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by seanp2k2 5y ago
ESP32 / STM32 can do a whole heck of a lot, they're getting popular in modular synths now too. AFAIK a lot of vehicles use RTOSes for anything related to driving / vehicle stability, but I think they can use mostly whatever f
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
and meanwhile, they get bested by old Toyota trucks off road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Yy5P6FUes Always hilarious when people build $100K+ off-road ridiculous trucks, as unless you're totally loaded and don&#x2
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Also, lots of silicon that goes into cars isn't of the high-end variety. A ton of infotainment systems, for example, run low to mid-tier chips, not always current-gen. If an auto mfg can get away with using a $3 part instead of a $5 ev
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
If you're doing anything substantiative enough to warrant investigation by a big government, that won't help much https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58476983
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
ROI for spamming catch-alls is pretty low these days with how many actual user DB leaks there are floating around for free.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
This happened to me with EndJunk and it was absolutely devastating trying to recover and reset the email address on all of my accounts. Some were straight-up locked out after too many failed password attempts and required email access on th
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Fundamentally I believe it’s a communication problem + a problem of “engineers gonna engineer” to launch the next Big Win™ for their team / resume. If I were looking for an honest solution for the first part, I might start with a stand
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I’m not sure that “happy” is the right term for being content living paycheck to paycheck, and I’m even less sure that it’s necessary for so many to live like this in today’s bountiful world. Wealth is getting far too concentrated within a
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Media these days is just about exposure to sell ad space. The only credential required to be an influencer is the ability to influence via any means.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Great thing too that many companies are applying BS “cost of labor” adjustments if you choose to not work at / near HQ.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
ACH transfers are still slow, somehow. Modernize American banking first. Good luck.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Obviously, they reverse-engineered the stolen Bitcoin black market.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Clickbait is a charitable interpretation. Perhaps one less so would involve betting on related stock prices before publishing such a headline.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I just have a hard time accepting that the people who made every website implement a cookie warning that is equivalent to the “don’t use in bathtub” stickers all over appliances know enough about to write airtight laws that would actually s
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Just hilarious how Google is so celebrated for Material Design (yes because everything, including desktop apps, should be touch-optimized) when their actual product design is hot garbage, like most of their products. GMail won because it wa
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
laughing / crying in CAHSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_California_High-Spe...
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
We love cars, trucks, NIMBYism, and the petroleum industry way too much to ever build sensible trains in the US.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Then generate power at a coal or natural gas power plant. Until we get further along with renewables, the total environmental impact of replacing everything with electric today probably isn’t worth it. Example: https://www.reuter
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Yep, battery energy density is still far off from fossil fuels. This is from 2012 but still relevant and why we don’t have electric commercial passenger planes, and probably never will until we make 10x gains in energy density: “”” Stored e
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Let us not forget Betsy DeVos’ wonderful impact https://www.npr.org/2020/11/19/936225974/the-legacy-of-educa...
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Yeah, it’s great paying 10x the tax of our neighbors with similar house values because they moved here 30 years ago. The argument is always “people shouldn’t be forced out of their homes because of rising prices!” but we shop at the same gr
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Meanwhile, at least back in the mid-2000s when I was in school, they’re doing stuff like stationing cops at every school so they can run drug dogs through the halls and arrest + throw into juvie any kid they find with a jacket that smells l
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
+1, it’s why the “good guys with guns” stuff doesn’t work; more guns = more shootings, e.g. https://www.businessinsider.com/gun-control-research-conceal... People will argue this until they’re blue in the face, but pulling
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
TL;DR YAGNI + do an actual "build vs buy (including FOSS)" in good spirit on absolutely everything. The biggest mistake I see other engineers making is opting to build vs buy when it's commodity stuff that we could easily and
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
It’s possible to construct parallel (ish) pipeline processing in bash by using file descriptors above 2. See https://mywiki.wooledge.org/FileDescriptor . It’s part of why I always liked Ruby’s .tap() : https://me
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
It’s not as if PG&E has a checkbox like “Pay 5% more for us to fix gas leaks?” or gas stations have an octane selection that pollutes less. Consumers have the choice in some cases to consume less, but we need to affect one very specifi
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
It’s like normies have discovered small radio transmitters for the very first time or something. This isn’t new tech, it’s just more accessible and the monitoring network is better. ISM 433/900mhz transmitters with small microcontrolle
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Reminds me of Comcast, ooh sorry, XFINITY (rebranded to try to drop their reputation as the #1 anti-consumer company) enabling public wifi on your modem / AP without your consent, then burying the opt-out. Not on the same level, but Ne
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Doesn't work for me on linux using 5.1.8(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu). Output with `set -vx` at top (I guessed "fooba"): ++ [[ false != true ]] ++ guess_count=1 ++ [[ 1 -le 6 ]] ++ echo 'Enter your
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I’m guessing that governments are keeping them afloat, especially on long-term contracts and with bespoke projects.

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