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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
I wish someone at Microsoft would read this. Every 6 months it seems like everything around their documentation site changes and half the links permanently 404. The amount of link rot is just staggering.
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
I really have a love/hate relationship with Duolingo. I’ve been using it for supplementing my Japanese studies and at the more advanced levels it has become just so, so bad. There are no longer lessons - it’s just “remember these phras
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
Oh does this ever strike a nerve, especially as I’ve been working hard on a new project these past few months with tight deadlines and lots of visibility. Does this mean that us engineers are spending time with our heads down actually writ
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
Well-ish depending on your use case. It still requires their app, hub, and cloud services to work even just for steaming. There’s no completely “local only” mode. You can use local storage to save recordings by connecting flash storage to t
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
Hardware is completely proprietary and closed source. All camera communications go through a black box hub device which talks to Arlo’s services. There’s no public API for any part of the hardware or software chain. In other words, unless y
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
I agree with this. I’ve long found Pb-free solder to be very hard to use for hand soldering. It has a high melting point and it never seemed to flow well. Pb solder is of course easier to use with its low melting point and flowability, but
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
“this works, but next time, a better architecture would be x, let's refactor next time we come back to this” In my experience there is rarely ever a “next time” and “fix it later” becomes “fix it never”. It’s always cheapest to fix wor
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
I wouldn’t say I was thrilled to go to 10. Initial releases were really rough, but it got better really quickly and many of my early complaints were addressed. 11 seems to have stumbled out of the gate and it doesn’t feel to me like any of
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
ExplorerPatcher is great and the developer that works on it is doing a service for us all. However it’s also very brittle and if you’re not using mainline builds it will definitely break. I’ve looked a lot at its source code and it relies o
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
This is great. I really hate Windows 11. It doesn’t run on several of my computers due to its system requirements and for those that it does run on I find the UX to be such a huge step backwards that I find myself continually fighting with
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
I really like ESP boards. A couple years ago, I had an expensive robotic cat toy which went out of support from the vendor (Petronics Mousr) and the app disappeared and I couldn’t even re-download it. I didn’t want it to become a brick so I
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
The multi-core aspect can cause interesting challenges, especially if you’re using Arduino libraries that assume single core usage. Fortunately there’s really great synchronization primitives that you can use but if you come from an Arduino
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
I’ve read all these SR-71 stories dozens of times before, but they are just so fascinating that I don’t mind reading them again.
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
The Seattle Museum of Flight also has an A-12 Blackbird (an M-21), and a Concorde that you can actually walk through. No space shuttle, but they do have a Shuttle Trainer Crew Compartment that you can walk through. It’s well worth a visit i
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
I fully agree. I wish more intro-level documentation had this kind of easy to follow and progressive level of detail. All too many things like this either dive straight into the deep end inundating you with superfluous details when all you
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
This kind of replayable debugging can be wonderful - especially for hard to debug issues like heap corruption and such. Windows has something similar called Time Travel Debugging[1] but in my experience the dump files it creates can be enor
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
When browsing games on the Xbox it’s the same way — just a grid of cover art in smallish tiles. No text. Finding what I want can be very difficult if the text isn’t clearly visible in the cover art or if it’s not art I’m very familiar with.
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
Heisenbugs are the worst. Just last week I was on the verge of literally ripping my hair out trying to figure out a frustrating bug that never occurred when running in the debugger. After a lot of frustration I had an idea: rather than star
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
I once heard someone use the term “therapeutic reboot” for when computers get into a bad operating state. It really stuck with me.
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
I feel this. I’ve done pretty well for myself — I have decades of practical experience and have risen to be a principal engineer at my work. I can write what I feel is pretty solid, robust, performant, and well-architected code in many diff
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
The capacitor plague was real. So many electronics I have from that era have failed due to bad caps. They are almost always cheap bottom-tier components with brand names and packaging suspiciously similar to the more reputable ones. (I’ve
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
What you did was reflow the solder. This isn’t an uncommon technique for amateur/small batch repairs or assembly of surface mount circuit boards. At the maker space I use, there’s a toaster oven dedicated to this task. That being said,
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
When moving from Windows to macOS as my daily driver I really missed the window management keyboard shortcuts and ability to easily snap a window to the left/right of the screen or maximize windows. Magnet gave me everything I wanted a
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
It may be heretical but I tend to agree with this. Also at my workplace we tend to be standardized around PRs doing squash merges so there’s not really much point in having detailed interim commit messages anyway. As long as the PR has good
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
> I’d start pieces, make reasonable progress, and then spend hours making irrelevant changes no one would notice getting more and more confused about what I was doing, and whether the piece I was working on was any good Even the greats c
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
I wish I had seen this article sooner. It’s a really nice and succinct primer to some of the basics of using Ghidra for firmware analysis. I have an expensive robotic cat toy that the manufacturer stopped supporting and I’ve been working on
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
Not necessarily. I bought a very expensive cat toy robot that had a companion app. The company that made it didn’t just hide the app, they delisted it entirely. When I upgraded to a new phone, the download links were dead. It started me dow
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
Oh, sure. All the time. Sometimes if you need some solution to a problem you need to invent it yourself. Back in the day when I had a Windows phone, I used Microsoft’s Zune player to sync it - but I used iTunes for my actual library managem
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
The story behind MIBSL is definitely fascinating and some great trivia there. There’s a longer article about it here: https://www.newsweek.com/2016/05/06/secret-ska-history-man-b... that covers not just the i
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by logbiscuitswave 4y ago
The thing about c:\windows\temp is you can’t modify another user’s files but you can create your own. It’s actually a _really_ common vector to exploit poorly written installers by dropping your own file (like a malicious dll or exe) into

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