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bestouff

2,923 karmajoined 8 tahun yang lalu

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Electric motors with no rare earths

renaultgroup.com
717 points·by bestouff·28 hari yang lalu·218 comments

The economic impact of Brexit [pdf]

nber.org
3 points·by bestouff·8 bulan yang lalu·1 comments

ST introduces Rust MEMS drivers

st.com
3 points·by bestouff·10 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

comments

bestouff
·19 jam yang lalu·discuss
I think only the US consider the US Democrats as leftists.
bestouff
·8 hari yang lalu·discuss
You know how to recognize an American movie ? There's a gun on the poster.
bestouff
·11 hari yang lalu·discuss
(S)he has a point. Sometimes the vendor dtb is all you have.
bestouff
·11 hari yang lalu·discuss
Hey, I understand you're appalled by the political landscape at home. But losing the will to live is too much, way too much.

Find a shrink, talk to someone. You're not well, don't let that go worse.
bestouff
·11 hari yang lalu·discuss
OK. But even then we don't do that here.
bestouff
·11 hari yang lalu·discuss
This is not completely true. You can use a generic kernel with a custom device tree.

The only problem is that distributions currently tend to package them together, but that shouldn't be obligatory.
bestouff
·11 hari yang lalu·discuss
Well ... there are work environments where this behavior is rewarded. However you do it, if you debug, solve the problem fast and put everything in production instantly, that's an instant gratification for the risk-taking engineer.

The other engineer who doesn't take shortcuts and does thing properly will be scolded (at best).
bestouff
·11 hari yang lalu·discuss
This kind of behavior should be punished.
bestouff
·11 hari yang lalu·discuss
Would she win nowadays ?
bestouff
·11 hari yang lalu·discuss
No more sharing of EU personal data with the US ? Not a bad thing.
bestouff
·12 hari yang lalu·discuss
There are modern languages for that. Use Rust, don't loose your sleep over memory bugs.
bestouff
·16 hari yang lalu·discuss
This is the correct answer.
bestouff
·19 hari yang lalu·discuss
That's how privacy-harming policies are so successful: "but think of the children !"
bestouff
·19 hari yang lalu·discuss
The price of a small house.
bestouff
·20 hari yang lalu·discuss
So 10% is a lot.
bestouff
·20 hari yang lalu·discuss
You check and unpack once, then the rest of the "positive" codepath can use the reference without fearing null.

I fail to see how Rust would offer twice as many ways to shoot yourself in the foot ; this is a rather safe and picky language.
bestouff
·22 hari yang lalu·discuss
He's open to API suggestions, you should open an issue
bestouff
·23 hari yang lalu·discuss
I'm way more hopeful in a fully decentralized protocol like Forgefed* than some AT still-centralized thing.

* https://forgefed.org/
bestouff
·28 hari yang lalu·discuss
I also have a Zoé (an R135). Wonderful little machine.
bestouff
·bulan lalu·discuss
Under Firefox Focus I can read it if I manually zoom and scroll. Not ideal.