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burstmodeon A 386 PC for Your RP2350

Does it emulate RS232 ports and printer ports as well ? I did'nt find anything. Then it would be possible to reuse old embedded equipment.

burstmodeon Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates

I don't know about executable signing, but in the embedded world SecureBoot is also used to serve the PRODUCER; id est provide guarantees to the PRODUCER that the firmware of the device they SELL has not been tampered with at some point in the PROFIT chain.

burstmodeon Vali, a C library for Varlink

So, there's another copy of CORBA. :-)

burstmodeon Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it

> pasting images of seemingly random noise into a sensitive environment is a terrible idea.

Only if your rendering libraries are crap.

burstmodeon EXT4 for Linux 6.16 Brings a Change Yielding "Stupendous Performance"

Ok, so can someone explain what "Large folio support for regular files" is ?

burstmodeon The weirdest QNX bug I've encountered (2021)

>If your product has a software-related failure, customers won't care about all of your certifications. Only the end product.

If you're in a market where a ASIL certification is needed, the customers ONLY care about this certifications. I keeps them out of jail.

burstmodeon Twenty years is nothing

No, the exact reverse: Hide away the brain-damaging GIT database system behind a proxy, so that I can (again!) concentrate on my job as developer. Instead I have to spend at least one day every week as "version managment administrator" just to keep GIT from falling apart because of weird internal errors. I will never understand why a plain user must deal with internal data structures (like db-indieces) of some tool on a day to day basis.

burstmodeon Twenty years is nothing

I want the reverse: svn-git. That would be a real relief to so many developers.

burstmodeon Polymorphic Types in C [pdf]

Many people, Especially sice C++ has become a playfield for CS language theorists, who invent more and more overcomplicated language "features" with little to no practical use.

burstmodeon VW Group's troubled Cariad software division to lay off 2k workers

> That would be 1/3 (a third) of their workforce

Yep, that's probably all the SCRUM masters...

burstmodeon All About USB-C: Example Circuits

Every few sentences there there is a remark like "This circuit might have edge cases,... "...perfect for the majority of use cases,..". In other words: It will, at best, work on the developers table, but nowhere else. Why is somebody publishing examples that won't work in the real world ?

burstmodeon Ask HN: I get nauseous while playing first person view games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulator_Sickness

burstmodeon Lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C

C++ Metaprogramming is also just a bunch sugarcoated preprocessor macros and it was never someting else.

burstmodeon Visual Studio UI Refresh

Ohh man. The usual crap: Desingers adding unneeded whitepace to show of their super skillz. These GUI designer bros should really limit their work to their own tools and leave the productive part of the world alone.

burstmodeon John Deere's ongoing GPL violations: What's next

OK, so what exactly are the John Deere programs they think are a GPL violation ? There's no info about that in the article.

burstmodeon QNX DEMO disk (1999)

RT_PREEMT has nothing to do with "real" realtime. You never know WHEN the preemtion is gonna happen. Might be in 20ms, might be in 200.

burstmodeon Lennart Poettering Leaves Red Hat for Microsoft

OK, so Microsoft did the same thing to Linux that they did to Nokia...

burstmodeon Driverless robotaxi fleet paralyzed for hours in San Francisco

> incidents like these are only a minor, harmless inconvenience.

Until there is a emergency vehicle thats unable to get through.

burstmodeon Ask HN: Does the Scrum Framework Work?

> Do people secretly like it?

burstmodeon KDE Connect Now Available on iOS

Is it possible to use this without a phone, just connecting 2 PCs ?

burstmodeon Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random

Don't give the systemd people any ideas ! PLEASE!

burstmodeon As a software developer, you may be called upon to perform some of these tasks

OK, so whats the problem ? I don't see a problem with 99% of that tasks.

burstmodeon Raspberry Pi Build HAT – Controls Lego Technic motors and sensors

There used to be one for the beagleboard, but it´s not available anymore...

https://makezine.com/2013/04/23/beaglebone-lego-motor-contro...

burstmodeon First C compiler ported to GCC

Did this compiler really support "auto" as a variable type, as seen in example fizzbuzz ?

burstmodeon Atlassian moving to cloud-only, will stop selling server licenses

Polarion clears it's throat...

burstmodeon What can 6,000 electric vehicles tell us about EV battery health?

In Germany, they are working on "containers of electrons":

https://www.inside-digital.de/news/hyundai-adac-mobile-charg...

burstmodeon Using Askgit – A SQL interface to your Git repository

If adding a SQL interface makes a system easier to access, that says a lot about how convoluted the original interface is...

Next logical step : a kernel level SQL interpreter integrated in systemd.

burstmodeon Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations

>If somebody lost a commit after a rebase, and nobody nearby could help them recover it, they should consider spending a few hours learning about git.

GIT is the only source control system where you can completly loose commited data by actions (or commands) available the non-admin user. It's funny to see that this is considered a "feature" and not a design failure.

burstmodeon How do I know if I'm good at programming?

If you have to ask this question, you're not good.

burstmodeon Is the C++ preprocessor still needed?

Yep, the "auto" keyword was added because even the inventors of the template system had a understanding of the syntax they created.