phyllostachys

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by phyllostachys 7y ago
I think my wife and I have a toaster from when we first got married. It'll be 13 years this month. It's probably a 2009 or 2010 model, so really only about a decade or a little less old.
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by phyllostachys 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LywkIfAA1M
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by phyllostachys 7y ago
I store them in the comments area in KeePass, both the crap question and my silly answers.
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by phyllostachys 8y ago
Every time I start a little thing in C or C++ and I write a corresponding Makefile I get annoyed by it and write the thing in Rust. Cargo is really nice. I've considered using a Cargo.toml and build.rs file just to build C and C++ file
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by phyllostachys 8y ago
This mostly works. After military service, I never changed back my cell number and I never answer if it is from the old area code. Though, I did once and it was a volunteer fire station asking for donations.
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by phyllostachys 8y ago
I asked Zach about it once (in email), he said: > We do all of our development in C# using a custom low-level “game engine”. At some point we need to do a writeup about it, it’s kind of interesting tech. But I think they have at least on
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by phyllostachys 8y ago
And, unfortunately, it is a destructive process going from elf to hex, as I've discovered a few times. Intel HEX is just the data at what addresses so one looses the section info and metadata from an elf. I'm always happen to see
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Webamp – Winamp 2 in your browser(webamp.org)
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by phyllostachys 8y ago
Indeed. "Firefox is back." - Well, from where I stand, it never left, nor I it.
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by phyllostachys 8y ago
That sounds like reasonable phone use to me whereas the article seems to hint at using a phone instead of engaging.
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by phyllostachys 8y ago
I learned by working at a contract manufacturer who also does engineering design of small device electronics (as an embedded engineer). I also have a copy of The Art of Electronics but I can't say that I've looked at it much.
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by phyllostachys 8y ago
This was the go to method of keeping information when I was in the military (05-09), which was _strongly_ encouraged starting in boot camp. If one was found without a pen or two and a notebook, there was some words said. I've kept the
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by phyllostachys 8y ago
Others have mentioned that include_str! is a macro, which I suppose it is. But if you look at the source it says that it is a compiler built-in[0]. If you dig into that, you'll see that it happens inside the compiler[1] (well duh). I f
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by phyllostachys 9y ago
Football toy chest! I had one of those. I remember climbing inside it -- being able to fit inside it even. I remember, when I was older, trying to climb inside but backing out because I was afraid of getting stuck in there (and trying to im
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by phyllostachys 9y ago
I second Duluth trousers. I had difficulty finding pants that fit since I'm a little shorter but have bigger legs. Getting pants with larger legs means a larger waist and a belt only helps cinch that up so much. Gusseted crotch trouser
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by phyllostachys 9y ago
Similarly, when I'm really still and reading a book, I can hear some sort of grinding sound when I turn my neck ever so slightly. The sound reminds me of a little stepper motor. I have no idea if that is unique or not but I always thou
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by phyllostachys 9y ago
I'd recommend having a look at emulators for other chips in general and just tailoring them to ARM Cortex-M. The architecture reference manuals (ARM ARMs, har har) are freely available on ARM's website[0]. I'd recommend the A
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by phyllostachys 9y ago
You can also consider the case where you have a super fast CPU but are using poor algorithms. That's why I think the terms 'smart' and 'stupid' are fairly useless in practice.
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by phyllostachys 9y ago
As their menu has grown it has been getting a little harder to figure out where things are but moving around the menu is really easy. I suspect the latter helps with the former. Also, what's wrong with a ham and cheese sandwich with ma
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by phyllostachys 9y ago
I'm always amazed at how many doctors I've encountered behave as if their knowledge is the extent of medical practice. I get it though, research is hard to stay on top of and isn't linear to results. Granted, also, that there
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by phyllostachys 9y ago
After a little investigation[1][2], it seems things get weird with an OS, as would be expected with virtual memory, et al. [1] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16360620/find-out-whethe... [2] - http:/&#
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by phyllostachys 9y ago
After looking at that default linker script dump, I noticed it didn't have the stuff I saw in the ARM linker script that I'm used to. So I attached one for a Silicon Labs EFM32 part. It's below the x86-64 linker script and is
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by phyllostachys 9y ago
I was bothered by saying that static memory is assigned on the stack (implied that it is only on the stack). As an embedded guy, at least in bare metal situations, local function statics, any const variables, and any globals are either in t
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by phyllostachys 9y ago
Ah, I learned a new word. These serpentine roadways are used to slow the advance of cars on a guarded gate or outpost in military situations. They're pretty annoying to drive through but that probably means they working correctly.
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by phyllostachys 9y ago
This is also true for the rest of the areas around Lake Erie, western PA, and probably western NY (I don't have much experience with that area). I live about an hour south of Erie, PA and the road I travel to and from work has needed r
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by phyllostachys 10y ago
> If they reboot Batman a dozen more times, it doesn't keep you from thinking that Adam West was the best Batman. Recently, I've been watching Sherlock. After doing some reading, I learned that Sherlock Holmes is the most portr
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by phyllostachys 10y ago
Does this also explain why people in Scandinavia+Finland seem to be so clever?
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by phyllostachys 10y ago
Yup. At my work we are doing embedded development and we use the Sparkfun FTDI breakout boards for UART communication. People have come to call the FTDI breakouts "putty boards" but in engineering, some of us use Kitty and call th
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by phyllostachys 10y ago
When I was in my teens and had lots of time to think about these things, I came to this conclusion. That I, what I think of as being me, is just a facade that moves things into and out of my subconscious. When I want to think about somethin
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by phyllostachys 10y ago
As a fellow embedded guy, my problems are usually something stupid simple that I assumed was true, but wasn't. An example, 'why won't this chip work!?', 5 hours later and a full driver written, 'oh, I just didn&#x27

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