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by phaedrus 6y ago
I've long thought there's a potentially-useful/missing piece of software infrastructure that's midway between code or data-written-as-code and a full blown database (even one as small as Sqlite).
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by phaedrus 6y ago
It's like something The Culture might produce on a GSV that's gone Eccentric and the crew just goes along with it.
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by phaedrus 6y ago
I have a largish 20AH 48V LiFePO4 I bought from PingBattery.com ten years ago for powering a dual motor e-bike project. I ended up also using it to power a mobile robot (rover) project, and sometimes used it for emergency power during blac
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by phaedrus 6y ago
I struggled with this for a long time, for example if someone asked what time it was instead of saying "it's 4pm" I'd say, "It's 3:57... no wait now it's 3:58" because I felt like saying 4:00 would be
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by phaedrus 6y ago
That might not be lying per se but rather an inability to take responsibility. I have two nephews-in-law, there's a dynamic there that sometimes happens between brothers where the younger feels it's unfair if he doesn't ge
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by phaedrus 6y ago
My first wife was a pathological liar. I'm bad at reading people and tend to think the best of people, so I remained naive (or willfully blind) to it for a long time. It came to a head when a sweet, mutual friend of ours asked an inn
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by phaedrus 6y ago
> When was the last time you researched all the gas stations in your area and looked for the one that you felt served your interests above all the others? Nobody shops for gas this way. I do. I own a classic(ish) car that both requires
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by phaedrus 6y ago
I just ordered it.
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by phaedrus 6y ago
There's a big difference between Eastern Oklahoma and Western Oklahoma. GP's description sounds like Eastern Oklahoma which is more similar in landscape and vegetation to places in Arkansas and Missouri like the Ozarks. Your descr
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by phaedrus 6y ago
At least for coil speakers, arrays of smaller speakers can perform better than one large speaker (or at least, better than the sum of their parts). It looks like the ones from the article are meant for earbuds, but if these MEMS speakers so
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by phaedrus 6y ago
I think "no bare pointers, ever" is overly dogmatic. Raw pointers still have a place, especially in game programming. The standard smart pointer types cover many common situations, but do not cover all situations (nor do I think
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by phaedrus 6y ago
Static analysis tools like PVS Studio are amazing. Software verification like CompCert where the compilation includes a certificate of correctness are farther away for C++ but will someday be usable for it.
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by phaedrus 6y ago
I'm already maintaining an application written 15 years ago which is almost like this. It's in C++ but it's like they thought they were writing Erlang (without the tools or language support). Every task from the most trivia
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by phaedrus 7y ago
I used to work for a GIS company. All of these companies' tools are based on whatever software development platform was current when the project was initiated. The mapping tool may grow to be 8, 10, 15, even 20+ years old and new fea
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by phaedrus 7y ago
I'm an amateur (i.e. it's not my day job) indie game developer. I consider having attempted to support macOS to be the biggest mistake I ever made in game development. I owned Mac laptops when they were the best, and naturally e
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by phaedrus 7y ago
Even a divorce which is not lengthy and avoids acrimony can leave one feeling like the "reset" button got pushed.
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by phaedrus 7y ago
I've been translating a personal project (game engine) from a dynamically typed language to a statically typed one. Having to pin down what the types of function parameters are and spell out interfaces for objects has been eye opening
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by phaedrus 7y ago
I'm currently refactoring a legacy codebase which has many of the attributes of big ball of mud. It seems to have started with a misguided amateur attempt at an architecture, which turned into "the most complicated thing which co
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by phaedrus 7y ago
The place I worked at before my current employer had a bizarre attitude to remote work. Our manager was strongly skeptical of work from home, but half of our team was distributed in branch offices which were effectively remote work! I wor
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by phaedrus 7y ago
I own a piece of semi-precious test equipment, a Fluke 9010a base unit along with some pods. A beloved mentor got it when an engineering company discarded it and gave it to me while it was mostly a curio. I used it on a retrocomputing pro
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by phaedrus 7y ago
This is a good time to reiterate my idea that I call "stacking the stack" (like stacking the deck in card games). The idea is that you transform a simple alternation between coroutineA and coroutineB into nested method calls, met
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by phaedrus 7y ago
When I got diagnosed one of the tests (don't know if it was specifically T.O.V.A.) was a very simple impulse control exercise: when an "O" appeared on the screen, I was supposed to push a button. When an "X" appea
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by phaedrus 7y ago
Isn't there an element of being in the right place / right time though? I sometimes feel like my side-interest niches fall into two categories: things I came late to the party to, or things I thought would be a good thing to get
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by phaedrus 7y ago
Vernor Vinge's Deepness in the Sky features an alien race which, because they evolved from genetically engineered spiderlike creatures, have an interesting condition: in addition to many eyes their retinas also have a fantastic range
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by phaedrus 7y ago
Or both. Most times it gets paid back, but twice a year something falls through and the parents can't pay it back. The child is industrious / saver / works an after school job and manages to save about $200 every six months
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by phaedrus 7y ago
Most of my four years of college were lived in this state. I never knew at the beginning of the week if I'd still have food by the end of the week. Instead of studying I'd lay awake all (ALL!) night running a loop over in my hea
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by phaedrus 7y ago
I've felt both extremes. As a child growing up in poverty, I felt my intellect didn't match the situation I found myself in. I remember being deeply angry watching other children squander opportunities/resources I would h
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by phaedrus 7y ago
Money provides a claim on future labor. Having more of it in fewer hands leads to worse decisions for the human race. If I acquire all of the dollars in a rural economy and use them to cause a giant statue of myself made of butter to be e
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by phaedrus 7y ago
I'm 36 and recently was assigned to mentor a new employee in his 20s. We had a moment of miscommunication when I asked him to use git to clone a local repository. He was confused when he couldn't find it on github.com (what I&#x
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by phaedrus 7y ago
I think GP is saying they're physically located on the ECU board / inside the ECU box, not that they're conceptually part of the ECU even if separate. Whether they are or not (physically inside the ECU box) differs by make a

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