fundmondawyaya

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by fundmondawyaya 5y ago
TIL: the "command unit" of a javelin missile is a capable night-vision system, even after the missile is fired.
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by fundmondawyaya 5y ago
Cock crows. DB crashed. Systemctl restart mysqld (Or mariadb, if you pronounce "SQL" as "sequel")
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by fundmondawyaya 5y ago
I don't have any primary sources, but in a nutshell, the problem was ROM sites. You could download every NDS game ever made, in every region, in a few days. Small indie ROMs might be 2-16MiB, but the big Pokemon/etc games went up
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by fundmondawyaya 5y ago
Nintendo is probably still feeling burned by the NDS. It was a fantastic console, and fairly open. It had two ARM CPUs (one per screen), and there was a terrific homebrew scene. Some of my first embedded C programs were for the NDS lite. It
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by fundmondawyaya 5y ago
Many of the benefits that you list are for manufacturers, not consumers. My 1990s car has an ECU that only has one job, and runs fully-characterized code. I'd trust it to run another 25 years with no problems, firmware updates, or secu
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by fundmondawyaya 5y ago
They're better than speed stops. Having been pulled over a few times, and received a few mail tickets, the latter make a lot more sense. When I get pulled over, there's always a bit of menace. I've had K-9s sniff around my ca
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by fundmondawyaya 5y ago
I dunno if Cortex-M chips will be better for long, though. Some of the RISC-V specifications like interrupt controllers need a bit more time, but they have very good support in mainline compilers like the GNU toolchain. My experience writin
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by fundmondawyaya 5y ago
Small RV32/64 cores could supplant them. For example, GigaDevices makes an STM32F1 clone which comes in two flavors with the same peripheral memory map: ARM Cortex-M3, or RV32IMAC.
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by fundmondawyaya 5y ago
I don't know where you live, but the city I live in has many public tennis courts paid for by taxes. And basketball courts, soccer fields, a few pools, public river launches, etc. Some things are good to have, even though they don&#x27