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JoshMcguigan
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Comment #40738824
Thanks for reading so closely and providing great feedback! You are totally right on problems 1 and 2 being swapped. For problem #5, you caught me taking too large a logical leap a…
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Comment #40738520
Thanks for pointing out `package.provided`. It does look like it could be a reasonable way to do this, but I'm not sure how exactly I'd be able to atomically swap GNU coreutils for…
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Comment #38114747
For anyone interested in trying out ladder logic, I run a web app that includes a ladder logic simulator in the browser. There is a small set of lessons too. http://www.plcfiddle.c…
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Comment #36610327
I was using ldd to investigate how nix handles dynamic linking and I was seeing some output I didn't understand. Others were asking about this on stackoverflow[0] but I wasn't able…
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Comment #36553271
“cargo run” does in fact flash the dev board. Cargo allows configuring a custom runner, which is what the embassy examples do [0]. [0]: https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy/blob/m…
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Comment #34805998
Thanks for sharing! I built a similar tool (also in Rust) which allows tracing system and library calls, and could be used for this purpose. I wanted to expose the functionality bo…
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Comment #34671340
What part of SSH takes 6 minutes?
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Comment #34671188
I was using I2C for the first time, as part of a brushess ESC project, and had to learn the hard way that internal (to the mcu) pull-up resistors would not work at any reasonable (…
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Comment #33845906
Save game compatibility would be very useful for testing if a bug was reproducible in the original game.
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Comment #33467071
Thanks for sharing! In the first screenshot of CLI output, it seems to show three buses all being 1 minute out? Am I misreading that?
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Comment #32626172
I agree with you, but the article does address this point.
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Comment #32110467
You can replace this with a match statement to avoid the unwrap.
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Comment #30382266
Any ideas what caused the spike then drop of go packages?
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Comment #26297630
> Normally Luke would group the same functions together but since I don’t have debugging symbols I had to eyeball nearby addresses to guess if it’s the same place. I really enjoyed…
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Comment #26296084
I wrote this blog post after spending some time troubleshooting a linux process which seemed to be getting stalled, to capture a few one-liners that I found to be really useful for…
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Comment #24762337
It’s like your VPS except without having the manage OS and NGINX updates. And probably higher availability if you are concerned about that.
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Comment #24675373
Any tips on fix-old-typo? I'm familiar with interactive rebase, but for some reason I'm not able to get something the `git verify` script likes.
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Comment #24633618
I’ve never used Tridactyl, but I switched from vim vixen to qutebrowser and found the full browser allows a much deeper vim integration and customization than a plugin ever could. …
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Comment #24512322
The article is about an internal employee group raising concerns that the leadership team decided in favor of hosting the episodes. I’d guess the group would have similar opinions …
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Comment #24388667
I could see this data being used by Facebook to argue that they are providing $n per week of value to each user, based on that being the price users demand in exchange for not usin…
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Comment #24331016
I’m not sure what is meant here, because that top example would compile. edit - Alright I think I see what the original article was trying to express. In the original article that …