sgtnoodle

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by sgtnoodle 1y ago
It wasn't a laminates company, was it?
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by sgtnoodle 1y ago
I'm embarrassed that I live in HMB and didn't recognize it. I should go to the harbor more.
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by sgtnoodle 1y ago
I asked Gemini to format some URLs into an XML format. It got halfway through and gave up. I asked if it truncated the output, and it said yes and then told _me_ to write a python script to do it.
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by sgtnoodle 1y ago
I have a yoga from 2016 that had its backlight supply rail blow up. Very lame.
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by sgtnoodle 2y ago
You can do some pretty crazy stuff with pipes, if you want to do better than unix sockets.
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by sgtnoodle 2y ago
I've spent several years optimizing a specialized IPC mechanism for a work project. I've spent time reviewing the Linux Kernel's unix socket source code to understand obscure edge cases. There isn't really much to optimi
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by sgtnoodle 2y ago
There's definitely differences, whether or not it matters for most usages. I've worked on several IPC mechanisms that specifically benefited from one vs. the other.
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by sgtnoodle 2y ago
A former coworker texted me out of the blue yesterday, saying he missed working on a "<my name> codebase". He specifically appreciated that "doing something simple things were kept simple." Made my day!
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by sgtnoodle 2y ago
It's still mass, drag and cost.
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by sgtnoodle 2y ago
It might work in so far as you'll get packets through. The performance would be abysmal, though. Modern Ethernet is built around switching.
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by sgtnoodle 2y ago
The folk that made Crash Bandicoot were pretty clever. They figured out that the PlayStation could render untextured, shaded triangles a lot faster than textured triangles, so they "textured" the main character with pixel-scale ge
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by sgtnoodle 2y ago
I read the XML directly in my browser out of spite.
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by sgtnoodle 2y ago
Crowded? No. Littered? Perhaps, depending on the altitude. The article you linked says the bulk of the existing debris is from a few isolated incidents. These satellites are generally low enough tha their orbits decay after a couple years i
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by sgtnoodle 2y ago
I've gotten CEC to work in Linux on my desktop computer. The funny thing is that most GPU HDMI ports don't implement CEC, but do implement CEC over DisplayPort. You simply need to find a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter that supports C
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by sgtnoodle 2y ago
It's funny that it doesn't have the great lakes. I guess it doesn't have any internal bodies of water.
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by sgtnoodle 2y ago
We're on a good employer plan, and weight loss meds are all out of pocket.
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by sgtnoodle 2y ago
A more obscure use would be for loading multiple instances of a singleton library. This is especially helpful in something like a unit test suite, where you want each test case to start in a cleanly initialized state. If the code under test
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by sgtnoodle 2y ago
In my experience, a culture of radical employee-driven compensation transparency can lead to toxicity. A subset of folk have a tendency to become obsessed, and increasingly more resentful about their particular notion of fairness. Then from
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by sgtnoodle 2y ago
Is email not customary? It seems like it would be fine as long as they respond in a timely manner, and provide access instructions. Also, in this situation it seems like that's exactly what happened. I suppose what might be non-complia
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by sgtnoodle 2y ago
Given that it's shared memory based, it seems like there has to be some degree of trust that the participants are well behaved. What do you mean by a malformed message, though? If you're talking about the payload of the message, t
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by sgtnoodle 2y ago
I've also developed a strikingly similar low latency real-time IPC message bus for work. It also uses sockets with transparent shared memory optimization. In my case, it's the backbone for an autonomous aircraft's avionics. I
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by sgtnoodle 2y ago
I liked my Kobo, but it bricked itself after only about a year. I took it apart, and a voltage rail was shorted out. I didn't even finish the first book I put on it!
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by sgtnoodle 2y ago
I'm friends with a small batch gelato maker. He mainly sells individual scoops, but he also sells pints. He started out using fully compostable pint containers, but their permeability leads to ice crystal formation while the product is
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
This is interesting. They're replacing the pacemaker's leads with optical fiber, with a tiny solar cell at the end. They send a pulse of light down the fiber optic cable, causing the solar cell to convert it to enough charge to &q
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
As an embedded engineer with about 12 years of battery life, I've thought about this topic a fair amount. It would be neat to somehow integrate a super capacitor capable of powering the device for a day or two, and an inductive charger
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
Thanks! Yeah, the Mark Rober video was pretty great.
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
There's certainly a smattering of machine learning algorithms involved in some of the software components, but I'm working on Zipline's next generation "platform 2" delivery drone. As an embedded engineer, something
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
I believe that's how satellites are tracked at all? Rather than use visible light, though, tracking stations most certainly use radar, and probably highly directional antennas.
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
I have several friends that immigrated from Europe, and they've all made comments about their respective countries that suggest that's not really the case in practice.
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
Pretty much any modern storage medium depends on a healthy amount of error correcting code.

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