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It's frustrating sending fixes to Spotify when you come across something incorrect. It takes so long for any action to be taken that I've given up.

That was a graphics driver IIRC

I am in Europe, and bought mine from a European Amazon, but no SD-card. I still use it, and yeah the camera is definitely quite far behind. I'll probably go for a Xiaomi soon.

Non-expandable storage is the big miss for the 1st gen Moto G.

There could be some lag involved. The children of 3 decades ago are now having their own children and are deciding their freedoms. I think crime was lower in the US 6 decades ago than 3, so each generation may be reacting slowly to a perceived level of danger.

>Can you trust any of the advice from her book?

This is pretty much the norm for business books. This time it just isn't backed by survivorship bias.

The support contracts on these tools runs into huge figures, there can be 100s of engineers keeping a small number in production. Each sale is essentially a huge contract, not a one-time payment.

> Its all just different levels of discrimination.

Aren't some of those levels enforced legally?

Modern BGAs will often need that many layers just to break out all the signals.

That's not quite the same usage as Reagan though.

You also need to allow for failure conditions. If a power tube fails as a short or low impedance, which will vaporise first: your thin tracks, or your fuse?

>algorithms were invented on paper first

This I can see, but the parent seems to be talking about commercially viable software. I think people should be careful when discussing imprisonment as some kind of distraction-free vacation for intellectual pursuits, the reality is that a large amount of time would be spent caring for your mental wellbeing.

Has anyone ever done this? There have been successful books written in prison but not many, and that translates much better to pen and paper than software does. It sounds like something of a fantasy to be honest.

>Forget finding a new set of DTL transistors for a PDP-1

Is this true? I would've thought we have millions of equivalent devices available

Anything with critical timing that runs over a parallel port can be very tricky to get working in a VM. It means running a realtime OS on top of a non-realtime OS, with some abstraction layers added. A C64 is very deterministic in comparison.

>You'd have to imagine that actual graphics artists during the 8-bit era viewed low resolution as a limitation to overcome, not a purposeful feature of their artwork.

Well yeah, but it's a feature nonetheless. People aren't doing anything wrong by preferring sharp pixels. It's an aesthetic all to itself.

The homeless are likely to be reliant on support systems in cities beyond just housing. Moving them further out means they have to travel further.

It's the largest Spanish-speaking population, maybe that's why?

>1. Buy a $5000 car up-front, which is an expensive up-front cost for me (and more than most people my age have in savings). If I've been careful in investigating the car, it will work most of the time and only cost me $500/year in repairs.

Is this accurate for the US? I live in an expensive European country and a used car around that price would cost next to nothing in annual repairs, unless you really drove it a lot. Do you need to pay $5k up front? It's common here to take loans for used cars.

There's also the problem of working within technical limitations. Even with standard file formats there can be much more involved than just dumping files into a project.

I would imagine artists need to be involved in technical discussion and would need to learn & bug-test custom software for importing and processing assets. It seems like a different skillset to traditional art & design backgrounds.

With hardware you don't always have a reproducible known good state. Many changes aren't reversible. Certain tests can irreparably damage things.

>I'd say a vast majority would take their phone to Apple, who say it can't be fixed and to buy a new phone.

How many would then try a 3rd party repair place?

It's very common in Ireland.

Anything manufactured with some process control should follow a bathtub curve for failures. It's the width of the tub that matters. I don't know if LCDs have been on the market long enough to have much data for end-of-life failures (probably not 18 years?) and that data probably wouldn't be publicly available.

It's hard to believe that TV manufactures are shooting for an 18 year mean lifetime. They might work after 18 years, but it is unlikely.

>If you were OK with a TV for 18 years you would be OK with another TV for 18 years.

A TV manufactured today is very unlikely to last 18 years without some kind of hardware failure. There is a big difference in complexity/points of failure and cost-cutting between 1998 and 2016.

The argument that new graduates will know Python and have an easier time with embedded systems never sits well with me. If they graduated in something to do with embedded systems then they will know C. If they have a general programming background then they will need some training anyway, as embedded systems often require a different mindset geared more towards low-level programming. So they might as well learn C while they're at it.

I think the popularity of Arduino with complete beginners shows that the barrier of entry is rolling the bootstrapping code and getting tools set up, not the language itself.

You can easily combine techniques. Send rescue dogs and handlers wherever phone signals are traced.

The obvious case is architecture support. A lot of embedded devices are not targeted by gcc and LLVM.

do you mind going into why you have written so many assemblers?

>We've turned sleep schedules into a morality play, where waking up at 4am is somehow impressive and virtuous while waking up at 10/11am is slothful (even if you spent all night getting lots of work done).

This is nothing new, it makes perfect sense if you consider that sunlight was once the main form of illumination.

In the modern sense it still makes some sense as many businesses keep hours similar to 9AM-5PM. Any time regularly spent asleep in that window is wasteful if you rely on anyone or anything on that schedule (or they rely on you).

You need to live something of an "outsider" lifestyle to make this work, and that still isn't practical for a lot of people. I did it for quite a few years and found I was also rushing if I need to run an errand like going to a bank in person.