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I think it's very area specific - how prosperous the area is. Reading that post was like he was at my school, word for word. I was on the "not bullied end" of that arrangement and life was still hell as you had to constantly watch over your shoulder, align with factions for fear of real violence if you weren't in the right place at the right time. A lot fo the older kids were linked to serious crime in the local area at the ages of 15 and 16 only. All in all I would say the goths got the most amount of abuse on a day to day basis.

Communist and capitalist monopolies are two completely different things.

If you want a good finder for still work, you’re much better off with an SLR such as the Nikon F3. The M3 is a stunning camera but it’s usability is very low for anything but some casual stuff. People like them for the prestige.

I'm not sure what that poster was referring to, however in my experience (as a brit), is that the UK is replacing any kind of industry into a service economy aka. people buying shit they don't need. You see this in a number of ways like the physical replacement of industrial areas into shopping centres or the fact the UK can't manufacture rail locomotives - the place where they were invented...

Having said this, there is still a reasonable amount of industry in the UK, the UK is by far the best country in the EU to buy engineering supplies but I think this is a remnant of the past. Most of the major engineering companies in industrial estates are Asian or American owned, now.

As an electronic engineer of 10 years, one of the most useful things in my lab is blue tac[1]. It's so useful and versatile as a third hand for soldering or keep things from moving around attached to cables etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu_Tack

ESP32 is my go to MCU to use now. Their tooling and libraries are so far ahead of the competition especially when you factor in the choice of CLI or VS Code - an actually good IDE. ESP-IDF is so reliable and easy to use I don’t feel the need to JTAG/SWD debug anymore…

I think others have covered it in other posts but I’d just like to add that this protocol is only for negotiation, everything continues in the native protocol afterwards.

Looks awesome and for sure will be the future. Most ECAD software has a circuit 'library' function you can design something once and use it many times so it's not completely fair to claim that's something really novel.

Surely, they only need one each?

It doesn't. Just because it shares some syntax with C does not make it 'want to be procedural'. I think that comes from the programmers bias from first learning a procedural language.

I learnt C then Verilog, I am fluent in Verilog. The mindset for designing digital logic is completely different to programming computers, it literally is a completely different skill. The problem is, people think just because they can type a (procedural) programming language they can program anything that is programmed with a code which is where peoples initial distaste for Verilog and VHDL comes from. When you learn how to do it, I think designing logic is refreshing compared to writing software, there's so much baggage with software.

> "you need to work out what you want in this other paradigm and then translate it"

Not really. You wouldn't expect good programs from someone who has no idea how a computer works. The language is the knobs and dials. You need to know what the knobs and dials do in the machine.

I don’t understand the problem people have with pointers, they are an amazing tool. And the negative attitude towards manual memory allocation just seems like laziness to me and even suggests a lack of understanding for both what you’re doing and how computers work.

I don’t think this is the case as we don’t see any rolling shutter distortion. The linear sensor scans just like a shutter curtain exhibiting the same distortion. The plane is proportioned correctly. Maybe the scan time is fast enough.

I love gaming as much as the next person - I spent most of my teens playing Half Life and the like.

I have a genuine question as I’m very naive to Minecraft. I see a lot of time / thought / energy dedicated to making things in Minecraft and can’t help but feel it’s a bit of a waste of time. I think I feel this way because I don’t know much about Minecraft or the community. Other than for pleasure (which is a plenty good enough reason on its own) is there any value generated here? People can obviously do what they like with their time but I would much rather spend my precious hours working on something to add to the real world.

I’m exactly the same as the person in the article. I’m introverted and don’t enjoy participating in activities with more than a couple of people. I have no problem doing it - I just don’t like to. It seems gender or race can’t be questioned in the work place but the way I like to socially interact with others can be and used against me (like in the article).

I think managers etc get a bit carried away with the whole family idea thing. It can be used like a weapon to convince people to work longer to help their ‘family members’ with their work. But who gave them too much work in the first place?

Are there any other biological factors for weight gain in mid life?

I imagine it’s mostly down to lack of exercise and mental state.

I learnt central London by doing this.

I heard they concluded the best sign was no sign. Any sign would draw attention to the site if it could not be understood. The best thing to do is to bury waste as deep as possible in secure and boring (geologically) locations to reduce the chances of anyone digging.

In all honesty, out of the combinations for two and three letter acronyms there’s bound to be a language out the there where the meaning is crude. I recall on here recently, something being rude in Finnish or Swedish. We’re professionals, it’s just a name, who cares.

This may be a stupid point, but, for personal use of computers in their current form, how much memory do you really need? I’m still a little baffled why chrome requires GBs of memory...? Can we have lean software please?

Is there any real value in PCBs like these these days? 2 layers from China can be fast and is very cheap. You can’t do anything complicated on these single layer DIY boards, they also carry the risk of defects potentially causing a lot of frustration.

Is anyone else conflicted by the desire for something better than a light switch in the home and the idea of bringing more tech into home. The negative of tech in the home being compromising privacy?