thedingwing

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by thedingwing 6mo ago
I maintain a few applications for Garmin's ecosystem in Monkey C and I share the same sentiment. While Lua's syntax might "feel weird" to some, it has standard tooling (language server, formatter, etc.) that could be lev
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by thedingwing 2y ago
I went to high school when cell phones were common and most students had them. But, at least at my school, if you had one out during class it was instantly confiscated and returned by the front office after school. I assumed this was the no
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by thedingwing 4y ago
I don’t think this is discussed enough when PLCs are compared to other embedded systems (such as this product). Through a PLC’s IDE, which is almost always proprietary software provided by the PLC manufacturer, a developer has the ability t
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by thedingwing 4y ago
This is notable not because of the board itself, but because of the incredibly small footprint of the MCU on it. This chip is ~40% smaller than the already tiny Kinetis KL02.
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by thedingwing 5y ago
While the Broad institute is private, it is a non-profit that is tightly affiliated with MIT and Harvard. To me, this is different than a patent getting transferred to a multinational pharmaceutical corporate.
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by thedingwing 5y ago
You're confusing Panic (the software/video game company behind this device's concept and software) with Teenage Engineering (a Swedish hardware company that designed the device) Teenage Engineering has a variety of products u
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by thedingwing 5y ago
This is not true. 5 axis mills and 9+ DOF CNC mill/turn centers exist, and they are becoming more common, however 3 axis vertical mills are still the backbone of most machine shops.
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by thedingwing 5y ago
> would rather have one extra tank than available supply for every citizen I think the problem here is that the Big Tank industry is paying kickbacks, but the Big Mask industry is not.
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by thedingwing 5y ago
You don’t need to be sent to prison to be irreparably harmed by an accusation.
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by thedingwing 5y ago
I attended a large state school in the early 2010’s and I witnessed a lot of the things described in the article. Many affluent out-of-state students had dorm rooms lushly decorated with disposable tchotchkes. Most of this is completely bet
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by thedingwing 5y ago
The title seems inaccurate. Disney didn't make a trademark claim on a specific work. A marketplace voluntarily removed a work because it's title contained the word "Loki". From the screenshot in the tweet > [...] We h
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by thedingwing 6y ago
I think the difference is: iPhoto says "This is a face. Would you like to type in who it is?" And Alice would type in "Bob". Whereas Facebook uses Bob's profile information to say "Is this a photo of Bob?"
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by thedingwing 6y ago
Related is this excellent talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU
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Sourcehut Q1 2020 Financial report(sourcehut.org)
1 points by thedingwing 6y ago|0 comments
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by thedingwing 7y ago
There was an article a few days ago about a software backdoor built by a different company that was unrelated to the actual silicon. Is this the same vulnerability, or is this one actually implemented in silicon?
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by thedingwing 7y ago
This reminds me of the Twinkle iOS app by Tapulous. It worked a lot like Twitter, except you only saw posts from within a certain radius. There's now an unrelated dating app of the same name; I can only find this about the original ht
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Particle Discontinues Particle Mesh(blog.particle.io)
2 points by thedingwing 7y ago|0 comments
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by thedingwing 7y ago
While I always prefer email/password sign-in when available, I've used Sign in with Apple exactly once. It's on a website that only offers "Sign in with <Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple>". Given that
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Apple bans vaping apps from the App Store(cnbc.com)
8 points by thedingwing 7y ago|1 comments