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Comment · 14 hours ago
That's untrue. Almost all the products I worked with in my last company had such architecture - which we leveraged (this was Ag industry). It's very easy to work as they have shared memory to talk to each other.
Comment · 29 days ago
I highly agree. Sadly, all of this ends up running on high-end machines + other corporations servers.
Comment · 5 months ago
MN is the reason I'm there. It's pretty fun.
Comment · 5 months ago
Sadly, that's not a great answer where most banks are going towards the same direction. It's also convenient to use a phone for banking.
Comment · 6 months ago
There are farmers who join agricultural co-ops to do similar things. I've seen few operate differently - the co-op owns the machines and maintains a bunch of operators. These are requested by farmers who want work done - spraying, tilling, harvesting, etc.
Comment · 6 months ago
That's untrue. I know a farmer, who buys a John Deere combine before harvest. It stays unused until his harvests are done, and returns it by end of harvest season incurring $30k on this entire transaction. Why does he do that? Because he has two weeks to finish up harvesting or start incurring losses on his harvest. Farmer does care about saving costs/losses AND getting the job done in time.
Comment · 6 months ago
This is a great initiative. However, I feel that "no-tech" shouldn't be a target and that isn't necessarily good. Ex. Precision tech helps reduce operator fatigue and increases efficiency with respect to equipment operation time and material used.

This isn't to say that tech can't be shoved in every other panel on the tractor - but hope this drives Big companies towards considering where tech is necessary and where it's not.

Comment · 9 months ago
> However, I don't like new files as patches. I really prefer to have my device tree be a dts file that I bring in instead of bundled into a patch. Maybe I'm not following the guidelines, but I think it's nicer to be able to search for dts things in .dts files and I get nice syntax highlighting and whatnot.

This is what I do on custom boards. It's better to "look" at files and link to others when they're files and not patches.

Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
I'd start from this - https://www.coursera.org/specializations/advanced-embedded-l...

I studied under him at the university. He's also active in open source communities around embedded space.

Comment · 11 months ago
A lot of work here is working on vendor provided BSP (which can range from esoteric mix of ancient kernels/bootloaders to top-quality community maintained mainline kernels) to work on your custom board/product.
Comment · 2 years ago
> I just cannot see trading away these to maintain software.

That's fine. Not everyone has to do OSS. It's similar to volunteering for charity (weak analogy).

Comment · 2 years ago
Recently, I was browsing an open source project I use a lot. "Sign in to search code on GitHub" was kinda discouraging to see.

Sure, I can clone it and run grep/ripgrep - but sometimes I like the ability to search the code on the browser.

Is it only GitHub where this is a restriction or GitLab is similar?

Comment · 2 years ago
Curious: What does "writer's mind" mean with respect to deepening meditation practice?
Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks for this thread. It's sad that I will have to switch to another keyboard.

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