phoehne

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by phoehne 5mo ago
I spent about two hours last night trying to get a consistent and accurate answer out of Claude regarding a set of graphics APIs. I then went the old fashioned way to find most of the articles outside of a couple of sources were also incor
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by phoehne 5mo ago
I agree, the risk at the CTO/CIO level is it's four years later, the startup went under, and you have this software integrated into your environment. If you're lucky, someone else will have bought it. They'll on-ramp y
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by phoehne 8mo ago
I think you're right and it's possible to have something that exists with no other purpose than to cause harm. And it's not moral to make that thing. I also don't think it's fruitful to find the specific circumsta
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by phoehne 8mo ago
Okay, that's where you draw the line. But someone provides power to their data center and their offices. Someone provides hand-held devices. Someone provides network connectivity. Someone has a contract to house and feed these agen
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by phoehne 8mo ago
My point was, if you do invent something like Zyklon B, you need to consider its uses. While the gas itself is just a molecule, devoid of morality, not everyone who employs it will be a moral person. In the case of Palantir, should we allo
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by phoehne 8mo ago
Yes. It's not, and I agree. There's no bright line that says you're morally culpable or you are not morally culpable for what you do. But all of us should think about our roles in that light. If Palantir uses Git, does th
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by phoehne 8mo ago
In another comment, I referenced Eichmann. A train is not a good thing or a bad thing. A rail car is not a good thing or a bad thing. Having an app that aggregates multiple different data sources and puts them together is not a good thin
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by phoehne 8mo ago
"I was only in charge of transport" was not an excuse.
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by phoehne 9mo ago
But they won't shut down not scam ads. That was worth 16 billion to them in 2024.
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by phoehne 10mo ago
Not in the short while since they've purchased Arduino, but I could see them restricting the licensing for commercial use, while keeping it freely usable for education. Like STM.
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by phoehne 10mo ago
15 years ago I think Arduino was the best choice for educational purposes. I still think it's a great choice now. The fact the IDE and board are basically the same as they were 15 years ago, means you can figure out how to set everyt
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by phoehne 10mo ago
From an embedded developer's perspective, Arduino is awful. That hero-loop programming is not what anyone should ever do. And experienced developers can get better results from something like FreeRTOS (or if you're a masochist Z
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by phoehne 10mo ago
The cool thing about an Arduino is you can just buy the boards and use them in a commercial product. This isn't something you can do with other boards. Some people have said the license requires you to disclose your firmware, but tha
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by phoehne 10mo ago
It won't be just one big move that kills the community. Eventually, I could see it as locked down as the STM32 ecosystem. Nor do I see them continuing to sell the same parts for over a decade. They'll just want to use it to pro
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by phoehne 1y ago
No s*t, really?
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by phoehne 1y ago
Yes, but has anyone asked the fatberg how it feels about all this?
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What modern programming feels like
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by phoehne 1y ago
Now they're hiding the chemtrails. It's even worse!
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by phoehne 1y ago
When I bought a 3-D printer years ago, I had an important insight. I was either buying a printer as a project, or I was buying a printer to help with other projects. Both are reasonable answers. It makes people happy to work on their 3-D
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by phoehne 1y ago
Yeah - I'm doing the rust thing now. And yes, I am doing it wrong.
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by phoehne 1y ago
The one thing I don't miss about Rails is constantly feeling like I'm doing it wrong. I had a 'discussion' at RailsConf when I was told I should stop using C Ruby and switch to JRuby because it's so much better. A
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by phoehne 1y ago
Be a little careful on those. It depends on what you're doing. Some of them are not suited to be used with the high data rates for I2C, or I2C only at 100khz. I found out the hard way with some of the SparkFun level shifters, years
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by phoehne 1y ago
I'm using the RP2040s with FreeRTOS for a hobby project. I think the Pico probe is a much better debugging story than buying a Blackmagic (or if you got the dough, a Segger), to debug the "modern" Arduinos. I have one of th
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by phoehne 1y ago
To me the benefits of an MCU have to do with latency on things like interrupts. A real OS sometimes gets in the way, if you're trying to run things on very tight timing, or want to go super low power. That's why even though I&#x2
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by phoehne 1y ago
That's not my reading of https://support.arduino.cc/hc/en-us/articles/4415094490770-L... . The LGPL is usually a requirement to publish your modifications to the LGPL licensed code, but not necessarily y
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by phoehne 1y ago
Don't look at just the specs. You also need to look at the board design and programming environment. I've used the ESP32 native tools and they are a lot more complex than Arduino. But I'm an embedded firmware developer, so
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by phoehne 1y ago
They're more fun. The programming is easier (although you can get an Arduino like experience on a ESP32). They have 5V options, which make some projects easier without having to add additional components. The ESP32 API (and the Pico
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by phoehne 1y ago
https://www.st.com/resource/en/evaluation_board_terms_of_use...
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by phoehne 1y ago
You can make a low volume product by buying a bunch of Arduinos as your controller. You just stick them in the device. There's no license issue. While I haven't exhaustively looked, one vendor's kit I did look at explicitl
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by phoehne 1y ago
Yes, we re-invent the wheel. The more time you spend writing software for a living, the more you will see the wheel re-invented. But Ada and Rust are safe under different definitions of safety. I view Rust as having a more narrow definit

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