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by hkwerf 3y ago
Technically it's embedded, but the products are sufficiently complex that my day-to-day work involves everything from the usual embedded stuff (hardware set-up, FPGAs), managing devices, web development (Most devices have a reasonably
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by hkwerf 3y ago
I'm not an expert for mechanics, but isn't what you discuss for mechanics usually tolerances or properties that are not directly involved in the outline of a part, such as materials used or roughness? This stuff you still need to
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by hkwerf 3y ago
Most of that work was done 2016 - 2020. Typically we saw issues when people jumped on new features in new releases, so it's pretty much excusable and we'd just forbid the use of these features as long as we didn't really need
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by hkwerf 3y ago
Eagle's poor copy and paste when I had to use it at university was a real shocker. So much work for such a common task. And it was so easy to get it wrong. Sadly, it's not like KiCad excels there either. At least to my knowledge i
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by hkwerf 3y ago
I'm a generalist with a degree in computer science and physics, experience in science (a little), software and electronics engineering, and a lot more non-technical stuff. While I'm certainly a lousy software engineer, it's m
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by hkwerf 3y ago
At least for many common use cases that is absolutely true. IMO other tools mostly excel at special tasks. Be it having a good component library, or less rocky integration with external tools, for example for FPGA/ASIC configuration or
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by hkwerf 3y ago
There's probably no single field where you will find more solutions to the same problem, maybe except for text editors? Common ones would be Mentor Xpedition, PADS, Cadence or OrCAD, though. Another irritatingly common one is Eagle, bu
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by hkwerf 3y ago
At my previous job I, too, set up CI/CD from Schematics/PCB data to device documentation PDFs, 3D models for mechanical integration, and packages for several of our EMS (electronics manufacturing services, each required different
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by hkwerf 3y ago
Honestly, I'd like to have one. But I actually only need it for bad weather and winter, otherwise I'd take the bike or train. And then I generally doubt its actual usefulness in those conditions. Weather can be pretty bad in the G
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by hkwerf 3y ago
I tried. I'd need a github account. I don't want to have a github account.
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by hkwerf 3y ago
Uhhh... and at some point it segfaults if I try to load 5 GB of HTML? [ 7527.750745] HTML5 Parser[14186]: segfault at 0 ip 0000556be8b79cef sp 00007fbdb1570420 error 6 in firefox[556be8b77000+9c000]
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by hkwerf 3y ago
That's probably already possible with just a huge HTML page? At least on my system, if I create such a page and open it via a file:// URL, firefox will happily gobble up memory.
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by hkwerf 3y ago
I ship containers to customers. Would be nice to run tests against them before releasing a container and it would be nice if those tests themselves could run in a container in order to have a clean test environment.
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by hkwerf 3y ago
I'm not an expert on this topic and while I have spent some time in the US, my experience is limited. The particular case of two highways intersecting is one thing. Go ahead and have your diverging diamond interchange there. However, I
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by hkwerf 3y ago
See my other comment. There are no Zebrastreifen on my roundabout. It's tight, heavily frequented by cars (and all sizes of trucks, due to being next to an industrial zone). Zebrastreifen would be a nice thing. However, around here it&
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by hkwerf 3y ago
It's pretty annoying: Cars have to yield to pedestrians while exiting the roundabout, they don't yield while entering. (Though luckily, many are nice enough to do anyhow.) In order to have any chance of crossing the roundabout in
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by hkwerf 3y ago
I used to love topics like this, just as I vigorously defended the construction of roundabouts. Now I have a roundabout right in front of my child's daycare. Due to the traffic rules surrounding that roundabout (Germany), it'll be
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by hkwerf 3y ago
Probably he was just fishing for adjectives, but generally, optimization just just the minimization of any function. Efficiency could be the minimization of a function describing resource usage. In the real world, in real time systems one o
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by hkwerf 4y ago
Not sure whether this comment is regarding screen sharing in wayland in general, but this has been working smoothly in most applications for quite some time via xdg-desktop-portal: https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-porta
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by hkwerf 4y ago
This is the key. I'm running a 6 years old galaxy tab s2 for reading at night, about 10 to 30 minutes a day, with an OLED display in airplane mode. Due to the display and white-on-black colors, only standby really contributes significa
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by hkwerf 4y ago
That may have been sarcasm.
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by hkwerf 4y ago
It's even worse. In Germany, police and agencies responsible to prosecute pedophiles that are active on those websites supposedly do not take those websites down, even after they gained control, at least in some cases. > In German:
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by hkwerf 4y ago
In the end it may just be about (corrupted) power. Those who are in power can use the data they gather through surveillance to stay in power, even without "disappearing". It's sufficient to be able to identify whistleblowers
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by hkwerf 4y ago
I can finally wear my Zensursula t-shirt again! https://www.getdigital.de/zensursula.html
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by hkwerf 4y ago
I'm not sure whether reading back the info is the weird stuff or whether blocking targets of attempted password logins rather than the source of the attempts is the odd part. But I too can disable accounts of my colleagues in my compan
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by hkwerf 4y ago
> I wonder if pilot training includes knowledge that yoke disconnection is possible. Probably, I've heard https://www.youtube.com/c/MentourPilotaviation talk about it as well.
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by hkwerf 4y ago
The author does not really present an argument that clarifies how Google is related to the ads. Should a search engine rank sites that present mostly ads and almost no content lower than sites that don't? Depending on whether I need to
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by hkwerf 4y ago
Almost ten years ago I had to work with diamond semiconductors. It was rather hard and pretty expensive obtaining devices in the required size back then. Researchers seemed to have a feeling that this was not because of technology but becau
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by hkwerf 4y ago
> The biggest lie we tell ourselves is “I dont need to write this down because I will remember it.” I bookmarked the page and yet I will have forgotten about it tomorrow.
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by hkwerf 4y ago
It would be pretty great to have a single formatter that just handles all the normally irrelevant files we have alongside code. Going for sandboxing the formatters is also great, though it seems like this is pretty weak if the plugins can j

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