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by fellerts 3y ago
Of course, happy to discuss. You have me stumped though, I actually can't articulate how I work. If what I'm doing requires extreme care, such as pushing configuration updates to production, I will mentally say out loud what I&#x2
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by fellerts 3y ago
I'm fascinated by people's inner monologues (I don't have one), so forgive my curiosity: is what you describe a bad thing? Have you noticed changes in your patterns of reasoning?
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by fellerts 3y ago
Those are pseudo-filesystems though, they aren't part of the install.
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by fellerts 3y ago
Martin has said that those videos were his inspiration for the first marble machine. Those, and Matthias Wandel's gear template generator!
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by fellerts 3y ago
English law often refers to "the man on the Clapham omnibus". Quote from Wikipedia: > The man on the Clapham omnibus is a hypothetical ordinary and reasonable person, used by the courts in English law where it is necessary to d
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by fellerts 3y ago
There's a Freedesktop specification for trashing files that you may consider adhering to: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/trash-spec/trashspec-... I get that writing a small utility is fun, but if it is jus
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by fellerts 3y ago
> None of the values we deal with day to day '0' is twice-defined by IEEE 754, together with ±inf and nan. They aren't very interesting values in terms of monetary transactions, though.
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by fellerts 3y ago
I thought "money systems" always worked in whole units of some fraction of your currency, e.g. "millicents" or similar, and shunned floating point arithmetic like the plague. > The system can be too exact Indeed, high
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by fellerts 3y ago
Another strategy that I've been thinking about: Place the initial stack pointer at the end of .bss and let it grow _upwards_. Instead of a stack overflow mangling your .bss/.data segments, the processor will fault when de-referenc
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by fellerts 3y ago
Saying that's a monumental task would be the understatement of the week. You're compiling Hari Seldon's Encyclopedia Galactica! Would be interested to check out your site, but https://civboot.org seems to be down.
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by fellerts 3y ago
> Wait, so it uses a continuous range of voltages instead of PWM to control the heating element? Heating is either on or of, but it's on the order of "a few times per second". The heating action is connected to a small ind
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by fellerts 3y ago
So why did the author stop using printf() in favour of print()? Or is the missing 'f' a typo?
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by fellerts 3y ago
I mean “dumb” in the sense that a non-smart TV is dumb compared to its modern counterparts, not that it’s stupid or poorly designed. IMO, dumb systems are often preferable. Less magic that can suddenly break on you. Also, the Weller in ques
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by fellerts 3y ago
The thermostat is analog and dumb, no code involved. I don’t want my soldering station to run an OS, and I don’t want to program a Raspberry Pi when I need to interact with something over UART. In my mind, these tools are a means to an end,
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by fellerts 3y ago
So apparently the Pinecil is a BLE-enabled soldering iron with a 108 MHz RISC-V processor running a custom real-time operating system [0]. The author wanted to access the UART logs, so they repurposed a Raspberry Pi Pico (a dual-core microc
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by fellerts 3y ago
The article isn’t saying that watchmakers should improve the legibility of the fonts used on the watch face though, it’s arguing that pride in craftsmanship seems to end at the font selection when there is a huge world of possibilities. I d
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by fellerts 3y ago
[2013] is key. The information in this article is severely outdated, but the hacking is still cool I guess.
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by fellerts 3y ago
Same, I react viscerally when an app implements smooth scrolling. Fixed increments is an absolute must. It’s interesting how different people can be.
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by fellerts 3y ago
> proper colors: green for trafic, orange for "degraded" I’m color blind and hate this color choice. Damn near impossible to tell apart. Around 8% of men would agree.
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by fellerts 3y ago
Can’t recommend Cody'sLab enough. A very curious and clever guy doing backyard experiments in most of the sciences.
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by fellerts 3y ago
Unless when it doesn’t, see the problem of “squaring the circle”. Somewhat related to the coastline paradox as well.
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by fellerts 3y ago
I recently did something similar - tunneled IP over an RF protocol that was definitely not designed for such nonsense, and was convinced that PPP would be a much more appropriate link protocol. It even handles IP address assignment and encr
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by fellerts 3y ago
Seems like the flag defaults to true since December 7 (Fedora 38) with bluez v5.70-4: $ rpm -q --changelog bluez | grep CVE-2023-45866 -C1 * Thu Dec 07 2023 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@fedoraproject.org> - 5.70-4 - Add mi
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by fellerts 3y ago
cheat.sh [0] has been a godsend when the man pages are too dense and I just want to use the tool and move on with my life. [0] http://cheat.sh/
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by fellerts 3y ago
This blog is what got me into the fabulous hobby of watch repairing. Well, this blog and Marshall's awesome repair videos over at Wristwatch Revival: https://www.youtube.com/@WristwatchRevival Watch repairing is a very
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by fellerts 3y ago
> rich, capitalist and early adopting That's certainly a factor, but at least in Norway the government was quick to offer various incentives for EV (less fees, free use of bus lanes and so on) making it the largest early adopter of
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by fellerts 3y ago
I wonder if Norway will pull out of Tesla as well. The Norwegian Pension Fund currently owns 0.87%. Side-note, all its equities are publicly available: https://www.nbim.no/no/oljefondet/investeringene/#/
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by fellerts 3y ago
We have these hidden push-buttons in Norway as well. I believe they enable an audible cue when the pedestrian light turns green so that visually impaired know when to cross. AFAIK they don't actually affect the cycle of the intersectio
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by fellerts 3y ago
The article explicitly brings this up under the heading "Combine colors with different lightness". > Just convert your colors to black & white
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by fellerts 3y ago
It could be that they mean "our API should accurately determine the country and state given arbitrary lat/lon coordinates with 6 decimals of precision", which sounds fair to me. With 6 digits, you are looking at centimeter&#x

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