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I do not use books for engineering work and never will, because doing the work of thinking for myself is how I maintain the neural capacity for forming my own original thoughts and…

From my perspective they spread FUD about open source licensing. QT core is LGPL3. Many applications would be fine with using LGPL3 in commercial applications. Read QT's landing pa…

Check out ARM SBSA / SBBR which seems aimed at solving most of these issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Base_System_Architectur... I'm hopeful RISCV comes up with somethi…

Anyone using VitualBox please be careful about the extension pack. Oracle is very litigous. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/147k6az/oracle_is... https://www.reddit.com/r…

Stock debian is 5 years with their LTS project, but they have a paid "ELTS" project that adds an additional 5 years. So 5 years for free, 10 total years as a paid support option. h…

As I understand their water rights were recently revoked: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/arizona/articles/202...

I switched for similar reasons, but went from Ubuntu to Fedora a couple years ago. I like Debian as well, but its a bit slower to release at every 2 years unless you stay on testin…

I'm not familiar with that definition, I typically see debouncing used as any means to filter out the state as it is changing from the mechanical action. I've seen simple BSP debou…

This post inspired me a few years ago to start a very impractical learning side project. Most keyboards don't overly prioritize latency. Development of a keyboard is easy using a U…

ptp is If you look at the white rabbit FPGA PTP updates, its in the ns range. Any kind of GPS + most intel nics will get you PTP with an accurate clock. If you didn't need to sync …

Even so, a good RNG will make attempts to verify the quality of the entropy. For example, Intel's RNG will statistically observe bit patterns from their RNG. Eg, it fills up a FIFO…