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phaistra

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About phaistra

I specialize in real-time embedded firmware.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47752058

    Is there a table of implemented RFCs? Something similar to http://caniuse.com where we can see what HTML/JS/CSS standards and features are implemented? If it exists, I can't seem t…

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    Comment #44786837

    Sounds like you are describing markdown.

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    Comment #44736464

    You could ask the submitter to show a quick video recording of the new feature being used. Or if its a bugfix, show the failure scenario and then the fixed non-buggy scenario. If t…

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    Comment #43907444

    I recently found a super cool article[1] which also gives a good overview of how a debugger works. [1]: https://keowu.re/posts/Writing-a-Windows-ARM64-Debugger-for-...

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    Comment #43857902

    Are we sure this is correct? The table shows ESP32-C5 supports CANFD but I cant find any info on CAN-FD peripheral, drivers, etc.

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    Comment #40918084

    First time I heard of Atlas OS. How is it different from Windows LTSC?

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    Comment #36257026

    > Those moderators aren't doing their work for free, so why should anyone else? Because they actively volunteer to do so.

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    Comment #32913724

    Mining boom prices without the mining boom.

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    Comment #32596926

    Can you provide some books or links if so that I can read up on these misconceptions?

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    Comment #32225716

    Can you expand on your first trick? What is the problem being solved and what is a practical use case? I'm not sure I follow.

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    Comment #31937717

    There is always going to be some negative externality to anything humans do. No free lunch in any endeavor. You can find new uses for waste products or reprocess it to something le…

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    Comment #31936382

    > Have you seen how hard it is to pass a contentious law these days? So what? Not the SC's problem. > Most people can agree about its merits but it's naive to act as if special int…

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    Comment #31900310

    What is your concrete solution? Create a fine for not-voting in local elections and local initiatives?

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    Comment #31745234

    You literally just described most of Wall Street and most of the finance industry too.

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    Comment #31744940

    > Looks like you need to look Shenanigans done by Musk, Gates etc You should check out the shenanigans that the US government gets away with. Whatever bad things Musk, Gates and cr…

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    Comment #31530076

    > Anyone even remotely concerned about privacy or constitutional rights There goes 95% of America.

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    Comment #31314922

    > Evening with batteries should have user replaceable batteries There should be a law for this. Even for cellphones. When corporations market themselves as environmentally consciou…

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    Comment #31286749

    Just because you don't think he was polite to some arbitrary standard does not make him wrong. If people are this sensitive to "tone" and "tact" about technical matters, then we (a…

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    Comment #31285878

    > rants about how stupid everyone else is. > His favorite target seems to be...drumroll please...large corporation software teams. I missed the part where he is wrong.

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    Comment #31285817

    How was Casey wrong?

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    Comment #31099541

    I always found the following expression amusing: "Universities are actually hedge funds that happen to have a school attached to them".

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    Comment #30857973

    Another idea: For every repeated infraction of the same type, the fine doubles or triples.

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    Comment #30857878

    Why not make it hard to create a Google account? Why is that not on the list of potential solutions? If you have bad actors that can make hundreds or thousands of bogus accounts in…

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    Comment #30856027

    This is actually the real solution IMO. Instead of playing whack-a-mole with endless stream of various abuses across all the bad business practices they do, these giants should not…