inferiorhuman

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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
Of course I wouldn't vibe code in a serious production project, but I'd still use an AI agent, except I'd make sure I understand every line it puts out. So you value your ability to churn out insignificant dreck o
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
Rust assumes a runtime, the standard library assumes a stack exists, a heap exists, and that main() is called by an OS; Wrong. Source: I'm writing Rust without a runtime without a heap and without a main function. You can to
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
Sure, some do, but some are coming around and some were never there. Which is why it's important for a company like Adafruit to pick a manufacturer that is towards the open end of the spectrum. Unfortunately NXP isn't that manuf
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
Levis stuff has been made overseas for decades now. It's only with the more recent shift towards using cotton blends in nearly of their jeans that the longevity has suffered.
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
Nah, it's a spectrum. Companies like NXP and Infineon are at one end. NXP wants a ton of personal information to access even the most basic docs on some of its chips, sometimes even an NDA. Infineon won't even acknowledge you f
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
Mostly I'm just leery of software defined peripherals being at the mercy of whatever community springs up around them, nothing specific. In terms of a Metro then yeah, something to slot in where the Due was absolutely with high speed
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
Right, but you're not really competing on processor speed. You're competing on maturity of peripherals where the RP doesn't really match up PIO or not. Edit: I see you're comparing it to the 3.2 but I suspect most folks
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
Which is still a far worse experience than if Cloudflare's services weren't needed.
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
Why do you say it doesn't solve loads of things? Because I'm sitting here twiddling my thumbs waiting for random pages to go through their anti-LLM bot crap. LLMs create more problems than they solve. Um if I ask an
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
Doubt it. Of all the issues I run into with Siri none could be solved by throwing AI slop at it. Case in point: if I ask Siri to play an album and it can't match the album name it just plays some random shit instead of erroring out.
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
Someone's in the Embassy matrix channel currently trying to figure out why the SPI driver is preventing the USB peripheral from enumerating on their G0…
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
Cortex-A includes a watchdog so yeah.
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
Considering the USB errata for the F7, I assume they didn't.
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
I've yet to see a MCU vendor ship without bugs. At least with ST, the MCU is very cheap. Moving the goalposts much? You went from "lengthy errata doesn't mean anything" to "at least it's cheap",
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
Of note neither the debugger nor user USB port on that board work with ARM Macs (guess how I found that out). You can connect it to a hub as a workaround but that may lead to data corruption (per the errata). Also worth noting that the dis
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
Just like security bugs, lengthy errata doesn't mean anything. A popular MCU will have bigger errata sheet because it gets more eyes on it. Yeah, no. From all outward appearances STM stuff is basically rushed to market, fix
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
This would've been years ago. Both MacOS and iOS were insanely buggy (Tiger era). I think the lack of momentum is due to the fact that CardDAV is pretty darn simple, and CalDAV is… idk. Complex yet mature?
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
Also Xous which is completely independent of Embassy but applicable if you're looking for preemptive multitasking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaWkfSmIgRs
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
Embassy provides some traits, but it's pretty much expected you'll be using traits from embedded-hal (both 0.2 and 1.0). IMO one of the big reasons Arduino stayed firmly hobbyist tier is because it was almost entirely stuck
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
probe-rs is amazing. In ARM land it works with pretty much any CMSIS compliant gear, and yeah you get debugging and logging on pretty much anything as a result.
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
STM is popular because their lineup is cheap, offers a lot of features, and the documentation is readily available. The flip side is that their errata is lengthy, the Rust HAL is complex to support lots of different designs under the same
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
I wrote a standalone CardDAV server ages ago and the biggest frustration for me was just how buggy the clients were. At some point I stopped self-hosting and moved on.
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
Until the humans are required to (or just plain want to) use LLMs to review the code.
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
With the original Arduino Due there was some fun undocumented behavior with the MCU (an Atmel Cortex-M3) where it would do random things at boot unless you installed a 10k resistor. From booting off of flash or ROM at random to clocks not
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
The hope that they'll run out of relevant material is slim. If big corps are training their LLMs on their LLM written code…
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
So I think you and the person you responded two are talking about two different things: developing software with and without a HAL. The rise in ARM brought about quite a bit of standardization. You're no longer bound to vendor specifi
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
As a hobbyist who's written and is working on a couple of async HALs my take is that Rust is well suited to embedded work but yeah there are hurdles. It's immature so while things like Embassy are a joy to work with, they're
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
Necessarily, LLM output that works isn't gibberish. Hardly. Poorly conjured up code can still work.
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by inferiorhuman 8mo ago
they have a data bank the size of the internet so they can pull hints that sometimes surprise even experienced devs. That's a polite way of phrasing "they've stolen a mountain of information and overwhelmed resource
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by inferiorhuman 9mo ago
Ah, I see you have a JD from OpenAI. I don't run personal sites worth millions of dollars. I do, however, use sites like Sourcehut, DigiKey, Github, Mouser, Farnell, etc, etc, etc. that have opted to put everything behind bullshit cap

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