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by seabird 7y ago
Slightly off topic, but I never realized that Twibright maintained links. I remember seeing their 10Mbps optical links years ago and thinking they were pretty cool, and didn't notice all of their other projects, even though I was using
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by seabird 7y ago
It supports architectures like MSP430 and AVR, and Linux doesn't. If you're using Linux for embedded, you're at the high end of hardware and time investment.
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by seabird 7y ago
>I don’t understand. This should not be an opt in or an opt out. It is a condition of using our product. There is an acceptance of terms and the use of this data should be included in that.
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by seabird 7y ago
Somebody at GitLab thought it was a bright idea to add telemetry to their cloud AND self-hosted enterprise versions. Needless to say, it's not about to go over well. I currently use GitLab where I work; we chose it because our data is
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by seabird 7y ago
From a legal standpoint, there is way more to cover with those services. All sorts of hoops (NDA, compliance, etc.) would have to be jumped through. At my current employer, those services not being on our property under our complete control
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by seabird 7y ago
What I'm doing is not "anyone with link can view", it's uploading the file in question to an SMB (or equivalent) share and sending the location of that. If the user in question doesn't have permissions for my depart
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by seabird 7y ago
SMB shares or the like are pretty much universal in such a situation. I generally tend toward making something available on a file share and emailing a link, but because of permissions and access controls, email is generally easier, especia
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by seabird 7y ago
I've worked for various companies in the engineering and manufacturing industries, and zipping and sending files over email is as far from dead as you can imagine, and has a very bright future ahead of it. Frankly, today's high sc
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by seabird 7y ago
I feel like I could pretty comfortably write sizeable portions of an OS if I invested as much time as the author of Serenity did. I'm not trying to talk up my own capability or downplay the Serenity author's achievement, I just th
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by seabird 7y ago
Because it's a legend that has real and interesting historical connections to the relationship between India and the West. I think that it's reasonable to assume that many readers here aren't familiar with the history and cul
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by seabird 7y ago
It's largely because an FPGA is inferior to a microcontroller in many common use cases; they truly are a niche tool. They are nowhere near as flexible as a microcontroller is, and reprogramming them for a different purpose is a huge in
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by seabird 7y ago
Because the RPi is a budget SBC where the most common use case is running it off an SD card, and they apparently didn't consider a SATA controller a priority feature. For many users (maybe even a large majority), that assumption was co
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by seabird 7y ago
>faster than what you write in C It's hard to compare working with an HDL to working with a programming language like C; they are fundamentally different. The short answer to that question is that using an FPGA can lead to massive
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by seabird 7y ago
If you're going to do serious audio signals processing, you're probably going to very quickly find out that an 8bit Arduino and the Arduino environment are nowhere near powerful enough for your needs. If you really stick with it,
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by seabird 7y ago
The Arduino is limited in regards to capabilities because it's a heavy ecosystem (usually) running on a wildly anemic device; you're out of your mind if you're expecting HDMI enc/dec, USB host controller, etc. on an 8-bi
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by seabird 7y ago
I don't understand why people believe that the "year of the maker FPGA" is ever going to happen. An FPGA is by its very nature a technology that many embedded engineers (let alone hobbyist maker types) will never take advanta
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by seabird 7y ago
That statement assumes that I wrote what I'm working on. There are more important things to do than to carefully comb over or instrument thousands upon thousands of lines of other people's work (if that's even an option; it&#
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by seabird 7y ago
Speedruns and other exploitative/unintended aspects of a game basically solve that issue. There is no way that the developers of Super Mario World would have ever guessed that someone would beat the game in minutes by reprogramming it
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by seabird 7y ago
This is all assuming that they did the assembly, which I'm willing to wager they didn't.
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by seabird 7y ago
US automakers are ridiculously wasteful, slow-moving, and don't really give a shit about anything. These companies are risk-averse for a reason, but you would be floored if you could experience first-hand the sort of bureaucracy and co
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by seabird 8y ago
It's bad for business. You do have to remember that a lot of movers n' shakers (Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel, Ericsson, Qualcomm, Broadcom, IBM, and a slew of other companies that have a product other than advertising/user data an
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by seabird 8y ago
I'm going to wager that it's because Firefox has devolved into a Chrome wannabe that you suffer through for ideological reasons and little else. XUL addons were the reason to use Firefox; it's an otherwise mediocre browser
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by seabird 8y ago
The problem presented is very foreign to me for this reason. Maybe it's because I've never been sold on "the cloud" and have always detested web development, but I would hope that the people who were drinking the Kool-Ai
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by seabird 8y ago
He would he a moron to say anything about pricing after his fraud case kicked off. All it would do is dig him into a deeper hole. The prosecutor picked the fight because they knew he was viewed as such an asshole that there was no way anyon
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by seabird 8y ago
They are invisible whitespace characters that are handled reliably and flexibly in every editor that I've ever used them in. The same cannot be said for spaces. If a codebase is using two space indenting, I get to look at the resulting
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by seabird 8y ago
We were hit with the reality that the software (and/or components of it) may need to be run on Linux, OSX, and other targets at some point in the near future. At the time, everything was done with a single IDE, a single compiler, with
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by seabird 8y ago
Hyper-standardized, pants-shittingly brittle build environments stemming from the mentality that the OP is suggesting is its own special sort of hell. It's "works on my machine" applied to a way bigger surface. Yes, a team ob
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by seabird 8y ago
In any project I've worked on that has used tabs for indentation, I've found no need to combine tabs and spaces. I've never been anywhere that enforces neurotic alignment standards, and if such guidelines aren't part of
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by seabird 8y ago
You know how bad codebases from huge, over-managed, "risk-averse" companies can be. You know that the people that make medical devices are generally huge, over-managed, "risk-averse" companies. I think you can put two an
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by seabird 8y ago
Modern UI design is awful. It might work for Joe Moron, who is just scrolling through video clips and short fragments of text, but I can't imagine why you would ever try to apply design principles designed for that case to professional

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