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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:the paranoid distributed system dev constructing ever more complex scenarios where the universe conspires to gently caress around packets going ten feet from one rack to another. possibly up to and including packets traveling back in time because you never know guilty of this but in my defense my over-preparedness hasn't bit me in the rear end yet while i've seen all sorts of naive bugs pop up for other people who don't share my paranoia
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Bloody posted:how do I find these chucklefucks and convince them to consult to me for all their embedded bullshit why would they do that when the alternative costs less and has no direct repercussions?
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it probably costs more because app developers have no idea how to make boards or do embedded anything
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Oct 24, 2016 04:38
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Bloody posted:it probably costs more because app developers have no idea how to make boards or do embedded anything that doesnt matter. The chip manufacturer gives a reference circuit every time, to show their customers how it's used. The customers modify that reference circuit and add the chip. Done. There is no more work to be done. Why would they redesign the circuit when the chip company provides one?
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Sagebrush posted:the "stack" feature in the mac os dock used to be called "piles" until some marketing genius figured it out 
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Oct 24, 2016 05:10
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like an iphone would fit in napoleon's hand, dude was tiny
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Oct 24, 2016 05:15
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pull the band off an apple watch "here you go little buddy! ur very own iphone!"
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I read somewhere that Napoleon was of an average height for his time, and most of the stuff about him being really short was British propaganda.
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Oct 24, 2016 08:16
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British propaganda was a fabrication of the French, though.
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Also the whole population back then was a good deal shorter than people today, so if you brought him forwards in time he would probably be the short, angry man of his repute speaking of which, isn't tori due back soon
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Oct 24, 2016 08:29
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he's sick of this shithole, last i heard he's on google plus
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Oct 24, 2016 09:02
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Jonny 290 posted:he's sick of this shithole, last i heard he's on google plus hes a digital nomad, and crosfitter of the industry 
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Oct 24, 2016 09:08
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Jonny 290 posted:that doesnt matter. The chip manufacturer gives a reference circuit every time, to show their customers how it's used. The customers modify that reference circuit and add the chip. Done. There is no more work to be done. Why would they redesign the circuit when the chip company provides one? because they gently caress up their first layout so badly the system doesn't even power on and gently caress up the second one badly enough that the trace antenna doesn't radiate at all
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Oct 24, 2016 13:35
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but it sells
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its almost as though the republic of china is heavily subsidizing outbound postage so that they can send a $2 piece of broken garbage here for $0.05 shipping cost but if its broken and you want to return it, you'll be paying $13.80 international mail and itll take 3 months but that couldnt be the case, no sir
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Oct 24, 2016 13:39
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unpacked robinhood posted:hes a digital nomad, and crosfitter of the industry what
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Jonny 290 posted:but it sells itll work right up until theres repercussions for the endless assortment of funded-but-never-shipped hardware kickstarters so probably forever
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Bloody posted:itll work right up until theres repercussions for the endless assortment of funded-but-never-shipped hardware kickstarters right. you're fighting against the stream here, there is no way to affect things happening upstream. there will always be another lovely company cutting corners to save a buck. meanwhile the ones affected by flaws either don't care or will go out of business. the only way to fix this is with government regulation of the industry.
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lol xiongmai is actually doing a recall of some of the exploitable cameras who knew?
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Jonny 290 posted:its almost as though the republic of china is heavily subsidizing outbound postage oh, is that why poo poo on ali express usually has free shipping (if you're willing to wait two months for it to get here via container ship) or are you talking about taiwan?
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https://twitter.com/fart/status/790604042275655680
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Oct 24, 2016 20:21
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surebet posted:on more than one occasion in tyool 2016, i had to remind people that even if the battery in their car key died, it was still a key, therefore no you don't get to call a tow truck nice key pics
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Heresiarch posted:oh, is that why poo poo on ali express usually has free shipping (if you're willing to wait two months for it to get here via container ship) I don't think the PRC government likes to admit it, but yes, they are absolutely subsidizing shipping to the United States. there's no loving way that the sellers could be turning a profit on 5 SPI gyroscope modules for $8.23 shipped otherwise
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and the pipeline has consistently gotten faster 3 years ago, order a dozen transistors and 1000 resistors, 3-5 weeks. double that if you were dumb enough to order before november 1 now? i can go on ebay and they have that poo poo at my door in 7-8 calendar days, maybe up to 15 for some lazy sellers. I bought a shitload of DIP sockets from a Chinese vendor and they showed up in two days, shipped from a stateside warehouse just east of Boulder.
