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by dognotdog 6y ago
Kudos, for My first inclination would've been to jack up the car and look at pressure differences of unloaded vs. loaded tyres... then look at loaded wheel center height above ground vs. nominal radius, compute the the reduction in vol
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by dognotdog 6y ago
I'd say it is due to incompetence, but not as much the individual engineer's as failures of the organization, though I have seen plenty of people not doing the job they're qualified for. These failures stem from plain mis-man
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by dognotdog 6y ago
That is the best possible 3rd paragraph. Thank you, I needed that chuckle/snort.
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by dognotdog 6y ago
Seems like quite a few people built PCs because Apple's desktops have been atrophied, that definitely played a part for me, too :) I've designed a water cooled mITX system with PCIe GPU that should've fitted into a 2DIN car r
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by dognotdog 6y ago
It's interesting, I started out seriously programming in C++, then took to Smalltalk, Lisp, Io, as exploratory languages, doing more work in ObjC, and eventually Erlang and now Elixir, and I do like the Elixir compromise of some typech
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by dognotdog 7y ago
Io has been around for a long time, indeed. I thought it was great, writing an Io interpreter in C was a lot easier than almost anything else, so for learning language internals, it is awesome, and I'd even say a great companion to LIS
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by dognotdog 7y ago
Interesting, that's what I'd typically think of as daydreaming, but it definitely doesn't feel like an always-on thing, as I definitely don't verbalize a lot of things internally. Which does pose the occasional problem w
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by dognotdog 7y ago
While many items in MISRA are sensible (some I do find quite counterproductive, if code quality in terms of readability and maintainability is also a concern), I have seen MISRA standards being applied to a legacy embedded codebase with ter
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by dognotdog 7y ago
... and I'm just sitting here wondering if the rims really are not round (as it's interlock the tire design seems to indeed indicate), and why on earth one would do that?
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by dognotdog 7y ago
Interesting, I work on a '14 MBP and one of the new full size magic keyboards, and while the MBP feels slightly softer, I never noticed any discomfort or annoyance, and didn't know the '15 had a significantly different keyboa
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by dognotdog 7y ago
Interesting to note that the T2 chip in the new MBP supposedly contains the HD/Flash controller that used to be a separate IC -- according to the specs page. As it's a pretty fully featured SOC in its own right, that might make it
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by dognotdog 7y ago
Indeed, a large part of my wall decorations is photos from travelling... not a single selfie, though, most are entirely devoid of people :)
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by dognotdog 7y ago
Balkanization is about right. In my experience developing driver assistance systems, there are enormous efforts spent on political turf wars instead of proper design and engineering. This is not surprising, as the team structures, at least
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by dognotdog 7y ago
Back in ca 2001-2005 I used to work my summer nights for a tiny electric scooter rental place that had about 10-20 working scooters at a given time, renting them out to tourists at a lake, and they were fun, especially after learning how to
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by dognotdog 7y ago
I guess I'm one of those old people now who actually does remember reading about software patterns on the c2.com wiki, and being amazed by it, before Wikipedia even existed :)
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by dognotdog 8y ago
Thanks for mentioning that, this is something I often wonder about, as this is at least often left out of the press. I don't know how/if the underlying research accounts for it, but I'd be very happy if such statistical compl
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by dognotdog 8y ago
Commingling is certainly something I wasn't aware of, it looks as if most consumers are in the same boat. The idea that FBA doesn't actually get me parts from the seller I picked has never crossed my mind. I certainly wouldn'
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by dognotdog 9y ago
Dimming by reducing current in LEDs instead of PWM can be very non-linear with respect to light output, brightness can vary significantly between LEDs being given the same current (as is typical in a headlamp, with at least 4-8 individual L
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by dognotdog 9y ago
Notwithstanding the fact that a typical visible light imager in a driver assistance system alternates exposure times between frames, especially at night: one over-exposed image to discern dark texture, and one under-exposed image to find th
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by dognotdog 9y ago
I doubt a bot could legally agree to a license put into robots.txt, even if it were able to make sense of it, and a human is never expected to read it. The purpose of robots.txt is to guide bots away from circular links and such that woul
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by dognotdog 9y ago
I cannot think of a single use case from the top of my head where I wouldn't prefer Vulkan over modern OpenGL. In my experience it isn't actually harder to use, even though it's technically "lower level". However, I
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by dognotdog 9y ago
Personally, I would not agree to being tracked by an employer, unless there was a really good reason, e.g. safety concerns, as it invites abuse of power, even unintentionally. Stuff like this exacerbates disrespect, distrust and suspicion i
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by dognotdog 9y ago
That's the beauty of fossil... you hardly need one! Most aspects (wiki, issues) those services offer can be in the local repo, always accessible.
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by dognotdog 9y ago
I can see risk of that gray area: as long as everybody is on good terms, misunderstandings and unintentional wrongdoings are quickly righted, but when either party is antagonistic, that no longer works, and things can get ugly in both direc
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by dognotdog 9y ago
I think once the smartphone's internal capabilities are exceeded, a "System" (as in put together from multiple parts) DSLR or Mirrorless has more advantages: - if you need more parts, eg. flash, you go from having one thing i
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by dognotdog 9y ago
No, it's not. That's similar to saying just stay away from bullies, or leave if you don't like your job/school/whatever. It is easy if you view the issue in isolation, but for a lot of people it is more complicated,
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by dognotdog 9y ago
checkerboard background?
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by dognotdog 10y ago
This isn't silly, it's a legitimate fear because there are no real rules to what could happen to you. If you have an arabic sounding or looking name, it's really not a stretch to imagine that you have a name that is similar e
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by dognotdog 10y ago
> Agree. There is a lot to be gained from using C++ with absolutely no or imperceptible overhead. i would agree only if there is sufficient discipline and experience on the team, management included. Spaghetti C++ can be a lot harder to
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by dognotdog 10y ago
Sounds interesting. A quick googling fails to turn up anything, but I'd love to hear it. Do you remember any specifics that might help finding The Sound?

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