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Submission + - CircuitPython Turbo brings native code to tiny boards (adafruit.com)

ptorrone writes: Adafruit has published CircuitPython Turbo, a workflow that compiles selected Python functions into native machine code on a computer, then loads them onto compatible microcontroller boards. It builds on MicroPython's Native and Viper emitters. In a documented Metro RP2040 fixed-point Mandelbrot test, Viper cut computation time from 8.335 seconds to 0.423 seconds, a 19.71x speedup over bytecode. The rest of the application stays in Python. The guide includes benchmarks, source code and hardware demos. The speedup is for the measured computation, not the whole application.

Comment Re:It's... it's... it's... (Score 1) 93

What alternative? Without regulation every single service will be just as bad.

Ecosia and Qwant both European search engines. Both are currently in the process of developing EUSP (European Search Perspective), a search index built by Ecosia and Qwant, based in Paris, so they have to rely less on Bing and Google Search.

Comment Who wrote the report, ChatGPT? (Score 1) 139

The world is expected to add another 2 billion people from 2025 to 2060, increasing global population from around 8 billion to around 10 billion... "Over one-half of that growth (1.148 billion) is projected to come from an increase in the population aged 65 and over,"

How the hell does that happen? Are people born already age 65 plus?

Comment Re:Why did they have to? (Score 1) 246

Why did this require legislative approval? If you want to plug something in at your house, who's to say you can't?

Because of stupid people like you who are too stupid to realise that unless you have legislation that specifies that these devices have to cut all output from the inverter if there's a power cut you can end up in a situation where there's a power cut, an engineer is called out to work on a line he's told has been disconnected and gets electrocuted by the solar installation 3 miles away done by an idiot like you who didn't fit an inverter with that safety feature.

Comment Re:So how do these work? Phase matching? (Score 1) 246

For rooftop solar, I have to get an inverter that does Phase-locked loop and matches the power coming in from the grid. Do these "balcony" solar panels have integrated inverter that does that?

The ones we have in Europe do and have to. They also have to have mains detection so if there's no live mains detected on the socket you're plugging these inverters into they have to cut power OTTOMH I think it has to be in something like 10ms.

Comment Re:Looking forward to this (Score 1) 246

I'll be interested to see how people use them in the UK, because most people don't have a balcony and most people don't have outdoor sockets they can plug them in to.

Cut moulded mains plug off the end, drill hole in wall or window frame, feed cable through, put a new 3 pin plug on the end, job done. That's how I'll be doing mine. If you've got a mains socket near an external wall on a ring main though (it'll have two twin and earth cables going into the back of the wall socket) you can run a spur to an external mains socket and under the regs it's also something you can DIY without needing an electrician.

Comment Re:Welcome to perma ban (Score 2) 187

For two years, now, I've been unable to create a new account that lasts more than a few minutes before being banned, regardless of using VPN, different email addresses, etc. Not sure how they trace them back to me, or why they would go to such lengths.

If you're using Windows it would appear it could be the Microsoft GDID. If you're still using the same browser it could be your unique ID they get from that.

Comment Re: I don't understand why this is considered... (Score 1) 187

Exactly why does a private company owe you anything if there was no contract between you and it?

There is a contract when you sign up to the website. It's in the terms they get you to tick that you agree to that you never bother to read. Top of the signup page on Reddit...

By continuing, you agree to our User Agreement and acknowledge that you understand the Privacy Policy.

Here's the contract that you sign between yourself and Reddit when you continue to set up an account that you say doesn't exist....

Comment Re:Enforceable for ordinary users? (Score 1) 187

Technically a court can not enforce a law. They can say anything they want, but what would happen if no one listened?.

The court issues a warrant for your arrest. Someone from law enforcement turns up, drags you in front of the court, you get charged at best with contempt and thrown in a cell.

Comment Re:Similar issue (Score 1) 187

You do know Reddit has privacy settings now to prevent people from browsing through your post history?

Nice but it doesn't stop someone who knows your Reddit name knowing it's you making a post. For example lets say it's about some financial trouble you're in, some legal advice you want, some advice over medical issues lets say something like infertility, there's a couple or married couple going through some problems and one of them wants to make a post asking for advice and in all of those cases you don't want people you know to know about it. That's what throwaway accounts get used for.

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