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Author here. CNLohr already did it better than I could 10+ years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwcvElQS-hM

Author here - the reason is pretty underwhelming: These are the parts I had on hand when I decided to start on the project. Using a chip with a builtin Ethernet peripheral would de…

If you can only capture 60FPS, you cannot accurate measure a signal of 40Hz, since it is below the Nyquist frequency. (I know you mentioned the slow-mo camera which probably does h…

This is a very first-world opinion. Low-end (second hand) smartphones are some of the only available computing devices available for a large part of the world.

> There's something more constricting about there being one function to bootstrap everything than there is about one file. The trickiest thing is that main() is not even the bootst…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery

> ...remote biometric identification systems in publicly accessible spaces, biometric categorisation systems (e.g. categorizing by gender, race, ethnicity, citizenship status, reli…

This is the most use that board has and would have gotten in the last 10+ years. I like to think it laying down its FTDI chip for a greater cause was an honour for it.

Indeed - I know I could have also popped out the DIP micro on the board and used it directly, but I choose not to for two reasons: 1. Its so much bulkier, and I wanted something th…

Totally fair point. One of the videos I'm going to get around to making on my channel at some stage is a UART transceiver on an FPGA. Definitely not the "easier in a pinch" I was o…

You're absolutely right, I don't know why I had attributed the name to the full duplex nature. And of course, there is also USART, where you can have a separate clock line, which a…

She* - this is Julia Evans blog.

People can blog about whatever they want. I think people on HN and other platforms often forget: Just because the content ended up here, doesn't mean it was written for here.

I think the authors point is that dd is a specialised command, and for most common tasks (where the precise details don't matter), it's often not the best tool for the job. I didn'…

I can't think of any type of job that is both vilified AND one that you could take on the cusp of destitution. And at least for me personally, setting the example to my kids of int…

Heard about a great floating point implementation bug just today. When nintendo released Super Mario 64 for the Wii virtual console, they essentially just made their own emulator t…