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by xondono 5y ago
> Nightmares? They work better than the originals! Yeah, nightmares. It doesn’t matter if they’re crap if it’s what you have to work with. I really never understood why the open source world went with FTDI when the CP210X was perfectly a
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by xondono 5y ago
I have a Volvo XC40. AFAIK, high beam assist in Volvo is matrix based (you keep having visibility of what’s in front). My Volvo (and I guess subaru) don’t market their ADAS as “autopilot” or “self driving”.
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by xondono 5y ago
Given Teslas “only camera” approach to ADAS, high-beam assist looks like an obvious point of failure. How is your car going to stop if it can’t really see what’s in front?
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by xondono 5y ago
Given some of the devices I’ve seen these ICs, the fact that they were fake is a problem, no matter if they work reasonably well.
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by xondono 5y ago
If I’m spending thousands of dollars on these devices, I expect them to not screw up something like that. It would not be the first time someone sends a device for RMA to be told it’s out of warranty because it has been tampered, when in re
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by xondono 5y ago
Although it would be much ( much ) more elaborate, a counterfeit BMC could have hidden ROMs or bootloaders capable of opening backdoors into running machines.
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by xondono 5y ago
These “dumb SoCs” are one of the biggest security holes in a lot of high end equipment. It would not be the first time someone finds exploitable firmware bugs and vulnerable BMCs through Shodan.
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by xondono 5y ago
I’m still haunted by nightmares of fake FTDI chips
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by xondono 5y ago
It says “founded”. Their terms of service point to Analogue Enterprises Limited, registered in HK. Founded is a typical weasel word because people tend to be more trusting of american companies.
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by xondono 5y ago
> $10,000 for four months is the equivalent of a $30K/year salary. I have a senior dev on my team at 35k€/year. Prices in SV != Prices in the rest of the world.
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by xondono 5y ago
> $20,000 for 4 to 6 months of work for a software engineer is an insult. In SV, the company is from HK. If that offer was ridiculous too, she should have said as much. I’ve been offered flat 200$ for jobs that cost >10k$. Your client
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by xondono 5y ago
We’re more likely to find a talking unicorn with a phd than a politician in office who wants to lower spending,
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by xondono 5y ago
Sabine Hossenfelder (physics and science) is now publishing quite regularly on youtube. Patrick Boyle (markets) is criminally undersubscribed IMO.
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by xondono 5y ago
I don’t know which is more surprising, that this happened or that Google Support answered!
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by xondono 5y ago
It is still an OS problem on a phone that Google makes. It’s hard to blame anyone else but Google for this.
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by xondono 5y ago
> I mean where do you think defense contractor profits come from? So what? What’s the argument here? Because we have programs that take X amount of dollars, burn a portion of it and give the rest to people in group Y, we should have othe
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by xondono 5y ago
Regulatory capture is impossible without government enforcement. The way to fight it is not by giving more powers to government but giving less.
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by xondono 5y ago
> where people who trust the market don't want to create laws that help the working class I would say even that is a straw man. The argument is that I’d rather trust the market than governments with that task given their respective
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by xondono 5y ago
The issue is that there’s an amazing amount of overlap between the people who pay and the people who receive, making the exercise quite pointless. Even if you took all the wealth of billionaires and found a way of liquidating that at that p
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by xondono 5y ago
Parent called it a return. The “return”, or benefit of the operation can’t be properly understood without taking into account that you’ve taken that 20M$ from some people to give it to (presumably) others.
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by xondono 5y ago
And it impoverishes those who you took those 20M$. You can’t assess real impact without taking that into account.
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by xondono 5y ago
That’s because you are looking at the money, but you can’t eat money, you can’t dress yourself with money, you can use money as shelter. You “pour money” at Amazon and lower prices come out the end. Note that I put “pour money” because no o
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by xondono 5y ago
> give a million hungry people $20 each, and see $20M return to the economy the next day as they spend it on food. That’s not a return, the economy doesn’t work that way.
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by xondono 5y ago
> I haven't ever heard trickle down proponents suggest we give the money to the working class. Because that would require taking from some people and giving to others through government, which is a very inefficient way to do it.
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by xondono 5y ago
Let me guess, you’ve done it with ARM microcontrollers. Pretty much until ARM, support was terrible.
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by xondono 5y ago
I think a lot of people don’t realize that for people at the bottom of the stack Rust is almost a revolution. We’ve had basically no alternative other than C, with a lot of failed attempts at half supported C++. A lot of us suffered the hor
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by xondono 5y ago
* Individuals and interactions over processes and tools * Working software over comprehensive documentation * Customer collaboration over contract negotiation * Responding to change over following a plan And then you grab any Scrum guide an
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by xondono 5y ago
> In Scrum, the team should be self-managing. The Product Owner and Scrum Master are not managers or bosses, they're a customer representative and a secretary. I can see that working with "people over process". Except thos
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by xondono 5y ago
I know, but it’s not how it’s sold. The typical presentation is “we need agility => Scrum”. One would assume that if Scrum doesn’t fit the bill, one would discard it.
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by xondono 5y ago
To this day I still don’t understand how one can read the agile manifesto and somehow get to scrum. The whole thing is about processes, and tools (jira)… the complete opposite. The reason everyone ends up doing waterfall is that it’s not th

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