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There's probably a startup name in there somewhere. Bear Metal Semiconductor. Bear Metal Fabrication. Bear Metal Labs. You could get so creative with the branding and logo.
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Besides being a great technical write-up, this does an absolutely fantastic job of doing low-key recruitment for Skroutz. It shows some of the main tools and technologies that the company uses on a day-to-day basis, provides a window into t
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> Nevertheless, she persisted. As a complete aside, I think this is a really interesting example of how a particular phrase has become part of the cultural vernacular. From the floor of the United States Congress, to t-shirts, to an arti
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For what it's worth, this keyboard seems right up my alley. I'm currently on approximately a 60% keyboard, and I'm wary of using anything larger because I simply don't have the desk real estate for it. I have single boar
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I was wondering the same thing. It's not as though LLVM is some niche project that only Rust is using; it's the backend for a large number of compilers, and I imagine this will continue to be the case moving forward. There are now
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Maybe? Looks like that user has been registered since 2013 and has several thousand karma. I guess they could have assigned a bot to the already active account, but that seems like a long time to run a fairly successful bot on a web forum.
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I know that SpaceX has historically had a abnormally high development and deployment cadence, but I think that your second point about behind-the-scenes development is probably closest to the mark. To me, it seems more plausible that they w
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As much as I like having the Pinephone to play with, and I know some dedicated folks are technically able to use it as a daily driver, the hardware quality is far below modern quality, even on entry-level phones. This is pretty noticeable o
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Especially for cost--my group recently picked up a pair of 900 MHz Ethernet radio modems which acts basically like a 40km long line-of-sight Ethernet cable. Super useful for field research, but at US$900 per pair, they're above the &qu
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If anyone's interested in a collection of scientific programming/machine learning libraries written in Rust, we maintain a collection of them across different domains at https://www.arewelearningyet.com/ .
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Okay, good to know! I could probably figure out the connector myself, but if it was some kind of space-saving soldered connection, etc. I don't think that would particularly fun to mess around with.
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Is the battery user-replaceable on one of those? I'd taken a look, as I sometimes work with serial devices in weird places, but if the battery is a little suspect and I might run it down, it's probably harder to justify the price
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FAA approves fully automated commercial drone flights(wsj.com)
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Start-up idea I don't want to do, but would pay for money for: Applicant Tracking System, but for applicants. Employers pay for posting per usual, but applicants also pay $N/mo. An applicant can submit a small number of applicatio
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Maybe not perfect answers, but letting beavers do their thing is somewhat easy and can lead to shockingly large amounts of water being conserved even in regions experiencing desertification[1][2]. The author of the linked article wrote a
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Honestly, I'm still mostly getting started in the area as well, but I'm looking to use them for motor control. An example of this would be this paper [1], which I'm hoping to replicate to some degree, but requires at least 4
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Perhaps a little pedantic, but I don't think this is technically correct, since Stallman and the GPL wouldn't really apply here for server-side code, since it doesn't seem like the client-side application code is being questi
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I agree-as far as I know, the BBB had something like 8 PWM channels. I'm not saying you need all of them, but at least 4 seems somewhat reasonable.
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As an aside, I really wish that these boards would include more than two PWM outputs. The Raspberry Pi has two as well, and it feels really limiting. Analog control instead gets farmed out to microcontrollers, when you could probably make i
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Even something like a public benefit corporation in a state with more strict reporting requirements could even fill the same niche, without dealing with the rigamarole of obtaining/maintaining 501(c)3 status. It'd be interesting t
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I actually really like this analogy. I'm curious if there's there's a term for that kind of playbook for folks who are more familiar with building security.
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Personally, I'd love to see these reports include annual data on the number/percentage of repositories with an open source license, and a breakdown of which licenses are most common. There was a post to that effect on the Github b
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I recently have been playing around with a few boards in this area. Besides the RPi3/4/Zero, I've got the Beaglebone Blue/Black, Jetson Nano, and Odroid-C4, with an Odroid-N2+ shipped my way yesterday. The Raspberry Pi&#
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From what I understand, even among sharks actually trying to eat humans is pretty rare. It happens sometimes with species like tiger sharks (which are pretty widely regarding as being angry at the world), but most other encounters are usual
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I'm no expert on encryption, but this article made it sound like several of the areas that made iOS less than secure weren't bugs, but specific design choices in terms of what they allow developers to do, which often make things m
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I think this answers my question, in that I wasn't sure if the encryption methods used by modern phones is sub-par compared to other computing devices like laptops or servers. At least based on yours and sibling comments, the title &qu
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I wonder to the degree this paradigm affects the development of some of the upcoming mobile Linux distros for devices like the Pinephone and Librem 5. I know that support for full disk encryption recently got added to Mobian[1] (which lever
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Literally continued scrolling through the thread, and found this comment after a your other one dismissing being an OnlyFans creator as not being a real job. I don't disagree with your point here, but the cognitive dissonance is deafe
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Feels like the definition of a No True Scotsman fallacy. Maybe they should drive an Uber instead? No, that's not a real job, just a side gig. How about working at a drive-thru? Nope, that's supposed to a temporary stop for high sc
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I believe there's been some work in the this space by the Armbian[1] community, which is aiming to create a unified base distro for a wide range of ARM single-board computers including Odroid, Pine64, etc. [1] https://www.ar

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