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Comment · 1 month ago
> Every time I ask a contract manufacturer to assemble a batch of more Floppy Emus, there are always a few that don’t pass QA testing.

It seems like this would still be 60 out of a number less than the total production over all time. I was just curious what the failure rate was. We recently had a build with one failure out of 500. Which I'm happy with but isn't that large a sample size.

Comment · 1 month ago
Did they say how many they built total? Was this 60ish boards out of 100, 600, 6000?
Comment · 4 months ago
Our after/before school system is run in partnership with the local YMCAs. There are high school kids that help in addition to some teachers, paid extra for their time, and paid staff.

Maybe you could join the local parent teacher association and see if anything can be done to make it cheaper.

Comment · 5 months ago
All the schools in my area have before and after school programs for parents that both work or single parents or any other reason you want your kids to be at school longer. I recall my school as a kid had it as well. There isn't traditional class work but it serves as additional recess before and after school as well as lets age groups mix. There is a lot of social learning that happens in that setting that is good for the kids.
Comment · 6 months ago
Which company is building the silicon for Google? Is it tsmc? What node size? I didn't see it with a quick search, sorry if it was in the post.
Comment · 8 months ago
I don't get it, AI does some impressive things but I don't trust it to write any code that goes to production. I've used AI for many one off python scripts for visualizing some log files that mostly worked, which was convenient. Maybe AI is just bad at embedded C but the other day I had it write some code that resulted in a subtle error because the AI didn't account for C truncating, not rounding, when doing math with integers. It makes me wonder if most errors are going undetected since reviewing code can be harder than writing code.

So articles like this that someone is using AI in finance scare me. Maybe the big 4 are using AI as an excuse to put pressure to get lower rates, it doesn't mean they actually think AI is capable of it. Or maybe auditing was already a racket that is easily disrupted by another racket.

Comment · 10 months ago
I also recommend that podcast but I would suggest balancing it with '5-4' podcast or 'strict scrutiny'. Sara and David do a very good job explaining both sides and the law but there are times I think advisory opinions could spend more time on the arguments made by the other side or the weaker portions of their supported view.
Comment · 11 months ago
Cooling is more difficult in space, yes it's colder, but transferring heat is more difficult.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is not true, in my experience, in rural Indiana. I hear the n word a lot for an area that I have yet to meet a black person. One neighbor was complaining about the California family that moved to town and brought all the drug problems with them, despite our county having been the meth capital of Indiana for years before they moved here. Somehow my first conversation with a friend's mom I met while visiting their rural farm involved how there were no black people in the area. But this is why all anecdotal data should be taken with a grain of salt.
Comment · 1 year ago
You'd probably still win the wager but I do want to say there are some of us using C23. We even use it in our embedded systems running on arm based microcontrollers. Though we still do maintain some C89 code :(
Comment · 2 years ago
Or you get ostracized for saying you don't want to have to involve lawyers to get your wife the medical care she needs.

Depends on where you are in the country.

Comment · 2 years ago
I have never seen such a system that I thought worked or wasn't just gamed into uselessness.

Do you have any examples of systems that worked well?

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Comment · 2 years ago
We just upgraded from Xmodem to Kermit last week in our embedded device.
Comment · 2 years ago
It probably depends on the bank somewhat. My local community Bank in a small rural town won't have many, if any, million dollar home mortgages, maybe some of the farm or business loans are that large.

Also I hope you meant £1M is ~$25 M today and not £1 :D

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