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I switched to Godot expecting some pain but it was great. Way more depth of searchable stuff on the net to help figure things out than I expected. If you're thinking of starting a …

I posted this in a comment but going to post it again at the top level. For anyone interested in discussing this, I highly recommend you read the NHC forecasters day 2 summary. Ign…

That's not how this works. It's the water, not the wind. This is completely unprecedented

For anyone in CA or Nevada reading this misguided comment, please read the latest update from the forecasters at NHC: https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/ero.php?opt=curr&day=2 Tease…

That's just 5 20tb drives. Some cloud providers will copy it on to them if you send them in, and usually cheaper than the bandwidth cost. Same for ingress

This is going to mess up RoHS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_of_Hazardous_Subst...

I hope it includes shipping

That sounds fascinating... How do you end up with AliExpress vendors sending you EDA?

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Yea but grass doesn't grown on methane

Yes 100%. Get a ublox F9P board and antenna. Couple hundred dollars. Set it up to do RTK using public CORS base stations (will give you 2cm apx accuracy). You will get a kick out o…

Ive been working with GNSS for the last decade and a bit, and this article and the comments here are a low point for HN in terms of people making comments about stuff they dont und…

Not so much. Modern GPS will get a first fix pretty quickly regardless, you don't need to seed it. AGPS is used when satellite coverage is poor, like urban canyons in a city, also …

In the unlikely event any Aussie or NZ farmers are reading this, it costs less than $1k to setup your own base station and transmit corrections via a number of RF links. One base s…

Cell towers have no relation whatsoever to any of the different types of differential GNSS

Me too but embedded (yip, ruby embedded). Love this!!

In my work I have had to evaluate a whole bunch of SBCs, and the Asus Tinkerboard is a cut above all the others. I expect the quality of this board to be similar

I design low volume specialist equipment, and would love to try these. Problem is I can't even talk to manufacturers at my volumes, and this probably won't be on Digi-Key/mouser/RS…

Cool. Link?

Something about the honesty in the way this is written I love. I am a fan now of their gear even without reading any reviews. I just tried to buy one of their APs but looks like th…

Roastedd coffee beans, actually

My half joking advise to wework. Ditch the lame Kombucha taps and bring in beer. I for one will happily pay a huge real estate premium for free* beer

Don't ask me... Spending time with the kids, looking after them or not is super relaxing. It's the best bit of life.

The guy is french. Maybe it's a one size fits all approach which makes sense to french people?