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I think my wife and I have a toaster from when we first got married. It'll be 13 years this month. It's probably a 2009 or 2010 model, so really only about a decade or a little les…

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I store them in the comments area in KeePass, both the crap question and my silly answers.

Every time I start a little thing in C or C++ and I write a corresponding Makefile I get annoyed by it and write the thing in Rust. Cargo is really nice. I've considered using a Ca…

This mostly works. After military service, I never changed back my cell number and I never answer if it is from the old area code. Though, I did once and it was a volunteer fire st…

I asked Zach about it once (in email), he said: > We do all of our development in C# using a custom low-level “game engine”. At some point we need to do a writeup about it, it’s ki…

And, unfortunately, it is a destructive process going from elf to hex, as I've discovered a few times. Intel HEX is just the data at what addresses so one looses the section info a…

Indeed. "Firefox is back." - Well, from where I stand, it never left, nor I it.

That sounds like reasonable phone use to me whereas the article seems to hint at using a phone instead of engaging.

I learned by working at a contract manufacturer who also does engineering design of small device electronics (as an embedded engineer). I also have a copy of The Art of Electronics…

This was the go to method of keeping information when I was in the military (05-09), which was _strongly_ encouraged starting in boot camp. If one was found without a pen or two an…

Others have mentioned that include_str! is a macro, which I suppose it is. But if you look at the source it says that it is a compiler built-in[0]. If you dig into that, you'll see…

Football toy chest! I had one of those. I remember climbing inside it -- being able to fit inside it even. I remember, when I was older, trying to climb inside but backing out beca…

I second Duluth trousers. I had difficulty finding pants that fit since I'm a little shorter but have bigger legs. Getting pants with larger legs means a larger waist and a belt on…

Similarly, when I'm really still and reading a book, I can hear some sort of grinding sound when I turn my neck ever so slightly. The sound reminds me of a little stepper motor. I …

I'd recommend having a look at emulators for other chips in general and just tailoring them to ARM Cortex-M. The architecture reference manuals (ARM ARMs, har har) are freely avail…

You can also consider the case where you have a super fast CPU but are using poor algorithms. That's why I think the terms 'smart' and 'stupid' are fairly useless in practice.

As their menu has grown it has been getting a little harder to figure out where things are but moving around the menu is really easy. I suspect the latter helps with the former. Al…

I'm always amazed at how many doctors I've encountered behave as if their knowledge is the extent of medical practice. I get it though, research is hard to stay on top of and isn't…

After a little investigation[1][2], it seems things get weird with an OS, as would be expected with virtual memory, et al. [1] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16360620/find-o…

After looking at that default linker script dump, I noticed it didn't have the stuff I saw in the ARM linker script that I'm used to. So I attached one for a Silicon Labs EFM32 par…

I was bothered by saying that static memory is assigned on the stack (implied that it is only on the stack). As an embedded guy, at least in bare metal situations, local function s…

Ah, I learned a new word. These serpentine roadways are used to slow the advance of cars on a guarded gate or outpost in military situations. They're pretty annoying to drive throu…

This is also true for the rest of the areas around Lake Erie, western PA, and probably western NY (I don't have much experience with that area). I live about an hour south of Erie,…