio device plugged into powered speakers, some are speakers with Chromecast built in. Unfortunately the CC
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by dave78 2y ago
> I'm sure they're mostly diligent in buying drinks every hour or so I really doubt it. Even the people who are conscious of this and think of themselves as "one of the good ones" probably don't do this even if t

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