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I imported the BOM for the tracker to Mouser and it looks like it's around $100 in components for one board. It looks like the boards with ENIG finish and filled and capped vias wo…

In a power supply you can sense your output voltage with a differential amplifier between the positive and negative outputs that way the voltage drop across your current sense resi…

sudoedit runs the editor as the original non-privileged user, which is nice if you're using a configurable text editor like vim/emacs so you're not suddenly using whatever (lack of…

That describes both partially and fully hydrogenated fats, but only the partially hydrogenated fats contain trans fat. As far as I know fully hydrogenated fats are not any more unh…

Unsigned integer underflow and overflow are both guaranteed to wrap by the C standard.

Your comment reminds me of this comic https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/mind-3 Perhaps with social media it applies as much to younger people as well.

I can see why Google would not require G Suite customers to set up DKIM, but why do they not have it set up for google.com? It seems like it would have added another barrier of def…

In that first paper, it does not seem to indicate that there was a difference in the level of cognitive improvement in the albendazole + fortified biscuits group versus the placebo…

The rule was already written there. The patch just reformatted things a bit.

I am pretty sure you can end up in the sort of situation where ordering 3000 costs less than ordering 2500 on Digikey, and in my experience the same goes for other major component …

Why have comparison callbacks return this enum enum c7_order {C7_LT, C7_EQ, C7_GT}; instead of a signed int which seems to be the idiomatic way in C?

I agree that intrusive data structures are often a better choice and do not have the issues GP mentions (by using something like a container_of() macro, so the data structure membe…

Your grep result of Linux is because the regex is bad. `\t` does not seem to be available in the grep basic syntax. It is available with Perl Compatible Regular Expressions, but th…

I think they are referring to the fact that the signal could be triggered before the system call is executed, in which case you will miss the signal and the system call will never …

> I replaced the battery on it ~6 months ago. Where did you purchase the battery from, and how is the performance, if you do not mind me asking? I also use a mid 2009 Core 2 duo, b…

That comment is from the series' author, just doing a bit of his signature trolling for which he is so beloved on Hackaday. I know he (Brian) has expressed that those articles gene…