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by seabird 3y ago
You can't just make a firmware developer out of anybody by slapping a more widely used language on a microcontroller, because the language isn't the issue. "Embedded" development on a highly specced SBC running Linux (li
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by seabird 3y ago
This sentiment comes up often and drives me nuts. Most of the time, the only thing to understand about somebody else's mangled API or shitty vendor-provided library is that their manager crawled up their ass over a deadline so they kic
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by seabird 3y ago
Some things never change, like 18650 batteries having an awful safety profile.
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by seabird 3y ago
Your average American driver has no understanding of this and never will. There's a reason the goofball in the Tahoe XL that takes every corner at 5mph is fine with going 90mph on the highway; they truly have zero idea on how to assess
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by seabird 3y ago
That sort of compensation is largely limited to places with exorbitant costs of living. It's nowhere near as lucrative as it sounds.
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by seabird 3y ago
This is the only one I can think of off the top of my head, as well. It's not even that the developer is hostile to it, they're just tied up trying to hold the rest of the game together with glue and toothpicks and haven't ta
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by seabird 3y ago
The steering knuckle failure shown in the article is insane. I've never heard of such a thing happening and have never heard of anybody who has heard of such a thing happening on a vehicle from what I will risk calling a "real man
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by seabird 3y ago
It has huge mindshare, a huge amount of libraries and existing solutions, a huge amount of tools, a huge amount of investment in state of the art VMs, and a huge amount of usage in just about every application of computing (save maybe embed
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by seabird 3y ago
Java is one of the most widely supported ecosystems available. I'm genuinely curious why throwing in on one of the most successful languages currently in existence warrants "in 2023/2024?".
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by seabird 3y ago
Was 4 really worse than 5? Everyone I've heard speak on it is pretty hesitant to say 5 is better, and that a lot of of great design choices (martial classes not being completely outclassed, less frustrating saving throws, rule clarity,
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by seabird 3y ago
I've been reading this site for 5+ years at this point and I hope that this experiment/exercise does not continue. This is an issue where those demanding commentary are generally not doing so in good faith, and acknowledging the
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by seabird 3y ago
None of it is sacred knowledge, you just need an appropriate amount of care and consideration when working with these cells. If you need an article to do this you shouldn't be doing this.
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by seabird 3y ago
Your takeaway from that was that the Green Hills CEO is a crackpot? Tesla's attitude toward automotive engineering and safety would be a funny joke if fucking these things up didn't get people killed. Tesla may be rigorous by Si
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by seabird 3y ago
Smoothing over the first few hundred hours of the process but doing increasingly little over the next 20,000 is hardly revolutionary. LLMs are a useful documentation interface, but struggle to take even simple problems to the hole, let alon
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by seabird 3y ago
"Horrendous news boys -- the conditions are not ideal." I want to be able to enjoy F1, but it's hard to take seriously when the heavy hitters bitch about innovations and technologies that would "increase costs too much&q
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by seabird 3y ago
It used to be something that you only really and truly understood when it happened to your buddy or somebody your buddy knew. Now we don't need somebody we know to get blown up in an arc flash incident or grabbed by a lathe to actually
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by seabird 3y ago
OSHA doesn't allow it but people still do it constantly, they usually just take steps to make sure they don't end up dead.
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by seabird 3y ago
Why is this in the news? The worker didn't LOTO or wasn't given provisions to, fucked up, and the inevitable happened. I guess it's kind of noteworthy that this same facility has had it happen twice?
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by seabird 3y ago
You're assuming that all, or even most, C++ codebases use proper RAII and don't run wild with the vast amount of features in the language and standard library.
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by seabird 3y ago
Herb is infinitely more qualified to speak on the matter than I am, but I don't think I understand the point. We've had multiple decades to bring C++ under control for safe general purpose usage and it's still very loosey-goo
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by seabird 3y ago
I would say this is largely true. C++ is incredibly fun and incredibly hard to wrangle. I think it's one of the most interesting ecosystems out there and you would have to do a lot of convincing to get me to start a new project in it.
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by seabird 3y ago
We have plenty of them. They're usually pretty miserable because your average American driver is a fucking moron and they're best not deployed unless there's a safety reason to do so.
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by seabird 3y ago
WhistlinDiesel turns controversy into ad revenue. The ad revenue from such a suit would allow him to remain in court pretty much indefinitely, but Ferrari doesn't have that luxury. He's also the same guy that burned up a Ferrari b
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by seabird 3y ago
WhistlinDiesel has enough money to fight them on it, would fight them on it, and would make money doing it. The dorks at Ferrari that do this lawsuit trolling knew it would probably blow up in their face if they tried anything.
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by seabird 3y ago
Saying "conditions changed and everyone left" is extremely reductive.
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by seabird 3y ago
Fighting games can simultaneously be bigger than they've ever been but nowhere near the level of success that other genres reach. You either have to be cool with losing 9/10 matches you play or have a large amount of knowledge and
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by seabird 3y ago
Hit the nail on the head. The execution requirements for RTS games are steep and the competition is fierce. You have to completely re-arrange your priorities from "win games" to "be better than I was last match, and I'll
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by seabird 3y ago
I love RTS games, but they're probably never going to achieve the level of success they have in the past. You can still make them, but like arena shooters, movement shooters, and fighting games, they really are from a different era tha
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by seabird 3y ago
"Everything is 32-bit Cortex-M" isn't true and it's not even close.
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by seabird 3y ago
A lot of people here, and the original article, don't seem to realize what people that use "LARPing" mean when they say it. It's a disparaging term used to describe when somebody isn't going to actually pursue or fo

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