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by floating-io 3y ago
The buried detail that Evil Mad Scientist was acquired by Bantam Tools deserves an article on its own IMO. I find it sad that such a nifty small (and seemingly very personal) business would get gobbled up (though I would be happy if they p
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by floating-io 3y ago
Disclaimer: I have not delved into AI to any great degree. Where this kind of statement ("Holy crap! It wrote me a program and it worked !") tends to make me skeptical is this: the program always seems to be something that'
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by floating-io 3y ago
No. Terrorism is when people use terror for political purposes. While it is often synonymous with crime, the "terror" part is rather critical. Most often, the terror is over the target's personal safety, or that of the targ
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by floating-io 3y ago
> You'll loose that `go run.go` the moment you need code generation. Not really. //go:generate ... It's pretty handy.
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by floating-io 3y ago
I looked at that recently for a project I'm working on, but walked away when I found that important parts of the net package are pretty much nonexistent on ESP32. You know, like net/http, for example... I might have misread the do
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by floating-io 3y ago
Pretty sure that was his point.
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by floating-io 3y ago
That strikes me as an unnecessarily elitist answer that holds us back. I'm hardly a mathematician, or even college educated, but AFAICT this all boils down to the fact that I can type a number into the computer, and it can't repre
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by floating-io 3y ago
Unless the programming language you use happens to perform 20,000 system calls before it ever even runs a line of your actual code...
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by floating-io 3y ago
While the reverse engineering was interesting to read about, I found the Batman Equation far more amusing! :)
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by floating-io 3y ago
I really wonder how much longer the VMUG licensing is going to be around...
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by floating-io 3y ago
If I'm understanding what you're saying correctly, then I'm not sure where you got that idea. Patent holders are not required to license their patents last time I checked. You are simply required to acquire a license prior
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by floating-io 3y ago
I recently took the plunge in a couple of my CI pipelines and had little trouble. The only thing that actually broke was that the `--cache-from` option doesn't accept a tag, where it does for docker. Everything else pretty much Just
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by floating-io 3y ago
Of course, if you’re going to constrain your data, make sure your constraints are actually correct… case February => assert(value >= 1 && value <= 28) Last time I checked, 2024 is a leap year, so Feb 29 is valid…
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by floating-io 3y ago
I would argue (rightly or wrongly) that there are two common truths to such a scenario: Scenario 1, you’re doing a bunch of small changes that work towards a larger purpose. They’re what I like to call “checkpoint commits”. They aren’t th
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by floating-io 3y ago
Polling has never implied blocking. It’s actually a way to avoid blocking. I think you’re thinking of “busy-wait loops”. The difference between “polling” and “busy wait” is whether or not the CPU is doing other unrelated things between sa
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by floating-io 3y ago
Did you totally miss the part where I clearly indicated that I’ve not bothered to research and find out if it’s true? Hanging around schools to observe it firsthand would be pretty damned creepy at my age since I don’t work in education an
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by floating-io 3y ago
I don’t normally comment on this sort of thing (I don’t have kids, am not precisely “normal” (whatever that is) and dislike speaking publicly on sensitive topics, anonymous or otherwise), but this touched a nerve for some reason, so I’ll th
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by floating-io 3y ago
When I read about mid-stream license switches like this, the term bait & switch comes to mind. It seems unethical. People bought into the product based on various factors, one of which may have been the license. They put hundreds or
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by floating-io 3y ago
I wonder how annoyed the LoRa Alliance is with this particular acronym, which is one capitalized letter away from their trademark?
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by floating-io 3y ago
Random feedback: - On an iPad Pro (iPadOS 16.1.1 - not sure how current that is offhand), the UI is extremely unintuitive and/or broken. Tapping the example landed me in an editor that then took far too long to figure out how to get o
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by floating-io 3y ago
I once worked at a company that did something very similar to what you’re suggesting. It doesn’t work as well as it sounds. The problem is that the feedback mechanism is far too easily compromised (both by intentional means and unintention
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by floating-io 4y ago
Things like this actually bother me. They make it seem like the only way to be energy efficient is to give up all amenities, including aesthetics. This is not the way to promote energy efficiency IMO.
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by floating-io 4y ago
Adafruit tends to sell things like their feather boards with loose headers, leaving the buyer to solder them. If you like playing with stuff like that it would give you an excuse to buy more boards. Timely; I just finished soldering header