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I wish companies that offer such a core technology and what not were at times entered into a public trust, similar to how some public lands are managed, that would protect them fro…

Rule 3 is still very much real. Fancy fast algorithms often have other trade-offs. The best algorithm for the job is the one that meets all requirements well... Big-O is one aspect…

I will admit I have almost always made the choice to not use ros2. I am trying to use it now for some work, and I can see where/when it would be useful... But I almost always feel …

Love the article! Honest reflections on shifting goals, is great. I personally have found grinding and grit mostly counter productive unless it is accompanied by a reasonably short…

Find something you can bring a unique level of energy too, and bring it. One person’s generalist is another’s expert, thinking in those terms just isn’t that useful. The ability to…

TVS diodes can protect from transient voltage spikes when used properly (low impedance to the input connector, properly chosen and with the proper supporting circuitry) Zener diode…

I did out together this blog post a while for doing this for free using ashell https://cwoodall.com/posts/2022-01-02-obsidian-ios-sync/

This key! The wealth of formal verification tools in the safety critical c and c++ world is very high. Those tools, not the compilers are what get validated during tool qualificati…

I once made something very similar for myself in College when I was told not to use git for something in a lab… so my solution was to automate making archives. It worked ok. Defini…

I would contend that 10kHz is pretty fast for a control loop thats doing anything complicated in a Garbage Collected language on a non real-time OS. The later issue being some what…

I used tabula (and later camelot) to extract some register maps from data sheets to automate making some basic drivers! What an awesome tool. I had to post process but both were co…

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That was just a nice light read. Loved it

So sad that it did...

Depends a bit on what your crash response strategy looks like eh...

It seems to me that type inference would be silly in this case. Type suggestion during mypy checks might be useful though. Function x does not specify a type, but returns SomeHelpf…

Thanks for the correction.

For us road trips roadtripper works well to start. I typically end up using Google sheets docs and presentations to bring together all of the logistics. Things get a bit nutty thou…

Quotes work wonders. For many search engines including google knowing the syntax for more advanced searches is key.

I will agree with that. I have investigated other options and always come back to the same place. I am currently trying to unwedge us from vendor specific IDEs to cmake subprojects…

Having just done this for my company, this is awesome. I probably won't move to using this for the time being, but there are a lot of pitfalls to doing this, many of them subtle. W…