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This is an entirely different problem - your customer doesn’t install releases, but they do install fixes? What is the reason for that?

I get where you’re coming from. Just know that at least in Germany, no company will ever use or support your library/product publicly with a name like that. If you don’t care, that’s fine.

Just so you know, that name won‘t fly in Europe. Google „SS“ if you want to know why.

This is way more fun to play to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3zvVGJrTP8&feature=youtu.be

I‘d guess that the german „Sachmangel“ would apply here. However, this law applies to the seller - so every dealer would have to start arguing with WD about getting their money back. Sachmangel does not apply to the same extent for business customers...

The microphone would probably sound pretty bad when obstructed... I've heard that complaint from a few ThinkPad-owners since everybody is doing homeoffice.

Thanks for the example, looks easy enough :)

Thanks for the info.

Is there a simple way right now to use another storage backend than Sia? E.g. If I have a group of people that want to participate in hosting, but only want to host data from the people in the group?

Essentially, can you use dgit to store a repo decentralised without having to set up git synchronisation tools, but while still having control over the hosting infrastructure?

The description says that my repo is uploaded to the "decentralized service Skynet" -- But I can't seem to figure out how one would participate in hosting this service. Does only Sia, the company, host nodes for Skynet? Or is this a plot to increase the visibility of Siacoin?

the way to go here is probably creating an "administrator" account which is used by those merging scripts, and allow push access to protected branches for administrators.

There exist scripts and workflows to perform auto-merges from all release branches back to master. This way, you only have to care about branching off releases, and hotfixes will automatically land on develop once released.

(Assuming master is your "next release", and develop is your main development branch)

shellcheck. It's great. Use it.

It has plugins for most IDEs, and just reading the wiki entries for the error messages you encounter will teach you a lot of useful things about bash.

Awesome, thanks for the info!

Does the hardware watchdog work when halted because of over-temp?

The spec limits ambient temperature to -44–55°C. As the low temperate range of the regular Pis was the major limiting factor for use in industrial applications (0–50), is there some module that goes further? Think of devices deployed in a street cabinet in summer heat f.ex., those have to endure much higher temps.

Depends on your market.

This might be the answer on how to make file-heavy tools like npm/yarn work adequately on windows...

reminds me of administering an EC2 instance hosted in australia from a remote wimax connection in the rocky mountains.

Oh god, how much I hate articles that don‘t list their sources. Where are the slides from?

The talk description is here: https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-27/dc-27-speakers.html#Mo...

Try https://github.com/anuejn/batic - a shadertoy-like experiment where you can to implement a shader to convert the bayer-pattern.

these are signed, so you‘re getting -2^16... so many warnings to emit!

/edit: had that mixed up in my head. Interestingly, clang does warn about the overflow:

    main.c:6:17: warning: implicit conversion from 'int'
      to 'int16_t' (aka 'short') changes value from
      65536 to 0 [-Wconstant-conversion]
  int16_t s16 = 65536;

I had an 9360 for a few months and found it awful. Firmware bugs (some with Windows, a lot with Linux), maddening coil whine, flimsy power plug.

The Linux TB3 support was sadly not really „ready“ (mainline Kernels April~July 2018) in that there were constant panics when hotplugging/unplugging monitors or the docking station.

the first offer I found for the first offer i found for german CC terminals (sumup.de): - 2.75% on credit card tx - .95% on EC tc (popular form of debit cards) - no base fee

I only found secondary sources for the direct way, but they state (zahlungsverkehrsfrafen.de) - .3%, at least .08€ for EC tx - 2-4% for CC tx, depending on provider

there are neither references nor a timestamp on that article.

at least in germany, where OP was trying to charge along the route, there is a minimum transaction fee charged by most payment providers.

credit/debit transactions are too expensive for these small transactions to be viable. many stores have a „no cards below 10€“ policy because of this.

I‘m using the setup linked below to sync a few repos to gitlab. It uses GL pipelines to do the sync, and a webhook to do it instantly (however you can trigger pipelines using curl, or on a timer in GL)

https://gist.github.com/cfstras/5e40ea264517552e29caf61bbd28...

Gary Bernhardt kind-of predicted this. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

I don’t know how much validation the code does, but every single number in your tax forms is related to another by some statement in the law, and these change constantly. Validating them means codifying every single rule.

Germany figured this out a while ago and built a rule engine with GUI and small DSL where the lawyers can input tax rules to the database - meaning better code and you can emit for any platform. It’s called ElsterRules (Elster is the online tax filing program) and runs even in your browser... I wonder if there’s something similar in other countries.

Hah. I remember Bryan Cantrill complaining about this exact thing. Glad that it's fixed.

Turns out somebody else did, too: https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/774290166164754433?lang...

/edit: spelling

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1179/

I agree, though. Browsers allow users to customize fonts and zoom levels, so the date formats should probably be a user-configurable setting, too.

I love the work you did! There was some rambling about the RPi setup process - I fully agree that it can be time-consuming.

A good way to make that better is building one's own OS image. Once you get the scripts running (which is fairly easy), you can customize them to your liking, preinstall your software and config, etc. There's a lot of opportunities to save power and make the bootup quicker if you look through the scripts.

https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen