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901.
by zwieback 5y ago
I like MQTT and we use Mosquitto in our product but I always wonder if MQTT pushes TCP into areas where UDP would be a better fit.
902.
by zwieback 5y ago
> "what is the amount of effort that it is reasonable to expect a lay-person to put into the in/validation of information presented to them?" Exactly, I think that's the crux of it
903.
by zwieback 5y ago
For larger companies that have the luxury of even contemplating developing in-house expertise the next big question is: buy or hire external expertise or develop in-house. These aren't easy questions since the investments are large and
904.
by zwieback 5y ago
There are problems both on the producing side and the consuming side. Any scientist knows that research is often driven by politics, money or ego. The bigger problems are probably on the consumer side, though, and not only in under-educated
905.
by zwieback 5y ago
Yes, for sure. Reminds me of the discussions during my childhood growing up in divided Germany.
906.
by zwieback 5y ago
Yeah, I do that quite a bit actually, when I write code for smaller embedded systems I get the same rush I got back on my old Apple ][.
907.
by zwieback 5y ago
Kids these days - let grandpa tell you a story about writing OS/2 1.x device drivers pre-virtual memory. Stack was obsessively monitored, especially in interrupt handlers where you were called with just a few hundred bytes of stack or
908.
by zwieback 5y ago
I think Maurice is Forster's best novel, for the others I prefer the Merchant/Ivory adaptations. It's hard to relate to how some of his contemporaries felt betrayed that maybe they didn't know the real person behind the
909.
Facebook Is a Hostile Foreign Power(theatlantic.com)
73 points by zwieback 5y ago|21 comments
910.
by zwieback 5y ago
Agree but it just highlights that any kind of programming with more than one linear path of execution is hard. Before async/await, coroutines, etc. we all had to learn that the hard way. It's helpful to know what a process, thread
911.
by zwieback 5y ago
Apparently they are good answers too. Talk about giving back to the community!
912.
Reddit's Workaround for Vaccine Misinformation(theatlantic.com)
4 points by zwieback 5y ago|8 comments
913.
by zwieback 5y ago
You'd have to turn the clock back, when we were industrializing Asia wasn't competing, shipping and communications were expensive, etc. I've heard that for many mass products China can get things onto the shelf for less than
914.
by zwieback 5y ago
Yay, I'm also in favor of heavily taxing the horrible packaging of consumer goods shipped from overseas. I don't have any illusions we can shift mass manufacturing back to the US, that doesn't make any sense, but I think we s
915.
by zwieback 5y ago
This is for an internally developed printhead test tool (at hp) so money is not as much of an issue. We place the paper on a very flat vacuum platen and then print various test patterns with our (industrial) printheads. So the printing part
916.
by zwieback 5y ago
We had better luck with Bernoulli cups to move paper from a ream to our platen where it gets printed on. We grab the paper by the short edge and drag it over, easier than trying to lift it off vertically. The platen has its own vacuum so th
917.
by zwieback 5y ago
There's the basic hygiene of writing code: naming things, adding the right amount of comments, letting the compiler do the optimizing whenever possible. However, I find that writing reusable, highly modularized code sometimes comes at
918.
by zwieback 5y ago
I've been enjoying the writeups about the cheap Changli Jalopnik has been running: https://jalopnik.com/the-changli-at-one-how-the-cheapest-new... The QQ looks a lot nicer, like an actual car.
919.
by zwieback 5y ago
I suspect you're right about the Japanese culture and definitely about the cost of things. When it comes to being rough with my stuff I think I've learned some lessons: I'm careful, for example, with the vintage watch my wife
920.
by zwieback 5y ago
I know C++, played some sax in my youth and recorder as a child. If only I knew Wix, then I could connect the two dots in a 2D graph!
921.
by zwieback 5y ago
My dad worked with the Sony R&D labs throughout his career and brought back various Walkmen and other strange devices for the Japanese market. We kids loved it, of course, and put these things through some pretty rough days of listening
922.
Nintendo 64 over S-Video(nayuki.io)
3 points by zwieback 5y ago|0 comments
923.
Drum Juggling(thekidshouldseethis.com)
38 points by zwieback 5y ago|20 comments
924.
by zwieback 5y ago
I'm in favor of vaccine mandates but if there was a better way of quantifying immunity I'd be all in favor of letting people with natural immunity get a waiver. As everything with COVID, the lack of hard data and the poor communic
925.
by zwieback 5y ago
Yet I grow food in my garden (inefficiently) and play instruments for fun (not very well), because modern life is so convenient I can do those things. I'm thanking my lucky stars and never worry about what regrets I might have in the f
926.
by zwieback 5y ago
When I grew up in Germany you had to tell your server to their face when they brought the bill how much you want to tip them. Granted, base price includes reasonable service so tips are smaller but still always seemed unpleasant to me. Now,
927.
by zwieback 5y ago
Yeah, I guess that's obsolete too. My experience with stereo is that there's so much work in calibration and ensuring you get reliable correlation results between regions from the two cameras that plug-and-play solutions are very
928.
by zwieback 5y ago
Had to google that - with a bassoonist! That explains a lot...
929.
by zwieback 5y ago
I thought that already happened? I think they are just selling what they have now but stopped development. Keyence, Flir and a few other established machine vision companies have stereo systems but nothing like RealSense, which was trying t
930.
by zwieback 5y ago
I suspect his personal life is just not colorful enough to make for interesting viewing.

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