monkbroc

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by monkbroc 7y ago
Is there any reason to believe the ride sharing companies won't reorganize their drivers using a similar model to what Amazon uses for their delivery drivers: contract to external firms that employ drivers so the parent entity is absol
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by monkbroc 8y ago
Clubhouse has been a good balance of structure and simplicity. They have a good API for automation too. https://clubhouse.io
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by monkbroc 8y ago
Moving Day is an example of something I thought was normal but only realized was a local custom when I moved to another country. Frozen thinly-sliced fondue meat (beef, pork, turkey) being available at any grocery store was another one. Fon
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by monkbroc 9y ago
I have used ASCET, another model-based design tool. It exports the models as XML and has a separate executable that diffs the XML and renders the diagram with red outlines around the changes so you can click down into the details of the cha
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by monkbroc 9y ago
"Located or willing to relocate" is in Preferences, but yeah we should make it clearer in the listing that it's a nice to have.
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by monkbroc 9y ago
Particle | Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Front-end Engineer | San Francisco, Minneapolis or worldwide REMOTE | www.particle.io Particle is the largest developer community in the Internet of Things (IoT) with over 120,000 engineers and hu
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by monkbroc 10y ago
Also try "what the hat". Heard it from my 5 y.o. son.
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by monkbroc 10y ago
8/40 I heard the story of the Exeter research on NPR while driving back from the airport at night last year at it floored me! I never realized that other people could actually picture images in their minds. I also thought this was enti
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by monkbroc 11y ago
Google Photos is still missing a lot of functionality of Picasa. For year I've been uploading pictures to an album named with the current year. My parents and in-laws can check the pictures of the kids when they like. The Photos upload
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Gh-nag: Never forget a PR or issue again(github.com)
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by monkbroc 11y ago
Did you end up changing your routine or did you stick to it? I started stronglifts 5x5 a few months ago and the weights are heavy enough now that I'm failing sets in most exercises each session. It's hard to get the motivation to
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by monkbroc 11y ago
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality instructed Flint residents to flush their tap for 2 minutes before sampling the water which under-represented the amount of lead in the water. The EPA doesn't explicitly forbid flushing
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by monkbroc 11y ago
The "closed by default" attitude drove me nuts. Teams develop tools to improve their work and refuse to share the source code, even internally, even when there is a business reason (I'll improve the tool for you and me). Forg
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by monkbroc 11y ago
All good points. The CPU, Flash and RAM share the silicon die with lots of specialized peripherals like CAN controllers and hardware timer units. There's a lot more on the chip than just a CPU. Also, cost is king in automotive...
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by monkbroc 11y ago
Without going into specifics, there was a static analysis tool that was part of the toolchain that caught multiple writes in different modules or in tasks of different priorities. It was a build error unless allowed on a case-by-case basis.
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by monkbroc 11y ago
You're welcome. There is only one OS task for each rate (10ms, 100ms, etc). The order of the function calls in each task is determined at compile time while respecting constraints (A_10ms must run before B_10ms because B_10ms uses valu
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by monkbroc 11y ago
Background: I used to be an automotive software engineer. I speak for myself only here. Whenever the topic of automotive software comes up on HN there are comments alongs the lines of "global variables bad", but not much construti
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by monkbroc 11y ago
VW does not own most of the software running in their cars. Most software is IP of their many suppliers. Those suppliers sell the same software to many car manufacturers so to say they would oppose giving their source code to VW so it could