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No, we can't. It's an ultra-low-power embedded ARM Cortex-M33 (successor to Cortex-M4) processor, the right language to use when programming it is C++. You want a minimum of abstra…

Neat! I've got a slice that's under 10 miles long going south into town, but I've also got 14 slices to the north (the ones that don't intersect with a couple up-state cities) that…

This is a comparatively small one: 40.25mm diameter screen, 14.4mm thick, at 50g. My Fenix 6 Pro has a 47mm face, is 14.7mm thick, and weighs 80g (but as a Fenix that's the stainle…

I love the Garmin pogo chargers. I've got a few of their $3 puck cables scattered about my home, car, and office, a USB-C to Garmin adapter in my keychain and backpacking kit, and …

It matches my lived experience. My body battery and stress often starts declining for no apparent reason and then 12-24 hours later I feel the symptoms of an illness. Similarly, wh…

There are only about 400 units in existence, and they just started shipping June 30: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unawatch/meet-una-the-m... so it's been out for less than …

That's not precisely how I remember that quote... But it's on the Internet, so my memory must be faulty.

You can't view a random imgur screenshot in the UK? What image hosts work for you? Imgbb? Postimages?

In my experience, a spec is often public (or available for purchase by the public from a standards committee for a few hundred dollars, close enough in business terms), but the sou…

If you're willing to put a little time into video editing, a 360 cam is great. The insta360 tools can make that a little easier if you want something simple. If you just want to st…

Low power electronics are all about low duty cycles: if it can be worn but asleep and drawing next to no power for 15 hours and 59 minutes, and recording audio for 60 seconds, they…

On the other hand, reducing competition and consolidating the market within the combined organization is good for the misshapen franken-org that comes out at the end... The questio…

I think that any workflow that requires the user to stare at the tokens being generated live is using it wrong. Delegate, don't stare! https://mikeveerman.github.io/tokenspeed/?rat…

Humans easily anthropomorphize things that are not humans, ascribing human attributes like motive and comprehension and emotion to objects and processes that are not people who can…

Tractors are immortal (my Dad's 80-year-old Ford 9N can attest to that), John Deere is immoral.

I'm not left-handed, but I often scroll my phone with my left thumb. My right hand is on my computer mouse, or holding a pen, or employed to make precise touches on the phone scree…

Your terminal doesn't typically use Consolas. You can do: $ wget https://archive.org/download/PowerPointViewer_201801/PowerPointViewer.exe $ cabextract PowerPointViewer.exe $ cabex…

It's 0.0015, that's 1.5 to 2.5 thousandths, or 15-25 "tenths" as they're called. That's not a particularly tiny gap in the machinist world, it's large so that you can pump viscous …

Auto start/stop isn't off for enough time for the oil to drain from the galleries and especially not out of the bearing journals. It's the first few seconds after an engine has bee…

What they meant when they said "planets" was the 8 (previously 9, previously to that 8, previously 7...) known and named planets in our own solar system. A hypothetical "Journal of…

I work in industrial manufacturing and automation, several of my customers (those running steel foundries, aluminum die casting, plastic recycling and extrusion, and other power-in…

I've also been running Qwen 3.6 35B A3b on my Windows laptop (64 GB RAM, a 4GB GPU) and it's at least tolerable. It's not fast - a few tokens per second, slower than reading speed …

You've described a load cell, which is commonly used in laboratory and industrial environments to resolutions exceeding 0.05% of full scale. I've used these in the past with great …

Yes, that's "bare metal" as opposed to programming in MicroPython, Javascript with Espruino, Lua/NodeMCU, Rust, or adding your C application on top of an off-the-shelf RTOS. C supp…

"They" being the waiter or waitress, of course. Good ones can navigate complex bill splitting arrangements and even better can manage awkward interactions like one person quietly p…