UnityDevice

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[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't work for Apple, but I am an electronics engineer. Just don't be surprised when your simpler devices start failing.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

To be fair though, they just need to make everything USB-C anyhow.

Careful what you wish for. Putting advanced electronics into very simple devices will just make them fail a lot faster.
Some old device just needed 12V over a barrel jack to run some motor or light and charge the battery and it lasted a decade - only failed because the battery got old. New one now needs a state of the art power delivery chip to negotiate the right voltage and current, and all over a very fine pitch connector that will fail if you look at it wrong. Not looking good on the durability front at all.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

set -euo pipefail at the top of every script makes stuff a lot safer. Explanation here.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It's an American obsession.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's like calling all fuel diesel.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

But now you're stuck in the woods with a libertarian. You're worse off than before.

You tend to lose count after the first few hundred.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or libcinder. Or even simply Arduino.

Eyes dont have lens flare

Me, with astigmatism: I'm gonna have to disagree on that one.

Dave Jones of the EEVblog always says to beginners "I hope your project doesn't work." He thinks it's a much better learning opportunity that way.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're doing this at the OS level, so Firefox can't protect you from that, the issue is with Windows. They could do the same to Firefox, they just don't bother.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a size of paper with an aspect ratio of 1:√2, and the short edge that is 21cm long. The long edge will then be 21√2 = 29.7cm. The aspect ratio has the interesting property that it can be halved and doubled while remaining constant.

This has been your ISO fact of the day.

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