meekrohprocess

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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Interrupts and exceptions can happen at any point in a program's execution on a microcontroller, and they are free to modify memory and peripheral registers. >Load <register> >Modify register in memory >>Interrupt hap
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Nice. The XTensa cores always felt weird. Too bad they only included the I/M/C extensions - no floats, vectors, or atomics. And USB would be nice (nevermind, it has USB :D). But it's still very exciting. Maybe there'll b
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Eh, it's an investment. Debugging your first segfault will also make you cry, but it's good for you. It builds character, and prepares you for the more insidious segfaults that are lurking out in the tall grasses.
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this article makes it sound like WSL might be taking notes from WINE. It's Not an Emulator, because that would be slow and error-prone. Instead, it finds a way to abstract the appropriate functionality
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Ah, Wodehouse. Everything from his writing style to his most popular characters to his name captured the same sense of whimsical negligence that characterizes an aristocracy. We often hesitate to use words like "aristocrat" in pos
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
It was sort of a "working vacation" for everyone involved. The people working on the product were taken off their normal duties, and the CS mentors didn't exactly get a full day's work done. But it was worth it.
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
I once worked at a company that did something like that. It was optional, but once a year you could spend 3 days working in first-line customer service. A CS rep oversaw your responses, but you got an ordinary account in the customer servic
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
You might run into the problem that it can be toxic at high doses. In my anecdotal experience, there seems to be a huge variance in the amount of butter that people eat, among people who regularly eat butter. Also, does it survive the heat
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Yeah, they're huge. I love the place. You can travel for miles and miles through remote forest, then pass through a main street that looks like the center of any other large town. You can get lost following the meandering pavement, or
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Oh, for sure - we can debate whether it's misguided or not, but it's definitely nice that the city is putting so much effort into this sort of outreach, and they seem to be serious about the program. People poo-poo the $10k number
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Oh, I only got warnings. Including some for going under the speed limit. The state is full of small-town cops who want to throw their weight around, but they're harmless if you play their game and (sadly) if you're the right color
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Hehehe, Tulsa Oklahoma. I wonder how many of them visited before applying. I don't mean to knock the city, but it is a very different place, and SF residents might chafe at the lack of interesting nature in the surrounding area. Probab
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Much respect to these people for continuing the project even after it became clear that ventilators aren't uniquely useful for treating covid. If they can get the relevant certifications and work out how to handle reliable servicing, i
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Thank you, I should have included a source for that statement.
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Well, Brin left a little while ago, and his reported habit of screwing his employees in the company massage room might make it seem a bit tone-deaf to invite him back.
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Sounds like the marketers might smell money in the water with covid accelerating the amount of entertainment that people consume at home and online. Without any functioning oversight bodies to look out for consumers' interests, why not
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
It must be tough to work in an industry where your livelihood depends on an entity which you have no meaningful relationship with. Amazon sellers, Youtube vloggers, Twitch streamers, Instagram dropshippers, etc etc. You can run those busine
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Most cars use separate buses for the critical control systems and the infotainment/GPS/etc. They learned that lesson after the infamous demonstration of hacking a Jeep on the highway several years ago. It's conceivable that s
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
It's probably both. One big predictor of near-term all-cause mortality is the simple question, "can the person comfortably walk for a mile or two at a brisk pace?" (Barring existing mobility issues ofc) Exercise helps to keep
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Yeah, it's tough when that happens. But that is kind of how things go: part of the d20 system's charm is that it successfully approximates the absurd range and randomness inherent in ordinary life. Sometimes you get a company that
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Excellent - it's never fun dealing with a tragedy of the commons, and conserving a wild and endemic species of cash crop is definitely worthwhile. The cultural and medicinal history of ginseng around the globe is also fascinating. This
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Makes you wonder how much of life "happens" in the UV and infrared spectrums that we can't see. Does this let squirrels recognize each other in a dark forest without alerting predators? If so, did the predators adapt to that?
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
There was a movie that took these policies to their logical conclusion: Repo Men . "In the near future, you can buy artificial organs on credit. But you had better make those payments..." When so many people don't have a way
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
There's been a general trend of companies being unwilling to invest in workers over the past decades. And after seeing their parents get knifed in the back by believing in the "job for life" concept that worked for their gran
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
It is quite embarrassing for them; Flash write endurance is something that most new graduates are aware of. There's an NHTSA investigation into the incident, but on the bright side, Tesla did remediate it in newer models...by using chi
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Teachers don't go into teaching for the money or fame, and you'll know they provide a quality service when your bridges stay up and your cars don't explode. Their unions might be overly cautious right now, but we should treat
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
There are certainly exceptions, and I have a lot of respect for successful EU tech companies! But I really dislike rat-races, so I tend to avoid areas with loads of competition. The US tech market is like a bottomless money pool, and it&#x2
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Yes, it's mostly about purchasing power. Rent/property tax/insurance is expensive, but everything else is cheap and there's no VAT. Some states don't even have income taxes. We have insanely painful income inequalit
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
I am less concerned with the taxes, and more concerned that Amazon/Google/etc happily pay ten times that salary. It's literally an order of magnitude difference, and contracting hourly rates seems like a similar story. I woul
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Most tests that I took in college were essentially open-book. Not all of them, but definitely more than half. They could have been take-home if(f) the professors trusted students not to use the internet during an exam. In the math and compu

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