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by nrclark 4y ago
I tried to do it with Toyota and got absolutely nowhere. I talked to dealer after dealer, and they all told me that they couldn't customize a vehicle order. I also couldn't do it on Toyota.com - after I configured a vehicle, all i
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by nrclark 4y ago
a note: I'd recommend using tee instead of dd for that job, or add iflag=fullblock if your dd supports it. The thing is that dd issues a read() for each block, but is doesn't actually care how many bytes it gets back in response (
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by nrclark 4y ago
A note here: if you're using GNU dd, you can also use iflag=count_bytes and then set the block-size to whatever you want. That'll give you the best of both worlds.
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by nrclark 4y ago
Where do you figure that is? I'm always looking to broaden my horizons.
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by nrclark 4y ago
> I wouldn't try frying eggs in a cast iron, for instance (technically you can, but it requires an absurd amount of oil). FWIW it's pretty easy to fry eggs in a cast iron. You do have to oil the pan, but I wouldn't call it
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by nrclark 5y ago
It's got really cool metaprogramming features too, if you like those. Kind of like C++ consteval/constexpr but on steroids. Language BDFL doesn't recommend using it in prod yet, but I've really enjoyed a couple of hobby
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by nrclark 5y ago
Sparkfun doesn't sell Chromebooks, and has no special affiliation with Google. They run a store and sell things to customers that want them. They're also really cool folks - I've met a few of them over the years. No store can
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by nrclark 5y ago
Is is possible you're mixing up Zig and Nim?
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by nrclark 5y ago
Are you possibly thinking of Nim instead of Zig here?
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by nrclark 5y ago
A thermal noise-generator is fine from a physics perspective. I think that people maybe can't verify what's actually on the die. How much do we trust what we're told about the circuit? Does its interface talk to that noise-so
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by nrclark 5y ago
Agile is how we kid ourselves into thinking that Jira is worthwhile.
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by nrclark 5y ago
Tesla's FSD is really far from actually being full self-driving. There's a lot of computer required to get from 85% perfect to 99%. Uber and Cruise also both have lidar which is spendy.
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by nrclark 5y ago
TBH that kind of sounds like a notion that would have been held by somebody with a lot of leisure time. I can't imagine that your average dairy farmer would have been particularly good at swords, math, or poetry.
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by nrclark 5y ago
That hasn't been my experience at all. I use Autotools on all of my personal projects that are C or C++, and I deal with all kinds of build systems in my day-job doing embedded Linux work. Autotools goes to extreme lengths to maintain
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by nrclark 5y ago
It's not synthesizable, but you could say "always @(clk)" as well.
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by nrclark 5y ago
4% of websites, according to that article. I didn't see any graphs on bandwidth. I doubt that half of all traffic is porn, but 10% wouldn't surprise me at all.
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by nrclark 5y ago
> Most software engineers I know who have a background in EE love C, simply because it maps very well to what a processor actually does during execution. I agree with this. One thing to note though: C maps onto small CPUs pretty well. It
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by nrclark 5y ago
Same for me, I'm guessing it's hugged from all the YC traffic.
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by nrclark 5y ago
You're right, nothing is stopping anybody from putting these modules on Pypi. If somebody's already using Pypi dependencies, then another is no big deal. But there's a really big jump from "This tool is self-contained&qu
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by nrclark 5y ago
There are some things on the list that I totally get. We probably don't need support for .aif files in Python's stdlib, or support for the Sun directory service. But I hate to see these get removed: - cgi - pipes - u
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by nrclark 5y ago
It doesn't have to be pure shell. I've written a few tools that have built-in completion helpers. All their completion scripts have to do is run the tool with the right environment variables, and return the results. That's al
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by nrclark 5y ago
Buildroot is definitely much simpler, and more limited. That's a plus and a negative, depending on what you're doing with it. Do you have one board that you need to bring up in isolation? Buildroot is great. It's easy and fas
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by nrclark 5y ago
Are the sessions being recorded? There are a ton of sessions that look great, but I'm 9 hours shifted backwards.
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by nrclark 5y ago
A note to readers: it's not always a good idea to put automated software installation in a place that users don't expect it. I've seen that kind of approach cause a ton of issues the moment that the software was used in a dif
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by nrclark 5y ago
Cargo is a great tool if you're writing Rust. Go-get is a great tool if you're writing Go. Npm is a great tool if you're writing Javascript. C/C++ options are all nonstandard and maybe bad. Git submodules is a "none
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by nrclark 5y ago
This "just works" as long as you use `git mv` to do it. Agreed that it's a pile of yuck to try and do it manually though.
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by nrclark 5y ago
> And in return, basic operations like merge/rebase start breaking in unintuitive ways. I just haven't had the same experience at all. Could we work through a specific example? > I rebase my changes. I have changes in Robust
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by nrclark 5y ago
Agreed that Git submodules aren't a good tool for the problem of "I want to work in multiple repos at the same time". It's designed for things like "my project needs to check out pinned versions of these 4 external
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by nrclark 5y ago
Out of curiosity, why the hate for git submodules? They've worked really well for me over the years. They solve the problem of "pin a specific version of some external 3rd-party repo" really nicely. The only complaint I have
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by nrclark 5y ago
That's an interesting point, and very C-like. You're right that capture-by-value can emulate capture-by-reference. Capture-by-value does have a weakness though, in that it requires allocation (whether stack or heap). Capture-by-re

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