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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
My grandparents told it differently. To them, it was a dark colloquialism from the world wars. Infantry would often talk to each other about how they were looking forward to "buying a farm" once the war was over and they went home
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Probably. I loved touring the US parks while doing remote work, and I miss the freedom of being able to wander around anywhere and sort of ignore roads, but I wouldn't have been able to live in many of the areas that I adored. One thin
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Or they'll paint their head like a soccer ball to make sure that the updated AI works properly. These sorts of failures demand stress-tests. What if a future team has a soccer-ball-headed mascot?
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
There's an H.P. Lovecraft story about that: At the Mountains of Madness . Although, back in his day they thought that Antarctica already had a giant inland sea. Jules Verne also wrote about the idea in some of his stories. It's h
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
I don't think the sans culotte were part of the wealthy classes...doesn't it translate to something like, "without fancy pants"? I could see an argument that Zuck and Murdoch are like pied pipers leading the modern sans
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
No cortex-M microcontroller will run Linux without several megabytes of external RAM, and their lack of an MMU makes it difficult even then. You can program them with normal C code or thumb-2 assembly, but the peripherals on SAMD chips aren
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
They have a much shallower learning curve and a large moat of people who have used them for decades, simple as that. These days, AVR chips are a stepping stone to learning embedded development. They're fine for very cash-strapped begin
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Like the article says, it's just a C program. So you can compile with -g and use a debugger like GDB to step through it, set breakpoints, probe memory and registers, etc.
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
WiFi is a difficult protocol, so it makes sense to use a radio coprocessor. The ESP8266 can also have trouble running non-trivial applications while reliably handling WiFi, and in 2020 a Cortex-M0 chip is probably at least as cost effective
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Oh, that makes sense. It did seem like a lot for such a small processor to handle. Still, that sounds even cooler; a reference for how to set up a local network of MCUs controlled by a big processor? Awesome.
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Neat! If I'm reading the repository right, it looks like the avionics firmware ran on a TMS570 Cortex-R microcontroller made by TI: https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Category:TMS570 I'm pleasantly surp