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by kbart 9y ago
It's a very powerful "embedded" platform, I was waiting for something like this for my home media/file server, so I don't have to keep PC turned on all the time. Also, another important point for me is passive cooli
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by kbart 9y ago
I don't have solution for everyone, but here's what I do: - take a 5 min break every ~hour and walk around office (in my country it is legal requirement that for every hour you spend in front of computer, you get 5 min break, so I
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by kbart 9y ago
I don't see how that will work in real world. In most Eastern Europe average car is like 15 years old diesel, so these (cheap) semi-new diesels that will go there from Germany will actually be an upgrade.
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by kbart 9y ago
In most cities with good bike infrastructure I've seen you cannot ride a bike among pedestrians, they are limited to roads and bike lanes[0]. Whenever I see bicycle on a sidewalk is most often because road is jammed with cars or it&#x2
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by kbart 9y ago
Any fixed, static posture is bad for prolonged times. You need to move (a lot) to stay healthy.
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by kbart 9y ago
The impact is often not seen immediately as databases of leaked accounts can be used for further hacks (impersonation, social engineering, blackmailing etc.) I'd attribute that to the lack of studies and difficulty to trace hacks back
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by kbart 9y ago
Why impossible? It's just a mindset. People do switch careers at >40 years, it's far from impossible.
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by kbart 9y ago
Can you elaborate more on this? What is the proprietary code used by Signal?
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by kbart 9y ago
Why not use mixed approach? I find it works best for me. First, learn by examples to get a broader picture, then learn theory bottom-up to get into details. It's much easier to learn complex theories when you know where it leads and wh
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by kbart 9y ago
What makes you think that they are missing life? They might as well work in a position they are not overly enthusiastic about, but earn enough to meet their lifestyle and enjoy their life after 5pm back at home with loving family or working
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by kbart 9y ago
Yes, so it looks like Microchip produces multi-core MCUs after all, though as I've mentioned, I haven't encountered them and can't comment about quality of their tools.
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by kbart 9y ago
I know it's from fantasy's series, but what I'd like to see is that as soon as a company (or rights holder) shut down official servers or make game unplayable in other ways, such act counts as the rights abandon and game goes
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by kbart 9y ago
Do Microchip even produces multi-core MCU's? Haven't seen one, though I worked mostly with Cortex-A series so might miss something.
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by kbart 9y ago
Were there any ships around? Last year I had vacation in Malta and I could barely sleep due to constant, low, barely noticeable noise. I have attributed it to the ship engines, as there were many of them around and couldn't find better
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by kbart 9y ago
.NET has one of the best ecosystem overall, so it's more an exception than a rule (can't comment on Java as I don't work with it). As I'm mostly in low level, embedded system programming, you are still stuck with gdb, Va
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by kbart 9y ago
I don't think that's gender related, though I don't have data to confirm this, only an anecdote. In my relationship it's the other way round - I'm usually the one responsible for organizing dinner with friends, nigh
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by kbart 9y ago
Not everyone measures their happiness by the balance in their bank account. These "miserable people" might be genuinely enjoying their "useless" trinkets and adventures. If it's not for you - OK, but don't judg
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by kbart 9y ago
While modern languages support for parallelism is adequate, tools are still lacking imho. I avoid parallelism when it's not necessarily, because debugging all these race conditions, deadlocks, synchronization etc. is a nightmare.
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by kbart 9y ago
"What I find worst about modern city life is not having a relationship with my neighbors" To each its own I guess. I used to live in a small town where everybody knew everybody and absolutely hated it. Now I live in a city where
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by kbart 9y ago
I have played a little with it live. It uses mixed GUI of legacy graphic sub-system and HTML5. And yes, on HTML5 "apps" it's noticeably slow..
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by kbart 9y ago
I partly blame media for that as well, because they tend to portray movie-like evil minded geniuses that are probably more appealing and easier to grasp for general reader than methodical, faceless, industrious scams and legal gray areas. T
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by kbart 9y ago
"The mastermind of the LIBOR scandal was a guy named Tom Hayes, a mildly autistic mathematician" How convenient is to have such people around /s. Developers should learn from stories like this as well -- don't do anyth
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by kbart 9y ago
"Sure, not everyone who pirates would buy instead but at least some people would (it probably is a small percentage, but it is not zero)." If we've already start speculating, such part might be offset by people like me, who
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by kbart 9y ago
It is illegal. Actually, in most of Europe unauthorized access to computer system is a criminal offense that might lead to jailtime, while downloading pirate movie/game is a small wrongdoing that nets you fine (unless it's for pro
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by kbart 9y ago
Yes, router was not the best example, it was to illustrate that writing HTML interface is already common, not necessarily GUI. But there are plenty of devices that use HTML for GUI as well, some new PoS terminals comes to mind[0]. 0. https
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by kbart 9y ago
It might be easy for programmer, but try to explain cross-compilation and hardware specific optimizations for your designer or front-end developer. HTML, on the other hand, is reasonably easy for everyone.
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by kbart 9y ago
"If you want an optimized application for minimal hardware then surely HTML isn't an alternative anyway?" That was the question on linked article. These days HTML becomes viable even on low-end hardware, it's even stan
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by kbart 9y ago
I've done both and the real answer is "it depends". If performance is all that matters, the yes, it's Qt hands down. But Qt is also significantly harder to develop and maintain, especially if you want optimized applica
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by kbart 9y ago
I can't wait for GDPR to take effect and I won't be lazy to go through every f*ckin option on my Windows PC, Android phone, Google account etc. and report every bit that violates it. I see it as a revenge for all these years of da
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by kbart 9y ago
Phone lines? Are line phones still so popular in Germany that it even requires network expansion? In my country copper lines are basically left to rot as line phones are being replaced by cell/IP phones rapidly. In some cases people li

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