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by rpcope1 10mo ago
They also sell feather and a bunch of other vaguely similar stuff and have their own "maker" ecosystem (think CircuitPython). I like Adafruit, but they are in many senses competitors to Arduino.
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by rpcope1 10mo ago
I was talking HD. Walmart has a rep for being a decent tech shop and given how well all their stuff seems to work, I would not be remotely surprised if they weren't on the leading edge of good software.
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by rpcope1 10mo ago
I'll bet money any new React/K8s/${WEBSCALE} stuff they're building is still just a wrapper over the same old inventory management they've been using for years...probably something like JDEdwards on AS/400.
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by rpcope1 10mo ago
> 7/16 in I had a major WTF moment there, until I realized that's probably for a hex driver (and thus something totally different than what I think of when someone says "impact wrench").
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by rpcope1 10mo ago
This is why I still use Piwigo as I don't need to mess with file names and structure as far as I have seen.
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by rpcope1 11mo ago
Honestly after going down to the local circle track to watch the Legend cars, modified , Whelen and actual honest to God GM B-bodies from the 80s, along with other open wheel and general cool shit, it's not hard IMO to find (and be dir
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by rpcope1 11mo ago
There can be a bunch of crazy people trading each other various lumps of dog feces for increasing sums of cash, that doesn't mean dogshit is particularly valuable or substantive either.
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by rpcope1 11mo ago
Yeah, it definitely feels like the TFR crisis where the actual problems won't show up until it's too late and we're basically turbofucked.
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by rpcope1 11mo ago
I wonder if the distribution of ages for home buyers is not a normal distribution and maybe the median and standard deviations might tell us something more here. Regardless it's concerning that the average and likely median age has sho
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by rpcope1 11mo ago
You got a loiscence for that speech? If even half of that is true, I can't fathom why someone would willingly live in that total shithole of a country.
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by rpcope1 11mo ago
This is the Z-Wave approach and is honestly probably why IMO it sucks the least.
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by rpcope1 11mo ago
> Meta: recently it seems like the community has been way too loose with the downvote button, but I'm not sure if I'm just noticing it more because it's getting on my nerves, or if there has actually been a change in behav
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by rpcope1 11mo ago
I feel like Larry Wall must have basically thought the same things when he came up with Perl: what if I had awk, but just a few more extras and nice things (not to say that Perl is a bad language at all).
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by rpcope1 11mo ago
> The fact that UBI would save us astronomical amounts of money versus the current piecemeal, ineffective and constantly under seige social system we have doesn't matter, because the point isn't to keep people fed, it's to
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by rpcope1 11mo ago
It's not just Flock anymore. Another Y Combinator startup, Blissway has been putting cameras in a lot of places in Colorado, and you can't tell me it's not going to be used for exactly the same shit.
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by rpcope1 11mo ago
I've been saying roughly the same thing about cryptocurrencies (just a good way to waste fuckhuge amounts of resources on digital tulips to enable crime) but it never seems to stop anyone from plowing ahead on being stupid.
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by rpcope1 11mo ago
You can see the real time magnetic field change when it hits: https://dasi.barlow.cpi.com/dashboard
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by rpcope1 11mo ago
That same problem bites in other ways too. There was a discussion in I think the Debian mailing lists around Rust applications potentially being slower to patch because everything gets linked in statically (so you can't just patch libs
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by rpcope1 11mo ago
> any sort of network connected device I can't control. How would you use this and ensure privacy and security? This was exactly the nice thing about Zigbee (and Z-Wave). They're not IP networks, they basically just work with
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by rpcope1 1y ago
This is the MD-11 we're talking about here. As bad as the 737 MAX is/was the DC-10/MD-11 is kind of well known for having all sorts of crazy problems like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Fl
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by rpcope1 1y ago
It's amazing that towns don't see this sort of thing and think "huh maybe it's not a good idea to put apartments right on top of an airport", but I guess they don't. Longmont is in trouble with the FAA because
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by rpcope1 1y ago
I guess we're going to let AT&T, Verizon and everyone else just squat the entire spectrum. "5G" and the pillaging and theft of spectrum that seems to just sit idle anyways has been such a scam. If they wanted innovation t
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by rpcope1 1y ago
One major point of heartburn with Rust is that it comparatively lacks the diversity of ISA targets that C broadly does. I know some of this is because C is both relatively simple to write a basic compiler for that more or less just works (i
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by rpcope1 1y ago
Honestly having seen trainwreck after trainwreck after trainwreck come out of Canonical for the last decade, I'm sure I'm not the only one that has strong doubts about anyone associated being able to "avoid redoing past mista
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by rpcope1 1y ago
Do these guys really not understand that WAL is still single writer multi reader? You could do concurrent (but not parallel) write DML in both the normal and WAL journaling models. WAL alleviates read transactions being blocked by writers b
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by rpcope1 1y ago
Other than probably flash storage, there's never been a Samsung product that's ever been better than just throwing at least the equivalent amount of money in a fire pit and incinerating it. They've never sold an appliance app
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by rpcope1 1y ago
Do you really believe that a newer washer actually somehow makes clothes appreciably more clean? Quieter, perhaps, and maybe a little less water, but so much so that you'd ever notice if a persons clothes came out of a multi-decade old
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by rpcope1 1y ago
Having been closely acquainted with a woman worth north of a billion dollars, and having met a number of people that are worth probably at least hundreds of millions, I can tell you the kitchen experience for the wealthy (maybe barring like
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by rpcope1 1y ago
Honestly after witnessing "principal" software engineers defend storing API keys plaintext in a database in the year of our Lord 2025, and ask how that someone possibly exploit that if they can't access that column directly t
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by rpcope1 1y ago
The Black Duck scanner in particular I've found is really easy to misconfigure to siphon up all sorts of crazy shit. Did some coworker write a one-off support script that uses an ancient container in some random repository? Oops now yo

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