TheJoeMan

The issues are not technical, they are documentation and certification. Here is the specifications for medical device software [1] [2]. You can either keep using a legacy (windows-based) software package, or find the need to verify/validate the entirety of linux and all drivers and packages (software-of-unknown-providence aka. SOUP). You then have to devise a patching schedule/methodology, as right now you just tell the end user to apply the Windows security patches if they’d like. This is a high-cost that is hard to argue for despite the obvious advantages.

[1] https://www.iso.org/standard/38421.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_62304

This is not good to hear, at my work we have the production technicians activate the occasional Windows 7 PC via the phone. We do it this way as these are specialized embedded PC’s that won’t connect to the internet. Flippant comments to “just use Linux” are not understanding the realities of keeping 20yr old software in the medical, offshore drilling, etc industries.

You cannot due to Amazon's stipulations that to list on Amazon.com, it must be the same as your advertised price on other retailers, including your own website. This raises overall costs, as Amazon.com sellers pay additional fees for placement, ads, etc. which get rolled into the price. As a workaround, you can have a MSRP on your website, with "coupons".

I apologize, I misread your comment as “complex databases”. PowerApps could make simple queries across large databases, but you’re right that large software projects should not be in a no-code tool.

Many small businesses (and small teams inside large orgs) do not have “servers” in the sense that an employee can push code to it. It’s just Windows Server and handles email, file share, ERP, etc. I think those in the tech industry may not appreciate the ease of having a platform you can “program” jobs in, and it’s included in M365, despite the very-large warts.

Are you hitting tab because it’s what you were about to type, or did it “generate” something you don’t understand? Seems a personalized distinguisher to me.

They don't advertise it, but you can many times add the Apple Wallet pass from the website. And it actually sends you flight change notifications too.

Are there any suggestions for a minimal browser to use to interface with embedded / IoT? The firefox devs assume it is only used to access The Internet. For example, SSL scare-screens when connecting to a local 10.0.x.x address, or it trying to autofill a password for 192.168.1.1 which is nonsensical as the end devices are different in different (physical) locations. Don’t get me started on Apple devices auto-disconnecting from ad-hoc wifi networks without internet access.

Honestly, the app has been stagnating and there is a glimmer of hope the new owners will invest in it! For example, myself and many others still cannot access the "Obstacle area review will normally appear here" error, so I have no idea what photos my robot is actually taking of my socks.

You know how coders are expected to grind out leetcode interviews? For the finance fields, a common interview topic is what you read in “The Journal” (WSJ). So just stay on top of it for a few weeks, see some trends, etc.

Now that’s one way to enforce not inserting a USB upside-down.

The right to access standards that have been incorporated-by-reference into law is still being established by various countries' court systems.

For example, in the USA https://www.rcfp.org/briefs-comments/astm-v-upcodes-inc/

This is an especially hot topic in the EU in medical device regulations: https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/insights-and-media/insights/b...

Another red-flag to me is the diagram labeling "proprietary superalloys". This implies more than one new metal composition, which by definition is unproven? So a new metal, in a new engine, in a new airplane.

They also are actively decreasing the value by sunsetting Publisher in October 2026 [0]. Hilariously, the suggested replacement is PowerPoint, despite it being unable to natively open .pub files. The solution for that? Run a powershell script to convert all your publisher files to (uneditable) PDF.

There are many memes about inserting photos into Word, and the content flying around and breaking. My pet theory is that the younger generation never realized Publisher existed or was included in M365, and used PowerPoint as an everything-is-a-hammer crutch, and have now gotten jobs at Microsoft and are sticking with it.

Also, as far as I can tell, Publisher is the only application where the color-picker includes Pantone colors which is a must for professional poster production. I assume Microsoft is paying a licensing fee for this, and I wonder if they'll remember to cancel it.

Perhaps Affinity can eat their lunch and release a word-processor.

[0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/microsoft-publish...

I feel very fortunate to have been able to attend a local Hawaiian resident’s wedding in Waimea, Kauai this past summer. As we stayed on the south-side, we mostly enjoyed our simpler accommodations while only seeing the Sheraton et. al. from the beach. We made one day trip north of Lihue and were turned off when we saw tourists at a plaza watching the dads get called up to hula and put flowers in their hair as a gag. So I understand the big resorts may be becoming unachievable, but perhaps there is hope it will open some people’s eyes to more authentic experiences.

