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Same here. Embedded programmer, primary language being C. I sat here staring at that line for a solid 30 seconds trying to understand the intent - it’s nonsensical. I read your comment and see the intent you’re guessing at but… you would not generally write C like this. Pointer arithmetic is to be avoided, and this case is contrived. I don’t think a compiler warning would be thrown here though - maybe that is the point, that the language and compiler would not catch this issue and that typos or novice learners can make compilable mistakes too easily?

I think anytime you need to start stepping through assembly instructions instead of C in a debugger is also when you start reflecting on life choices.

Not a hardware bug, but in embedded I ran into a fun one early into my first job. I setup a CI pipeline that took a PR number and used it as the build number in a MAJOR.MINOR.BUILD scheme for our application code. CI pipeline done, everything worked hunky-dory for a while, project continued on. A few months later, our regression tests started failing seemingly randomly. A clue to the issue was closing the PR and opening a new one with the exact same changes would cause tests to pass. I don’t remember exactly what paths I went down in investigation, but the build number ended up being one of them. Taking the artifacts and testing them manually, build number 100 failed to boot and failed regression, build 101 passed. Every time. Our application was stored at (example) flash address 0x8008000 or something. The linker script stored the version information in the first few bytes so the bootloader could read the stored app version, then came the reset vector and some more static information before getting to the executable code. Well, it turns out the bootloader wasn’t reading the reset vector, it was jumping to the first address of the application flash and started executing the data. The firmware version at the beginning of the app was being executed as instructions. For many values of the firmware version, the instructions the data represented were just garbage ADD r0 to r1 or something, and the rest of the static data before getting to the first executable code also didn’t happen to have any side effects, but SOMETIMES the build number would be read as an instruction that would send the micro off into lala land, hard fault or some other illegal operation. Fixed the bootloader to dereference the reset vector as a pointer to a function and moved on!

Have you found a solution to mid-large scale embedded test setup? Could you provide some shallow insight into frameworks or other infrastructure used for embedded testing? I've previously been responsible for firmware testing small production volume devices in aerospace but have since moved to a high volume product with multiple active hardware revisions and no test infrastructure currently in place. It's a different beast to test now while trying to balance schedule and feature dev.

The higher they raise wages, the more workers they'll likely retain.

Honestly this would probably just make VPN services more widely used to workaround shutdowns.

Searching "tiennenman square massacre" pulls up the image as the second result.

Interesting, I had a much easier time seeing the actual motion instead of the illusion in black and white over colored.

Improved local production doesn't have to reduce variety by necessity.

I'm currently using it without many issues under WSL.

I have a limited understanding, but I think this is just further reproduction of the same science. I believe there's some controversy over non-locality in that entanglement and spooky action at a distance is still a result of hidden local variables. By increasing the distance between the sources of the photons, you would give more evidence to nonlocality. Please correct me if this is offbase.

I find it sad that things like rising sea levels and mass extinction do not worry you. Should someone only care about things that affect their own personal life? Rising sea levels are going to affect a large amount of people negatively, and mass extinction means we are losing a lot of biodiversity that we needn't be. Your viewpoint seems to lack empathy for other people and other species.

I looked through the datasheet, but couldn't figure out what "1KW" of program memory meant.

How does a wealth tax work when the majority of your assets are illiquid? Stake in a company, real estate, etc. are difficult to tax and still have predictable recurring tax revenue, right?

I don't have a strong background in AI/ML, but aren't quite a few advances in this tech driven by a "throw at the wall and see what sticks" attitude? I was under the impression that the "why" in some mechanics in advanced neural nets were poorly understood and just happened to work well. Please enlighten me if that isn't the case.

It's a rollout that probably wouldn't happen all at once. Human drivers for tough conditions, while self driving vehicles inhabit Arizona and LA.

I see this attitude a lot when this type of discussion comes up. People seem to focus a lot on the idea that if you "run your life into the corner" then it automatically becomes acceptable that you're stuck with that lot in life or are somehow deserving of all of the consequences. I'm not arguing against responsibility for your choices, but mental health, upbringing, addiction and so much more play huge factors in determining lifestyle and outcome. Regardless, is it in society's best interest to attempt to uplift those in need and help them become more productive members for the greater good? I think so.

I don't mean to put words in your mouth or assume what attitudes lie behind your personal thinking, I'm just reflecting on my own thoughts about this.

I'm curious, my uni satellite club is using the same camera for a cubesat, is that the same domain you're using it for?

Wouldn't the ship's mass only appear to increase to the outside observer?

And they're being dropped in favor of geosynchronous providers.

An RPi 3B running headless with wifi enabled consumes around 1.2 to 1.5 Watts.

Could you possibly dive into this? The electron slit experiment shows that superposition exists in a fundamental way in our universe. You can even measure quantum effects with objects as large as buckyballs. Isn't it sort of obvious that a precise mathematical description of a macroscale, emergent system based on objects with quantum and probabilistic effects is always going to be an inaccurate abstraction?

Just because the presented solution serves facebook positively doesn't mean it's bad in some way. It's good to be wary of the bias, but don't dismiss the claim because of it.

A few years ago I was playing around with arduino, and adding comments increased the executable file size.

Question from someone who is not knowledgeable in ML or AI: Do current implementations of ANNs allow trying out these different types of organizations/structures? Is the structure and workings of neurons sufficiently similar to ANNs that the architecture transfers, or are there huge differences that make understanding and development orthogonal?

Ho. Lee. Shit. I'm in the satellite telecoms domain - this is incredible and will have far reaching consequences after a decade. Unfortunate that R&D and hardware lead times are so long in this industry.

SMAD - "Space Mission Analysis and Design". The latest edition is "Space Mission Engineering - The New SMAD".

Great start for a product. I would imagine everything that's currently in your food database had to be manually chosen due to the availability of training data. It doesn't handle very many branded products, but that could be really valuable in keeping users engaged and using your application daily, so I would suggest adding barcode scanning (currently building an application with the Nutritionix API, its got a great dataset). You could even ask your users to take a picture of their barcode entered food so you can start learning on a much wider variety of products. My two cents.

I'm taking a class with Jack Farmer right now on Astrobiology. I can't wait to talk with him about this!