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by nrclark 4y ago
There are tons and tons of industrial products that use Ethernet for communication, but don't necessarily need a ton of data. Maybe a C&C machine, or a 3D printer, or an oscilloscope, or an automotive network. For any kind of comma
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by nrclark 4y ago
I still play it when I'm looking to kill some time. It's held up pretty well. There's an active modding community, which has produced (and maintains) Heroes 3 HD. Heroes 3 HD is a really cool addition that scales the resoluti
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by nrclark 4y ago
The best daily standups I ever had went like this: Everybody is physically standing up, in a place where there are no computers. Going around the circle, everybody answers three questions: 1. What did you do yesterday? 2. What wil
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by nrclark 4y ago
At most places I’ve worked, long standups turn into “watch somebody else use Jira” meetings that all participants ignore until they hear their names. Not a great use of anybody’s time.
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by nrclark 4y ago
Alpine is great, and I have nothing bad to say about it. I'm curious though: what sharp corners have you found with apt? I've been a Debian user for 20 years and I've never had any problems relating to apt/dpkg.
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by nrclark 4y ago
I actually really like TCL as a language. It’s very internally consistent, and quite powerful. Has a bit of a LISP flavor. I agree that its syntax is pretty weird when compared to any other language. And a lot of stuff works differently tha
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by nrclark 4y ago
I don’t think threads are really a concept that’s applicable to Verilog/VHDL. Stuff operates in parallel in those languages, because you’re essentially describing little machines that all run independently of each other. You probably h
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by nrclark 4y ago
Leap-seconds are manually added, and don't follow a predictable pattern. They're different than leap-years in that respect. We could all agree to stop adding leap-seconds, and nothing would change in 99%+ of all UTC time-handling
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by nrclark 4y ago
I think it’s a good practice to assume that people have good/average intentions. Nobody is the villain in the story they tell themselves. I get farther in life with this philosophy: Nobody is out to get me. Also, it’s a C+ world out th
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by nrclark 4y ago
Use the tools you like. It's nobody's place to tell you what tools to use, and the reverse of that is also true. For a lot of us, we want to develop scripts (and skills) that are portable across different environments. There are l
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by nrclark 4y ago
It's a money-thing more than it's a wellness-thing. Overall, it's good for employers and bad for employees. With traditional PTO accrual, employees get a payout of all unused PTO when they leave the company. It's expensi
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by nrclark 4y ago
In the US, furnaces are required to be in a closet and have a carbon monoxide shutoff. A furnace will disable itself if local CO levels get above some threshold. So if your furnace's exhaust is working correctly, it shouldn't have
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by nrclark 4y ago
Storage vendors (disks, emmc, nvme, etc) all do this. I’ve never seen it on RAM though. Got some examples you could point me at?
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by nrclark 4y ago
Agreed 100%. The worst places on Earth are still better than the best places on Mars because you have free gravity and oxygen here. Even for a self-sustaining colony, it would be nice for a dome-crack to not be immediately fatal. Once we ha
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by nrclark 4y ago
What kind of per-acre yield do you get with the methods you described above? Can they feed our population? Do the same methods work in coastal California and Indiana?
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by nrclark 4y ago
Don’t count on that encryption. It’s a great marketing point that has no real way to verify or audit. And even assuming Whatsapp's end-to-end encryption works as advertised: that doesn’t mean that the app is free from backdoors. Messag
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by nrclark 4y ago
That's true. It's also an entirely different tragedy of the commons. If nobody has children, we are going to be screwed when our generation is too old to work.
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by nrclark 4y ago
Agreed 100%. This is iTerm2's killer feature IMO, and it's the only thing that keeps me on a Mac for my work laptop.
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by nrclark 4y ago
I write comparisons against 0 or false/true sometimes. There are places where it improves code clarity IMO.
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by nrclark 4y ago
Let’s assume your 90% is accurate. How many of them were addicts when they started being homeless? Homeless culture lends itself to destructive habits because you’ve got nothing left to lose.
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by nrclark 4y ago
All three of those goals are served by removing the cockpit and everything that goes along with it.
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by nrclark 4y ago
Drones can be very, very fast. it just depends on the design. A drone is just an unmanned aircraft at its core. A drone could do maneuvers that would kill a pilot, kamikaze itself, or fly with only enough fuel for a one-way trip. It could h
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by nrclark 4y ago
This isn't a perfect approach, but I've had pretty decent results with QEMU's virtfs for passing data into a QEMU VM (assuming your guest kernel is compiled with support for it). QEMU's -virtfs option maps a folder on yo
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by nrclark 4y ago
Jira didn’t exist, so it was much better.
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by nrclark 4y ago
> I won't blame you for reaching for dd. But otherwise, try to stick to more standard Unix tools. dd is one of the most standard Unix tools around. It's been a core part of Unix for 40 years. It has its issues, but "non-st
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by nrclark 4y ago
A few years of TSMC being unavailable would cripple consumer electronics in general. Lots of chip vendors all buy their dies from TSMC. It's not just Apple by a long shot. This is a known problem, potentially one even at the scale of b
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by nrclark 4y ago
Fwiw, systemd actually supports sysvinit scripts pretty well. You can mix and match, and write unit files that depend on init scripts or vice versa. And you can manage them all with systemctl.
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by nrclark 4y ago
FWIW, the patent for Phillips Head screwdrivers states that the pattern is intentionally designed to cam out/ strip instead of allowing over-tightening. It’s an obnoxious feature, but it’s intentional. Not some kind of “this is old and
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by nrclark 4y ago
Out of curiosity, why is lidar necessary? When a human drives a car, their only sensors are eyes, ears, and maybe vibration. Somehow we manage to muddle through it. Why do L4/L5 cars need anything extra sensors-wise?
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by nrclark 4y ago
They were so preoccupied with whether they -could- that they didn't stop to think about whether they -should-. Pithy joke aside, TCL is an underloved language and I'm always happy to see it in projects. Nice work!

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