setq

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by setq 9y ago
I can use all of those today or develop a new implementation if I want.
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by setq 9y ago
He who controls the spice....
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by setq 9y ago
Vendors come and go. Standards don't.
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by setq 9y ago
Isn't this the same principle google uses for their location services?
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by setq 9y ago
This sums it up nicely. Also, if it's easy and you've done it a million times, charge an inflated fixed price. If it's new territory, charge by the hour. Edit: before I forget, if you let them know how it's done then you
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by setq 9y ago
One doesn't win a game of chess by moving all the pieces at the same time.
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by setq 9y ago
Excellent. Downloading now :) I ran NetBSD and OpenBSD on old sun kit in the late 1990s and early 2000's followed by Debian and then CentOS. FreeBSD got a look in persistently on the side. I'd rather like a step back to the sensib
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by setq 9y ago
This is interesting and lines up with the time zone offset on my last rant a couple of years back. Peak in upvotes UK afternoon followed by downvote pummelling at around 4pm UK time. Without wishing to don the tinfoil hat too much, actively
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by setq 9y ago
Interesting. I haven't used slackware for many years, so far back in fact that it had to come on CDs because I had a dial up. Will take a look in that direction this evening.
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by setq 9y ago
That's really interesting actually. In the distant past I spent more time sorting the cards than playing the game so there is probably a good trade off on automating it. I went and bought a duel deck the other day to play with the wife
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by setq 9y ago
There's a good implementation of systemd here: https://github.com/bluerise/openbsd/tree/master/sbin/init
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by setq 9y ago
Well no not really. Vulnerabilities exist outside the realms of the language implementations. There are poorly designed protocols and access controls to contend with as well. I'd argue there are a lot more of those classes of problems
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by setq 9y ago
It's not. There's a content about 11 screens down, not that you'd find it easily.
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by setq 9y ago
This is why we need standards and APIs which are immutable. It doesn't matter what the implementation is then. The whole of systemd is a comedic fuck you to POSIX and the mentality of a system which is standardised.
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by setq 9y ago
I apologise. This is the first time I've criticised systemd on HN. I had a massive rant on another site a couple of years ago when CentOS 7 dropped about the catalogue of failures I had been through with systemd, completely backed up w
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by setq 9y ago
To be fair Win32 isn't terrible. Have you looked at the .Net docs? http://imgur.com/a/iK4uG
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by setq 9y ago
Most of the documentation is boilerplate. There's very little real content now and most of it is filler.
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by setq 9y ago
Indeed. Merely "loud" programmers with corporate backing.
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by setq 9y ago
Yes. I've burned hours on systemd related problems that just didn't exist before. From DBus message delivery failures, debugging things that haven't broken for 20 years (which has incidentally got MUCH harder) to the whole sh
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by setq 9y ago
Indeed. It's not just init, it's Windows service manager, COM, MSMQ, task scheduler and event log and all the associated problems in one convenient package for Linux!
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by setq 9y ago
http://www.edn.com/Pdf/ViewPdf?contentItemId=4433411 Details above. Looks like you can get 3.5ps resolution with an off the shelf PIC after calibration which is pretty impressive!
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by setq 9y ago
This is a really cool idea actually. However you're likely talking sub nanosecond rise times which makes things a little difficult in the signal processing space. For example my scope (knackered old 1971 Tek 475) can barely manage 1.8n
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by setq 9y ago
I get shamed occasionally for never having a Facebook account. It's amazing how mindshare drives market share really and gets people to react like this. Genuinely I couldn't work out how it improved my life in any way. Everyone I
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by setq 9y ago
Yes this is a favourite bit of reddit for me. Highly recommended :)
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by setq 9y ago
I don't think many people read the data sheets to be honest even some of the professional engineers. It's mainly gluing canned circuits together and see if they work or not. This is a little difficult if you didn't start wit
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by setq 9y ago
You plated your plant! :)
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by setq 9y ago
Take a look at the output switching on different variants of 555s (there are about 6). This isn't always the case. Not only that if you pull lots of current through them, and 100mA is a lot, then the Pd of the sink transistor is pushed
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by setq 9y ago
Yeah the Tektronix HV probes used to come with an aerosol can and you had to fill them up. Technically frequency compensation is required across all voltage dividers for scopes so not to accidentally create a low pass filter with the parasi
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by setq 9y ago
Indeed. This was on the kitchen window sill with sunlight 50% of the day. We got there in the end unaided by technology but it was so much fun trying with it. Ones that worked eventually: http://imgur.com/a/EDdwR - not
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by setq 9y ago
Relay has a considerably lower drive impedance than a MOSFET for switching so you end up having to drive the relay with something anyway because the 555 will probably die. Might as well skip the middle man and use a MOSFET which has a crazy

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