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by petsfed 3y ago
This is, in almost every respect, the better way. Any non-real-time operating system will eventually get a little bit buggy around timing intensive operations like I2C or (especially) SPI. Better to have your GPIO operations performed by a
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by petsfed 3y ago
You might be able to run on a 5W supply, but my experience is that booting on a less than 15W supply is a recipe for corrupted SD cards and hard-to-trace bugs. My biggest frustration with hobbyist boards is how little power the can source
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by petsfed 3y ago
This sort of underscores the weakness of RPi as a complete computer: A complete computer is at least somewhat hardened against ESD and what not, has onboard storage of some description, and isn't severely throttled from a power standpo
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by petsfed 3y ago
Yes, and Intuit lost a court case recently because there was only 1 way to get to it, and it required following a series of dark patterns to do so. I got ~$35 out of it, which was nice.
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by petsfed 3y ago
I understood it as "the way to show that you are a trustworthy journalist (and therefore attract both willing publishers and willing sources) is to be seen on e.g. Twitter/X, reporting things ." So like, yes, there's a
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by petsfed 3y ago
But what they will do (and have done) is pull over a vehicle that is registered to a person known to have e.g. an expired/suspended license and use whatever excuse they can find to arrest the driver, even if the driver's license i
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by petsfed 3y ago
About 3 years ago, I actually did research about monitors before buying one, for the first time in my tech-using life (which started around 1990, as I recall). Up until that point, it was never a question of "what is the best monitor f
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by petsfed 3y ago
I feel like "if your internet-connected X doesn't do regular internet-less X-things without the internet, its not an X" should be the core axiom of IoT design.
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by petsfed 3y ago
So, since it was always in principle possible that the streets of every city, town, and village could be flooded by millions of newsies, all hocking editions of a variety of newspapers that had all just began publishing that day, we should
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by petsfed 3y ago
One of the better "solutions" I've seen to the paradox of tolerance is to stop viewing tolerance as a unilateral act, but rather as social contract: You agree to calmly, respectfully, and rationally engage with my ideas, and
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by petsfed 3y ago
What is the substantial difference between an ethical lobbyist (that is, one who just hounds a law maker all the time, but does not engage in gift-giving, favor trading, political donations, etc) and a particularly engaged citizenry? The lo
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by petsfed 3y ago
Instead of continuing to wait for the nurse doing their rounds, we went up to the nurse's station, stated our intent to leave, waived off all the "we really think you should stay", then they matched up the ID tags, cut them o
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by petsfed 3y ago
Seriously! When my first child was born, we stayed as long as possible, basically until the nurses more or less kicked us out. There was tons of support, and it was as pleasant an environment as I can easily imagine. For baby #2, the focus
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by petsfed 3y ago
I mean to say that the statement is anti-governmental-regulation in its expression. Clearly, there is a legal concept of 'felony contempt of business model', as I did not coin that phrase myself.
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by petsfed 3y ago
I think a lot of folks use "leftist" in modern usage to mean "those who are further left than liberals". And that's where you're getting a lot of pushback. In terms of governmental regulation "you cannot u
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by petsfed 3y ago
A lot of people are saying "hubris" without really drilling into what the arrogant mistake is. For the record, I don't think its unique to computer programmers, but rather to people who solve complex problems for a living, an
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by petsfed 3y ago
I want to be clear here: there's a difference between colonization and just immigration. Colonialism is the deliberate practice of suppressing, supplanting, and ultimately eradicating the culture of the people living in an area that an
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by petsfed 3y ago
If you compare what happened in Hawaii vs. a variety of e.g. African colonies, the crucial difference is the absence of blood in the final fall of native Hawaiian rule. Its kind of irrelevant that the Marine intervention was illegitimate, s
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by petsfed 3y ago
In the context of the original article, its because regulatory capture of the entire energy industry in e.g. Wyoming (the "Cowboy State" of the Cowboy State Daily) set renewables back a decade or more. I'm 100% certain that
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by petsfed 3y ago
>> “That electricity has got to come from somewhere. It’s not going to come from solar farms and wind turbines,” he said. >Maybe not today. But in time, I see no reason why most of it can't come from renewable sources. If only
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by petsfed 3y ago
I'm not sure that "conquered people still agitating as their former group, against their conquerors" qualifies as ethnonationalism. I think there have to be claims of ethnic superiority, deliberate exclusion of other ethnicit
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by petsfed 3y ago
Thank you for correcting me on how things are right now. The uniformity of resistance to the TMT has not been clear to me. I will say that I don't think it's a question of the "right" side. Rather it's a question of
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by petsfed 3y ago
Whether or not a telescope is progress in general is debatable, but let's dig into "defunct agrarian society" The Hawaiian Kingdom fell to a coup, because some white guy thought that the native Hawaiians were too primitive to
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by petsfed 3y ago
You're not wrong re:Rushmore, but I think you overly privilege the perspective of the scientists who are displacing the native Hawaiians. From the native perspective, there's less difference between "monument to the greatness
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by petsfed 3y ago
Or they could perform an explicit reclamation project, to try to restore the land as best they could to the way it was prior to 1893. There are more options than just "build more telescopes" or "let the existing telescopes ro
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by petsfed 3y ago
Insofar as I'm aware, Arecibo is not a sacred site to indigenous Puerto Ricans. Nor was there any concern about barring local access to the site, which had been available for literally centuries (excepting, of course, the historic bans
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by petsfed 3y ago
There's a lot of good reasons why its not universal. Chief amongst them is that there's no guarantee that a given footprint will work in the context of the overall assembly. Will you get tomb-stoning? Will the combination of fab
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by petsfed 3y ago
>"Export formats: PDF, SVG, pixmap, BOM, pick&place, Gerber/Excellon". None of which have enough info for import into another EDA program. This thing is very self-contained, which is unusual for an open source program.
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by petsfed 3y ago
This alongside the question re: DXF really reveals the inexperience of the question asker. My experience with the Altium auto-router (which is pretty good, as these things go) was that it took quite a bit more time to setup and tune than to
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by petsfed 3y ago
I'm having a hard time imagining a situation where "printing out the number in a human readable format" is more time consuming than "figuring out what the number is". I think a competent programmer might also ask th

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