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markrages

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    Comment #48692004

    I can't be the only one whose memory is so bad that I am like this in my own code base.

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    Comment #48371434

    Faster than some, slower than some. PCBs come in all different levels of complexity.

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    Comment #48080477

    RFCOMM is old Bluetooth, not BLE. Nordic has a serial-over-ble profile, but it is not standard like RFCOMM.

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    Comment #47302460

    GP is talking about seeing the string oscillations alias against the 30 Hz camera frame rate. I've never tried it.

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    Comment #46209712

    Why not? It's been a decade away for the past 20 years.

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    Comment #45812275

    "defining them right before the dependency is actually used"

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    Comment #45801523

    You have always been able to do the same thing in Python. This PEP isn't needed for that functionality.

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    Comment #45649730

    ChatGPT doesn't run commands, does it?

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    Comment #44706452

    Vacuum people have been trying to normalize high prices for a long time... From the old Internet: https://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/kirby/kirby.html

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    Comment #44438974

    I think a lot of real reviews are written by ChatGPT. People are lazy!

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    Comment #44366353

    https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt

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    Comment #43725155

    The Loudness War has come to Slack. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

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    Comment #43689014

    ...for now.

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    Comment #43550832

    ULN2003 is not DIP8 And I would assume for pedalogical purposes a bare transistor would be preferred rather than the '2008 with its extra diodes and base resistor.

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    Comment #43493505

    Of course the comments section is going to be full of war stories about everyone's hardest bug. This is how humans work, and this is why I am reading the comments.

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    Comment #43357560

    Thanks. What a weird API.

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    Comment #43357048

    shouldn't it be var actualSize = 1 ?

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    Comment #43070729

    > The statistical likelihood is that other civilisations will arise. There will one day be lemon-soaked paper napkins. > ‘Till then, there will be a short delay. Please return to y…

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    Comment #42745810

    > Is there any precedent to car carriers dedicated to one manufacturer? General Motors helped design the Vert-A-Pac. https://chevyvega.fandom.com/wiki/Vert-A-Pac

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    Comment #42599024

    > I am sure is not a fundamental but is the reality for the currently available chipsets. It is pretty fundamental. Ant has an inverted master/slave (or whatever we're calling it n…

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    Comment #42598979

    Ant also broadcasts a unique(-ish) identifier. This was enough to end Nike+. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike%2BiPod#Wireless_protocol_...

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    Comment #42361248

    The Amazon preview included a page advocating for systems Hungarian in naming variables. I am no longer interested in the book.

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    Comment #42095579

    In the 90s I worked for a company in Kansas City designing pagers. We rented space underground for RF testing. There are no radio signals in the caves, at least back then. I'm sure…

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    Comment #40694354

    Yes! Code is for people to read, not computers. Beautiful code uses the full expressiveness that the language allows.