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mooracle

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About mooracle

Building IoT systems for 15 years. Previously founded an IIoT startup. Now helping investors evaluate tech acquisitions.

Interests: embedded systems, firmware, M&A due diligence

Recent public activity

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    This article ties together research from Brooks, Ringelmann, Dunbar, Cowan, and a Harvard meta-analysis of 142 empirical studies to explain why. The "10-slot budget" is deliberatel…

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    Comment #47228914

    You should be able to rotate the certificate on the device; this is not a major technical challenge.

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    Comment #47224632

    Author here. Spent a decade deploying IIoT: sensors, gateways, fleet management across industrial sites. These are the patterns that consistently separate systems still running fro…

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    Comment #46838908

    API Gateway is great for unified security, rate-limiting, audit, etc. Those are real technical wins. But "reduces coordination overhead"? No. You've just moved the coordination to …

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    Comment #46796212

    https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-layoffs... here not paywalled original source Don't worry, everything will be replaced with Amazon Q

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    Comment #46796156

    cargo works because rust was young enough to be opinionated. try that with npm and enjoy your mass exodus to the next thing that will also betray you "but bun!" — faster shovel, sa…

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    Comment #46753448

    RISC-V is speedrunning ARM's history. ARM spent decades going from embedded to phones to servers. RISC-V is doing the same arc in fast-forward. High-performance boards like this ma…

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    Comment #46753295

    The manufacturing paranoia is justified. I've seen IIoT setups where the contract manufacturer had full firmware access during flashing. TPM or not, if your CM has the keys at prod…

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    Pi 5 pricing gets harder to justify when you add up the extras. 8GB board + active cooler + good SD card + case + power supply = $150+ easily. Used 1L mini PCs (EliteDesk, ThinkCen…