thr0w__4w4y

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by thr0w__4w4y 2mo ago
Hate to do a hit & run post but here we go... Both AT&T and Apple transferred (albeit both temporarily) ownership of my phone # (AT&T) and my Apple ID (OK you know the company) from purely social engineering. The AT&T one wa
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by thr0w__4w4y 3mo ago
Not Linus, this is Randal Schwartz, but this might be the video you're thinking of? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dhZ9BXQgc4
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by thr0w__4w4y 4mo ago
(somewhat) unrelated to this kerfuffle, but I can say I've ordered thousands of dollars of stuff from Adafruit, and the quality of the electronics, the speed of shipping, the prices, and the customer service have been consistently outs
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by thr0w__4w4y 6mo ago
Pretty much the same story here. I'm on my 2nd Targus TXL617 (holds 17" laptop) in 18(?) years and I use it for everything every day. I've even used it for a short 3-day international business trip. I've used it at a
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by thr0w__4w4y 6mo ago
Yes, absolutely this is fiction. It's a combination of his fantasy of how he'd like to "get back at the system" and also it's written to be clickbait ("poor helpless disabled guy gets back at the evil system t
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by thr0w__4w4y 7mo ago
Sarah Adams (ex-CIA, The Watchfloor podcast) literally discussed this possibility yesterday in a podcast titled "Your Phone Isn't Safe Right Now" Most people here are tech savvy and understand VPNs, location sharing in apps,
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by thr0w__4w4y 1y ago
I noticed all the feeders seem to be similar / same. I'm in California, I feed 3 strays in an area where the average outdoor cat's lifespan is about 4.5 years (fires, traffic, hawks, coyotes, evil people). Right now my proce
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by thr0w__4w4y 1y ago
Yes and I would swear that 1700 of those 2000 must be in Westwood (near UCLA in Los Angeles). I was stopped for a couple minutes waiting for a friend to come out and I counted 7 Waymos driving past me in 60 seconds. Truth be told they see
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by thr0w__4w4y 3y ago
Everything you say is correct. There is one other significant cost that isn't mentioned here: liability insurance and legal counsel. If a little kid (sorry) loses an arm, or worse (don't ask me how I know) because of a ride, the
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by thr0w__4w4y 3y ago
Would just like to jump in and remind folks of the Therac-25 incident just a couple years before this (1985 and 1987), and the user interface was also identified as a contributing factor. https://www.cse.msu.edu/~cse470&#x2F
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by thr0w__4w4y 3y ago
This is (unfortunately) very, very true. I don't have firsthand experience, thankfully, but 2x secondhand experience, and I cannot think about those two cases without getting tears in my eyes. It's not common, but uncommon thing
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by thr0w__4w4y 3y ago
Yep, been there... made that mistake ONCE. Never again. Never.
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by thr0w__4w4y 3y ago
>> x =- 5 I think you mean: x -= 5, which indeed is different.
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by thr0w__4w4y 3y ago
I left a very good job 7 years in (digital design) to go out on my own. That was more than 2 decades ago. I could write paragraphs of the rookie mistakes (business-wise) and the financial ups & downs, but one thing has never changed..
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by thr0w__4w4y 4y ago
Yes exactly. There is much more than just "benefits". Cost of office space, computer equipment, office supplies, electricity, janitorial costs, heating, security, servers, IT overhead, etc. When you take ALL these costs and sp
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by thr0w__4w4y 4y ago
Amen. I had a 10-email back-and-forth exchange with Ilfak maybe 10 years ago - multiple times I said "I'm literally begging you to take my money, you don't seem to want it." I am self-employed, we were on the phone wi
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by thr0w__4w4y 4y ago
Yes it sure is. Interesting, in California in 2020, there was an attempt (Proposition 16) to overturn Proposition 209. It went down in flames, almost 60% against / 40% for. Prop 209, passed in 1996, "amended the state constituti
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by thr0w__4w4y 4y ago
You are definitely right about this (many of my green-card friends have multiple weapons), and of course you're right about state law. I think what parent post was saying is that in Czech Republic (national not state level), foreigne
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by thr0w__4w4y 4y ago
Whhooossh moment. You said there was a $6K /markup/, parent was making a joke about /markdown/.
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by thr0w__4w4y 4y ago
What is cannabis software?
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by thr0w__4w4y 4y ago
Yes, network cables. Way back when I was a staff engineer at Motorola, we'd often have network problems from workstations caused by marginal cables. At first, the IT people would come over and replace the cable, and toss the bad/
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Arm Introduces Cortex-M85(community.arm.com)
4 points by thr0w__4w4y 4y ago|1 comments
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by thr0w__4w4y 4y ago
I know this anecdotal and related but directly on-point, but here I go anyway... About 12 years ago, I consulted, on-site, for about a year with a Japanese company with a very very very untrusting corporate culture. (I was consulting on el
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by thr0w__4w4y 5y ago
I like this idea. I've participated each year, only finished the 2020 one (most have 1-2 to go, never had the time & motivation to fight through it.) BTW, there is a great book that is right up this alley -- maybe you know it -- &
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by thr0w__4w4y 5y ago
About 15 years ago I was debugging an ARM7 memory corruption issue on an embedded target. Chip was running at 40 MHz but the instructions were ARM 32 bit instructions, but the external data bus was only 8 bits wide -- reading instructions
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by thr0w__4w4y 5y ago
Very touching video, your girlfriend/fiancee looked so positive, happy and joyful. Sometimes the randomness of the universe and the human body can be cruel and nonsensical. I'm incredibly sorry for your loss. I'm happy that
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by thr0w__4w4y 5y ago
Yes I've been in that situation (as a passenger, not a pilot!) Incredible how much power the aircraft has at full throttle. A lot of people freak out or panic in that situation, because it's so abrupt, but it's a sign that
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by thr0w__4w4y 5y ago
That exact setup, except s/emacs/vim, was my setup starting in 1996. Wow, 25 years ago.
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by thr0w__4w4y 5y ago
"[but] did one-star kinds of things." That is a great line (seriously). I will probably end up working that phrase into something at one point, which is why I have this post bookmarked, so I can "hat tip to m463 on HN"
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by thr0w__4w4y 5y ago
Yes and in fact, the majority of embedded systems are actually running not with 64-256MB of RAM, but 64K-256K of RAM. For example, the STM32 line of Cortex M microcontrollers (MCUs) usually have between 32-256K of RAM, and 128K to 2MB of on

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