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721.
by scoutt 8y ago
"we're ... called on to fix the deficiencies of mechanical or aero or electrical engineering" As an embedded and firmware developer, I can tell you that this happens almost every day. If you ask how it is even possible to
722.
by scoutt 8y ago
Depending on your stash, why stopping at the hat? You can go full body IR and with a good IR-sensible camera you can achieve some nice (and fake and youtube-clicky ) "poltergeist" videos!
723.
by scoutt 8y ago
"an array of tiny infrared LEDs wired to the inside of a baseball cap" I had that idea some years ago, but using instead big powerful IR LEDs around a hat or cap to create a sort of white halo around the entire head. Never tes
724.
by scoutt 8y ago
Any explanation on why the links for the source code on Github are dead, and the repositories are gone?
725.
by scoutt 8y ago
It's a symbiotic relationship, but if it reduces to "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" analogy it would be: * the app store is successful thanks to apps like Spotify * Spotify is successful thanks to the app store I
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Troubling Issues in a Silicon Valley Spy Case (1996)(nytimes.com)
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727.
by scoutt 8y ago
As an alternative to parsing 3 HN links (plus comments) and reading between the lines, can someone please summarize what's going on ? Thank you.
728.
by scoutt 8y ago
I tried to used Kdenlive to make some very simple videos (a couple of fade-in, fade-out, some overlays here and there). Even with the latest versions (and me being a very patient person) it suffered from stability problems: random crashes
729.
by scoutt 8y ago
"Big computers and little computers are completely different beasts" Are we living in a period in which many things seems to be going backwards ? With ARM trying to go into servers/desktop, or the (somewhat) failed attempt
730.
by scoutt 8y ago
If your mother is not a programmer, then (following the logic of the article) being a patient and detail-oriented person doesn't make someone automagically a programmer.
731.
by scoutt 8y ago
Is there an official explanation of the kind of bug? I cannot find it. "Let's just collectively admit it, finally - you can't write safe C++ in a codebase this complex." Pointing the finger and saying "see?"
732.
by scoutt 8y ago
Wife asks the same to me. I say her that she, and seems that also most people, don't go places with the primary objective of just visiting them. Their primary objective is to take pictures.
733.
by scoutt 8y ago
If SWCLK and SWDIO signals are present, there are great chances that SWD will work. In any case, you can control with registers if you want to enable full JTAG, SWD, or nothing, and reuse those pins as you wish. You can use JTAG probes that
734.
by scoutt 8y ago
But I don't think it has to be necessarily shit . It can be a good game, and you can be proud of it, but at some point a manager comes in and says "upper floors want to add microtransactions and DLCs here and there". You kno
735.
by scoutt 8y ago
"most of the software being built today" "web applications/web sites/microservices" The world is bigger than you think it is. There could be more code in making a single AAA videogame than in the entire Ama
736.
by scoutt 8y ago
"Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just
737.
by scoutt 8y ago
Sorry if I gave that impression. It was not my intention. > A crash is a bug but not a security problem. I think that all bugs, the ones that produces crashes and security bugs should be all treated equally. A bug is a bug, whenever it h
738.
by scoutt 8y ago
Such affirmation requires that a crash will never produce a security problem. But for example... "Families are LOCKED OUT of or INSIDE their homes as Yale 'smart' security app crashes leaving dozens stranded" https:&#x2
739.
by scoutt 8y ago
I was referring to publishing comments as the equivalent of free speech or freedom of expression, and not about denying participation and/or discrimination. Why going so far with the reasoning? It's not Youtube's responsibili
740.
by scoutt 8y ago
A system crash is a bug. Period. In many cases it could lead to Denial of Service. An insulin pump can stop working. I remember when C# came out almost 20 years ago. People said "I can forget about managing memory so I can focus on the
741.
by scoutt 8y ago
> Youtube would, in essence, become the censor of what is and is not okay to post in the comments sections They can, that's enough reason. It's their lawn, they can do whatever they want. If you invite me into your house and I
742.
by scoutt 8y ago
It's true that types has something to do with it, but the main issue is padding. While I can keep the same type (i.e. uint8_t ), it's the padding following uint8_t var[3] that may vary according on packing options when compil
743.
by scoutt 8y ago
Could be a catch that while this kind of constructs work OK for local lists, you have to be aware when passing the struct between applications or processes compiled with different packing but using the same struct definition with non-aligne
744.
by scoutt 8y ago
I always dreamed with a standardized, cross-platform, cross-arch, (sort of) automatic, non-blocking, DMA-based memory copying functions (like a special memcpy) for duplicating or passing big chunks of memory (like for example, H.264 frames
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by scoutt 8y ago
Clear and concise. Thank you very much.
746.
by scoutt 8y ago
I wonder if someone working at Alphabet Inc. suffers the same anonymity.
747.
by scoutt 8y ago
Forgive my ignorance on the matter, but: 1) Are the DNS request sent to oblivion or a fake address is returned instead? If the former, wouldn't a failed DNS request generate some sort of timeout? 2) Would a failed DNS request generate
748.
by scoutt 8y ago
I always wondered why they don't have a system where the videos or images are shown first filtered, like blurred, and then at the discretion of the operator, they can take "several levels of blurring" off until they see the o
749.
by scoutt 8y ago
Ah... BASIC. I started into programming as a kid back in the 80's, by transcribing BASIC games from Andrew Lacey's book "Games for MSX", into of course, an MSX. Learnt a lot. I've found the exact Spanish version! h
750.
by scoutt 8y ago
While I agree that I2C is mostly broken and filled with workarounds (at least in the STM32F103x family), the SPI in master mode (as I understand you are referring to) works fairly well. To receive data you have to send clock pulses. Sending

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