Exactly women are equal if they hide the fact they're women and avoid taking advantages of things men can like using personal connections to get jobs. So equal. Just be like dogs.
Absolutely this. He might be some sort of rockstar but he contributed only 2.7% of the total changes. In other words his contributions are dwarfd by the team. so, from a purely technical point of view if he can't work without driving people in the team away, then the downsides of having him on board outweigh the benefits.
He is in fact against discrimination and Outreachy's exclusionary nature.
No, he's rationalising. He's against doing anything about existing discrimination. Sure it's buried under heaps of whataboutism and JAQing off, but it's buried under there.
Fuck that. What needs to happen is people need to grow the fuck up and learn to tolerate those with different beliefs and values from their own. Including ones that insult you and piss you off.
Absolutely, we should make sure that people have nothing better to do than hang out with raging assholes. Then they'll have to work on an open source project in their free time.
Seriously, think. Why the fuck would I want to waste my precious off hours tolerating utter gobshites?
What the hell kind of question is "what should I study" with zero context?
You know, what would be really neat is if slashdot would provide a longer summary to go along with the very brief headline. They could even have links in there. Honestly though I don't think that would work because no one would read the summary let alone the links.
Functional programming makes sense for simple things that are inherently stateless. Sqrt(), sin() and cos() have been "pure" functions for as long as there have been compilers.
They have not been. All of those will set errno. This in fact has turned out over the years to be a right pain in the arse for threading and optimization.
But if you are actually passing around objects by-value by shoving them onto the call stack, you are taking it way too far.
Going too far towards making your program fast...
C++ is very hot on value semantics as a style and the passing by value thing on the stack also means the compiler can reason perfectly about the scope of varibles for conforming programs. This gives it an advantage over GC languages like Java, since they have to rely on escape analysis which is always less good than perfect knowledge.
Functional programming is a hot topic... yet very little has actually been built using it.
Try: half of C++. The C++ templating mechanism is a pure funtional functional language with an um interesting syntax.
Programming with "pure" functions sounds nice in theory, but the real world has "state", and you don't get far by pretending that it doesn't.
Doesn't mean the techniques aren't useful. It's become popular in C++ for instance to take those ideas from functional programming, like pure functions. The modren style is to have as many functions as possible be pure, and keep the state well contained. That makes the program much easier to reason about. And, have constexpr functions which are a limited form of pure functions now.
I think you do, darkly, otherwise you wouldn't be trying so hard to rationalise it. Like, this for example:
Don't come crying about academic dishonesty when the average tuition in a University is what $30k+?
Your argument is "there's nothing wrong with cheating and I can cheat so well they can't catch me and anyway people whould be able to cheat because it's expensive".
And, very obviously, I was not talking about that. You seem to be part of the problem.
No it wasn't obvious. There seems to be a quite strong undercurrent in this topic about blaming women for using their real names. And there you are making nonspecific complaints about people being female with intent.
On the bright side, us white male English speaking software developers get to benefit from social justice by proxy because we might be women or minorities.
You mean everyone benefits when people aren't utterly shitty to each other? The utter horror, we should stamp this out as fast as possible. People *should* be vile to each other.
Anybody going into such a situation with a handle that screams "I AM MINORITY/FEMALE! I AM BETTER THAN YOU!" gets what they deserve. I have zero compassion for this particularly nasty species of jerk.
Yes any woman who uses her real name is clearly a jerk and deserves to be hounded off the internet by a bunch of angry incompetent men. She should also wear a full burka at the next tech conference just to cover up being female too.
"His" is the correct form to use when the gender is not known.
Correct according to what authority. They/theirs/etc is not only prefectly acceptable (and been in use since at least the 16th century ) but the default masciline is rapidly falling out of use.
To implement a NiMH or NiCD charger, you need to have an analog input, which the PIC doesn't have.
It's an Epson 4 bitter which you'd know if you bothreed to do anything other than rage-read my post. They have similar computational capacity to the PIC. And they're 4 bits not 8.
To implement a NiMH or NiCD charger, you need to have an analog input, which the PIC doesn't have. You will also need to be able to store at least 32 samples at 10 bits each sample so that you can detect the charging peak and the *small* voltage drop that signals end of charge.
Yes no one ever did a bodge job with a trickle charger. No siree. Never worked.
Given that, you will have to have a separate battery management IC,
Do an actual teardown yourself or simply watch one of the teardown videos on youtube. They don't have battery management ICs.
