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by rkangel 4y ago
I assume you're in Calif based on the above? The ICO in the UK is usually pretty good if you report.
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by rkangel 4y ago
Previous discussion (4 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29929446
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Yeah, there's two parts to it. The first is "Can you build your code, for the correct target with the right cross compiler. Is your linker script set up correctly etc.". This isn't too bad once you've done it once,
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by rkangel 4y ago
I'm not the person you're asking, but I'm well compensated and I work in Cambridge, UK. Also known as "Silicon Fen". There are a lot of embedded jobs around here and they are pretty well paid. Yes you'll still
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by rkangel 4y ago
I work the "Wireless and Digital Systems" division of my company. Nobody distrusts wireless products like wireless engineers. That said, I adore wireless headphones and would never go back. Whether it's my earbuds to listen t
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The blog post we're all commenting describes the point of heroku as to lowering the barrier to entry for deployment. It's about the number of things that you don't have to think about. As a sibling comment says in Google A
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> Funny how we got downgraded into "smart watches" We didn't get downgraded. The "dumb watch" product category is still alive and kicking. Whether it's the more moderate priced quartz segment, or the less mo
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This is what I find most interesting about the Erlang/Elixir world. The programming language design predated SMP by about 20 years - the actor model was chosen because it was a good way to reason about programs not for parallelism. The
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by rkangel 4y ago
> The web is the cross platform that runs everywhere (as in in a browser or webview) Yes, but the web is crappy system for designing UIs in. As a community we've got good at designing UIs with web technologies (HTML+CSS), because we
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Thank you both for this detailed summary and declaration of your bias. "Near future plans involving a small test factory" means they're about 10 steps further along than most articles about new battery tech. There's stil
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If you do that, it skews all of your figures for "kwh per kg" and "kwh per m3". I'd suggest that those are far more important figures of merit for design of electric aircraft and vehicles.
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Purely player created. They're basically guilds in other games. There are some built-in 'NPC Corporations' that you start on, and default back to if you get kicked out of a Corp, but they're basically just placeholders.
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> Except you'll find that if you have more than one person looking after the machine, someone will install a package directly and it'll get removed by the next person to run the script. This is explicitly the purpose of what is
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There are two situations that I encounter that make step through debugging difficult or impossible, and for a lot of my work both apply. A) When developing for a microcontroller (however large or small). Stepping debuggers are limited, and
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But actually the underlying price of crude hasn't been ridiculous, whereas the price of petrol at the pump has skyrocketed. It's the gap between the two that has grown and hence oil company profits.
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Can anybody suggest why normal competition isn't working here? One would expect providers of an identical product to push their prices down to the minimum profitable level to compete with others doing the same. From a consumer point of
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This is exactly the thinking behind Phoenix LiveView, except that I'd argue that it's even easier in that case. You write an app the looks like a normal server-rendered HTML page, but having served the page it then opens a websock
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by rkangel 4y ago
I do love Seiko watches. That's probably a little steep for me but I'll have a look!
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I keep considering a mechanical watch, but I think I'd find the accuracy a bit tedious - having to continually adjust it every week so that I didn't arrive late to appointments. I like a watch that gets out of the way - it just wo
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by rkangel 4y ago
Amazon Prime Video show you information on the actors in the current scene. If you are (e.g.) chromecasting from a phone you have it continually on the mobile display while the film is on the TV.
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One way that journals could actually add value (a concept to which they seem resistant) would be to review the statistical analysis. Statistics is hard and easy to get subtley wrong, and is often an independent skill to the underlying scien
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Facebook and Discord are built using React Native. Ebay is built using Flutter. These examples are easy to find on the homepages of the respective frameworks. I agree that for the large technology companies having a team to build a native a
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The received wisdom was that for many years it was easier to make money from Apple customers. Despite the fact that there were fewer iPhones compared to Androids the theory was that iPhone customers tended to have more money and were willin
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by rkangel 5y ago
Does this not result in potentially having to resolve a conflict several times? If you have 3 commits working in a block of code and then you rebase over master that has one commit changing the same area, do you not end up resolving the con
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Is it because you're viewing it at a different distance (phone usually closer than monitor) and therefore the focusing variation is different?
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This is the classic "not the question you asked" but I strongly recommend running Fedora on laptops, particularly Thinkpads. It works perfectly on every Thinkpad I've tested on (a good half dozen models at this point) with th
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by rkangel 5y ago
Yes, that's fair. I suppose I was describing my process of "discovery" and learning with Python which was significantly before 2014. Even now though, enums are not usually the normal way of doing things in public APIs, but th
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It has been a constant battle of SEO improving and Google improving the page ranking algorithm. For a long time Google was winning that battle, but more recently they haven't seen as interested. The economic argument you're making
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Elixir (and Erlang) have atoms which are exactly the same thing. They're useful in any dynamic programming language - in a static one, the equivalent is different values of an enum. Python notably doesn't, and as such you get func
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I assume that's the point of the system - there are some long stretches of pipe at any place that pipe does anything there'll be some form of access point. So you get to the access point push fibre through to the next point (which

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