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Sustaining is used in Engineering to mean that it's now post-GA and there is no further development. The platform is not End of Life but there are no more features planned.

Congrats to the Memfault team!

> What’s your working environment like? - We’ve recently moved to a more “hip” location. We used to have personal desks, but now we have this “pick whatever spot is avaiable” open area. I dislike it a lot.

Somehow this resonates a lot with me even if though I've never worked on Mainframes or anything like that.

Whenever the GNU Coding Standards come up, I'm reminded of the Linux Kernel Coding Style - https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.h... and the quote -

"First off, I’d suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards, and NOT read it. Burn them, it’s a great symbolic gesture."

Its almost as if ChatGPT is getting to be a form of dialogic learning [1]. While ChatGPT is not yet an authoritative source, it should be possible to get to such a future. The problem is with the ethics of it becoming an authoritative source and how it can possibly unlearn (or accept change or challenges). For now, the example OP provides is without authority where they learnt about a topic taking ChatGPT as a peer.

References:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogic_learning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3gzQVGEqF4 explains the details. As usual Jason's awesome at explaining the details.

The problem remains since many people don’t know or understand Hindi. Unlike many other countries, there isn’t one single ‘native’ language. English is the only one that currently transcends barriers. Hindi could become that in the future. Other efforts also exist such as to popularize Sanskrit.

Are there other examples of similarly old roads or routes that are still in use today? I know of the Grand Trunk Road [1] and other examples would be cool to learn about.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Trunk_Road

HEIF is basically a H.265 I frame. So yes.

Hindu tradition state that it directly led to elaborate literature and rich story telling. Puranas [1] and epics like the Ramayana [2] and Mahabharata [3] were orally transmitted as well. The point being that the Vedas are pretty terse which makes it hard to understand or apply without specialized knowledge / background. The Puranas, Ramayana and Mahabharata provide context via stories etc..

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puranas 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayana 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata

Not sure what are simple oral traditions, but the Vedas [1] are oral transmitted. To preserve meaning there is elaborate chanting techniques. They have been written down recently, however, to really learn them, one needs to chant. They are pretty complex for sure.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas

I lived for a couple of years in Amsterdam. Cycled fine in the rain, snow or sunshine. Then again, the infra was amazing and supportive. Can’t speak for the cities you mention though but in Phoenix where I live now, cycling in Summer is impossible.

Interestingly, the PM in a Westminster model is actually more powerful than the President in the US mode. That’s because the PM is part of legislative and executive branch and in theory can get more of their agenda done. In practice, it can vary.

This....

I have exactly the same problem with the U2 album. In general, I like U2, but that album is a pain. It starts up every now and then in my car with carplay. Especially if I have my phone on with no app in the foreground when I plug it in.

I worked at Axon for several years. Frankly, I liked the company culture.

Rick's been pretty consistent over the years that he believes that technology can solve societal issues and that he sees things like Sci-Fi as something we need to invent. Rick's a Star Wars fan and there were several Star Wars oriented things in the past.

The engineering culture within the company itself is pretty open and a lot of things are debated quite openly. Perhaps too openly for some; not that it's something to complain about. The bigger challenge they face isn't new hardware ideas. It's their software offering that need to do well. They pivoted from TASERs to Bodycams and now are investing heavily in software. If they get that right, then it's going to be a bigger impact on policing quality/consistency/standards than just the Hardware.

Overall, I can say that it's been a good place to work. While not perfect (no company is), it's definitely pretty open to ideas and change.

Really good tools and extremely expensive

AFAIK TI has always been very opensource friendly. All their SOCs are mainlined and maintained including pretty old ones.

Now if Broadcom starts to be opensource friendly then that would be a real change of heart.

This is a classic trap that new managers fall into. It's not the number of meetings that you are judged by. It's how effective you are in execution and how well can you drive your team(s). The meetings are just a means to the end.

I've been in management for a long time now and have managed managers. Frankly, I would cut as much as I can and skip as much as possible _while_ being able to do my job - which is to drive results, quality and other team performance metrics.

The article is definitely Eurocentric and skips South-East Asia and India. Milk, Butter, Ghee and Yogurt have been part of Indian culture from the start. E.g. references in the Vedas central to various rituals, Lord Krishna loving butter as a child, etc..

What I found really interesting is the premise that the article makes about spoilage. If dairy spoils in the warmer Mediterranean causing the inhabitants to find it unappealing, then why is it that the people living in hotter climate of India found dairy to be integral to their diet? Is it because because of Ghee which has a longer shelf life?

And Yogurt too - even today - integral to any number of Indian households.

If I remember correctly, the image quality on the Nokia/Windows phones were pretty good as well.

Unfortunately type 1 is a classic case of cultural appropriation. Yoga is fundamentally a spiritual exercise that aims to strengthen not just the body. Therefore, practices like Surya Namaskara are not just a series of exercises for strength and flexibility but also a must for spiritual improvement.

And the Ganga. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_of_the_Ganges

That's the most hilarious video I've seen. The lack of concern for safety, environmental impact etc.. is just amazing. To think how much our views have changed in just 70 years.

Turbo C/C++ with its blue background DOS editor.

TCL/Tk, expect.

Perl though I don’t think I miss it much.

Same here. The ads seemed really pushy and corporate-speak instead of organic and authentic. Put me off quite a bit actually

Oh yes. I think a sw dev looking at CAD will really like OpenSCAD. Atleast I did. The only things I found lacking was a measure tool and a cutlist generator. Sure, you can write the code with OpenSCAD to echo dimensions but having a measure tool can be really useful. No need to elaborate on cutlist.

And I put my plans in git too!

I think parts of the Navajo Nation does observe DST.

On the other hand you need a lot more pins for SPI.

One more advantage of SPI that I see is higher data rates, full-duplex communication etc..

Link to the actual paper - http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/365285/h...

Also note it’s a study within regions in Europe. The WHO isn’t suggesting that Japanese people or any other random country suddenly stops eating their food and takes up a Mediterranean diet or a Nordic diet.

What about product liability?