Max-q

I totally agree with you. I hated them from day one. Sounds to clean and polished.

> you'll have to add some compile time switch

Isn't it best to use the switch already built into Go?

When the black death hit Norway in 1349, 2/3 of the population was wiped out. The whole structure of society broke down. Most of the state and church was just gone. It took 300 years to get everything back in operation because most people that could read and write had died.

I don't know how you define "long term", but for several generations society didn't work, there were no justice and people really suffered.

This is an amazing piece of work and the documentation is a great introduction to EPD.

I think you can read it as "any advertisement from any airline mentioning anything regarding the environmental, CO2 and carbon compensation".

Is it legal to sell a device with radio in the US without FCC certification?

In the EU it's illegal to sell without external certification if the product is a medical device, is made for children or contains a radio.

Certification will typically cost you $5,000-$15,000 depending on which lab you use.

When recorded music was invented, musicians protested. Recorded music was devoid of any vitality or soul. Recorded music still became a hit. Then we got the synthesizer. Again we got the same complaints, lifeless and without soul. The synthesizer still became a hit. Now the next step is happening, and we see the same complaints all over.

Only time will show if the next step will happen anyway. My gut feeling tells me that AI art will gain acceptance over time, and we will just think of it as "art" or "music", just as we did with recorded mysic and synthetic sounds.

I think you are correct on that one. How long will it take to run this neural net on cheap consumer devices? It might take more than 5 years. But if all the new AI stuff is not a hype, but continues to be used, we will probably see hardware for running it on cheap circuits in a not to distant future. Maybe using a GPU+RAM like structure. Maybe the analog circuits with analog flash will win? The future will show us :)

Maybe add this URL to the calendar on today's date in 5 years an go back and reply with the answer :-D

Innovation goes in steps and iterations ;) When mp3 came out, I could just barely play a song encoded from 44.1kHz/16 bit stereo on my PC, taking almost 100% CPU. Today they can be played on a cheap microcontroller.

I like that they share their work, it can lead to something some day.

The correct term is discrete circuit.

We used to have circuits, and when integrated on one piece of silicone, we called them "integrated circuits", while the old ones became "discrete circuits".

I think the easiest way to collect the Lego pieces from the floor is by using a vacuum cleaner.

Then look at the sorting as a separate problem :)

Oh, I'm sorry, I thought everyone in the world had noticed

Justin Bieber has his mothers birth year tattooed on his chest:

I IX VII V

instead of:

MCMLXXV

When talking about wrong usage of Roman numbers, the first that comes to mind is a well known, and much copied, tattoo that writes 1975 not as MCMLXXV.

Thanks, good to know. Looking forward to it!

In the early 80s Bill Gates sold some basics and DOS. His world dominance started 10 years later with Windows 3.0 and 3.1.

In 1981, where the article starts, Steve Jobs biggest competitor was Jack Tramiels Commodore. VIC 20 was the best selling computer at the time, and became the first computer to sell one million units. The year after the C64 came out and continued to outsell the Apple 2.

Why Commodore is left out of history is a mystery...

Now that internal combustion powered cars are down to less than 20% of new car sales in quite some countries, and has been for several years, I think we can safely say that the EV is not a fad and that the fossil technology is going the same way as the steam engine in the 60s. The modern electric motor is a superior technology in almost any way. The battery, however, is just good enough, and for the replacement to be complete, better battery technology will be needed. For those last 15-20%, the energy density of Li-Ion is just not good enough.

Yes! I didn't write a comment here about it, due to the forum rules, but I'm glad you pointed it out.

Train travel tend to be much more comfortable than bus, car or plane. Especially if the plane takes as long time due to airports being located outside the city, security hazel, lots of stress at the airport and so on.

The train cost more, but you enter the train in the city centre, sit down and relax, go to the restaurant car and eat a nice dinner, relax som more and you arrive in the destination city.

This works better in continental Europe, where you have shorter distances and high speed trains between the capitols, often making the train faster from city centre to city centre than air travel. Traveling from Chicago to SF by train is pleasant, but take a couple days, not a couple of hours.

What is the reason behind this thought? I know that most people think like this. Train should be cheaper than air.

I guess it has to do with planes replacing plane, hence plane must be better, hence more expensive.

But the reality is that the plane won because of two things: speed and cost. Air is free. Miles of miles of railroad is very expensive to build and maintain.

Trains are a bit cheaper than planes. But they travel slowly. So cost per mile per passenger is lower for a plane.

Even when subsidized, the cost of rail travel is often more expensive per mile than air travel.

So when Europe and Asia now are building a lot of high speed rail, it's not to make it cheaper, but to lower carbon footprint and to make a more pleasant experience.

* 15 years

Still impressive.

Yes! It's like I should not play the piano, because I could get better music on Spotify. If I play, I play for fun. Also, if I were to make a program language, it would probably be for fun, and to learn. That is a good thing! Having a hobby and learning at the same time is worth so much.

Connect the led strip data pin to an available Io pin on the pi, connect the strips and to pi gnd pin and to a 5V power supply gnd pin, and connect the strips + to the 5V power supply.

Then use a library on the pi, for example this: https://github.com/jgarff/rpi_ws281x

Or just buy a cheap ESP32 board and a cheap WS2812 matrix from Ali Express. Cheap, works perfectly and easy to get started with due to good libraries.

You actually don't need more than the ESP32 and the led matrix. The LEDs are connected in series and you send a bit stream of RGB. Each led had an internal shift register with one input pin and one output pin, connected to the next LEDs input pin.

So one microcontroller with one output pin available is all you need. Since there is no clock signal, timing needs to quite tight.

To find more information you can google WS2812 or Neopixel. Libraries to use the protocol exists for most microcontrollers.

An ESP32 module is a good choice because it costs $2-3, includes wifi and BT, antenna or UF-L plug, and is pre-certified.

Biggest surprise when reading the article: DocuSign has 7000 employees

This does not, however, change the fact that it became one of the first mass markeds in the world for electric cars, where Tesla has kept the lead even when all the legacy auto companies are selling electric cars. The Model Y is the most sold var model in Norway in 2023, outselling the number two, VW ID4 by 3-4 times.

Model Y is the most sold car model in the world in 2023.

When learning something new, concrete is good, abstract is bad. Abstract thinking is good in the next step, when you already know the topic.

Screenshot are very concrete and makes understanding the text so much easier. You know that you are in the right place, your brain gets to connect the text to the program.

The same goes for command line programs: provide some concrete examples of how to use the program, not just all the parameters listed up and brackets showing where to put it.

Start concrete, then go abstract when the basic knowledge is communicated successfully.

This comment is not ment to be negative, just some insight that might be valuable.

I read the free chapter. One thing I noticed right away was that I think some things can be hard for people with not so much knowledge about the topic: under each headline, it explains a concept from the ground up, no knowledge required. Like "the syntax of a language is...". But just a few sentences in, advanced topics are touched, like assembly instructions, not explained. It feels a bit like "the curse of knowledge", where it's hard to know what the other party knows. But if the reader needs to learn what syntax means, they will probably not understand the next sentences.

So, I think more consistency could improve the product.

This is of course just my meaning and interpretation of the text, it might not be relevant. But maybe something to have in mind for your next masterpiece :)

The article claims that the ESP32 costs $5. The reality is around half of that for the MCU, and around $3 for pre certified modules including crystal, PCB antenna or UF-L connector. So it's really affordable.

Espressif has also launched a new ESP32C3 based on RISC-V, with modules priced at around $2.