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by vvanders 8y ago
Why is a damage checklist a Tesla specific problem? Bought plenty of cars(and trucks and tractors) where I went over them at delivery. Found more than a few things of which were sorted out by the dealer at the time.
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by vvanders 8y ago
I've seen horrible inheritance/convoluted refactors done in pursuit of DRY. I'm a bigger fan of WET(Write Everything Twice). Usually the first iteration of a component you don't understand enough of the domain space to g
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by vvanders 8y ago
Shortwave generally has much better propagation characteristics though buildings than gps.
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by vvanders 8y ago
Pocket knife laws vary pretty widely city to city. Things like legal blade length can vary up to 2"(2-4"). Fixed blades can get you in some really deep trouble unless you're "using it as part of your proffession" or
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by vvanders 8y ago
Yeah, we find each new hire pretty valuable in the first few months because they provide a perspective on pain points that we may have internalized and disregarded.
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by vvanders 8y ago
It's not quite the solution you're looking for but the GMG/Traeger pellet stove/smokers are pretty much this. They've got a controller + fan and auger. You can pretty much set em and leave them alone for a few hours
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by vvanders 8y ago
I actually prefer QT's approach, it allows you to annotate with extra properties if you want. Back in games we'd usually use some DSL to generate all the boilerplate code for things like this(also including a whole bunch of editor
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by vvanders 8y ago
Thanks, appreciate the clarification. Is there any plans in the works to bring the cc crate over to wasm32-unknown-unknown? Most of the impressive stuff I've been able to do with WASM has been pairing existing C libraries with Rust in
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by vvanders 8y ago
Good stuff. One small note on WASM, I really hope that wasm32-unknown-emscripten doesn't become an orphaned target. I've got quite a few WASM/ASM.js projects that have C dependencies which work great with WASM. Unfortunately
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by vvanders 8y ago
Only for amateur bands. ISM, 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz along with a few others don't require a license.
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by vvanders 8y ago
Oh I'm sure they didn't ignore is, just that you're constrained to platforms that allow a side-channel mechanism to expose a11y and handle focus+navigation. I haven't looked deeply at the HTML5 APIs but if you wanted to
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by vvanders 8y ago
For bonus points you've probably broken accessibility on many platforms as the way that a11y works is intrinsic to the native widgets used by a platform.
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by vvanders 8y ago
Yeah, unless you have a entity count that exceeds your available bandwidth you're usually better off with a dead-reckoning system. That also has the advantage of being able to "fake" events with effects until the server can r
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by vvanders 8y ago
Most of the 'hate' has to do with the fact that the language isn't suited to platforms with memory constraints. Specifically there's semantics around closure capture that make it pretty easy to leak variables. I've
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by vvanders 8y ago
Firearms, Frontline Force, and may others. I feel like Half-Life was in some way the perfect inflection point of PC mods where the experience was compelling but the art/content requirements weren't outside of the scale of hobby&#x
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by vvanders 8y ago
It's probably something on the VHF frequency which you can pick up via a cheap $15-20 RTL-SDR. If it was installed that long ago there's a good chance it runs on something really simple like DTMF tones. Something like the 433Mhz I
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by vvanders 8y ago
If it's propagation you're interested in then RBN[1] does a good job of that by parsing morse code and callsigns. Sadly the map no longer exists due to the changes in Google's Map API pricing. [1] http://www.revers
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by vvanders 8y ago
My favorite entry in that problem space is metastability[1]. Do you interface two different clock domains(which is basically most things)? Guess what all of your computing is built on the "chance" that bits won't flip. Grante
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by vvanders 8y ago
The real problem with Cell is it came after X360. Everyone had written and/or ported their engines for heterogeneous computing architectures with no addressing limits(PS3 Cell had max 256kb per SPU). If you but your engine for PS3 firs
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by vvanders 8y ago
Doesn't this run afoul of the legal issue of monitoring the cell bands, or does that only apply to text/voice?
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by vvanders 8y ago
Yeah, packing is a pretty well defined to mean adding additional empty bits to keep fields word-aligned.
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by vvanders 8y ago
Yeah, sounds like it's an older PTO shaft. The newer ones are much, much safer but the guards make them an absolute pain to grease properly.
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by vvanders 8y ago
While the PTO shafts are "exposed" these days they're in a sheath that covers the whole length with guards on both ends. You still want to be really careful around them but things have become much safer. That said, farm equ
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by vvanders 8y ago
Yeah, a tractor is largely just an engine + weight(traction). What attachments(front and back, PTO) are what make them useful. Their popularity is largely driven by the large variety of things you can do with them. Our CUT(Compact Utility T
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by vvanders 8y ago
If you already have a license/radio the mobilinkd[1] is a great way to get a TNC added to any radio. It has a Bluetooth SSP that lets you write packets in KISS[2] protocol which gets bits on the air(APRS adds a lot more on top of this)
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by vvanders 8y ago
I know it's too early to ask but it would be wonderful to see one of them totally implemented in Rust. Any time in include one of the crypto wrappers building for non-linix targets(wasm/asmjs or win32) ends up being a massive pain
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by vvanders 8y ago
Yup, that was all the push I needed to migrate all my Google stuff to fastmail.
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by vvanders 8y ago
Yeah, that's why I loved that industry. A million hard problems to solve. Along that lines Real Time Collusion Detection[1] is solid gold for a lot of these types of spatial issues. It's basically data structures for gamedev. Asid
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by vvanders 8y ago
Yup take a look at Nuclear Throne and other really cool indie titles built on tools like that. Also if you're building your own engine it's really easy to get sucked into that than the actual gameplay/development. As they say
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by vvanders 8y ago
In my mind it's a pretty gross violation of the principal of least privilege[1]. All it takes is one bad IoT device on your local LAN to exfiltrate/pivot over to the Hub. Some of the data that's dumped is things like "no

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