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by eschneider 1y ago
You're going to HAVE to give them support, if only to get them setup. Think long and hard if selling this sort of on-prem version of your product makes sense for YOU. If not, it's likely going to be an expensive distraction and ju
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by eschneider 1y ago
It is hollow. But it wasn't originally. cough
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by eschneider 1y ago
I mean, you _can_ go bare metal with Nordic chips, but you'd definitely be swimming against the current. I'm not a fan of Zephyr, but it really wasn't that much trouble to put together a docker image that would let me spin up
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by eschneider 1y ago
You're asking the wrong question.
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by eschneider 1y ago
Sleeping the CPU until you get an interrupt from an IMU or simple motion detector is a common way to do this. It's not about being stealthy so much as extending battery life.
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by eschneider 1y ago
If you're going to try and track this stuff for real, keep in mind most devices like this use motion sensors to go into low-power mode when stationary and only transmit on the move.
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by eschneider 1y ago
Sometimes the smart think is to encourage folks to do their thing, and if it's successful buy it back in-house.
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by eschneider 1y ago
They’re going down whether you stay or not. Take care of yourself, nobody else will.
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by eschneider 1y ago
You can load things into memory and run them with u-boot, so somewhat similar. :)
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by eschneider 1y ago
Pro-tip: If your company is acquired by private equity, leave at the earliest opportunity. Their profit comes at your expense. Every. Time.
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by eschneider 1y ago
I'm one of those generalists who's done everything from bare metal work, to cloud stuff, to most things in between. Very few companies hire for that. They usual have some particular pain point they need fixed and I have experience
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by eschneider 1y ago
I've worked for some genuinely great companies (and some not so great) over the course of my career and companies change, just like people. A great company you joined, might not be so great in 3-5 years and there's rarely much one
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by eschneider 1y ago
Yeah, but without the cool programming forms. :/
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by eschneider 2y ago
Because people will often see people who they don't perceive as low performers getting lumped in with 'low performers' and laid off. At that point, you start looking for management that seem to know what they're doing.
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by eschneider 2y ago
Yeah. Anyone can get to the bottom of the ocean. Getting back up alive involves more skill.
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by eschneider 2y ago
This might sound glib, but figure out what YOU want out of life and optimize for that.
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by eschneider 2y ago
At a sufficiently high resolution, all digital electronics is actually analog. :/
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by eschneider 2y ago
The docs are good in the "I think there should be a way to do X" and if you have a good sense of how Yocto is organized, you'll know where to check if X exists. That's...not a trivial thing.
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by eschneider 2y ago
Tuesday, indeed. :) In the embedded world, correctly working hardware isn't a given, either. Part of the board bringup/hardware verification process is just determining that everything on the board actually works. Always fun when
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by eschneider 2y ago
This is truth. I've done a lot of work bringing up custom boards with both Yocto and Buildroot and I rather like Yocto. But yeah, first project with Yocto was painful. It's rather well documented, but one really needs a good idea
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by eschneider 2y ago
Absolutely. I find having a notebook open when writing/debugging code is a godsend. Just keeping a scratchpad of design notes/ideas/tests while I work let's me keep a lot more in my head. Think of it as increasing your l
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by eschneider 2y ago
It...self drove into a light post.
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by eschneider 2y ago
Rollies are ok (I have one :) but for TLRs, the thing to have is the Mamiya 330C. Great viewfinder, optional prism, and interchangeable lenses. I have one and have used it quite a lot. Lovely photos, but heavy camera. OTOH, completely indes
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by eschneider 2y ago
6502 and 68000 are both perfectly good assembly languages, but I think the best remains PDP-11 assembly. It scans so nicely in octal. :)
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by eschneider 2y ago
No subpoena?
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by eschneider 2y ago
This always seemed like the sweet spot for Perl.
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by eschneider 2y ago
A very worthwhile intro.
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by eschneider 2y ago
Horse's names never get put on stalls correctly. :/
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by eschneider 2y ago
"I have a mortgage and a family" is fine. Those people are highly motivated.
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by eschneider 2y ago
Look at this way: It's just something you do for money.

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