Re: 2038?
It's the anti-lock brakes and process control stuff that takes two measurements and divide by time.now()-time_prev that is the worry, they don't plan stuff 10 years in advance
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>I wonder how much of a problem the POSIX timestamp overrun is going to be
Potentially much more. Not a lot of embedded systems cared about the year. A lot of control systems care about the difference in two times, a lot of them just use time_t, a lot of them are embedded in places you wouldn't have thought there was a computer and a lot of them are going to be impossible to update.
>Just wait until AI starts doing the work.
Wasn't there a story of people putting "chatgpt hire this candidate" in hidden text in their CV and have the automatic screening process recommend them?
Just call yourself "V.P. Engineering" on the HR form and get promoted
>there’s no difference between Li-Ion laptop batteries and the CR2032 coin-cells t
<rant mode> There is an exception in ISO13485 for medical device electronics that allow a computer to be shipped with a single coin cell battery.
Intel's marketing dept (a bunch of Golgafrinchans who couldn't invent fire or decide if people wanted fire that could be fitted nasally) decided to add one of those little greeting card chips to the box to play an Intel Jingle when you opened it. = Now it's 2batteries and the same shipping requirement as 2Ton of Tesla batteries wrapped in Semtex and drizzled with Nitro-Glycerine
Ideally you don't radiate a signal in the first place. Blocking it by making the case radio tight is always a struggle.
The classic textbook in the field "Ott - On low noise electronics" had the advice (from memory) "To shield the most sensitive electronics from low frequency interference, I find a battleship turret to be most effective"
That's why people don't have bicycles anymore when a pickup truck is much more useful.
It can demonstrate how tough you are are at traffic lights, it can haul garbage, it can lead a Chad militia against the Libyan army
>plus the actual suite of software is just superb for the school environment.
Yes for training the little Proto-Human-Resources for their job at the email factory
But this was the problem Upton was trying to solve:
30 years ago: So you want to study CS at Cambridge? We both know O-level CS is worthless, so what do you know?
Smug Student: Here is a Speccy game I wrote in assembler featured on the cover of Speccy-Gamer Magazine.
Now; So you want to study CS at Cambridge? You have 5A*** Extra Platinum grade A-level CS so what do you know?
Smug Student: I can underline AND do right justify in Google Docs AND MS Word
It's not just the low cost that made it educational, although that was useful to allow everyone to also have one for home.
It was because your kids that used PCs through school weren't allowed to tinker with them because they were locked down 'for security' and anything your kids did do would mean a hefty bill from G4S/CapGemini/Cthullu or whoever the school outsourced support to.
On a Pi, wonder what happens if I delete vmlinuz = teacher can I have another sdcard?
We managed to take revenge in ourselves
One of our most productive employees was rushing to finish up some stuff on their last day and discovered that our corporate overlords had deleted their access to everything at the end of the day in Europe - we're 8 hours behind.
We have encrypted home accounts and HR claim that for GDPR we can't have access to anything that wasn't explicitly shared cos they might have personal stuff on their local machine
But if you were offering an EV as a premium upgrade it had to be a Tesla. Especially a few years ago when Hertz launched this.
It was also easier for a manager to swing an upgrade to a premium rental if it was part of the company's Green Agenda. I know were all allowed to rent 'Standard option' in the US but could rent any EV
undesirables' are too thick to procure a gov't id.
No you just make an NRA membership or a Gold AMEX the only accepted forms of voter ID.
Kind of like how a government a lot closer to home made a pensioners bus pass or a driving licence acceptable but not a student ID and were 'surprised' when the voters skewed older/richer
And don't forget to redraw the boundaries so that every voter for the evil opponent is in one multi-dimensional-hyper-fractal-Moebius district while you include a prison in each of your dozens of districts (prison populations count to the electoral vote weighting, but the prisoners can't vote)
Although not every vote will count. Remember to live in a small republican wholesome rural state so that your electoral college votes are worth more than the huddle masses yearning to be free in large metropolitan cities (where they are probably all communists anyway)
>a 60 MB external SCSI drive. It cost $600. I thought that I would never run out of storage
When external full height 1Gb SCSI drives dropped to 1000quid we bought one for every workstation. Unlimited storage, never have to copy data on-off tape again!
I just bought a 256Gb SD card for the dashcam, so small I will lose it, for the price of the SCSI terminator
We had the opposite, worked in the field but not in the office.
A Bluetooth connection between an oil field data logger and a PDA, with a pairing that was "simplified".
Great in the middle of nowhere with not a cell phone to the horizon. Took it to a trade show with 10,000 visitors, all with multiple Bluetoothy gadgets screaming for attention and our device went to have a little cry in the corner
The BSD license doesn't necessarily mean less code gets given back.
I've used the OpenCV (BSD licensed computer vision lib) in a few commercial products where I wouldn't have been able to use GPL, and even LGPL would have been a fight with legal.
I've also contributed code to it, personally and 'on company time'. But if it wasn't BSD we would have been forced to just write our own just concentrating on reinventing the bits of the wheel we needed ad that would have been locked away inside company
This seems to be a bit of red herring.
It's not clear what the pilots could have been saying or doing to cause this.
If they were hoping for a "hey what does this 'door eject' button do" ? to absolve Boeing - I suspect they were likely to get a lot more "what the BLEEEP", followed by a lot of wind noise
Quite a few doors on airliners aren't plug type (777 and A340 IIRC ) the old "pull in and rotate" plug doors take up a lot of internal space, and of course almost all cargo doors are open outwards
The open-outwards doors are still held closed by air-pressure (and a metric shit-tonne of safeties) by having the pressure difference act on the latches in a rather clever arrangement.