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by seabird 6y ago
Chemical, biological, nuclear, and anti-aircraft weapons are off-limits according to federal law. These rules have been enforced against people with terrorist intentions, but I would imagine any private citizen who believes they should be a
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by seabird 6y ago
I see a lot of people that in this thread saying things along the lines of "just use it under LGPL". As somebody who uses Qt in a commercial setting, it is not that simple. The Qt Company will start twisting arms if they catch w
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by seabird 6y ago
I don't think that's fair to TempleOS. While portions of it reflect Davis' bouts of insanity, the core of it is a world that has passed us by, and all of the anger that goes along with losing something that you can never get
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by seabird 6y ago
Absolutely. I don't think developer ergonomics should take priority over absolutely everything (the modern web arena shows why this is bad) but there are some great technologies that have lost out or are relegated to incredibly niche u
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by seabird 6y ago
1.) You can't just open up every driver. I say this as somebody who works on proprietary firmware and software that is basically the future of our company. We operate in a market with thin margins, our control strategies are our advant
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by seabird 6y ago
I can't speak for Usenet, but the internet already had more than its fair share of influential shitholes by the early 2000s. 4chan, ebaumsworld, TOTSE, LiveLeak, etc. existed at their very worst at that time, and even websites that are
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by seabird 6y ago
Frankly, the work that most software developers do is a joke compared to what is done in even a low-end CAD package. Biffing a minor detail in Uber For Toothbrushes isn't a big deal. Biffing a minor detail in a wiring harness for a pla
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by seabird 6y ago
A lot of people believe that the year of the "maker FPGA" is upon us, and that the only thing holding it back is bad vendor tooling, so there's a lot of HN posts about them as of late. The vendor tooling is bad, but more th
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by seabird 6y ago
There's not much there for hobbyists past toy ISA design and basic digital logic design exercises unless you really stretch the definition of hobbyist. It's a steep increase in learning curve for power that most people will never
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by seabird 6y ago
League was the first free derivative of the mod (Dota 2 was released nearly four years after it) and the complexity of the game was massively reduced to the extent that it's marketable in a way that Dota 2 just isn't. Valorant is
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by seabird 6y ago
Except it wasn't a one time mistake. I can think of at least one other specific instance of them outing somebody, and the Hulk Hogan sex tape situation is equally morally bankrupt. This isn't even counting multiple other pointless
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by seabird 6y ago
Minecraft mods have not worked by manual replacement of classes for a long, long time now. Doing so is highly discouraged, and you use a mod loader like Forge. Minecraft modding is neglected in all official capacities, it's a usability
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by seabird 6y ago
Valve has no control over user-owned servers, only the listings for the server browser. Valve was informed of this leak years ago. All of this talk of an RCE is pure speculation; the leak hasn't even been out for a day. It's good
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by seabird 7y ago
The OP probably can't cash out on the RSUs at this point, and options plays are like shooting fish in a barrel at the moment. Remember that the hard part of an options play is knowing when something is going to happen with a fair amoun
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by seabird 7y ago
I work on ECUs and surrounding software for various smaller engines, and it requires a lot of massaging, but you can scrape the bottom of the barrel and still get alright results. An FPGA isn't strictly necessary, save maybe some extre
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by seabird 7y ago
Rust tooling certainly has plenty of time to improve and target more architectures. Vendors are extremely slow, but I do understand that in 10-20 years, it's very possible for Rust support to be on par or beyond C. Do remember that t
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by seabird 7y ago
Google has immeasurable money and talent; you can choose whatever you want in that arena when you're a software company that employs nearly 100,000 people. Needless to say, most companies aren't like this. Note that I said "t
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by seabird 7y ago
I'm not trying to be inflammatory, but do you realize how inadequate Rust tooling is for most embedded platforms? I'm all for embracing new technologies, but choosing to write a non-trivial embedded system using Rust on anything o
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by seabird 7y ago
To be fair, FreeCAD can be really hard to "get". It's a Big Tent serving a lot of markets, but without the billions of dollars that drive the commercial CAD market behind it. The modelling feels "off" if you're
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by seabird 7y ago
Hardware can be finished. If this faithfully implements the Sun 2, further changes defeat its purpose.
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by seabird 7y ago
The serious tone is a huge draw to the LKML and that way of working. They really do care about not having left-pad type meltdowns. They really do care about being able to find information easily, even years after the fact. There's a bi
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by seabird 7y ago
Are you buying military equipment any time you deal with a company that does business with a military? Would "man buys equipment from missile manufacturer Honeywell" be an appropriate description of me having bought an air humidif
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by seabird 7y ago
This is a bit disingenuous; people didn't just "have it enabled", it was made a default despite a lot of concern that it was such a radical departure from the normal behavior.
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by seabird 7y ago
Tcl itself isn't really the problem. EDA tooling is generally a dumpster fire (queue horror stories about checking bitstream files into VCS because there's no guarantee the compiler will ever spit the same one out again, even if n
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by seabird 7y ago
FPGA is pretty challenging to get started with. If you decide to go in on it, you're going to spend quite a bit of your time at the beginning getting your ass kicked. Vendor tooling blows, open source tooling is playing continuous catc
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by seabird 7y ago
My take is driven by me finding the Arduino platform too easy. My first exposure to embedded development was Energia, and I was so underwhelmed that I didn't bother with it again until years afterwards, when I downloaded CCS and got to
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by seabird 7y ago
No matter what you do, you NEED tools. I cannot stress this enough. If you can spend $250-$500 on a nice desktop scope, awesome. If you only have $80, you can get a serviceable Hantek USB scope that will at least give you an idea of what
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by seabird 7y ago
The size and striking appearance give a sense of safety, nobility, and a feeling that the structure's purpose exists beyond what people think of it. There isn't the delusion that such a large structure can do anything but permanen
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by seabird 7y ago
I don't have any hard numbers, but I'm going to wager that regulatory capture through pole attach rules has way more impact than high initial investment or landlords. I've experienced how local governments handle ISP regula
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by seabird 7y ago
I'm curious as to whether or not the mall will be able to keep up. A student is quoted as saying "this place is outdated, the roads are dirty, the hygiene is poor, and in the summer it’s unbearably hot." I can see this being

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