The rest is simply a mechanical switch with the appropriate FET and resistor to drive on LED directly from the switch. Putting a uC on a toothbrush is a pointless waste of money, and the fact that it has one in it will last only until downward price pressure from cheap Chinese knockoffs that do not have a uC push the over-expensive product out of the market. I'm not saying that a uC wont be a better solution, as the battery charger chips start at around $1.50 in quantity; What I am saying is that these low end PICs are essentially useless.
Except that's not how they're made. The uC also provides the 30 second and 2 minute timers which the device has. $0.17 is hardly enough to make the produce "over expensive".
Alarm products can come in two varieties: Centralized control and distributed control. For a centralized control, you have "dumb" remote sensors, and a central control IC that can ready the electrical signals from multiple channels. In this case, the central IC needs to have many pins (at least one for every IO sensor attached to the system). For the decentralized controls, the individual devices need to have enough smarts to understand their addressing, but not much more. In the first case, a PIC just isn't going to cut it. In the second case, it would be cheaper to simply use any of a variety of addressable buses devices that can handle the i/o and the bus interactions. again, there is no need for a uC in the "smart" sensor, so why waste the money?
They're 0.17. Are your bus addressable chips which can then plug to arbitrary bits of hadware (a) as cheap and (b) as quick to develop thereby reducing the time to market? A clue: no.
For the blender, motor control requires a feedback mechanism that will require an analog input that the PIC can't handle.
First, speed controllers don't need analogue inputs, you need timer inputs which it does have. Second, you can bodge analog in with a comparator which the 10F204 has.
You want a MOC3021. No need to do any programming, it is a standalone chip that does the same thing, is cheaper per unit than the micro, and has the opto-isolation built in.
First, you missspelled "more expensive". Second that IS the triac. It doesn't do anything by itself. So good job, you have a TRIAC.
You can do the same thing with a 555 timer chip ($0.03 in large quantities), and a half dozen external passives to gate the behaviors.
Pics or it didn't happen. Either post a circuit diagram showing how you can build a dimmer which can be switched form leading to trailing edge and calibrated using only the main button press with a 555 or you're full of crap.
If you want that product to do anything fancier, the PIC wont have enough horsepower for it anyway, so you need a beefier uC anyways
All you've done is demonstrate your lack of knowledge of existing products and the capabilities of various chips.
So what are the uses for that? I am curious what things people have put these to use for.
It's hard to determine because people don't advertise use of them at all. However, I know that my electric tothbrush uses an Epson 4 bit MCU of some description. It's got a status LED, basic NiMH batteryb charger and a PWM controller for an H Bridge. Braun sell a *lot* of electric toothbrushes.
Any gadget that's smarter than a simple switch will probably have some sort of basic MCU in it. Alarm system componets, sensor interfaces, timer chip replacements, MOSFET drivers, smart TRIAC drivers and so on. Appliances will have this sort of thing built in. My Bosch stick blender has some sort of speed controller for the motor. You don't need much to deal with that.
Here's an example of using one as a zero crossing TRIAC controller:
Could easily be buried inside a hotplate or some such.
Oh and the dimers I've got in my house are definitely MCU controlled. You can communicate using a series of presses to do the setup (rising versus falling edge, minimum level and so on). Basically 3 inputs there (switch, pot and mains phase) and one output. And the dimmers are pretty cheap, so perfect for a 17 cent MCU.
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Exactly women are equal if they hide the fact they're women and avoid taking advantages of things men can like using personal connections to get jobs. So equal. Just be like dogs.
Absolutely this. He might be some sort of rockstar but he contributed only 2.7% of the total changes. In other words his contributions are dwarfd by the team. so, from a purely technical point of view if he can't work without driving people in the team away, then the downsides of having him on board outweigh the benefits.
He is in fact against discrimination and Outreachy's exclusionary nature.
No, he's rationalising. He's against doing anything about existing discrimination. Sure it's buried under heaps of whataboutism and JAQing off, but it's buried under there.
Fuck that. What needs to happen is people need to grow the fuck up and learn to tolerate those with different beliefs and values from their own. Including ones that insult you and piss you off.
Absolutely, we should make sure that people have nothing better to do than hang out with raging assholes. Then they'll have to work on an open source project in their free time.
Seriously, think. Why the fuck would I want to waste my precious off hours tolerating utter gobshites?
but some of us are all grown up and don't need a piece of paper to tell us how we should behave.
Not you though. You're a poster child for why codes of conduct are a good idea.
