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Vizio/Walmart | ONSITE(Addison/Dallas TX) We are looking for a highly technically skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer with a passion for embedded systems and a deep un…

> Even when you cause an accident, you don't pay. Your insurance company does. You might "pay" with increased future insurance rates. The way I understand auto insurance is, you're…

WiFi and LTE are too power intensive for a pet tracker in my opinion. Something like LoRaWAN would be ideal. In urban areas public LoRaWAN coverage already exists and where it does…

>but come high school it could be worse to have lower grades in more challenging courses, depending on how hard the GPA hit is. At least when I was in high school, the regular, pre…

When I was in high school, IIRC we did 55 minute classes with 5 minutes between classes, 4 core classes 2 or 3 electives + lunch. It doesn't work, by time you start, the class sett…

To pile on the list of supported RTOSes, my favorite has supported the Pi pico for a while. https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/boards/arm/rpi_pico/do...

I agree with your driver assessment as someone who's used Zephyr quite a bit. If you're working with a new sensor, writing a new one is super straightforward. I don't have much exp…

> This (and every other Dark Sky replacement I've tried) is missing one feature that is crucial to me: hour-by-hour barometric pressure forecast. I think Carrot weather also has th…

Not OP, but for me, it's the isolation. I wouldn't quite call it miserable unless I can't go out. I lasted only a few days into WFH for COVID before I went to live with my parents …

While this is highly unsurprising, I'm curious what information Twitter will have to provide in discovery. It seems Musk torpedoed the deal off the number of bots on the platform. …

This sort of thing is so frustrating to me. They phish users with horribly made emails with no formatting, then they send the same sort of emails for legitimate things. They give s…

> Is it a proprietary plug on the charger end of the cord? If so, that makes a little more sense, though there are generics for it for a while now anyhow Iphones come with a Lightn…

Outside of mac magsafe chargers, I can't think of an Apple device without a -to-USB-x cable in the box.

> Only if the nozzles are industry-standard. If you sell a bike with pentalobe-shaped nozzles and only you make such pumps, you must include the pump with the sale But this is more…

> I really don't follow this reasoning. It sounds more like Apple is having some political trouble in Brazil and this is the evolution of it. Hadn't thought about that but I think …

The thing that gets me here is the "exclusive manufacturer". I don't see how that can ever be the case. You aren't required to use Apple's brick or cable (though they have to be ce…

> The judge said Apple had "obliged the consumer to purchase a second product of its exclusive manufacture," This take is baffling to me. While I don't necessarily agree with Apple…

X86 and by extension x64 is weird for reasons even beyond what he talks about. One weirdness I've hated is the layout of interrupt and segment descriptors. For interrupts the addre…

This came just in time. So far I'm super happy with it. One feature I think would be cool to have would be a check in/check out time for the first and last day. Other than that I r…

I confused by 2 things. 1) Why can't/hasn't Mircosoft/Nvidia/Root CA revoke the certificate yet? 2) Why are Nvidia's code signing certificates around to be stolen? From my experien…

I think a key feature of a smart speaker is the voice assistant. The only privacy aware I know of is Almond (AKA Genie) from Stanford[1]. I don't think there is any commercial spea…