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Comment Re:What is the purpose of Government? (Score 3, Insightful) 249

1) break government
2) privatize what's left
3) profit

that's really it. they have zero care (the R party) for regular non-billionaire people. regular people need government. ultra rich are the ones who pay government to make laws that favor them.

I guess its not clear to everyone so it will be stated again: the R party is the robber baron party and they are not here to HELP anyone but themselves.

Comment Re:Software update borks storage device (Score 2) 46

here's the story I tell everyone in embedded, who is new to the field.

you want 3 boot partitions. 2 for flash and 1 for ROM.

your update toggles between partA and partB. you cant write to partC, its minimal and in rom. its there in case both A and B are not bootable (watchdog based).

I worked at a company that made radios that were for ISP's to use, tower to tower. a tower climb can cost $10k. you do NOT want to have to hire someone just to reboot or fix bad firmware. we learned that the cost of 3 partitions was worth it.

I used to work at car companies and guess what: they only have 2 boot partitions (at most) and they never have that rom partition. I've told several of them and they dont seem to see the cost benefit. (shrug)

but just be aware, if you want the job done right, have 3 partitions and one should be read-only so that you can always always recover to something; then use that to reflash A and or B.

Comment Re:Cancel culture hits OSS/Linux (Score 1) 203

we understand your feelings.

but the fact is that your government will go to any length to achieve its goals.

we are at war with russia. for all practical purposes, its a full war and that means things that are normally ok in times of peace are not, in times of war.

if/when your country decides to play nice with the ROW, then you can come back to the table with the rest of the adults.

but not until then.

sorry, but the truth is the truth even if it hurts.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 57

csb: around 2000 or so, I applied for a job at ATT (labs). they asked for the resume in simple text, pure ascii. mine was already in that format so it was easy for me. the job was for a freebsd guy and it was fun, and I think I got noticed from the crowd of applicants just because I didnt have 'fonts and crap' on my resume and it was literally viewable 7bit text.

that wont work anymore. I dont know what you need to do to stand out, anymore.

(my experience goes back to 1985 or so, and I'm often told to remove the old jobs since age-ism is a thing and even though my early computer jobs were important, they give my age away. sigh..)

Comment Re:like usual (Score 1) 81

nacs is good enough.

the form factor is great. been living with it the past 5 or so years. my only charge is via SC network (apartment renter so no home charging for me; and none at work, either).

elon is an asshole and does not care about this stuff anymore. what he cares about - is not what his original buyers care about. so I worry about the growth of the charger network. it was the ONE thing elon did that was done well.

Comment Re:"Emergency" means stand-alone (Score 2) 303

you can install an am radio chip easily.

tell me how much it costs to rf shield all the wiring and ecu's in the car so that the am radio is not flooded with peaks and noise and birdies (as they're called).

the harness is not designed to be rf quiet. and the car harness is about 1/4 to 1/3 the cost of the car ('the more you know'...).

who's gonna pay for the redesign of all that?

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