mfuzzey

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by mfuzzey 3y ago
doesn't work with other tools + GUI only => non starter
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by mfuzzey 3y ago
How about no salary cap but a maximum difference factor between the highest paid and the lowest paid in any company? Not sure what the figure should be (x10?, x20?, x50?, x100?). That way companies that want to pay higher saleries to their
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by mfuzzey 3y ago
Predictions of doom and gloom because some technology (AI or something else) renders humans unneeded forget that humans aren't just workers but also consumers. So if we get rid of a large proportion of workers without replacing work as
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by mfuzzey 3y ago
Why do you not consider that Linux has won? It dominates everywhere from fairly small embedded, to super computers, with the one notable exception of the desktop, a shrinking market and mostly a historical anomaly (Microsoft cornered it bef
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by mfuzzey 3y ago
Google is a company that builds a lot of tech but derrives most of its revenue from advertising. I actually think that makes it better at tech than pure tech companies. It tends to mean the PHBs who are more concerned with the revenue str
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by mfuzzey 3y ago
Low code approaches have limits because the real problem has never been the code but the analysis and specification that has to be done (explicitly or not) before code can be written. The reason most people can't / don't want
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by mfuzzey 3y ago
Sure most people don't need to understand this stuff. But the problem today is that very few people, in tech not just the general public, understand the low level stuff, especially among new people entering the field. Furthermore sof
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by mfuzzey 3y ago
>16MW geothermal power plant. That’s enough energy to supply tens of thousands of homes. The figures don't seem to work out for me there. If we assume 10k homes (so just one ten thousand) that's 1.6kW per home, which isn't
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by mfuzzey 3y ago
But neither Android nor ChromeOS are self hosting, in the sense that you can't use Android to build Android nor ChromeOS to build ChromeOS (well for the later maybe you could with a Debian container...) So I think traditional Linux dis
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by mfuzzey 3y ago
My point is that electronic payments don't force us to "go faster". They only free us from doing stuff like going to an ATM to get cash (which means getting in my car where I live). I can choose how to spend that time, mayb
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by mfuzzey 3y ago
As you say yourself people make the CHOICE to ... Before washing machines they didn't really have any choice but to wash their own clothes (except for a few very rich that had servants to do it). The same is true of many things - a hug
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by mfuzzey 3y ago
The part about cash seems strange. While there are certainly downsides to digital payments (or at least the current implementations of them) such as dependency on the banking system and surveillance there can be no doubt that electronic pay
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by mfuzzey 3y ago
In embedded serial UART protocols (which may or may not use the RS232 physical voltage levels - often not) are very much still alive. When you bring up an embedded Linux device, be it based on an old or a brand new SoC the first thing to ge
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by mfuzzey 3y ago
Most 3G/4G modems these days are USB connected and have QMI (for quectel chipsets) and / or MBIM both of which are easier to use from software than AT. They still have a virtual comm port that talks AT though and that may still be
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by mfuzzey 3y ago
>There's no more room for long-term thinking if that doesn't involve "numbers go up, every quarter." That is obviously unsustainable. I get that they need to make a profit but there's no fundemental reason numb
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by mfuzzey 3y ago
It seems to depend on the market. For example CPUs that run Linux open reference manuals are still the norm in the industrial range (chips like the NXP i.MX series, the TI SAMA ones or the fairly new STM32MP1) whereas in the mobile market (
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by mfuzzey 3y ago
Reminds me of the time I used my French bank card in a ticket machine in the UK. The machine detected it was a French card and switched the interface to French (fine). It then asked me to "entrez votre broche" as a prompt for my P
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by mfuzzey 3y ago
Absolutely. A large part of the reason is that in the OSS world the architecture is optimised to make as much as possible common between drivers for different hardware. For example for GPU drivers Mesa has tons of common code (NIR, GLSL par
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by mfuzzey 3y ago
>When was the last time a GPU driver was added by reverse engineering it Freedreno (for the Adreno family) Etnaviv (for the Vivante family) Panfrost / Bifrost (for Mali) All these RE efforts built on each other, although the GPUs ar
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by mfuzzey 3y ago
>A lot of the work that the asahi team is doing is just fixing Arm issues in the linux kernel (and sadly user space) While I don't have Apple hardware so haven't been closely following Asahi I dont't think that is true. Li
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by mfuzzey 3y ago
To be an entrepreneur you have to do a lot of other stuff (like finding clients) that many technical people are neither interested in nor would be good at. That's certainly my case. I'd much rather have someone else handle all tha
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
PCs are far more functionally standardised than embedded systems. And in fact modern PCs do use something similar to, but in fact far more complicated than, DTs - ACPI tables which not only contain static data but also callbacks to let sy
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
The difference between "software" and "firmware" is mostly relative to your view point. It's another level below the stuff you work on yourself. For example many modem modules these days have fairly powerful ARM SoC
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
>A passenger might have a higher priority bluetooth device and it steals the connection. I have the opposite problem on Android auto. When I connect my phone (by USB cable) and start Android auto for navigation it also wants to use my ph
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
>It’s not like there’s a single universal ARM binary you can build and run on every SoC. That depends how widely you define SoC and what level of "binary" you mean. For example a Linux userspace binary compiled for arm-linux-ea
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
In the early 1980s there was a code generator program called "the last one", because it was supposed to be the last anyone would need. Didn't quite work out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(so
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
Yes quite agree. The same thing applies to trying to get business people to write "executable specifications" that can be used, if not to generate the code, to at least validate that the final system does what it's supposed t
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
Agreed, just like real debit it isn't necessarily bad as long as you have a valid plan on how to repay it. And, like real debt, taking on technical debt may allow you to do things that wouldn't be possible otherwise (getting a pro
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
Regardless of new worthiness it's logical to focus more on negative things. Negatives are problems to be solved, if enough people care maybe they will be solved too. Whereas positives don't need solving (though can still be good t
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
>I can't understand how you can let someone update part of the code on something compiled. You can provide your closed source part as a precompiled library or object file together with the source code for the LGPL part and build scr

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