flyingcircus3

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by flyingcircus3 3y ago
I've used click, and I've used argparse. In my view, a nonstandard library needs to be vastly superior to its standard equivalent to justify adding it as a dependency. Why is click so much better than argparse?
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by flyingcircus3 3y ago
Sure. But that difficulty all comes down to whose shoulders you stand on. If the peripherals' functionalities and their registers are fully described in a datasheet, and you have a working toolchain, and a viable method for loading b
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by flyingcircus3 3y ago
Every working microprocessor ever created can run bare metal code.
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by flyingcircus3 3y ago
But that's only because there aren't any compelling IOT applications in the consumer space. Companies are the users with distributed assets, not consumers.
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by flyingcircus3 3y ago
My point was more that "transformers", "DSL", and "stacks" all have long established meanings that have been bastardized by unimaginative software companies.
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by flyingcircus3 3y ago
If that's were the case, why would the entire first page of Google search results for "edge computing" refer to IOT, and processing data where it's created?
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by flyingcircus3 3y ago
Just wait until we're running transformers on the edge, using DSL and stacks.
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by flyingcircus3 3y ago
How are we still, 15 years later, stuck in the feigned incredulity stage of android vs ios? "I don't see how anyone still buys an ____. How can you not see the overwhelming evidence that ____ is unequivocally the better phone?&qu
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by flyingcircus3 3y ago
That's $10 more than I pay for Mint Mobile.
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by flyingcircus3 3y ago
I've been very disappointed with the rollout of their most recent board, Beagleplay. There are all of these self-congratulatory videos of Jason Kridner at trade shows talking about they're making Embedded Linux more accessible&#x
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by flyingcircus3 3y ago
If you're debunking a myth about Bob Dylan's audience booing him or otherwise showing disdain for playing electric at a particular concert in 1965, why not mention another concert a year later where that very thing did happen, and
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by flyingcircus3 3y ago
The commenter specifically used the word nonplussed in reference to the ranking of this post on the front page. The fact that their surprise and confusion stems from the promotion of unimpressive stories does not change the meaning from su
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by flyingcircus3 3y ago
This meets the criteria of Poe's law. It is equally reasonable to assume _you_ are being sarcastic or serious. If they didn't just recently look up the definition themselves, they wouldn't have commented about the conflict
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by flyingcircus3 3y ago
Summarizing dictionary.com: 1. Surprised and confused 2. Unperturbed "Yeah I am really unperturbed" doesn't make sense in context of it's parent. I'm not sure how you could be nonplussed about this.
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by flyingcircus3 3y ago
I've heard of such tactics referred to as the "polite Japanese no". It's a price so high that it will definitely be refused.
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by flyingcircus3 3y ago
Firmware is software that is specific to its hardware. It is directly configuring/operating the peripherals through their registers. An embedded device is the alternative to a general purpose computer such as a smartphone or laptop.
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by flyingcircus3 3y ago
I think Zelda games are in a league of their own, and always have been at every generation. The general mechanic is being able to initially explore, yet running into obstacles that prevent you from going many places. Then you solve the nec
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by flyingcircus3 3y ago
If you have to make the choice between getting a Saleae logic analyzer and a similarly priced oscilloscope, I think the logic analyzer fits more people's use case than the oscilloscope, because digital electronics and signals are more
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by flyingcircus3 3y ago
In advance of what? The first three words on this article's page, beyond the top banner, are "product", "announcements", and "Introducing". What other category of article could you more reasonably expect
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by flyingcircus3 4y ago
The reactions in this thread are interesting, because they seem to imply that this is the final straw that has convinced us to not buy Chevrolets and Buicks, as opposed to the last 30+ years of of their products being generally terrible.
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by flyingcircus3 4y ago
I use a separate mp3 player connected over Bluetooth in the car. I still get album art and all necessary controls on the cars touchscreen. I've used maps/navigation with Android Auto, but really, it's the audio directions th
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by flyingcircus3 4y ago
For the first puzzle, code that determines if a value has one bit high, without any if/while/for, here's what I got: !(x & (x-1)) && x Was there a "best" solution somewhere? I couldnt get the code windo
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by flyingcircus3 4y ago
I'm not talking about the user writing code to move an object. I'm talking about the user clicking features on 3D objects with their mouse (like a specific vertex), having those features become highlighted, drawing the visual cue
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by flyingcircus3 4y ago
I've played around with both three.js and babylon.js, in attempts to make a CAD system. Where I get in over my head is moving objects relative to each other. For example, I need cube A's top right front corner to be 10mm left of
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by flyingcircus3 4y ago
It's been fascinating for the last couple of years to see how these daily armchair epidemiologist threads have transitioned from largely in support of vaccines to now largely against them. It seems there is some natural filtering at pl
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by flyingcircus3 4y ago
If the registers are abstracted away, you're left relying on other people's code. I suppose learning microcontrollers can mean different things to different people, but as for becoming a professional embedded developer, micropyth
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by flyingcircus3 4y ago
I think AVR is a good architecture to learn on, because the devices are far simpler than ARM or other more modern chips. The main concept to master as an embedded developer is operating a device by its registers. The common arduino device,
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by flyingcircus3 4y ago
I don't think the arduino software ecosystem is a good path to becoming proficient in embedded development. The very concepts that you need to really understand well, working with registers and understanding the microcontroller as a s
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by flyingcircus3 4y ago
I think they are an easier architecture to learn about microcontrollers than ARM. The atmega328, used in a lot of arduino boards, only has 84 peripheral registers. At least with avrgcc, a program to blink an LED is less than 10 lines. Ev
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by flyingcircus3 4y ago
So much evidence, which was so well reported, that you can't be bothered to provide any falsifiable details whatsoever.

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