AKA Measels

Old news. Those elections were weeks ago.

Yes, but a lot of ZigBee stuff ends up in environments that use a cloud-connected “smart” hub.

That’s why I never went serious into home automation. Because any affordable system is based on cloud shit beyond my control. Cloud goes belly-up, and thousands invested ins such a system are suddenly scrap? Not with me.

Are those things hackable? Even if it means a full wipe?

… or to funny looking specimen. Radioactivity no longer required.

Most likely, there is. In very small print.

I consider those terms equivalent.

Would be interesting to see the Arduino IDE generating “raw iron” code for this quadcore processor. I learned to like the Arduino IDE for the RP2040 with it’s rather easy ability to run code on both cores. Having a board and environment to run raw iron code on four A53 cores would be interesting…

On the other end, why buying Arduino at all? Why not just providing a qualcomm based board and a matching Arduino BSP? If they want to promote their board and processor, just support it properly on the Arduino infrastructure.

Just having oil is no longer sufficient as a reason for an American invasion?

Indeed. But as long as at least some parties protect them and their wallets as if they were the politicians’ lives, you won’t get anywhere.

None of those idiots was forced to go up there.

That is the good and the bad with French politics.

On the one hand, if the French government tries to f-ck up the people, those people put down the whole country in no time. Sometimes it looks like they have a general strike set up within five minutes.

On the other hand, when they actually need painful reforms (like the do now), it’s the same.

Smaller, more specific jobs? Or re-delegating this person to other duties like documenting code?

First of all, like all skills, the more you do, the better you get.

One approach not listed would be to read books on algorithms and try to implement them.

Another would be to read good source code. The “good” part is the difficult one here, though.

Have a look at “The TeX Book” and/or “The MetaFont Book” - Both books are well annotated “sources” for two working and long-term assumed bug-free programs. You can learn a lot from those, not only about actually writing a program, but you can get a lot meta-knowledge off this project.

Or look at the sources for the glibc/glibc++.

How about “Germany should boycott ESC to avoid embarrassing themselves again, and again, and again”? Germany is one of the founders of the ESC and IIRC one of the larger contributors, but devastatingly unsuccessful over the last decade or two. Maybe it’s just time to give up.

File an international arrest order for insurrection. Maybe he’ll never leave the hole he lives in, but if…

Wow. this is one of the biggest instances of IT incompetence that I’ve heard of in recent years. Hosting a server farm without remote backups? Sound like the London Magnetic Tape Incident.

The LMTI: One employee was sent to the other end of London with the magnetic backup tapes every day. He got money to take a taxi, but saved it and took the tube. His favourite seat was right above one of the motors, where he sat the bag with the tapes on the floor for the journey. The tapes were just stored at the destination, and not checked in any way. Guess what they learned the first time they had to rely on those tapes?

I did not switch to Linux. I simply never did Windows. I use Linux since the old days of Slackware where you really had to compile ones kernel. That was with kernel 0.97.

13 year old kid: “Yea! That was what I was looking for!”