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by wolrah 7y ago
Why not? Personally I enjoy SIP itself greatly, it works well and is basically human readable, to the point that I can explain it to non-technical people. My main problems over 15 years of working with SIP have been with "helpful&quot
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by wolrah 7y ago
As someone who works in the telecom industry and has to deal with faxes in medical facilities all the time, no they're not. I fucking wish they were. I beg people to use e-fax solutions if they insist on using fax at all, but there ar
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by wolrah 7y ago
In the scenario proposed the VPS is the VPN endpoint. It's an alternative to commercial VPN services or hosting something on your own systems. Whether that fits your security scenario is up to you. If your primary goal is to get from
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by wolrah 7y ago
> Apple just needs to have a docking station on their offerings. But they do, it's called Thunderbolt, and they were the first manufacturer to really buy in hard. For any laptop that can run within the 100 watt limit of USB-C chargi
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by wolrah 7y ago
This seems interesting, but the fact that the officially supported distro is still Ubuntu 16.04 is alarming. There is no good excuse for actively developed software to require an outdated operating system. I get that it's a LTS platfo
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by wolrah 7y ago
> Are these semis truly driverless or does the testing that Waymo is conducting still require staff to monitor the drive? I would assume they're planning to follow a similar trajectory to their passenger vehicles. There are almost c
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by wolrah 7y ago
> It's a big ask for us to support _two_ methods of firmware-update (local and over-the-network) with different keys/security requirements for each. We just plain don't have the manpower to support that, not when we can be
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by wolrah 7y ago
I'd say it's generally a good idea to stick to "bolt on" style modifications at most for any vehicle you need to count on. Save any real deep tinkering like this for something you can afford to have out of commission. P
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by wolrah 7y ago
> The category of person that is going swap out their ECU cares about sub-milisecond timing. FPGA's are good at concurrency and operating in this domain. 8-bit 16Mhz Arduino's are not. Depends on their goals. I'd oersonal
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by wolrah 7y ago
If there's one thing I've learned in 15 years of IT work, it's that once business users have discovered a thing it will never die. No matter how outdated, shitty, useless, etc. it may be, some jackass has built their entire w
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by wolrah 7y ago
> Who uses non-Bluetooth mice now? Almost everyone using a full-size mouse. There are very few actual Bluetooth mice offered by a major vendor in a full-size format. They're pretty popular in the "laptop mouse" market whe
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by wolrah 7y ago
There are a few mice that support operating as both wired and wireless which have a removable cable. The connector at the mouse end is usually Micro-B but I think there's at least one using C. Either way, you can easily replace the s
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by wolrah 7y ago
> If you were able to drop that file, you're either that user, or an administrator on the computer. If you're that user, you could also achieve "single file code execution" by dropping a file to the startup folder, or
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by wolrah 7y ago
Like some other posters, you're thinking speed where responsiveness is more about latency. Even an ancient pre-electronic planetary automatic can be built to shift faster than a human can row gears. Drag racing guys have been doing it
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by wolrah 7y ago
You're confusing speed with latency. The feeling of "responsiveness" leans a lot harder on the latter than the former. Even traditional hydraulic planetary automatics, the ones associated with the term "slushbox",
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by wolrah 7y ago
> I grew up as a programmer always thinking about the underlying CPU and the underlying memory and how my code would interact with both of them. It requires greater care as a programmer and tools like static analysers, code reviews and r
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by wolrah 7y ago
> Python is my language of choice, so posting projects means publishing the source code. Technically you could just post the .pyc bytecode as long as you didn't care about it working on anything but CPython and compatible implementa
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by wolrah 7y ago
Yes, that does seem to be pretty much exactly what I'd want out of an ARM desktop platform. It would be nice if they'd offer more cores in the desktop variant of the board, and anything that has a "contact us for pricing&quo
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by wolrah 7y ago
> That being said there are a lot of jobs where I have difficulty imagining what mastery looks like; say in an automated, low choice style field like bus driving. I couldn't recognise an expert bus driver from a relative novice. But
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by wolrah 7y ago
To keep the anecdotes going, I've been using a mix of Debian and Ubuntu, both stable/LTS and testing/biannual, for pretty much exactly the same 15 years as you've been running Sid and I've never had any breakage tha
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by wolrah 7y ago
I disagree, the author's description matches the majority of x86 motherboards in production, and if you were to wander in to a random computer store and ask for a standard desktop PC you'd be led to an array of machines that met a
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by wolrah 7y ago
Three things you should keep in mind regarding those numbers: 1. They're worst case numbers, as in the hard drive being mounted perpendicular to the impact force. Some OEM crapbox PCs may have spinning rust mounted to the front of the
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by wolrah 7y ago
> But my John Deere hardware has GPS support for crops and the accuracy is pretty damn spot on. To get that level of accuracy they're using differential GPS where another fairly expensive device is placed at a known location and tra
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by wolrah 7y ago
> if a battery runs out, it would hit my computer. So? It's a vacuum, you could drive it right in to a computer non-stop until the battery runs out and it's not going to do any meaningful damage. The worst case scenario would
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by wolrah 7y ago
Originally I had something about it possibly being useful for that in my post, but I'm only loosely familiar with ITBs through the E46 BMW community so I wasn't sure enough. I think those ones use a single shaft straight through
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by wolrah 7y ago
Insert old-school mechanics grumbling about how now there's a computer involved in tuning carburetors. Seriously though, neat project. Personally I'm a "carbs are for weed whackers" guy and would have just seen having t
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by wolrah 7y ago
If someone is dumb enough to be using an Arduino in a life-critical application then what language they're programming it in is almost a moot point. To the larger point of coding for these kinds of applications, keep in mind that there
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by wolrah 7y ago
> Yeah, try telling this to a fan of 1960s or 1970s rock. You'll get an earful about rich guitars and fat synths, which only a 100% analog, tube-amp process from studio to ear is capable of replicating. And anyone with a basic under
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by wolrah 7y ago
The majority of receivers above a certain point have streaming radio, "cast", and/or "smart TV" features. Just like so much of the rest of the appliance world, most of those are powered by some random ARM or MIPS S
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by wolrah 7y ago
They're not saying that Canonical audits the sources. They're saying that because the person running the PPA uploads the source and Canonical's servers build the packages from there, as long as you trust Canonical you don&#x

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