linuxlizard

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   by linuxlizard 8y ago

   "crisp manilla folders" <-- gave me chills
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   by linuxlizard 8y ago

   (ham handed attempt at market research) Does anyone think there's a market opening for a NxN group chat? We've been trying to find a usable group video chat application. GotoMeeting is a 1 to many (broadcast) solution. Skype has
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   by linuxlizard 8y ago

   "The wifi/bt module used on ROCK960s is AP6356s from AMPAK Technology." https://www.96boards.org/documentation/consumer/rock960/hard... "AMPAK combines Broadcom Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips
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   by linuxlizard 8y ago

   I wonder what wifi chipset it has. Supports 802.11ac which I need. I should investigate this board, see if it allows monitor mode (low level wifi packet access). The RasPiB+ supports 802.11ac but the Broadcom based wifi doesn't allow m
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   by linuxlizard 8y ago

   Ditto. Also software wonk who landed in embedded. Followed a lot of the tutorials on Adafruit and Sparkfun. Bought a lot of equipment and parts from both. Have done a lot of fun little digital circuit problems. Halloween is definitely more
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   by linuxlizard 9y ago

   I learned so much good stuff from DDJ and CUJ.
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   by linuxlizard 9y ago

   "Asking for a friend."
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   by linuxlizard 9y ago

   Obligatory XKCD. https://xkcd.com/1179/ ISO8601 is very nice.
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   by linuxlizard 9y ago

   I wonder if Apple will go to online iPhone development sometime soon. Write code, test in emulators, push to Apple App Store, all through web browser. No XCode, no Macbook required. Would open up iPhone dev to a whole new class of people wh
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    by linuxlizard 9y ago

    Because it's not as popular as WiFi or Ethernet or USB. It hasn't had the decades of hard core, hard knocks field usage of WiFi/Ethernet/USB. So the chipsets are less robust to errors, are less sensitive to highly noisy
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    by linuxlizard 10y ago

    To start on OpenCV and deep learning and image recognition you should check out http://www.pyimagesearch.com/ I've found his tutorials and books to be very good.
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    by linuxlizard 10y ago

    P=NP to follow soon?
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    by linuxlizard 10y ago

    I'm now looking for recommendations for another DNS provider. USA or Europe preferred. Anyone have any?
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    by linuxlizard 10y ago

    Come to Boise, Idaho (USA). We need high tech people. Excellent quality of life, low commutes. https://www.tsheets.com/living-in-boise/ (I don't work at T-Sheets but they have a great page on living in Boise.) Als
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    by linuxlizard 10y ago

    (In case folks don't know, PNG better for text because JPG's compression introduces "ringing" artifacts around sharp edges, such as the black/white transition of text.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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    by linuxlizard 10y ago

    T-Sheets. Clearwater Analytics. Whitecloud. Cradlepoint (my current employer). MetaGeek. HP and Micron are the giant tech employers here. Microsoft has a small office here (purchased a local start-up a few years ago). Healthwise. Lots of sm
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    by linuxlizard 10y ago

    Don't go to Austin. Come to Boise, Idaho instead. https://www.tsheets.com/living-in-boise/ (I don't work for T-Sheets but have friends that do.) We have a great high tech community that is searching hard for
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    by linuxlizard 10y ago

    "even bringing Windows, I repeat WINDOWS, into the fold" I am not a C++ expert but have tinkered with C++11. How will portable C++ work with the Windows UTF-16 (wchar_t) and other systems using UTF-8 (char_t)? Is there a way to ha
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    by linuxlizard 10y ago

    Had a friend with last name of "Root". She worked as a UNIX admin back in the day. Had trouble off and on with her name.
20. 230.▲
    by linuxlizard 11y ago

    Boise has some good, small tech firms. Great area for quality of life.
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    by linuxlizard 11y ago

    And move your job to China.
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    by linuxlizard 11y ago

    Does this article apply at all outside Silicon Valley?
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    by linuxlizard 11y ago

    Debugging an OS: - printf - printf to serial port - LEDs attached to GPIOs
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    by linuxlizard 11y ago

    My dad was a college math prof who introduced me to Tom Lehrer. I devoured those records which later led me to find Dr. Demento then Weird Al. Tom Lehrer makes many happy memory connections for me.
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    by linuxlizard 11y ago

    Small reason to use Linux--Linux has taken over the embedded market. Hardware vendors (e.g., Broadcom, Intel) offer BSP (board support packages) for Linux but not any of the BSDs. The BSP in embedded does sort-of what the PC BIOS does. The
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    by linuxlizard 11y ago

    Anyone want to move to Boise, ID for firmware positions? We're looking. (I do not officially speak for my employer.)
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    by linuxlizard 11y ago

    Is fun just browsing through the genre names.
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    by linuxlizard 11y ago

    I think this would be quite interesting integrated into a web proxy. Surf through the proxy, gathers all the nth party HTTP.
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    by linuxlizard 11y ago

    I am tilbert!
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    by linuxlizard 11y ago

    Probably Postscript and PCL rendering in firmware. Requires a lot of memory and CPU. Current printers use custom ASICs with specialized rendering hardware.