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by vvanders 6y ago
I would much prefer people know the scale of these numbers than know big O notation. The number of times I've seen big O used as a hammer because everything looks like a nail can be frustrating. This is doubly true on embedded systems
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by vvanders 6y ago
Agreed, as a Pebble and now Garmin owner the article seemed to gloss over the latter despite it having a fairly rich feature set.
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by vvanders 6y ago
> I'm not going to say that there are no black-and-white correct answers in software development, but people who regularly claim to have found them should be regarded with suspicion. I'm going to go a step further and say that
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by vvanders 6y ago
You might want look in Kaizen, which one of the key basis is that the workers closest to the problem are empowered to stop production when issues arise and have input when approaching problems on the line.
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by vvanders 6y ago
Population x Fatality Rate will tell you how much it "costs" to achieve herd immunity. That also doesn't take into account long term impacts that are not fatal.
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by vvanders 6y ago
What makes Google unique here? I can think of many other companies who have similar scale or even larger incentives for abuse but never seem to fail to engage to the same degree as Google does.
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by vvanders 6y ago
Oh yeah, not endorsing law breaking in any way or form, following the laws is very much a think everyone should be doing(for the communal reasons you called out among others). Gatekeeping is holding up one aspect of the community as more va
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by vvanders 6y ago
I'd ask that rather than assuming malicious intent, give your comment another read from a different perspective and see if you can understand how someone might see it as gatekeeping. (If you kept the first sentence but dropped the last
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by vvanders 6y ago
The magic of ham radio is it can be whatever you want it to be. You might want to gatekeep a bit less and let people enjoy what aspects of radio they find interesting.
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by vvanders 6y ago
Horsepower isn't everything, usually cost and power consumption come first in SoC selection followed by feature set(of which your GPU is one part of a larger picture). If you want to really succeed in the SoC space(which is where Arm h
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by vvanders 6y ago
Fun little fact: Adreno as an anagram of Radeon. Honestly I really don't see the Geforce play. Nvidia tried it with Tegra and failed pretty miserably. Mali and Adreno pretty much cornered the market from that era(with PowerVR pivoting
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by vvanders 6y ago
You might just want to read the section called "Different orbits and other applications of radhard ICs".
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by vvanders 6y ago
Risk of death may be lower but we still don't understand the long-term impact. Italy is just starting to look at this after their recovery and the initial signs are not great: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2
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by vvanders 6y ago
Depends on what game you're trying to build and if the engine is tuned to that use case. The needs of an open world vs corridor vs highly instanced simulation will drive a lot of the core design of an engine in different directions.
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by vvanders 6y ago
Nuclear Throne is by and far my favorite of the genre having played most of the ones listed above.
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by vvanders 6y ago
> To satisfy thread safety requirements, the reference counters are typically incremented using an equivalent of std::atomic::fetch_add with std::memory_order_relaxed (decrementing requires stronger ordering to safely destroy the control
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by vvanders 6y ago
shared_ptr certainly isn't, last I looked at it there was some significant performance overhead since it's required to be thread safe.
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by vvanders 6y ago
I've used a Ford 1500 to move ~500lb round bales and it was on the edge of being safe. Even with a ~800lb implement on the back you're really pushing the capability of that machine. I don't know if I'd touch round bales
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by vvanders 6y ago
Yup, most of the usage for our CUT is pretty bursty. Longest usage is mowing for ~3 hours. Most CUTs are pretty low on the HP side of things(our's is only 47hp), it's more about weight and gearing.
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by vvanders 6y ago
I guess we should just give up and leave everything wide open then right? No point in trying to do defense in depth if someone will eventually hack something?
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by vvanders 6y ago
Tesla uses a pretty different architecture from the dumpster fire that was OnStar. Been a while since I looked in the details but from what I recall only very limited, well scrutinized communication is allowed to bridge the Ethernet subsyst
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by vvanders 6y ago
Yeah, I've been using no_std for this use case and pretty happy with it. If you want a full blown container you can use heapless, building a custom container is really straightforward and requires a minimal amount of unsafe.
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by vvanders 6y ago
That only works if you either don't care about retention or long-term gains(which is an extension of retention). You can argue the humanist point of view to not burn people out or the business point of view that happy, well rested peop
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by vvanders 6y ago
Go spend some time with PLC/automation engineers and you'll find the same thing. Safety stuff? Done then right way with the proper attention. Rest of the production line stuff? Hack on hacks in order to get things online ASAP. At
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by vvanders 6y ago
The red flag conditions make it ideal for fire starts, combined with high winds that can get out of control real quick.
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by vvanders 6y ago
I'm trying to parse if you're going after OnePlus, because they build pretty solid phones. Now of we we're taking about carriers we'd have a different conversation but as someone who's seen a lot of the mobile indus
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by vvanders 6y ago
Shared pointers also defer ownership decisions and lead to memory leaks via cycles which is its own very special level of hell.
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by vvanders 6y ago
We used to call this "seekfree" loading back in games because you could read the whole game level in one chunk without seeking on spinning media. If you wanted pointers out of it after you loaded it you just had a fix-up phase tha
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by vvanders 6y ago
Yeah but some things like how you structure your data(which then drives CPU cache misses) aren't something you can easily adjust/tune. Usually when you encounter one of those it's a rewrite/rearchitecture of a whole modu
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by vvanders 6y ago
You're thinking about on-disk space and not in-memory space which is much smaller.

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