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6 gün öncediscuss

The real article getting to the point the author is trying to make is this one https://aresluna.org/show-your-hands-honor/

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18 gün öncediscuss

Not only in Europe, but in Canada too. Think of the union as a corpo offering bargaining and administrative services. Unions compete with each other for workforces. The typical case would be for a newly unionizing workforce needing to choose which union to join.

It is rare, but a workforce can even choose to move to a different union.

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2 ay öncediscuss

The problem is really behavioural, not the tooling. People that do not understand, test and document their decision making in their PRs should not be submitting them, regardless of what tooling (AI or otherwise) they used to create them.

This problem existed before AI, but it is now just worse due to the spamming nature of these "contributors". It's another form of endless September where people unfamiliar with the norms of team software development are overwhelming existing project maintainers faster than maintainers can teach them the norms of behaviour.

In the end, some sort of gatekeeping mechanism is needed to avoid overwhelming maintainers, whether it's a reputation system, membership in an in-group, or something else.

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2 ay öncediscuss

Labor

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2 ay öncediscuss

Skip to the end. No author attribution, no citations, no research, just probabilities.

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2 ay öncediscuss

A lot of effort was put in to minimize the rolling shutter effect in digital cameras, and here we are implementing it on purpose for film!

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4 ay öncediscuss

https://www.crowdsupply.com/baochip/dabao/updates/what-it-is...

Update from bunnie:

   In my mind, the Baochip-1x’s key differentiating feature is the inclusion of a Memory Management Unit (MMU). No other microcontroller in this performance/integration class has this feature, to the best of my knowledge. For those not versed in OS-nerd speak, the MMU is what sets the software that runs on your phone or desktop apart from the software that runs in your toaster oven. It facilitates secure, loadable apps by sticking every application in its own virtual memory space.

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4 ay öncediscuss

I don't think so, because the Baochip is just the chip itself. Cases are more likely to be implemented as part of the application products, not the chip. The chip itself would never come with a case.

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4 ay öncediscuss

https://youtu.be/DaWkfSmIgRs

This talk from 3c explains the hardware and operating system side of the project.

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4 ay öncediscuss

For those unfamiliar with this project:

Baochip is a license-free RISCV implementation with MMU. It is custom CPU logic hitchhiked on another company's SOC. The SOC is dual CPU like the rp2340, but with the other CPU fused off.

Xous is a an operating system that runs on the Baochip and an FPGA version of it.

Precursor is a prototype mobile hardware secrets device. It has an FPGA that runs Xous and costs around $600. One of the core goals of the project is to make inspectable hardware.

This baochip is the next step is to make prototype devices cheaper by running xous on the baochip instead of FPGA. The baochip is inspectable using a technique called IRIS.

Bunnie is leading this project.

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5 ay öncediscuss

https://soldered.com/collections/inkplate-e-paper-displays/p...

Inkplate devices are a great entry point. They're recycled Kindle displays with an ESP32.

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5 ay öncediscuss

Amazing to see that this game is still profitable /and/ fun to play after all this time. Diablo II hit the balance between action and addiction just right in a way that Diablo III and IV seem to have missed.

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5 ay öncediscuss

Over Christmas I tried to actually build a usable computer from the 32-bit era. Eventually I discovered that the problem isn't really the power of the computer. Computers have been powerful enough for productivity tasks for 20 years, excepting browser-based software.

The two main problems I ran into were 1) software support at the application layer, and 2) video driver support. There is a herculean effort on the part of package maintainers to build software for distros, and no one has been building 32 bit version of software for years, even if it is possible to build from source. There is only a very limited set of software you can use, even CLI software because so many things are built with 64 bit dependencies. Secondly, old video card drivers are being dropped from the kernel. This means all you have is basic VGA "safe-mode" level support, which isn't even fast enough to play an MPEG2. My final try was to install Debian 5, which was period correct and had support for my hardware, but the live CDs of the the time were not hybrid so the ISO could not boot from USB. I didn't have a burner so I finally gave up.

So I think these types of projects are fun for a proof of concept, but unfortunately are never going to give life to old computers.

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6 ay öncediscuss

API to interface with my telecom companies to start and stop service, manage my account, book service techs, create billing reports

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7 ay öncediscuss

We use graphite at work to automate this workflow. The whole point is avoid this toil.

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8 ay öncediscuss

Itemized bill:

Chalk mark $1

Knowing where to put it $999

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9 ay öncediscuss

See Postgrest for a project similar in spirit.

https://docs.postgrest.org/en/v13/

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10 ay öncediscuss

The Pi is already a module. I'd love to see the Pi "hundred" series start to incorporate modular designs between the keyboard and compute so they can be updated independently.

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10 ay öncediscuss

This shit is infecting every news source. Even CBC yesterday put out this garbage headline "Charlie Kirk shot dead at university event, Trump says".

Who cares what Trump says. Responsible reporting would be getting the information from primary sources, not fettering responsibility for determining newsworthiness to whatever Trump says.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6897816

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2 yıl öncediscuss

One of the best sound tracks ever is Street Fighter 3 3rd Strike, heavily featuring jungle.

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