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I highly agree. Sadly, all of this ends up running on high-end machines + other corporations servers.
MN is the reason I'm there. It's pretty fun.
Re:Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone on Saturday May 16, 2026 @11:02AM (#48160846)
Sadly, that's not a great answer where most banks are going towards the same direction. It's also convenient to use a phone for banking.
Re:Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price on Thursday April 23, 2026 @08:32AM (#47874987)
There are farmers who join agricultural co-ops to do similar things. I've seen few operate differently - the co-op owns the machines and maintains a bunch of operators. These are requested by farmers who want work done - spraying, tilling, harvesting, etc.
Re:Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @11:40PM (#47872036)
That's untrue. I know a farmer, who buys a John Deere combine before harvest. It stays unused until his harvests are done, and returns it by end of harvest season incurring $30k on this entire transaction. Why does he do that? Because he has two weeks to finish up harvesting or start incurring losses on his harvest. Farmer does care about saving costs/losses AND getting the job done in time.
Re:Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @10:43PM (#47871764)
This is a great initiative. However, I feel that "no-tech" shouldn't be a target and that isn't necessarily good. Ex. Precision tech helps reduce operator fatigue and increases efficiency with respect to equipment operation time and material used.

This isn't to say that tech can't be shoved in every other panel on the tractor - but hope this drives Big companies towards considering where tech is necessary and where it's not.

> However, I don't like new files as patches. I really prefer to have my device tree be a dts file that I bring in instead of bundled into a patch. Maybe I'm not following the guidelines, but I think it's nicer to be able to search for dts things in .dts files and I get nice syntax highlighting and whatnot.

This is what I do on custom boards. It's better to "look" at files and link to others when they're files and not patches.

Re:The end of the kernel Rust experiment on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @06:14AM (#46216466)
Re:Linux Career Opportunities in 2025: Skills in High Demand on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @11:42PM (#45989025)
I'd start from this - https://www.coursera.org/specializations/advanced-embedded-l...

I studied under him at the university. He's also active in open source communities around embedded space.

Re:Linux Career Opportunities in 2025: Skills in High Demand on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @11:39PM (#45989014)
A lot of work here is working on vendor provided BSP (which can range from esoteric mix of ancient kernels/bootloaders to top-quality community maintained mainline kernels) to work on your custom board/product.
Re:I've Soured on Open Source on Friday September 27, 2024 @11:33AM (#41671760)
> I just cannot see trading away these to maintain software.

That's fine. Not everyone has to do OSS. It's similar to volunteering for charity (weak analogy).

Re:Nginx Has Moved to GitHub on Friday September 06, 2024 @11:28AM (#41467046)
Recently, I was browsing an open source project I use a lot. "Sign in to search code on GitHub" was kinda discouraging to see.

Sure, I can clone it and run grep/ripgrep - but sometimes I like the ability to search the code on the browser.

Is it only GitHub where this is a restriction or GitLab is similar?

Re:Relationships are coevolutionary loops (2023) on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @09:54AM (#41057145)
Curious: What does "writer's mind" mean with respect to deepening meditation practice?
Thanks for this thread. It's sad that I will have to switch to another keyboard.
Re:PostmarketOS in 2024-01: Infrastructure and bug reports on Monday January 08, 2024 @08:42PM (#38921145)
Thanks a lot! :)
Re:Forget spaceships; I just want my music on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @01:33PM (#38616315)
Thanks, that's valuable
The day Altium ends up running properly under Wine - is the day I remove the Windows installation on my device.
Re:Piracy Is Back: Piracy Statistics for 2023 on Thursday December 07, 2023 @09:05AM (#38556444)
This is true. I think I stopped pirating games - as soon as I could afford Steam games. Only rarely pirate games to "try" them out - then buy it on Steam. It also helps that they've gotten easy to run on Linux.
Re:Enums in Rust – and why they feel better on Thursday November 23, 2023 @11:38AM (#38394582)
I think that's one of the important features why I LOVE Rust! I recently wrote a Chip-8 emulator and creating an enum with all commands = AMAZING!

(I come from C/Embedded world)

Re:Linux and TPMs with systemd measured boot [video] on Sunday November 05, 2023 @12:51PM (#38153543)
I'm curious if open source TPM would mean easier side-channel attacks. What's the reason everyone is super hush-hush around how their Hardware Security works?
Re:Good times create weak men on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @08:51AM (#37998465)
and boredom, so the kids would venture into the field of interest on their own vs forced to do.
Re:Pixel 8 Pro on Thursday October 05, 2023 @09:27AM (#37778329)
eMMC usually has csd and ext_csd registers that tells information regarding wear level and such. It's easy to access these from Linux, but not sure how we would do it on Android.
Re:DisplayPort: Taming the Altmode on Sunday August 06, 2023 @12:12AM (#37018927)
That man is really good at teaching/explaining SI concepts. He was my professor at my university and taught High Speed PCB design class. Lots of learning like the one you described!
Re:I built my first Cyberdeck on Sunday May 14, 2023 @09:48PM (#35943060)
There's a yocto layer for Jetson - which gives you highly customizable OS. Yocto does have steep learning curve, so that's a showstopper.
Re:High Speed Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design Guidelines on Thursday April 20, 2023 @09:55AM (#35639959)
ADD: in short, it happens for "any" frequency. This is how a voltage signal propagates. However, for DC it happens once because you see "change" in voltage only once and that's it. As you increase the frequency, you'll end up seeing more voltage waves due to "change" in voltage. That's when "reflections" come into picture - happens due to discontinuity in impedance.
Re:High Speed Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design Guidelines on Thursday April 20, 2023 @09:32AM (#35639649)
This is probably a good video for understanding - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icRzEZF3eZo
Re:Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @08:43AM (#34895296)
My guess would be that not a lot of people have done work to collect concrete data around it. Problems like these really go unnoticed, even most samples from urban-young crowd in India will say, "why do we need reservation?", "there's no caste discrimination".
Re:Bra Size Calculator on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @09:47AM (#34161436)
I'd honestly be equally surprised if it was groin-size based underwear optimizer for males.
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite programmer niche? on Saturday October 15, 2022 @01:14PM (#33216625)
Would be glad to apply.. ;-)
Re:Nvidia Grace CPU on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @05:39PM (#30771927)
Ah, you meant like that. I assumed if they're bringing a new module architecture.

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