Here’s a funny one from Halo Infinite network downloading the same picture thousands of times: https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/w5af08/infinite_downl...

Have you tried the NFC-bumping the tops of the iPhones together yet? So far I’ve had superb success rate on iOS18.

I commonly see that discussions of “unemployment rate” don’t account for the ways a person can be excluded from the labor market [1]. To achieve middle-class with a family detached home mortgage, annual vacation, etc., dual-earner is nearly mandatory. Those that “give up” and live in their parent’s basement playing video games are not counted as unemployed.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm#nilf

It's not a mistake to forget to apply a surcharge in my opinion. The "mistake" was that they underpriced the market, as the booker hedged their bets on the two weekends. A "mistake" would be $1 instead of $1000 which is the example in the TOS.

Earlier in the article they explain why only 2 keyholders is a bad idea, then the final statement is they are going to do that anyways.

On second look, I may have mixed up that the lock-in was with ExpressPCB, another software I've used previously. EasyEDA does appear to still have Gerber export.

As a hobbyist, I have had a good experience using EasyEDA [0]. It's free to use, with the caveat that you are pretty locked in to their PCB ordering service from China. However, pricing is crazy good, like <$50 total for 5 PCB's (although there will be tariffs).

Regarding your mental model, it's more like a 2-step process. First, you draw the netlist, which is the electrical circuit diagram. It's this stage you ensure there are no short-circuits, etc. Then in the second stage, you drag-drop the components to the physical layout you want. The software then has an auto-router that references the netlist and automatically generates the first pass of PCB traces. You can tweak them if you wish. The EDA software also has a rules engine that checks for correct trace spacing, vias, etc.

For a "baby's first PCB", I bet you have more skills than you realize and I would encourage you to just give it a shot. Also, if you make a small mistake, you can manually "bodge" the board by cutting wrong traces with an exacto knife and/or soldering wires to the pads.

Everything else just comes from experience! If you're staying in the sub-kHz (audio) range, you probably won't need the crazy high-frequency tricks/trace capacitance/trace-length-matching concerns.

[0] https://easyeda.com/

I don’t know about other brands, but a BMW tracks the aging of the battery for features such as turning off accessories/lights to ensure you still have 2 or so cranks of energy left. This also seems to make the car stretch out the battery life almost to a fault. In the trunk, the positive terminal isn’t just a terminal, it has a current sensor built in so the car can measure not just voltage like most autos.

So the battery “registration” resets this adaptation, just like you’re supposed to reset the adaptation on a UPS when you change the batteries. Needing an OBD tool is slightly annoying, but does not feel like a vendor-locking scenario.

Figure 6 with the square clock would be a cool modern art piece.

I imagine there is a legal/admin cost, to locating the paper contract in Iron Mountain/wherever. So if they wait for the game to go ahead anyways, they could wait and see if its a smashing success, then sue and have a budget for tracking the docs down. Perhaps a lawyer could explain if sending a “cough up the docs in 60 days or we are invalidating your claim” would work.

Do any other countries have/had “penny squish” souvenir machines? You put in 2 quarters + a penny, and it stamps a design onto the penny. My favorite souvenir, small, cheap, can keep in a booklet, and many landmarks have the machines. There are a few machines that take a $1 bill and use a fresh penny blank internally.

Quick, someone file a trademark for “Take a Quarter, Leave a Quarter”

The iPhone calculator, for example, only recently added parenthesis. However, with prefix notation you have to plan out your open parenthesis, and if you forgot one you have to back up. With postfix, the parenthesis are implicit. Which is faster? “2 2 + 2 x” or “2 + 2 = x 2 =“ for 2(2+2)

https://github.com/orgs/swiftlang/repositories?q=lang%3Apyth... From a quick look, appears to be the test suite. Which makes sense, hard to validate your language with itself.

That reminds me of internet RFC’s… like by the time they are formally published, no the author is not interested in your “comment”.