teunispeters

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by teunispeters 1y ago
embedded hardware, any processor Rust doesn't support (there are many), and any place where code size is critical. Rust has a BIG base size for an application, uselessly so at this time. I'd also love to see if it offered anyt
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by teunispeters 1y ago
I started from https://github.com/videogamepreservation/abuse which ... well, isn't perfect but it IS fun and the original game was, too.
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by teunispeters 1y ago
Emphatically no. PHP is the ford escort of programming (needing regular maintenance, rather insecure but easy and simple to drive and control). Unlike the Toyota Corolla which is really REALLY reliable, consistent and much much more secur
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by teunispeters 1y ago
yes. I can "summon one up" at times where it's useful, but normally no. Might have something to do with the aphantasia, or maybe not.
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by teunispeters 1y ago
paper forms of this have existed in land surveying ... for a long time. Mind, they didn't follow quadtree, just "useful at the time" scaling. From my vague memories of working with this and data in 1992-1993, I think olde
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by teunispeters 1y ago
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/dave-assman-sgi-...
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by teunispeters 1y ago
Reproducing copyright-protected information is "trivial" with image (or text) generation, but hard with code generation. (from listening a lot to artists, so might have some bias). I haven't actually attempted either ... I
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by teunispeters 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%92ostre covers a lot of ground and has references (thankfully)
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by teunispeters 2y ago
Speaking as a CS/Math dual major from the late 1980s, the explanations in the textbook were ... uselessly bad where I went (SFU). So while I know the math involved, I didn't know the terms until I retook it from a teacher who ac
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by teunispeters 2y ago
This one's easy : v2g with plug-n-charge needs full crypto including some levels of validation (but not others, it's in the specs), as well as infrastructure for organizing certificates, and support for a good IPv6 networking stac
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by teunispeters 2y ago
I've been wondering if my own speedreading is a beneficial form of dyslexia.
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by teunispeters 2y ago
yeah. I'm sorry to say but "it doesn't work for me". Part of it may be that my hands are too large for the sensitivity needed. Besides, I work often enough with software that requires 3+ mouse buttons (Unix!) that an
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by teunispeters 2y ago
I tried repeatedly to use a "magic mouse" for work. I think if your UI only needs one mouse button and an occasionally inconsistent mouse wheel, you'd be fine. It has a long battery life, a not bad weight and works consist
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by teunispeters 2y ago
My partner's a welder. None of the comments here surprise me, sadly... you're right.
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by teunispeters 2y ago
If it can run X11 on a directly connected display, it's probably not embedded spaces ;). Don't take this comment too seriously, however raspberry pi is definitely at the "more desktop-like" end of the embedding pool. As
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by teunispeters 2y ago
CAN bus is in many ways too difficult to encrypt. (not that it can't be, it's just got way too small a packet size). Nothing prevents manufacturers from getting complicated though - eg "knock three times on this ID, then re
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by teunispeters 2y ago
(silly answer) use Visual C++. I've been coding across MacOS, Linux, and Windows 11, with roughly comparable machines in a lot of ways (all Intel). Visual C++ while awkward for compatibility - is very very fast for builds, and not b
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by teunispeters 3y ago
Fair. I was referring to the space a minimal installation takes.
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by teunispeters 3y ago
I guess this is one of the things coming out of censoring all news from Canada. (I get mine from lots of other sources, but it's annoying to not be able to talk with anyone, anywhere, about anything news related - without sources). T
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by teunispeters 3y ago
Stability, reliability, consistency. If you do anything with Unicode you're also much better in PostgreSQL. Faster indexes, smaller base install ( ), and much more complete SQL language support. ( ) note: when PHP was taking off, MyS
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by teunispeters 3y ago
I'm old enough to not only remember the first web servers, but remember when gopher pages sped up dramatically when switched to http servers. And I was working then!!
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by teunispeters 3y ago
That's all over the place. After all, one of the reasons to interview with a company is to see if their working culture is one that'd fit you. But then, I'm Canadian and have yet to find one that really didn't.... ok I
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by teunispeters 3y ago
One employer asked for my high school graduation transcript! Another was clearer and wanted university transcript - in essence, grades and grade point average. (the actual terms might be a Canadian thing, I'm not sure what "lis
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by teunispeters 3y ago
One of the more subtle ways this is exhibited is by only preferring certain recent tech stacks, or orienting interview questions around computer science concepts that are only quite modern - especially if either of these have nothing to do
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by teunispeters 3y ago
Ah satire. ;) Package manager: dynamic libraries! Or if you want to get really advanced, pkg-config and related. (or static libraries even. Common enough in embedded space!) Dynamic analyzer : valgrind, gdb, Visual Studio, xCode, ... Cro
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by teunispeters 3y ago
Back when I worked on websites (2011-2012), supporting IE6 through IE9 ate somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 of all my development time, as nothing was consistent with any of them, and that included the same browser with slight tweaks
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by teunispeters 3y ago
There is a GREAT quote in the comments here. Speaking as someone who's often done their own source and car maintenance because could not afford to go anywhere else. On that note - open source is EXPENSIVE, because it depends on devel
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by teunispeters 3y ago
And not hot-pluggable. I lost track of how many motherboards I had to replace due to hot-plugging PS2 devices. Note: keyboards and mice were pretty low risk. High risk were PS2-based barcode scanners.
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by teunispeters 3y ago
Sounds like travelling from Surrey to downtown Vancouver (BC,Canada). 45 minutes ideal, 2 hours or so if traffic. I really don't miss that daily commute, and living further out was worse. (all locations technically within the metrop
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by teunispeters 3y ago
If rust could support all of C's processors and platforms and produce equivalent sized binaries - especially for embedded ... then it'd be interesting to switch to. (as a start, it also needs a stable and secure ecosystem of too

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