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scale vertically before horizontally... - scaling vertically is cheaper to develop - scaling horizontally gets you further. What is correct for your situation depends on your human…

thats true on many systems... nothing special about 0x0 other than NULL happens to be defined as 0 in most toolchains an some functions use NULL to report an error.

The technical definition of opoerating system is the software that manages the resources of the computer, i.e. RAM, storage, processor time, etc (Typically known as the Kernel). Th…

Never. Do. This... I was involved in a product with a large codebase structured like this and it was a maintainability nightmare with no upsides. Multiple attempts were made to mov…

maybe we could implement a UTCP->REST bridge for another unnecessary abstraction layer.. /s

there are orders of magnitudes more embedded processor sales than desktop CPUs.... So the answer really is... lots of people will want it.

K1 (racing) kayaks are unstable and very narrow, most other types are fairly stable tho.

What they mean is UI, not OS. The purpose of an OS is to manage the resources of the computer, CPU, RAM, devices, etc. This is simply a UI generated by an NN.

Stop with the alternatives... just use make for this task. Seriously. :o)

There is a long history of CPUs tailored to specific languages: - Lisp/lispm - Ada/iAPX - C/ARM - Java/Jazelle Most don't really take off or go in different directions as the langu…

Correct me if I'm wrong but the next LTS will be 26.04 which would give them 6 months to get maturity and stability... For such an important set of utilities, that seems unlikely.

Risk. Contractors get paid for the time they're not in work. I've been on both sides and have always been lucky in that I've gone from contract to contract but that is certainly no…

Mach was never based on BSD, it replaced it. Mach is the descendant of the Accent and Aleph kernels. BSD came into the frame for the userland tools. "Mach was developed as a replac…

The correct phrase is "mechanical sympathy" but it means effectively the same. Its relatively well known in software optimisation and means tailoring the design of the software to …

"Pure" JS exists as a concept, not a project. Having a tiny standard library is also a good thing, not a bad one... I'm not saying its an ideal API but in general, smaller==better …

Pure JS is that interface... you're arguing for multiple unnecessary abstraction layers piled on top of each other. More abstraction != easier to use.

There are similar devices (i.e. SiLabs) that allow multi-protocol use with the radio (I would expect Nordic to have a similar feature set), tho yes, you're right the resource issue…

vertical speed likely relied on the barometer rather than the accelerometer for exactly that reason.

static allocation is the recommended mechanism in embedded code for reliability reasons, you have thought about you worst-case allocation and accounted for it... right? Also fragme…

packets are sequenced, integrity checked and encrypted to prevent replay attacks so unlikely to be a simple "send packet again" issue. More likely a key debounce issue or driver is…

architecture over implementation (for details).

shyness != introversion

That was my point.

"Operating Systems" for microcontrollers such as this are frequently just schedulers as the Application typically contains drivers and hits the hardware itself. e.g. FreeRTOS.

"OS" in this context means "scheduler", i.e the code that coordinates your application tasks. That description can also apply to VMs such as JS, hence the comparison. You could con…