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Jonny 290 posted:its almost as though the republic of china is heavily subsidizing outbound postage so that they can send a $2 piece of broken garbage here for $0.05 shipping cost but if its broken and you want to return it, you'll be paying $13.80 international mail and itll take 3 months You mean the People's Republic of China. RoC = Taiwan I've always wondered about the free shipping on sub-$1 from China but never seen proof of what's going on. It's either heavily subsidized like you posit, or forged postage which is also likely. Hunter2 Thompson fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Oct 25, 2016 |
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ive seen similar cheap stuff start to show up out of the philippines too which is kinda interesting
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OSI bean dip posted:nice key pics one of these days i want to cut a key per a photo i see on facebook or something and offer it as a gift to the owner
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meatpotato posted:I've always wondered about the free shipping on sub-$1 from China but never seen proof of what's going on. It's either heavily subsidized like you posit, or forged postage which is also likely. i think it's a combination of being heavily subsidized and a lot of the little poo poo (i.e. most of the sub-dollar stuff) being used to fill up space in shipping containers that are making the trip anyway. just a guess though
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surebet posted:on more than one occasion in tyool 2016, i had to remind people that even if the battery in their car key died, it was still a key, therefore no you don't get to call a tow truck on the flip side my friend called me to come jump start her mercedes a while back. well it wouldn't start with a jump. and it was this weird key, plastic all over with a clear window on the end, but you stick it in a hole and turn it like a normal key. so on a hunch I replace the battery in the key and what do you know, car starts right up. there has to be some place you can stick the backup metal key but hell if I could find it
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just lol at any late model product any of them besides macbooks and iphones i guess. but even those
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surebet posted:i also have a couple stories related to people not pulling these things: These things are just in line with the power to the mags and likely no alarm will ever sound if they're pulled, hope your operation has surveillance
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Millstone posted:These things are just in line with the power to the mags and likely no alarm will ever sound if they're pulled, hope your operation has surveillance If they're "fail secure" doors (in that the doors wind up locked when there's a power outage), it'd be highly suspect for those things to just be cutting power to the doors.
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in most cases you're required to have these pull stations even if the door is set to fail safe because you can't lock people in a building in the case of equipment failure (ie the electric pushbar fails), and in that case you get the full alarm effect also, the way i understand it you're required to have power reserves to drive the solenoid that unlocks a fail secure door to allow it to be open in case of complete power failure, since one of the likely scenarios of full-building power failure is a fire; in that scenario, not having alarms and proper surveillance is secondary to not having to shovel burnt corpses out of the wreckage the more interesting question imo is what happens if you pull it to unlock and reset it immediately? you can pull and reset a fire alarm station is literally seconds, but once triggered the alarm is supposed to keep rolling until silenced and secured on the system control panel. i highly suspect that most access control systems would be able to be put out of their alarm state by simply resetting the hardware at best pull stations are secured by the shittiest 5 pin tumbler locks, but most of the ones i noticed around here could be reset with a 6mm allen key
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of all the mechanisms that we could use to make the door open, let's pick the one that looks just like the one we never pull unless we want everyone to run out of the building and wait for fire trucks to come
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meatpotato posted:You mean the People's Republic of China. people who don't know how international postage works itt when sending mail abroad, every country pays for its own domestic transport. so when mail from whatever country arrives in the us, it's the usps that pays for its own domestic transportation. it would be a fair system if mail sent from china/taiwan didn't vastly surpass the amount of mail sent to china
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Tankakern posted:people who don't know how international postage works itt https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...tuff-from-china quote:The Postal Service is losing millions a year to help you buy cheap stuff from China Uncle Enzo fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Oct 25, 2016 |
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Jenny Agutter posted:on the flip side my friend called me to come jump start her mercedes a while back. well it wouldn't start with a jump. and it was this weird key, plastic all over with a clear window on the end, but you stick it in a hole and turn it like a normal key. so on a hunch I replace the battery in the key and what do you know, car starts right up. there has to be some place you can stick the backup metal key but hell if I could find it on my accord the metal keys are for the external doors only. if the key fob battery is dead you can still start it by putting the fob directly next to the start button and hitting start. it warns you before the battery dies tho so unless ur really lazy it shouldn't happen.
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Tankakern posted:people who don't know how international postage works itt Oh, that's fascinating. I started thinking about the kinds of products a US exporter could competitively sell to Asia supposing their warehouses were across the street from the port of Oakland (or similar). Things like Levi's jeans or US/Canadian cosmetics cost a lot more overseas. Then I realized I've never had a package held or even opened by by customs here in the US but the one time my work sent some packages to China Chinese Customs held the packages for nearly a week and charged a significant tariff.
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Tankakern posted:people who don't know how international postage works itt so its like peering on the internet. that's cool. usps should go Comcast on china.
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meatpotato posted:Oh, that's fascinating. yeah US companies making bank selling to "The Growing Chinese Middle Class" is bullshit. US companies aren't allowed to just import stuff. gotta be a joint venture (semi-official trade secret theft). from what I understand, no you are not allowed to just register a local business license, ship in containers full of US goods, pay import duties, and sell to retailers or consumers. plenty of US goods would sell (jeans, cosmetics, baby formula, even electronics I bet), but US companies aren't allowed to do so.
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