kahlonel

Yes there are: https://cbor.io/impls.html

Genuine question: Is iCloud any more insecure than any other cloud service? I was thinking of shifting a lot of stuff to it.

I accidentally opened an HTML page in FrontPage and successfully wrote a multicolored sentence as a 13 year old.

I don’t care how many protocols you think you have designed, or how many years have you worked in your field. If you can’t see how `{n: 1.2}` and `{n:1.23}` in JSON have a one-byte difference while still giving essentially same data, you have been wasting your time.

I hope by “flying” they mean “levitating”. I can barely fly my toy drone without getting pinged by Government about how I am violating airspace rules. Can’t imagine there will be flying bikes in next 50 years atleast. I am in EU.

Anyone who uses Apple Maps occassionally knows that "Significant Locations" have been there forever.

Arduino hardware is barely capable of running a simple one-variable PID loop at a high sampling rate, say 1Khz. A rocket control software will require a full-blown MIMO model with complex transfer functions. You'll also need high ports speed; Arduino won't cut it. At the very least you'll need something like a Cortex-R5.

A YouTube channel named UnboxTherapy posted a video showing keyboard problems with the latest gen butterfly switch. The switch design is inherently flawed, no amount of rubber can fix that. They need to go back to whatever they had in 2013.

First time I heard this song in a Family Guy episode. Have it in my playlist ever since.

I wrote a data collection and messaging framework for devices with a few MBs of memory, that had to stay powered-on and connected to a TCP socket server for about a year before they were going to be accessible again for maintenance etc. A bug in the code that could require a reset of the device could cost the company a big client. I couldn't find any ready-made solution that would satisfy all of the requirements. So I wrote, tested, documented and deployed it in a month almost single handedly. Two and a half years later, that code is still serving them.

My vision was distorted for full 30 seconds after reading this page.

Yes, it has a GPIO header that has pins that mux to a limited number of periphals. You can attach an oscilloscope to any GPIO.

I'm an embedded software engineer. Here's my $0.02 on how to get started:

1. Get a platform you can tinker around with, and recover quickly in case of disaster. Raspberry pi is a good example.

2. Learn how to find and read detailed register-level manuals of the underlying chip you're working on.

3. Learn what a programmer's memory-model is.

4. Learn what peripherals are, and what they do. You may have to dig a bit into basic electronics.

5. Learn what user-space vs kernel-space is.

6. Learn what device trees are, and how to prevent kernel from taking over a peripheral.

7. Based on above information, write a user-space driver for a simple peripheral (e.g. GPIO or UART) in C (don't try to learn assembly, yet). You will not be able to use the peripheral interrupts in user-space.

8. Learn how to verify hardware functionality, and see your driver in action. (Warning: high dopamine levels are reported at this point).

9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 for all peripherals, and see how far you can go.

It's amazing how something so simple can be so fun. Really awesome accel/deceleration feel.

It is really good for quickly developing prototypes, and testing your workflows. But please don't consider it for any serious application that runs inside an unattended device for long periods of time. It is leaky, slow and consumes more resources than it should for the tasks it does.

It makes me so sad for a whole week whenever I hear the news of a species going extinct.

I have been in Magdeburg for 4 years, and these hemispheres are a big deal here. Fun fact: If you graduate from the CEE department of OvG university as a PhD, people put you on a cart and roll you towards the site where these hemispheres are displayed and celebrate once you are there.

Not sure how that's going to be possible, but there's a need for big companies to "fork" open data before massively manipulating it. And merge with main system if everything works for them, hence contributing positively instead of screwing everything up.

I think the key takeaway from this article is to keep the "framework" and "technology" terms substantially differentiable. For example, "React Engineer" as a job title is quite infuriating, if you ask me.

I don't know why you're getting downvoted. I can't stand these Electron apps, let alone a text editor that I'll write my code in.

As a non-web-dev, I'm still looking for a reason to not use Safari on my macbook. Perhaps I'm too dumb to see the difference, but I've never found chrome/firefox to be better than safari.

> Here, instead of blocking on the second thread when executing the blue task, the scheduler picks up a yellow task;

This only works if the second thread's yellow task is independent of its blue task's results. Which is, unfortunately, only 1% of the cases.

Not going to spend $250 on an ugly looking IDE that forces me to work on a Windows PC.

I hate how politics keeps creeping in software industry. A few weeks ago there was a heated debate on Twitter over changing "SLAVE" to "REPLICA" in Redis, and sadly the maintainer gave in to the pressure.

I'd be extremely careful calling a computer science professor's opinion shit-posting. He's basing his argument on end-user experience. You, on the other hand, are giving dev-experience more weightage. Depending on what you want, WASM may or may not be useful.

High-performance != Real-Time

Education is free in Germany. If all courses in the degree are offered in English, you won't even have to learn German. You'll have to bear costs associated to moving here, of course.

Macbook Air

That was a no-OS situation. sleep() is usually implemented as a calculated number of cycles of `nop`s in those SDKs.

I once increased coin-cell run-time of a client’s hardware (ARM) platform from 1 month to 1.5 years simply by replacing almost all sleep() functions with low-power-mode-enter.