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by glonq 4y ago
Consumers will vote with their wallet. Personally I'm going to stay a couple generations back until prices calm down, even if that means playing games from my backlog instead of the newest cutting-edge ones.
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by glonq 4y ago
I just finished two-year project to build a sensor data acquisition system that was based around private LoRaWAN networks. Our custom gateway was Chirpstack running on a little linux SBC connected to a RAK LoRa module. It took some effort
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by glonq 4y ago
TBF the difference between many does-good-things and does-bad-things systems is a few lines of code. A few lines of code can turn an X-Ray machine into a death machine. A drivers assistance system into a kamikaze car. An industrial automa
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by glonq 4y ago
Do a search-and-replace to change all double spaces to single.
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by glonq 4y ago
Divine intentions notwithstanding, I think the author intended to say "Adding a hinge that God never intended to a Game Boy"
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by glonq 4y ago
I'm just starting a new project, and having only rolled our own ghetto authentication and authorization in the past the number of options out there is quite overwhelming! https://free-for.dev/#/?id=authentication-a
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by glonq 4y ago
I wrote in C++ for a good chunk of my programming career. I'm a manager/architect now, but if you forced me back into programming I'd much rather use C# or Rust than C++ again.
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by glonq 4y ago
Fellow teetotal Canadian here. Glad to know that I'm not the only outsider . I grew up in a small northern town, so had early first-hand exposure to the devastating effects that rampant alcohol abuse can have on families and communiti
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by glonq 4y ago
Yup, it's all diapers, naps, and mushy food again.,
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by glonq 4y ago
Pretty much the same skepticism you'll see outside of HN too. It's a difficult subject to touch without one side soundy too preachy/judgy and the other side getting defensive and irrational. The way I see it is this -- our br
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by glonq 4y ago
I was hot shit 15+ years ago, using TomTom as the car navigation system on my Windows CE phone. ...haven't really heard or thought or cared about poor TomTom since then though.
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by glonq 4y ago
I get far more robocalls than real calls. I really appreciate the call screening feature of Google's Pixel phones!
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by glonq 4y ago
I've been building computers for decades and still had to search online for the obscurely-named BIOS setting that enables TPM so that I could upgrade to Win11. So I'm sure that's a stumbling block for a lot of people whose ma
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by glonq 4y ago
It's 1/8 for ages 20-64 For 20 to 34 it's 1/4 For 35 to 49 it's 1/6 Those numbers are [literally?] quite sobering.
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by glonq 4y ago
Before Windows Embedded was a viable thing we built a product around Phar Lap ETS, which was their embedded RTOS with a Win32-compatbile API. It was great. A productive, civilized development experience compared to many embedded environmen
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by glonq 4y ago
Any company where my job title doesn't have a number in it.
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by glonq 4y ago
Once upon a time there was a fork called 'gimpshop' that added a PS-like UI to gimp. Clever idea. Warning - the current gimpshop domain hosts some scammer's adware-laden rip-off.
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by glonq 4y ago
Ditto! We had big dumb noisy electromechanical typewriters in my Typing 9 class, and then upgraded to some kind of semi-smart typewriter for Typing 10 that had a small buffer so that you could type+correct one line but it wouldn't pri
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by glonq 4y ago
Can confirm. The convention back then was that the typist puts their initials at the bottom of letters or memos.
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by glonq 4y ago
Very fun. Pro tip: the riders are random in each test run, so if you failed but were close, just re-run and you might get lucky.
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by glonq 4y ago
/me runs off quick to trademark "lab crab"
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by glonq 4y ago
Immediately reminded me of "Telefunken U47". RIP Frank Zappa.
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by glonq 4y ago
I'll bet that American's trust in fellow Americans is at an all-time low too.
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by glonq 4y ago
I wish more people realized that HR, IT, and accounting are secondary services within a corporation. They aren't the core of the company. The people inventing, building, and selling widgets are the core. Everybody else is just a nec
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by glonq 4y ago
If you're an advisor/accountant/manger to Kanye, do you just shake your head and sigh when stuff like this happens? Or maybe they don't give a damn because they are also financially benefiting from this guy's mental
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by glonq 4y ago
Ditto. Started with the fugly Turbo Pascal 3 IDE, but stuck with borland thru version 5 or 6, before moving on to mostly C/C++.
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by glonq 4y ago
Next season on Discovery's Deadliest Catch: Sig and Wild Bill learn how to knit.
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by glonq 4y ago
I'm not a contrarian, but I to tend to second-guess the bang for the buck out of typical tourist activities. My favorite activities in Paris were 'not going to the louvre' and 'not going up the eiffel tower' :)
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by glonq 4y ago
My sister and her husband have been travelling throughout asia and south america this way for years. It's a great way to stretch the budget; they can get 4 months of travel out of what a typical tourist might spend in 1 or 2 months. I
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by glonq 4y ago
> the trend of large amounts of people giving them credit Agreed. Screw that neanderthal dummy Joe Rogan for giving credibility to Alex Jones.

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