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by fidotron 1y ago
No way. Having attended meetings at ICAO I can also tell you many details of various aviation incidents, including their existence, are covered by some secret classification. This fact being disclosed caused most of the attendees to lose al
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by fidotron 1y ago
I have known former air traffic controllers that won't fly certain airlines because of a notorious habit some have for queue jumping by claiming they're low on fuel. If they are low on fuel is something else, but in any case when
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by fidotron 1y ago
This is satire, right? And BLE is not IoT. It's way too secure.
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Logitech offers customers a coupon for bricking their Pop smart home buttons(arstechnica.com)
3 points by fidotron 1y ago|1 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
I think we will see more efforts which will in the long run aim to remove WebRTC from browsers, under the pretext of security, for a mix of legitimate and nefarious reasons, and the hot/cold enthusiasm for MoQ in certain quarters (i.e.
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by fidotron 1y ago
I think Nordic etc. are resistant to telling people "if you want to use Wifi you must use FreeRTOS" or equivalent, so they push the two IC solution instead just so their Wifi stack is partitioned physically from the rest of your s
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by fidotron 1y ago
> the Pi Pico W is decent Have you tried it? It's simply not in the same league of battle tested as the ESP one is, and I will happily agree almost everything else about the RP based ecosystem is superior.
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by fidotron 1y ago
Qualcomm are good at radios and associated signal processing. The rest is simply integrations around that.
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by fidotron 1y ago
The fact we don't have viable western competition for Espressif is likely to become far more of a headache than all the angst about AI GPU production. Where can you get a half decent microcontroller with wifi integrated on it? Espressi
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by fidotron 1y ago
The whole value of an actual executive assistant is them solving problems and you not micromanaging them. What users want, which various entities religiously avoid providing to us, is a fair price comparison and discovery mechanism for esse
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by fidotron 1y ago
The thing it reminds me of is those old Silicon Graphics greybeards that were smug about how they were creating tools for people that created wealth when those other system providers "just" created tools for people tracking wealth
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by fidotron 1y ago
This conception makes sense iff you believe in ChatGPT as the universal user interface of the future. If anything the agentic wave is showing that the chat interfaces are better off hidden behind stricter user interface paradigms.
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Halt and Catch Fire (Computing)(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
> The problem isnt technical feasibility it is market incentives. This is understating it honestly. The software industry has become completely reliant on renting data access back to users to maintain subscription revenue. One effect of
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by fidotron 1y ago
They sit around fantasizing about buying Nintendo because that would be the top thing they could achieve in their careers.
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by fidotron 1y ago
Essentially that using the graph DB prevented any imposition of order or discipline on the structure of the data, due to the constant need to import new customer data in subtly different structures to keep the business running, which led to
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by fidotron 1y ago
They have so much money it is harmful to their ability to execute. Just look at the implosion of the XBox business.
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by fidotron 1y ago
Graph databases are one of those things that sound neat but you'll be hard pressed to find people using them that don't regret it. I memorably had a job interview which consisted almost entirely of their senior architect going ove
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$30 a month for Ultimate – I don't think Game Pass is worth it anymore(windowscentral.com)
4 points by fidotron 1y ago|2 comments
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The Mythical Man-Month(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
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Amazon launches Vega OS, its Android replacement for Fire TV with no sideloading(9to5google.com)
5 points by fidotron 1y ago|1 comments
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Meta reportedly buying RISC-V AI GPU firm Rivos(tomshardware.com)
11 points by fidotron 1y ago|1 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
Well, mainly the PSN hack that followed. Repairing and recovering from that outage required the Playstation org at Sony to adopt a degree of professionalism wrt all tech dev and operations that started paying off remarkably quickly. At the
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by fidotron 1y ago
> The mathematicians of 100 years ago also all understood, and the meaning hasn't changed over the 100 years. Isn't that the subject of the whole argument? That mathematicians have taken the road off in a very specific directio
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by fidotron 1y ago
> Apple is exactly arrangement of particles, it’s not abstraction over them. No. You can do things to that apple, such as bite it, and it is still an apple, despite it now having a different set of particles. It is the abstract concept o
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by fidotron 1y ago
> to describe apples, bananas and everything countable An apple is an abstraction over the particles/waves that comprise it, as is a banana. Euclid is no more abstract than the day to day existence of a normal person, hence to claim
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by fidotron 1y ago
Can you say how mathematics is inherently abstract in a way consistent with your day-to-day life as a concrete person? Or is your personhood also an abstraction? I could construct a formal reasoning scheme involving rules and jugs on my tab
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by fidotron 1y ago
EA had some prime idiots in finance that did indeed make decrees that were problems. I cannot go into the juicy specifics but on the EA publishing side you would be hard pressed to find someone that did not think the finance department were
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by fidotron 1y ago
BioWare would have collapsed as an independent company long before SWTOR ever saw light of day. They seemed to have failed to understand the scope of preparing to operate a game as a service after launching it until far too late into develo
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by fidotron 1y ago
The fun part is what looks like the core assumption here, that the current AI thing will actually work, doesn't even need to be true; it just needs enough people to believe it for the negative effects of it to become true. Even without

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