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@brouhaha@mastodon.social I find myself in this situation fairly often. When I do, it's helpful to remember John Scalzi's maxim: The failure mode of clever is asshole.
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Eric Brombaugh
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I've been using the Blackmagic Probe from @1bitsquared@social.1bitsquared.com to do embedded development on Arm parts for years. It's a very slick bit of kit that supports so many devices and is tightly integrated with the Gnu Debugger (gdb). Recently I've had several contributions merged in that support some new parts - the STM32H7RS used in one of my dspod boards as well as the STM32C542 on the Cheep4 module I mentioned the other day. If you do embedded, definitely give it a look.
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@thomholwerda@exquisite.social I believe Upton Sinclair had something to say about this...
Last week I spent some time adding yet another STM32 family to the @1bitsquared@social.1bitsquared.com Blackmagic project. The STM32U3xx family is now supported for program flash and debugging (option bytes not yet). I used it to bring up a new member of my dspod boards today - all working just fine.
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Last week I built up a new dspod board based on the STM32U3C5. These parts don't run fast - about 1/5th the speed of the STM32H7R3 used in an earlier dspod so one wouldn't expect much. There's a trick here though - the U3C5 has a new feature called the HSP that's designed to offload heavy math operations. I've been trying some FFT-based spectral stuff on it and the early results are encouraging. It'll be interesting to see how hard I can push it.
Must be July 4th in Phoenix
Scenario that happens more often lately -- out for my daily bike ride, bent down & pedalling hard into a headwind. Meanwhile some old fart passes me, sitting bolt upright, pedalling easily, not breaking a sweat. Kinda demoralizing until I notice that they're on an e-bike.
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@maxleibman@beige.party This is so good. I don't understand how anyone puts up with what we in this house call "laundry funk".
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@Pomegranatepirate@kolektiva.social @maxleibman@beige.party It's amazing how far those odors can travel.
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@niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be I was recently playing some audio in the dual-boot Windows 11 partition on my laptop (that's rarely ever used) and noticed it sounded awful compared to when it's booted into Fedora. Checked the audio settings and noticed that some "Dolby Atmos" enhancer was turned on. Disabled that and now the audio under Windows sounds fine. Why do people think this is good?
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Free / student tier pricing may provide some relief for learners and onboarding, but the restrictions applied will not enable productivity at the professional level that is required for meaningful progress & keeping up with the leading edge.
We saw some of these effects decades ago in the engineering & scientific disciplines when tools for computation (Matlab) or EDA (PCB design, HDL synthesis, chip layout, etc) were out of reach for hobbyists. Today there are free tools for these apps.
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When I see LadyAda talking about spinning up an agent to do driver development and how it costs upwards of $100 to run a few hour session I'm forced to see this as a barrier to entry for people who can't / won't afford that kind of expense. So *if* this development flow becomes the minimum viable approach to software dev in the future, only professionals and well-funded enterprises can stay in the game. Free / open-source projects and individual hobbyists will be stuck in the backwater.
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How long will it be before a kid without a lot of cash can afford to spin up an agent to knock out the next big thing? Is it even reasonable to imagine training and using these tools independently without billion dollar financing?
With the explosion of hardware pricing caused by the datacenter buildout, even low-end hardware for machine learning may soon be out of reach for the average nerd. Is the future of tech locked up behind a paywall and available only to those who can pay the rent?
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@Tooden@aus.social @futurebird@sauropods.win Richard Belzer's comment is gold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_%26_Order#Music_and_sound_effects
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@dianea@lgbtqia.space The alt text on that image "inside of a vintage computer" has me crumbling to dust.