leonheld

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by leonheld 3y ago
I think you're confusing 'embedded industry' with 'embedded hobbyists', because we (the industry) don't focus on hobbyists. The RPi really does suck from a professional use-case: no volume, no 10 year guarantee
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by leonheld 3y ago
Ugh, yes, but then I fall into the "too complex for bash, too simple for Python" trap. I feel like everything goes to hell the moment someone writes a Python class to deal with /something/ in a build pipeline. For bash,
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by leonheld 3y ago
What I really want is a 'Grand Translator' tool that allows any CI pipeline definition to be translated into any other CI pipeline definition. I want to take any .gitlab-ci.yml and magically translate it to a github workflow, and
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by leonheld 3y ago
> This sounds like a very weird edge case and it's very easy to say this sort of statement in retrospect As someone who works on embedded devices with a lot of experience with Hardware-in-the-loop testing, this is 100% a QA oversigh
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by leonheld 3y ago
No major accidents ever as far as I can Google (I speak Portuguese, so I searched the local web).
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by leonheld 3y ago
Linux with compositors (sometimes custom ones) for graphical applications. Weston is fairly popular, for example. Or even nothing at all, you can run Qt6 standalone and have a very nice touch interface.
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by leonheld 3y ago
Xing is actually a big thing in Germany, akin to LinkedIn.
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by leonheld 3y ago
I strongly recommend you to pick up H&P's Computer Organization and Design: the Hardware/Software Interface. I think you can really only appreciate their other great book, "A Quantitative Approach" if you properly le
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by leonheld 3y ago
I'm from Southern Brazil, I have churrasco, which is actual real barbecue :-P Sorry!
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by leonheld 3y ago
The only thing that actually makes me want to visit the United States: the National Parks.
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by leonheld 3y ago
This is hilarious (in a good way), I love it. Thanks for creating it.
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by leonheld 3y ago
Thank you Right to Repair and thank you Framework!
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by leonheld 3y ago
> When I wrote the above, I didn't really realize what Wayland even was This is an edit to the first section of the article. Seems like OP already had his mind made up about something he still doesn't properly understand.
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by leonheld 3y ago
It's a bit surprising seeing all the positive replies to this thread. In my experience (using GPT-3), the time I spend debugging the code generated by the AI is almost the same as if I was to write it correctly in one go. The comprehen
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by leonheld 3y ago
>SoC vendors should upstream their changes. But fat chance of that happening any time soon I honestly do not understand why SoC vendors don't put the extra 1% effort in upstreaming their stuff. I've seen (and worked with) softw
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by leonheld 3y ago
It's quite literally in the article itself: "We will be expanding access Plus and Enterprise users will get to experience voice and images in the next two weeks. We’re excited to roll out these capabilities to other groups of user
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by leonheld 3y ago
I've used Linux for more than 15 years now and my salary depends on how good I am with Linux. Although I agree you learn a lot with these distros, nowadays I just want something that works out of the box. If you spend years professiona
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by leonheld 3y ago
Please, *please, do yourself a favour and go to the Van Gogh museum. Going up the stairs and seeing Gogh's life unfold is amazing!
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Tips for maintaining small to medium projects with Yocto(sites.google.com)
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by leonheld 3y ago
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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by leonheld 3y ago
From what I understand, most extensions work much better for Firefox (uBlock Origin being an example). What do Firefox users gain from this?
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by leonheld 3y ago
I feel like it's pretty great that people /don't/ know about Andreas' YouTube channel nowadays. Shows how much the project grew.
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by leonheld 3y ago
If I recall correctly, there is indeed a chapter about GPUs in the fifth edition. Maybe it's an appendix, but I'm pretty certain! :)
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by leonheld 3y ago
> Agonizing about being mainline is a distraction from getting things done, IMO. Sometimes this hinders you and your customers from getting things done. Mainly because vendor kernels are, generally, really bad. Second to none other than
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by leonheld 3y ago
An incredibly amount of hype was/is generated in Europe in regards to this term. Not really the good kind, in my opinion, a lot of buzzwords being thrown around in the higher research centres and a lot of public money being spent on no
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by leonheld 3y ago
I can understand the appeal. I have a 2018 MacBook air for that exact reason. Although it's slightly more useful becase having a proper terminal that can run Docker and stuff has saved my ass more than once. I'd be down to replace
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by leonheld 3y ago
Just to be fair: it seems it has no "payment plan", but a one-time payment.
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by leonheld 3y ago
I think this is your blog, so I'm going to post it here because it is so great to look at! https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/06/where-is-the-original-overv...
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by leonheld 3y ago
I'm not from the US so not really familiar with FCC regulations. > If you've got silicon that has to conform with FCC regulations it's going to have non-modifiable firmware. Can you explain 'why?' or maybe throw
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by leonheld 3y ago
The processing overhead is pretty minimal (take a look at our iMX6ULL, for example), because the containers are just fancy processes at the end of the day. The only real drawback we see is boot time, but you can optimise that as well.

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