spaceywilly

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by spaceywilly 2y ago
Exactly, I see many questions that start with “If the electrons are flowing from the negative terminal…” The movement of electrons is inconsequential. It’s the magnetic fields between electrons that provide the power in an electric circuit.
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
This was my first thought as well. I took a quick look through the API docs and didn’t see any mention of MFi.
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
I have to question how many people in 2024 are navigating the internet by going to the address bar and typing “foo.com/thing-im-looking-for”
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
Not sure what you’re getting at. We take those rules and use a static analysis tool (LDRA) to prove they are met. You can write unsafe code in any language.
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
>Its language characteristics make it trivial to accidentally introduce memory safety issues resulting in undefined behavior or security vulnerabilities. I worked for a space-related defense contractor. They are using MISRA C, and everyt
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
The stock market is a measure of what investors think the company will be worth over the next 10 years or so, essentially. Because if someone came along and wanted to buy the company, they’d typically pay around that amount. So take that am
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
I think the author is incorrect to look at the cycle of market bubbles and should instead be looking at the Gartner Hype Cycle. We are currently at or just past the peak and moving into the trough of disillusionment (to wit: this article).
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
Sounds like a good idea for an app. I believe all that data is available through HealthKit. ChatGPT it up :)
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
BPF works more like Java, where you have your high-level source code, then a JIT compiler translates it to bytecode that runs on a VM. Even BPF “programs” written in C aren’t using a standard C compiler. The BPF JIT compiler translates them
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
As someone who works with BPF every day, I don’t think comparing orders of magnitude is right. It just enables things that can be done now that you wouldn’t dream of doing before. I think a good analogy is going from horse drawn carriages t
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
I worked for a company a few years ago that issued me a System76 laptop. It was ok. Weighed a lot and was made of cheap plastic, and it also had issues with the fan. However, for a Linux laptop with open source hardware and firmware I was o
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out. I changed jobs this year directly citing my company’s forced RTO policy, and my manager said I wasn’t the only one doing so. I think the companies that are trying to force RTO will start
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
I don’t want innovation that comes at the expense of human lives. The same thing is going on with self driving cars right now. It is wild to me that they aren’t required to follow the same regulations as airliners. The safety record of comm
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
Beacon has a pretty specific meaning in the BLE world. A BLE beacon sends a broadcast out every now and then* that says “hey I exist, here’s my ID”. Another device can scan for these “advertisement” and do something when a particular kind o
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
The Max 9 has been in service since 2018 though, I think if it was a design issue it would have occurred before now. This seems like a Manufacturing QA “escape” to me. Some bolt was either not installed properly or not tightened to the prop
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
Probably not, most devices have the first stage boot loader on read only memory that is locked using an e-fuse. You would need to physically modify the device to change it. FWIW, I had an older Fire tablet that I had loaded Android onto and
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
I have a widget on my Home Screen. It has 4 tiles for my 4 lights, tap a tile to turn the light on or off.
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
Yup. In a past job I did a lot of work writing ALSA drivers for custom souncards. The ALSA interface is a good example of this. They provide an API app developers can use to do sound stuff (change the volume, for example). In your sound car
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
True I see what you mean, but that would seem to be an easy function to build into the car’s charging controller. I’m not sure how it works today but I would imagine most cars have a “stop charging at x%” function already without depending
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
Yeah that just seems like a poor decision on the part of these charger owners. I feel like there’s an opportunity for a company called “EZCharge - we take credit cards”. People will seek it out when looking for a charging station because th
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
There’s also a company in China that does EV swaps for cars. It’s a very cumbersome process, the battery can be thousands of pounds, and there are also cooling connectors to worry about. On top of that, it would require every car to have a
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
It would be easy to support both options. Many gas stations have their own app payment system.
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
If I may ask what seems like an obvious question… why can’t they just use credit card terminals like gas stations have been using for many decades?
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
I’ve had good luck as well with the practice of leaving myself a “head start” to pick up in the morning. It seems like it wouldn’t help that much, but in practice it makes the task of getting back into the programming zone much easier. Seem
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
Meta ironically unveiled just this thing. An AI model that can translate in <2 seconds intended for use in real time conversation. https://ai.meta.com/research/seamless-communication/
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
Echoes of Apple “leveraging” the Mouse/GUI interface from Xerox. I wonder if Google is at risk of going to way of Xerox, where they were so focused on their current business and product lineups they failed to see the potential new busi
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
This right here. I feel like the focus on just throwing more GPU at the problem is a mistake many of these companies are making at the moment. The real breakthroughs will come when we figure out how to use the current models and compute pow
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
The original article >ValueAct’s chief executive, Mason Morfit, said Spotify’s costs had “exploded” and that it was “built for the bubble”
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
I would caution against drawing grand conclusions from these recent layoff rounds. Companies overhired during the pandemic, and now they are trimming that fat. It’s not necessarily a sign of any big strategic mistakes beyond “we hired too m
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by spaceywilly 3y ago
To me the key functionally for any language learning app is giving you feedback on your pronunciation and general understanding. I’ve been using Duolingo to learn Mandarin and when I try to speak to anyone it’s difficult for them to underst

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