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by allo37 2y ago
I'm honestly impressed by how...well it works. Considering it's building an entire, totally custom Linux distro from scratch it requires a surprisingly little amount of hand-holding.
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by allo37 2y ago
My main motivation for impactfulness is just making my job more pleasant: Nothing is more soul-sucking than fixing the same kinds of issues over and over because the powers that be are convinced they're doing it right, and you're
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by allo37 2y ago
Another interesting way they make money is security: SEE costs a pretty penny. Worth it though, IME.
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by allo37 3y ago
"Noone is printing anymore, so we will just take your money anyways" - HP, probably
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by allo37 3y ago
Has someone tried this with a compressed gas powered cannon yet? Edit: Also, does the app check for the sudden deceleration spike when it hits the ground so you can't, say, add some kind of parachute?
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by allo37 3y ago
I built a lot of weird 'inventions' in university, such as an airsoft sentry gun to keep squirrels away from the garden. I was also in a student club. I don't think any project specifically made potential employers say '
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by allo37 3y ago
Sounds a bit like what UIO tries to do in Linux? https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.12/driver-api/uio-howto.h...
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by allo37 3y ago
What's nifty about an e-bike is that they're cheap enough to co-exist with your car. I still have my trusty Honda, but I also do many trips by bike now. I fill up with gas way less often, don't have to deal with traffic and p
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by allo37 3y ago
> Does it infect C/C++ programmers who've dared to sample it once, turning them into noisy advocates, a la addictive drugs or parasitic fungi? It definitely did that to me. I remember trying out Rust and was amazed at how much
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by allo37 3y ago
Employers don't require their employees to be members of a professional order because they think professional orders are nifty- It's because certain jobs are only legally allowed to be performed by a member of said order. If you w
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by allo37 3y ago
Sometimes you can declare "self-learning", depending on the order. But anyways, that's not really my point: My point is just that in professions it's not uncommon to be expected to perform some kind of extracurricular ac
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by allo37 3y ago
I can sympathize, but keep in mind most professions expect you to commit to a certain number of hours of continuing education. Often you can convince your employer to let you do this during work hours (or even pay for it!), but not always.
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by allo37 3y ago
Hah, to me flashing an MCU over UART is a luxury. When I first started working with MCUs I needed to use a chip programmer that cost several hundred $ and flashed using a high-voltage (relatively speaking) parallel interface. Then there wer
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by allo37 3y ago
It's funny, I work in embedded systems and much of this is still relevant to me. RS-232 itself (as in the specification for the physical layer) isn't used as much, but the underlying UART comms protocol is still alive and well. A
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by allo37 3y ago
Engineers prefer direct language and concrete examples. Unfortunately it's not always engineers looking at your resumé, and they love buzzwords and flowery language.
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by allo37 3y ago
Well according to the article, if you're an Expert Beginner you might just end up with a checks notes ... well-paying stable job and lofty title. Oh no!
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by allo37 3y ago
It was my first exposure to...scalping? I remember that for some reason, chocolate was very valuable in the game. There was a chocolate shop in the game that was consistently sold out, but if you hit refresh often enough and at the right ti
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by allo37 3y ago
And then obviously no-one will spend $220 million on a movie anymore because, hey, we can just use generative AI. So I guess subsequent AIs will be based on the outputs of a previous AI? Or will all movies from a certain point onwards be wh
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by allo37 3y ago
I'm curious what the answer was. I've read plenty about how the boutique finance sector is basically a parasite that only benefits a small cohort of already wealthy individuals, would like to hear what the other side has to say.
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by allo37 3y ago
Funny you mention Rad, they seem to be another golden-boy eBike company that grew too quickly and is struggling. I have a Rover 6+ and am concerned about being able to get parts quickly in the future...
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by allo37 4y ago
There has been a desire to use Rust where I work, but it's really hard to make a business case for "Hey, see this C/C++ code that's worked well for years if not decades? Let's rewrite it in a whole new programming
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by allo37 4y ago
I remember some PC games in the 90's/early 2000's just refused to run, or they would run and then the disk would get too scratched up and then they'd refuse to run. Sometimes one particular game (MechWarrior 2: Mercenari
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by allo37 4y ago
I do this quite a bit in C and C++; I find it's a great way to reduce the mental effort required to understand a long function without having to jump around the source like when it is broken up into multiple functions. In C++ you can r
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by allo37 4y ago
Eh, let them live with their "smart" code: What happens when they leave it for a few months and come back and forget how everything works? When a client encounters an issue in the field and they have to debug it with "It does
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by allo37 4y ago
I'm an embedded dev and yeah, I can confirm that it's mostly C. And the "C++" I often encounter is pretty much just C with a couple of C++ things thrown in like std::vector. I agree that embedded is a good choice if you&
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by allo37 4y ago
-15C? I've cycle-commuted in -20C ;) The thing people might not realize is that when you're exerting yourself, your body generates plenty of heat to keep you warm - it's really just a matter of keeping that heat contained. It
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by allo37 4y ago
Exactly. I do miss seeing/conversing with my coworkers with WFH, but the positive effect it has had on my overall health and stress level cannot be understated. These "actually, you really want to go back to the office and like it
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by allo37 4y ago
Apparently the CM4 comes with on-board eMMC as an option. About time!
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by allo37 4y ago
I had worked in embedded a bit at my first job out of university, then took a job doing mostly modern C++ but also Android/IOS/.NET development for over 3 years. I realized that I missed embedded and wasn't super fond of &quo
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by allo37 4y ago
Not sure if this counts, but I went from software engineering to embedded systems. Here's how I feel it's different: - The space evolves at a slower pace than regular "software", so I'm less stressed about keeping u

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