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by rpcope1 11y ago
Yeah, I agree. I think this throws a lot of the major advantages of GUI programming in Python out the window, starting with the back end really needs to be stateless with electron, where as with Tkinter/Qt/WxWidgets the interface
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I definitely second this. You know Tk/Tcl isn't super flashy, but it certainly is snappy and gets work done well. Especially with add-ons like ttk, it's possible to build very sophisticated GUIs and sizable applications. It m
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Very cool! Thanks for sharing your scripts.
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, but I agree: cookies are enormous (bad) hack, and we knew they were an enormous hack when they were implemented many moons ago. I think it would be far better for HTTP to get a better auth
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Solidfire offers unlimited SSD wear guarantee, punts software at market(theregister.co.uk)
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by rpcope1 11y ago
HAMR may also manifest at some point soon and push HDD densities way up while getting rid of the problems associated with SMR. HAMR will likely be expensive just like Helium is but it will certainly unlock a lot of super high density materi
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by rpcope1 11y ago
In much the same vein, if you've got a little extra cash to cough up for a cheapo $60 scope (which can be pushed to 20ish MHz bandwidth, or perhaps better), I've managed to a lot of the similar stuff (in Python) on a Raspberry Pi
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by rpcope1 11y ago
You might call it a DAQ, since that's much more in line with what you're doing.
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I second this, as the proud owner of a Rigol 1102E (and several other scopes), it's amazing what $400 gets you there. A good scope is about so much more than just the bandwidth, it's about having a good front end with low noise, a
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I think there are is a sizable contingent of those of us, who do not like Javascript (or the often impending callback hell that comes with a language not initially designed with concurrency in mind); the HN echo chamber may lead you to beli
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I think you made a false equivocation there--computer science in relation to programming is like geology in relation to ditch digging. Besides, math literally is at the core of all of our advancements as humans, and is probably going to be
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by rpcope1 11y ago
You know, the extra curvy crazy body panels can be cool looking sometimes, but I still wish they'd ship the engineers that build and design these cars out to Alaska in the winter and make them disassemble and reassemble the cars a coup
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Even if you decide that an extra $X dollars is fine to tack onto the price of whatever it is you're shipping, being as updates are as difficult as they are in the field for an embedded device , I still think I'd rather stick with
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Yeah, it kind of slipped my mind, but Ada is another good choice.
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I feel like regardless of how ubiquitous Javascript is, it's honestly an awful choice for embedded applications (no, most embedded applications don't sport some racecar ARM A7/A8/A9/A15, and shouldn't if it&#x2
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Came here to say, this seems like a job for a low power 16-bit or 32-bit MCU, probably not that Tegra chip. Or are we Bitcoin mining while we cook dinner?
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by rpcope1 11y ago
If it doesn't have networking (which it doesn't) one would imagine the security attack surface is significantly reduced, and pretty much (outside of insane NSA style radio-transmitter-in-your-cable style attacks) requires physical
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Yeah, it's not every day you see someone with the persistence to roll their own OS like that, and really he has a lot of neat ideas there; guy seems like quite a character, I'm sure there's probably something for all of us to
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by rpcope1 11y ago
This is probably another case of someone (ab)using "regulatory arbitrage" just like Uber, but I think the DOT will clamp down way harder on this (as they really should) if this is the case.
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I have some very serious doubts about this. Uber may be able to skirt the law for transporting people, but if these drivers are acting as commercial haulers, they really probably need both a CDL in the US, and their vehicles need DOT number
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I feel like this is sort of absurdly wrong. I don't think it's really possible to convey a lot of EE knowledge like accelerators, magnetics, and RF on Github (not easily anyways), but that's just as much if not more of a &quo
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I still write some Forth occasionally, it's really awesome for embedded systems, as it runs on little MCUs like AVR. It's so cool to update the program without reflashing the MCU, and have potentially have an interactive interpret
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I have some very strong doubts that a MOOC will ever be able to offer the laboratory experience that you'd get at a traditional university (I'm not talking entry level). To do a lot of the EE work I've done in the past, you r
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Wow, this looks like a really interesting read. Thanks for sharing.
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by rpcope1 11y ago
It's far easier to build a start-up doing software than pretty much any hardware, so current giants have a huge advantage over anyone trying to break in. Consider for a moment that a new fab with a recent process is probably a many bil
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Given past experience with both Avago and Broadcom, I don't think I would hold your hopes too high; I would bet money that the current attitude you get from Broadcom about drivers will continue if not get worse. Most vendors in the har
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Just from my own experience, when LSI was bought up by Avago, a lot of the LSI guys around here complained that it was a rather rough transition. Avago seems to like buying up companies like this and piecing them out, like how a lot of LSI&
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by rpcope1 11y ago
This. Even _new_ ARM processors like A9 and A15 are still 32-bit, and this is at the heart of many (most?) smartphones. Many low end x86 processors like a lot of Atom chips are also 32-bit only. Just because most new consumer x86 is now 64-
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by rpcope1 11y ago
>The "web" also means the whole internet stack, TCPIP, DNS routing, etc. In that case, the web is a foundational tool for anything that connects people or Internet Of Things. To say the "web works best as a document platfo
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Yes, I personally would love to get back to having real tactile buttons. It feels sort of crazy that your only choice any more is a touch screen--I think there might be a market in higher end devices without a touch screen too.

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