potatopotato @ potatopotato @sh.itjust.works

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As a SWE you have responsibility for what you do. "Golden handcuffs" isn't a cover to help wage wars against users. If it becomes an undesirable posting, they'll either have to pay more or worse engineers will end up working on it.

Recommendation: report the pop-up as a bug with the provided link. Just act confused and claim to not be using an ad blocker. Muddy the waters and make life hell for their devs.

Do not under any circumstances buy that ETF. She buys the stocks long before the ETF buys them so you're literally just giving her money blindly by driving up her investments.

Aren't they fundamentally anti privacy? You have to be logged in so they can correlate literally everything you search for or click on with a credit card number and real name...

I can't be the only one who wants a 1990 Ford ranger sized pickup for moving materials around. The only options on the market are absolutely massive. The CAFE standards had the compete opposite effect from what was intended...

Yeah, that's the issue ultimately. The ESP32 chips are nice and easy to use but still pale in comparison to getting things working on a pi for the average developer without embedded experience. These devs may not even know they exist to be completely honest.

I'm not intimately familiar with the BCM2711 but I believe it's a reasonable, albeit somewhat overpowered, processor for the application. It can be put into a variety of low power states and probably pulled out of sleep by various events like the GSM chip sending packets or accelerometer motion (frequently the peripheral chips have dedicated "wakeup" pins that you can wire to interrupts). It's not the most cost effective option by far, there are sub $5 microcontrollers with multiple cores for handling communications and real time motor control concurrently but you'd need to hire someone like me for a few months @$200/hr to write the low level drivers and design the boards. The rpi lets random web-only devs fumble their way through hardware development using whatever GitHub Python libraries they can find. If you only need a hundred scooters it makes more sense to just yolo it and buy up the remaining supply of rpis to start your grift.

Much of the operating system software on the switch is derived from older FOSS systems that existed before the GPL became widespread.

It very much should be open source, we just didn't always have the tools to force assholes to keep the stuff we gave them open

nobody (other than mass shooters) needs to be walking around with 11+ bullets loaded

I'll be ok with these laws when they apply to the police as well, but that's not how this or any other bill has been written so far.