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by ohazi 6y ago
But they all choose to do that, so that's the actual outcome of the legislation. I don't understand why I keep seeing this argument. We all have to deal with cookie dickbars regardless of whether or not your armchair lawyer ar
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by ohazi 6y ago
You're not going to write microcontroller firmware in Go, but several people are doing just that in Rust, and it actually works quite well. Philosophy aside, in actual use Go is a better Java, not a better C. If your C program could ha
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by ohazi 6y ago
If you don't want to think about thermal throttling ever again, get one of these: https://www.seeedstudio.com/ICE-Tower-CPU-Cooling-Fan-for-Ra...
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by ohazi 6y ago
I find this less intuitive than simply looking at the real component, imaginary component, magnitude, and phase plots of simple, and then progressively more complicated functions of interest. For example, starting with y = x^2+1: https:&#x
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by ohazi 6y ago
Assertion: A throwaway account is probably more likely to be banned than an identified account -- why else would anyone bother with throwaways? If the throwaway account is banned, the original link-giver would lose their good standing. (sor
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by ohazi 6y ago
> Make your forum invite-only > You can still have throwaway accounts How can both of these things be simultaneously true?
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by ohazi 6y ago
> you can do your own maintenance and annual condition inspections (if you are the builder), saving you a gazillion in recurring costs. You're not kidding. I think the cheapest annual inspection I've ever seen was around $2,000
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by ohazi 6y ago
> I don't get upset if someone opens and closes a socket to my VPS to see if something's there. My VPS is exposed to the internet. That's not what's happening here. My laptop is not exposed to the public internet be
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by ohazi 6y ago
Altera was already working with Intel before they were acquired.
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by ohazi 6y ago
Neither of which would be using a civilian GPS receiver?
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by ohazi 6y ago
> Comcast, they need to be broken up Breaking up a regional monopoly into smaller regional monopolies doesn't work (see baby Bells). What would be better is requiring the owners of any last mile infrastructure to lease said infrastr
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by ohazi 6y ago
I don't think anyone would be stupid enough to trust promises from a US administration right now, but I can potentially imagine a (far?) future scenario where Taiwan agrees to build fabs in the US in exchange for official "Taiwan
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by ohazi 6y ago
That's a pretty good rule of thumb until you get into some really weird stuff. The link budget for bouncing radio signals off the moon (EME) is something like 260 dB. A while ago I had a chance to see the ground station at NASA Goldsto
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by ohazi 6y ago
> GPS signals from hundreds of dB below the noise floor Nitpick: GPS is more like 20 dB below the noise floor [1] https://sdrgps.blogspot.com/2016/02/find-signal-in-noise.htm... But yeah, theoretically you can
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by ohazi 6y ago
> Except, that is, for the summer I interned at Hewlett-Packard. Not sure how it never came up there; maybe they just have their own equivalent system. When was this? Leo Apotheker became CEO of HP in 2010, after 22 years at SAP (two as
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by ohazi 6y ago
There's a way to encrypt the boot partition and have GRUB ask you for the boot partition key, but you're limited to LUKS1, and the decryption process is slow as molasses, since it's implemented inefficiency directly in the GR
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by ohazi 6y ago
Exactly, use the right tool for the job. FPGAs and microcontrollers are really good for meeting (and verifying that you're meeting) hard real-time constraints. Network connectivity (by definition) can't be real-time, so you wouldn
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by ohazi 6y ago
I don't own any smart bulbs, but yeah -- this is a good example of a case where using a microcontroller is probably reasonable. I can't imagine people enjoy paying >$25 per bulb, and there's evidence that users are willing
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by ohazi 6y ago
Look, if you really need to get a coin cell onto the internet, then go for it. But I don't think your comments on this thread represent good advice for most engineers building typical devices. Insinuating that anyone who doesn't a
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by ohazi 6y ago
I think it's less a matter of opinion and more a question of expectations around the device you're building. To illustrate, let's say we build the embedded device your way. Six months later, we get a support request from a cu
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by ohazi 6y ago
PSA: Networking on microcontrollers is a giant pain in the ass. Don't get me wrong, boards like this (and ESP/Realtek boards with WiFi) are great for hacky prototypes. But if you're building an embedded device that will be de
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by ohazi 6y ago
So I guess that's the new Thinkpad naming convention? T490 -> T14 T590 -> T15 ..etc
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by ohazi 6y ago
5g uses more power, not less.
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by ohazi 6y ago
Does anyone know if Pango will render this? Could be a nice way to build i3bar widgets.
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by ohazi 6y ago
> The thing Intel still does have is world-leading fab capabilities. Do they? TSMC appears to be ahead of them in terms of both performance and fab capacity.
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by ohazi 6y ago
The setup process for Arch is challenging, but it can be a rewarding exercise if you want to have a better understanding of how a Linux system is put together. It's like Linux from Scratch, but less time consuming, and you end up with
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by ohazi 6y ago
Ubuntu did this for a while with embedded Amazon ads, and this cycle they seem to be experimenting with Windows 10 style non-negotiable automatic updates on their schedule via the Snap store. I highly recommend Linux, but I'd go with s
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by ohazi 6y ago
This certainly used to be the case. There appears to be an actual channel now, though: http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/testing-sec... I don't know if anything actually shows up here, but you
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by ohazi 6y ago
The only guarantee that the Debian project makes is that the stable branch is the security team's main priority. In practice, I've found that unstable and testing usually get patches pretty quickly.
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by ohazi 6y ago
Yeah, I remember this... fontconfig can be kind of a bear. Once you find a configuration that works for you, save your fonts.conf somewhere so you don't have to do it again. The Debian wiki page on fonts is helpful. The Arch wiki page

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