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I'm honestly impressed by how...well it works. Considering it's building an entire, totally custom Linux distro from scratch it requires a surprisingly little amount of hand-holdin…

My main motivation for impactfulness is just making my job more pleasant: Nothing is more soul-sucking than fixing the same kinds of issues over and over because the powers that be…

Another interesting way they make money is security: SEE costs a pretty penny. Worth it though, IME.

"Noone is printing anymore, so we will just take your money anyways" - HP, probably

Has someone tried this with a compressed gas powered cannon yet? Edit: Also, does the app check for the sudden deceleration spike when it hits the ground so you can't, say, add som…

I built a lot of weird 'inventions' in university, such as an airsoft sentry gun to keep squirrels away from the garden. I was also in a student club. I don't think any project spe…

Sounds a bit like what UIO tries to do in Linux? https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.12/driver-api/uio-howto.h...

What's nifty about an e-bike is that they're cheap enough to co-exist with your car. I still have my trusty Honda, but I also do many trips by bike now. I fill up with gas way less…

> Does it infect C/C++ programmers who've dared to sample it once, turning them into noisy advocates, a la addictive drugs or parasitic fungi? It definitely did that to me. I remem…

Employers don't require their employees to be members of a professional order because they think professional orders are nifty- It's because certain jobs are only legally allowed t…

Sometimes you can declare "self-learning", depending on the order. But anyways, that's not really my point: My point is just that in professions it's not uncommon to be expected to…

I can sympathize, but keep in mind most professions expect you to commit to a certain number of hours of continuing education. Often you can convince your employer to let you do th…

Hah, to me flashing an MCU over UART is a luxury. When I first started working with MCUs I needed to use a chip programmer that cost several hundred $ and flashed using a high-volt…

It's funny, I work in embedded systems and much of this is still relevant to me. RS-232 itself (as in the specification for the physical layer) isn't used as much, but the underlyi…

Engineers prefer direct language and concrete examples. Unfortunately it's not always engineers looking at your resumé, and they love buzzwords and flowery language.

Well according to the article, if you're an Expert Beginner you might just end up with a checks notes ... well-paying stable job and lofty title. Oh no!

It was my first exposure to...scalping? I remember that for some reason, chocolate was very valuable in the game. There was a chocolate shop in the game that was consistently sold …

And then obviously no-one will spend $220 million on a movie anymore because, hey, we can just use generative AI. So I guess subsequent AIs will be based on the outputs of a previo…

I'm curious what the answer was. I've read plenty about how the boutique finance sector is basically a parasite that only benefits a small cohort of already wealthy individuals, wo…

Funny you mention Rad, they seem to be another golden-boy eBike company that grew too quickly and is struggling. I have a Rover 6+ and am concerned about being able to get parts qu…

There has been a desire to use Rust where I work, but it's really hard to make a business case for "Hey, see this C/C++ code that's worked well for years if not decades? Let's rewr…

I remember some PC games in the 90's/early 2000's just refused to run, or they would run and then the disk would get too scratched up and then they'd refuse to run. Sometimes one p…