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by throwaway173738 4y ago
Knowing how to use a command line doesn’t make you an engineer. Understanding how to identify and rationalize trade-offs between conflicting values within a system makes you an engineer. It’s like the difference between knowing how to build
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by throwaway173738 4y ago
The goofing off the internet with garbage has already begun if my search results are anything to go by. I have to go 3 pages deep before I get anything written by a human
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by throwaway173738 4y ago
Most every manufacturer uses the retail store for returns. The fact that Amazon gave you the run around is actually terrible.
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by throwaway173738 4y ago
Yeah I usually have bad experiences calling Amazon and have stopped buying anything from them, preferring wither other online stores or driving to a physical store depending. The CSRs usually don’t speak english well enough to respond to an
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by throwaway173738 4y ago
I’m not sure I believe your assertion that the companies in question “pay taxes.” If you operate at a loss you get to deduct that loss. And there are lots of loopholes every company used to avoid paying their fair share. Unless you mean the
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by throwaway173738 4y ago
If you’d read the rest of the article, the reason there is a lot of uninvestigated fraud is because there isn’t currently funding to pay for enough investigators to drive around places like south florida. In the same vein I’d gladly pay the
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by throwaway173738 4y ago
SD cards are pretty unreliable so it might be good to take it out of the loop at some point. Most field failures I’ve seen for products I develop have been related to SD cards dying during power loss or falling out due to vibration.
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by throwaway173738 4y ago
Does the U-boot in the SPI-NOR not support booting from NVMe? It might also be possible to patch that in from mainline if it exists. You can also often provide a “boot script” in the vfat partition that overrides the boot config in non vol
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by throwaway173738 4y ago
To add to the list of red flags are libraries which expect me to write callbacks and which don’t give me any control over the control flow in my program. A lot of messaging systems like QPID Proton do this. It’s like the developers couldn’t
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by throwaway173738 4y ago
What if two or more products share the same feature?
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by throwaway173738 4y ago
If the dangerous situation is a flash flood or landslide stopping may be entirely the wrong response. The entire problem with these rigid failsafes and the whole idea of ai-driven cars is this idea that a programmer can predict every situat