greyhair

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by greyhair 4y ago
I love the price on that.
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by greyhair 4y ago
I agree. Why memorize something that is well documented? Do you understand basic interrupt management and the existence of interrupt controllers? Good. Understanding basic concepts matter, but silicon implementations of a concept? No. One q
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by greyhair 4y ago
I have been developing in embedded systems for 38 years, and I have the shortest skill set you will ever see on a resume. I only put down the things I know. On the other hand, I have reviewed resumes from people with five years of experienc
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by greyhair 4y ago
Are you certain bitwarden has not? I read a thread here some time ago where 1password was bragging that they have never been breached, and someone basically commented back "they have never been breached that they are aware of". I
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by greyhair 4y ago
FIDO, UTF, WebAuthn. It can't get here fast enough. User authentication has been a hot mess for at least two decades. Passwords need to go.
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by greyhair 4y ago
Being that the blob is never decrypted off your local machine, it would have to be a local data API.
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by greyhair 4y ago
I read the whole piece. My key observation, is the author's assumption that HR was 'there for the employees'. HR doesn't exist for you, HR exists for the corporation, for the protection of the corporation. It astounds me
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by greyhair 4y ago
I like very lightly printed graph paper. Very pale blue at 5 lines per inch. I can ignore the lines for free hand, but they provide nice guidance for more structured drawings.
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by greyhair 4y ago
I found just the opposite in college. For me it was high write, low read, concerning my own notes. The only value to taking notes for me was the active nature of writing helped pin the information in my head. Other than assignment and test
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by greyhair 4y ago
65. I went from 1975 through to 2010 not owning a TV. Not even one. In 2010 we bought a 55" HDTV (but no cable service), a BluRay player, and a Nintendo Wii. We also got a Netflix DVD subscription. We had three young kids at the time.
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by greyhair 4y ago
My note above, enough relates more to frequency than volume. Exposure to one serving (a serving is not a full glass!) two or three times a week matters more than five or six servings once or twice a month.
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by greyhair 4y ago
If you drink enough wine, and that means frequency, not quantity, you will eventually develop your own taste for what you enjoy. At the same time, you will also learn to judge good from bad. Will you be able to judge the individual grape or
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by greyhair 4y ago
Dude, my brain is already rusty enough.
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by greyhair 4y ago
I enjoy wine, I am not a connoisseur by any stretch, but I can differentiate enough that I know what I like, and what I don't. Friends of mine have held two professionally run wine tastings over the years, and they were great fun, and
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by greyhair 4y ago
Yup. Exactly.Epoch times. Slightly less reliable than the National Inquirer.
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by greyhair 4y ago
Nice. Epochtimes link. Total rag of a site. And everyone knows it.
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by greyhair 4y ago
Frozen vegetables are good. Some canned vegetables retain their flavor and nutrition as well. Some canned veggies are just a hot mess (I am looking at you, canned asparagus). Canned beets are fine. Canned corn is fine in most recipes. The b
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by greyhair 4y ago
> Just eat minimally processed whole foods as often as possible, diversify your plate and moderate your intake. If you highly diversify your diet, if any one thing is 'bad' for you, you are by your actions, reducing your expos
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by greyhair 4y ago
I will also say, this was a great analogy > if a pizza delivery company decided to invest in better cars because people criticized their pizzas
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by greyhair 4y ago
As a parent of three young adult kids, all I can say is WTF. My kids were allowed to walk, scooter, and tricycle around our block from the time they were five years old. They were allowed to walk into town, as long as they were with at leas
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by greyhair 4y ago
Never memorize the things you can find in documentation, or through tooling.
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by greyhair 4y ago
As long as you force everyone to run their code through pylint. Nothing like hitting a really rare corner case at runtime that just fails syntax and the process exits.
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by greyhair 4y ago
I think this is probably the most salient point. C/Rust then Java. I don't know why people hate on Java so much. And I think C lives fine along side Rust.
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by greyhair 4y ago
Having cut my teeth in Z80 Assembly, I could never understand people's aversion to pointers. You cannot do anything of any practical use, on hardware, without them.
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by greyhair 4y ago
Templates and Lambdas. Woof.
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by greyhair 4y ago
See: New Jersey State Unemployment Insurance.
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by greyhair 4y ago
As an older dev, screw those older devs that 'roast your code'. The really good ones won't do that. The ones that do suffer from some weak superiority complex. I had three awesome mentors when I started writing C, and a coupl
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by greyhair 4y ago
And where is the love for ANSI C? As an embedded systems developer for 38 years, with 26 years writing for small threaded RTOS, including 16 and 32 bit DSPs, and the remainder being platform work on QNX Neutrino, NetBSD, and Linux, most of
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by greyhair 4y ago
My commute to work is very predictable, but the commute home is not. I always use Google maps driving home, even though it is only 27 miles, because Gmaps will direct me to alternate routes if there is a traffic tie up on my usual route hom
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by greyhair 4y ago
This mirrors my experience directly. Before smart phones, I found TomTom to be more user friendly than competitors, but they were slow to boot up, the battery was only useful for providing clean power vs the car electrical system. I tried u

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