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by zwieback 4y ago
I would argue that SMS is the other popular standardized push protocol.
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by zwieback 4y ago
I meant they tried hard to keep C# and VB.Net equal, not VB.Net backwards compatible to VB Classic
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by zwieback 4y ago
Next step would be to de-correlate smartphone usage, the prime suspect right now, from other trends happening at the same time. I have two daughters in that age range and I don't get the impression that social media is a big stressor f
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by zwieback 4y ago
I think VB was such a smash hit not because of the language but because the ease of writing a quick GUI for Windows, there wasn't really anything quite like it at the time. Other GUI builders existed but were harder to use and not as w
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by zwieback 4y ago
Great pay for a truly horrible job!
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by zwieback 4y ago
Just got off a long flight - I'd say about 80% used the in-flight system, 20% had their own devices.
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by zwieback 4y ago
I'm all for e-bikes but you'd have to pay me $1500-$2500 to ride this ugly thing.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Yeah, it was a surprise. Discovered by experienced family doc, followed by PSA and biopsy.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Especially nowadays where OS and app experience has been largely replaced with browser and webapp experience.
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by zwieback 4y ago
What happened in late 2019 to drive up Macs? Covid?
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by zwieback 4y ago
We visited Highland Park on Orkney (highly recommend) and the guy giving the tour insisted that putting a few drops of water in your glass is the way to go. The science is a bit murky and I haven't found any blind taste test results th
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by zwieback 4y ago
I had PC in my early 40s, over 15 years ago now. If that treatment had been available then I might still opt for surgical removal. The peace of mind of getting the thing out is huge and the side effects for me were negligible, as I had a gr
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by zwieback 4y ago
Yes, from the sound of it. "Localized" usually means that the cancer is inside the tough membrane surrounding the prostate.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Similar experience, our first kid ate peanut butter happily for two years or so, then developed more and more of an allergy. It was gradual, basically the reverse experience of developing a tolerance as many others experience.
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by zwieback 4y ago
That puts the discussion that we should pay less for "defense" into perspective. And make our healthcare system more efficient, those two knobs are what I'd like to turn.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Why do you think they will monopolize? I sense the beginning of a massive scrum of all the major players, hard to imagine anyone can monopolize that quickly.
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by zwieback 4y ago
You caused the shutdown!
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by zwieback 4y ago
Sure but the question to ask is whether our financial systems have gotten better or worse since the time of tulip panics, railroad stocks, etc. I would argue that they have gotten better but there's always possible improvements.
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by zwieback 4y ago
The setup I'm most familiar with is ARM-based microcontrollers, here's an overview from their docs: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ihi0014/q/Introducti... and the debugger from Keil (used t
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by zwieback 4y ago
I'm a debugger lover and Visual Studio's is pretty great but GDB is also awesome. However, when debugging embedded systems with a good trace probe it's another whole world, using on-chip trace capabilities and being able to b
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by zwieback 4y ago
We have a US model Bosch dishwasher. As someone who grew up in Stuttgart it pains me to say I don't love it. It's reliability is so-so and the plastic parts on the inside break apart. I'm just going to chalk it up to cost-cut
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by zwieback 4y ago
Same here, RS-170 into Cognex MVS8100 ca. 20 years ago. Their pattern matching was gold standard at the time. We also used Matrox but I was a Cognex man at that time. Some of those systems are still running today but I do not miss the days
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by zwieback 4y ago
Your end-users, do they mess around with the spreadsheet programming interface, via some kind of remote PC interface or not at all? We deployed quite a few Cognex InSights in the early days but version control and distribution of updates wa
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by zwieback 4y ago
I would agree, many of those cameras are mouldering in our reclaim area now. But the newer generations are powerful enough that we can turn normal manufacturing engineers loos on simpler vision tasks and leave the challenging applications t
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by zwieback 4y ago
Can we have a chip butty?
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by zwieback 4y ago
East or West Coast? I had a strange interview experience in Oregon in the late 90s but not as bad as yours from the sound of it.
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by zwieback 4y ago
We use "smart" cameras from Keyence and Cognex but the really interesting work tends to still be in PC-based, hand-coded vision systems. Usually hand-crafted C++ or C# code but increasingly using neural networks for some, usually
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by zwieback 4y ago
Sort of agree but a couple counterexamples from my machine vision career: - Agriculture and food processing, which cannot be offshored as easily, requires very challenging machine vision solutions. Dirty environment, unpredictable lighting,
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by zwieback 4y ago
Is this due to C++ name mangling? I just had a flashback to the early 90s when I ran into that problem with Watcom C++ and Windows symbol loading, we had to resort to rewriting the exports and imports to shorter names just to be able to de
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Are Embedded Systems Overengineered?(embedded.com)
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