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by petsfed 4y ago
It is very tempting (and very easy) to think about firmware as simply software that you can update willy-nilly and at will, and things will always go back when things go bad. But there is a reason that most embedded firmware engineers are o
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by petsfed 4y ago
>I do know at least one person who is reckless with "no questions asked" warranties, and would ask for a refund with a straight face after trying to use a router to reduce spaghetti sauce spattering when he microwaved his dinne
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by petsfed 4y ago
That was kind of my read on it, which is what sent me into a tailspin. I ended up questioning all the tools I had to evaluate a source without taking it on as another job. But it turns out that the difference in bias of RFE and any number o
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by petsfed 4y ago
I was going to mention Radio Free Europe as a really good example of egregious, western state-sponsored media, but then on a lark, I looked up how well regarded they are, bias-wise, and now I don't know what to think.
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by petsfed 4y ago
>- payment from member stations (at least 31% of revenue) who are themselves supported by government funding I have a hard time understanding this as "state sponsored", much less as evidence that NPR has ceded editorial control
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by petsfed 4y ago
It's a Weller. I used to work at a place that had the Weller WXR3003N. $3360 of pure joy. The one I work with now is a Weller WX2021N, which Newark has for $1400. The tool quality on either is phenomenal, but definitely not necessary f
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by petsfed 4y ago
I love the $1400+ solder station I use at work. If I could have one at home, I totally would. Solder tweezers and a heated solder vacuum are very useful. But I am pretty handy with the $130 Hakko I got from adafruit back when I got one fo
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by petsfed 4y ago
The problem here is that if people stop biking until it becomes safer, then city planners and elected officials will say "why do we need to spend millions to install biking infrastructure (and disrupt car infrastructure), nobody is out
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by petsfed 4y ago
I know this outside of the scope of the article, but I've seen this a bunch of times when HN commenters claim that a given topic is not relevant for HN. The gist of the claim is basically "$badaction was already illegal, this new
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by petsfed 4y ago
The only competent jerk I ever worked near (different part of a very multi-disciplinary org) probably wasn't that competent. That is, they had a habit of belittling other people's opinions and performances, but they were eventuall
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by petsfed 4y ago
I wonder how much of that is riding the wave vs. being the wave though. Contemporary with NPR and NYT talking about racism and sexism more is Twitter and other social media getting a lot more vocal about such topics (while #metoo really hit
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by petsfed 4y ago
There was a very clear cultural shift at NPR. Outside of their straight news, it seemed like culturally they started to swing left on culture-war topics. Their reporting remains one of the least biased out there, but in terms of podcasts an
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by petsfed 4y ago
I mean, there is the trollduino https://hackaday.io/project/176844-trollduino-v10
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by petsfed 4y ago
I once encountered a hydroponic nutrient dosing system that was, no shit, a RPi 3+ with a custom HAT for the electrochemistry and actuation. These were sold to businesses running container farms and the like. At the end of the day, it seeme
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by petsfed 4y ago
I think milliseconds overestimates by a few orders of magnitude, but non-real-time OSs really suffer for the intermediate IO stuff you expect in an embedded project (e.g. SPI, I2C, etc) A long time ago, I was playing with Project Nerves on
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by petsfed 4y ago
Which leads to these nightmare scenarios where actual defense attorneys and union officials ask in earnest "Why is this officer being held liable for forcible rape of a minor today, when such behavior was already found to be immune 90
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by petsfed 4y ago
>Get a lawyer, ensure it's not enforcable, then sign it. There's a lot of daylight (and a few thousand dollars in legal fees) between "would be thrown out upon casual perusal" and "is not technically enforceable,
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by petsfed 4y ago
I ended up in the Seattle area, and I'm pretty happy with it. I'm still frustrated by the high price of housing, because I fundamentally agree with the thesis of the article: housing, especially single-family housing, should not b
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by petsfed 4y ago
I think his position is a little more nuanced than that. >The bottom line, what I did violated the laws governing copyrights. I don't agree with those laws 100%, but they were designed by people with lots of money in their pockets t
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by petsfed 4y ago
I work in embedded systems, firmware and hardware. Unfortunately, I've got a solid decade of professional development before I can justify going freelance competitively. The thousands of dollars in test equipment is quite the barrier.
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by petsfed 4y ago
I was living happily in Wyoming when my employer said "move to California, or find another job" which, if you don't know the Wyoming economy, translated to "leave Wyoming for us, leave Wyoming for somebody else, or go wo
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by petsfed 4y ago
Great, if only there were adequate jobs in those places, so we could all own homes without needing $300K annual family income. The dissonance comes from the fact that a lot of hackernews readers make apparently high incomes, but the cost of
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by petsfed 4y ago
Perhaps, but the Raspberry Pi Foundation was founded on the premise of putting tiny computers in the hands of children and hobbyists. So whatever good may come of selling RPis to Vodafone, it is not the good that Raspberry Pi was founded to
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by petsfed 4y ago
If climate change continues at pace, we're going to see larger and larger migrations away from the sunniest parts of the earth, as those sunny spots become too hot for humans to live. That "if" is doing a lot of heavy lifting
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by petsfed 4y ago
>Then bringing in federal assets to run an extremely local project (forcing those people to also travel for extended periods of time), with no jurisdiction (fed can't overrule state laws on planning typically) sounds like a disaster
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by petsfed 4y ago
I wonder if part of the problem is a confusion of meaning for "woke", coupled with a tendency to misuse moderate criticism as full-throated support for the extreme opposition. The classic liberal stance is "don't be shit
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by petsfed 4y ago
I believe you should understand "original" in the parent as in quotation marks as well. The "original" here is akin to referencing the "original" pledge of allegiance in the US, the one with "under god&quo
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by petsfed 4y ago
Granted. And those inconsistencies are not new. I actually had an idea in undergrad (20+ years ago) to probe Hubble Constant variation using quasar reverberation mapping and very-long-baseline-interferometry. Then the professor I was workin
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"Oh yeah, I saw [the satirical facebook page about us], but I have no idea if its true" It's infuriating that this farce is what our legal system hinges on.
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by petsfed 4y ago
Do you have any citations for any of what you just said? Also, the Big Bang "theory" is a theory in the technical sense, in that the overwhelming majority of evidence ever collected is at least neutral towards the Big Bang, to say

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