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by flyingfences 4y ago
> (Or maybe there's a better term for that bit of "personalization" that dangled like a tassel from all the cool, urban Japanese flip-phones.) I believe the Japanese call it a "strap", transliterated directly.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
I am looking on those other, more traditional sites as well, and junior-level embedded jobs (without moving to California or China) are still far less common.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
My point is that your metaphor about "not [being] allowed to use memory unsafe languages" to build a car is completely backwards -- safety-critical embedded systems use C to avoid the abstractions introduced by higher-level langua
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by flyingfences 4y ago
> besides low level / embedded work And this is where Hare is meant to be used, is it not?
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by flyingfences 4y ago
I can assure you, the automotive industry uses more C/C++ than you've ever seen. C is used precisely because it's a mature and verifiable language.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
> There are definitely more than five firms that would pay reasonably well for my expertise There are definitely more than five firms that would pay reasonably well for an ex-Googler with a "whole career" and a PhD, yes. The ba
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by flyingfences 4y ago
Seconded. I look around, at this week's "Who's Hiring" thread, for example, and the systems/firmware/embedded jobs are slim pickings. Filter out the super-senior positions and I can count them on one hand. How&
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by flyingfences 4y ago
The site also has a page on Underlining [0], in which the author explains his perspective on underlining as an unsightly relic of mechanical typewriters, which had no other ways -- italicizing, bolding, different fonts, small-caps -- of emp
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by flyingfences 4y ago
Keep Right Except to Pass
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by flyingfences 4y ago
> In a compact line around the kitchen walls are the stove, sink and electric dishwasher combination, automatic clothes washer, dryer and refrigerator. It's amazing how far the loathing of the Oxford Comma goes. Some people would ra
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by flyingfences 4y ago
As far as I can tell, it's translated from a Czech video. https://twitter.com/adent/status/1504425437098823682
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by flyingfences 4y ago
> As in she's the "lord of the land." But she wouldn't be; she'd be the "lady of the land".
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by flyingfences 4y ago
> funding the recovery of the game species through the sale of licenses, tags, and stamps, as well as a 1937 federal law that placed an 11 percent excise tax on hunting weapons, including guns, ammunition, and archery equipment. The Pitt
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by flyingfences 4y ago
It is done for some walls, but it's much less common. Part of the issue is that, yes, hot air rises, so a lot more moisture will find its way to the roof than to the walls. Part of the issue is that roofs are (traditionally) sealed muc
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by flyingfences 4y ago
Nowadays it seems that simpler Heat Recovery Ventilators are the go-to solution. They're more straightforward crossflow heat exchangers, with no moving parts (except the fans, of course). Energy Recovery Ventilators are also available,
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by flyingfences 4y ago
Esperanto is too problematic: nouns assume a masculine form by default and are only made feminine with a suffix.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
Big waterfalls, yes.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
In a safety-critical industry, requirements tracking is very important. At my current employer, all of our software has to be developed and verified in accordance with DO-178 [0]. We have a dedicated systems engineering team who develop the
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by flyingfences 4y ago
Here's the actual mailing list announcement that the linked article summarizes. https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opens...
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by flyingfences 4y ago
I'm not familiar with this particular trail, but they're usually paved.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
3 seems like the sane option to me... That's what I remember most sites doing back in the day if they weren't going for 2. Have a top-level "directory" page with individual pages linking back up to it and to the homepage
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by flyingfences 4y ago
No, it doesn't, but the general idea is that scripts are supposed to supplement the base page, not needlessly replace effectively static pieces of it.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
I agree with the overall sentiment, but it seems a little ironic that this author is pining for a return to the simple old days of hand-written HTML but has written a site that doesn't even show links to its own pages with JS disabled.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
It would be wrong to say that there isn't unique creativity still out there. What's happened is that the mainstream drivel is now so pervasively marketed that everything else has been effectively pushed out of sight and out of min
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by flyingfences 4y ago
> I don't think there's a strong argument in favor of the usefulness of Covid. The strong argument is in favor of not living life as though we were amid a crisis, locked down and paranoid.
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by flyingfences 5y ago
for example: https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20210622_94694594
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by flyingfences 5y ago
They are in an industrial park in the outskirts of Antwerp, the second-largest port in Europe. There was a chance it could have come from someone else. But theirs was the factory specifically making the stuff in bulk, so the chance it wasn&
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by flyingfences 5y ago
It's been one of the dominant news items in Flanders for the past year, to the extent that I'm surprised I haven't seen it mentioned in the English-speaking media until now. Entire towns have been placed under emergency healt
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by flyingfences 5y ago
Outside of SV/NYC, that's not low at all.
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by flyingfences 5y ago
Is Rocky Linux practical yet? Is it as all-there as CentOS was?

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