Kind of sounds like you're replying to the GP, not me.
Unless it's the other kind which is a fuck off massive state machine.
What the hell kind of question is "what should I study" with zero context?
You know, what would be really neat is if slashdot would provide a longer summary to go along with the very brief headline. They could even have links in there. Honestly though I don't think that would work because no one would read the summary let alone the links.
Functional programming makes sense for simple things that are inherently stateless. Sqrt(), sin() and cos() have been "pure" functions for as long as there have been compilers.
They have not been. All of those will set errno. This in fact has turned out over the years to be a right pain in the arse for threading and optimization.
But if you are actually passing around objects by-value by shoving them onto the call stack, you are taking it way too far.
Going too far towards making your program fast...
C++ is very hot on value semantics as a style and the passing by value thing on the stack also means the compiler can reason perfectly about the scope of varibles for conforming programs. This gives it an advantage over GC languages like Java, since they have to rely on escape analysis which is always less good than perfect knowledge.
Functional programming is a hot topic ... yet very little has actually been built using it.
Try: half of C++. The C++ templating mechanism is a pure funtional functional language with an um interesting syntax.
Programming with "pure" functions sounds nice in theory, but the real world has "state", and you don't get far by pretending that it doesn't.
Doesn't mean the techniques aren't useful. It's become popular in C++ for instance to take those ideas from functional programming, like pure functions. The modren style is to have as many functions as possible be pure, and keep the state well contained. That makes the program much easier to reason about. And, have constexpr functions which are a limited form of pure functions now.
You should be free to accept or decline a job offer as you see fit.
You are: it's not illegal for you to take a job at under minimum wage.
I see nothing wrong here.
I think you do, darkly, otherwise you wouldn't be trying so hard to rationalise it. Like, this for example:
Don't come crying about academic dishonesty when the average tuition in a University is what $30k+?
Your argument is "there's nothing wrong with cheating and I can cheat so well they can't catch me and anyway people whould be able to cheat because it's expensive".
Considering how well he came off from the US hearings I think he might come. Our MPs are pretty tame really.
On the other hand, he hasn't already donated to the majority of them so they might be somewhat less tame.
And, very obviously, I was not talking about that. You seem to be part of the problem.
No it wasn't obvious. There seems to be a quite strong undercurrent in this topic about blaming women for using their real names. And there you are making nonspecific complaints about people being female with intent.
On the bright side, us white male English speaking software developers get to benefit from social justice by proxy because we might be women or minorities.
You mean everyone benefits when people aren't utterly shitty to each other? The utter horror, we should stamp this out as fast as possible. People *should* be vile to each other.
Look at the following usernames and see if you make any assumptions about the person behind them.
TwilightFan2006
300lb brony with a neckbeard: he's clearly a fan of Twilight Sparkle.
When people claim to be assumption free or totally race blind etc, it reminds me of this one:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/co...
So, you're saying you accept pronouns from the 16th century
Not even that. Shakespeare used singular "they" on more than one occasion.
Anybody going into such a situation with a handle that screams "I AM MINORITY/FEMALE! I AM BETTER THAN YOU!" gets what they deserve. I have zero compassion for this particularly nasty species of jerk.
Yes any woman who uses her real name is clearly a jerk and deserves to be hounded off the internet by a bunch of angry incompetent men. She should also wear a full burka at the next tech conference just to cover up being female too.
"His" is the correct form to use when the gender is not known.
Correct according to what authority. They/theirs/etc is not only prefectly acceptable (and been in use since at least the 16th century ) but the default masciline is rapidly falling out of use.
I can think of relatively rare counter examples therefore the common case doesn't exist.
English provides he, she, and it for the 3rd person singular. Pick one.
And they.
Why should I have to carry an umbrella on a rainy day?
So you're saying sexists are basically subhuman because they have no agency? Wow, that's extreme even for slashdot.
If you suspect you won't get a good response if your gender is known, don't make it known
IOW don't be female on the internet.
Interesting, lets pick those apart a bit.
Oh this should be good.
To implement a NiMH or NiCD charger, you need to have an analog input, which the PIC doesn't have.
It's an Epson 4 bitter which you'd know if you bothreed to do anything other than rage-read my post. They have similar computational capacity to the PIC. And they're 4 bits not 8.
To implement a NiMH or NiCD charger, you need to have an analog input, which the PIC doesn't have. You will also need to be able to store at least 32 samples at 10 bits each sample so that you can detect the charging peak and the *small* voltage drop that signals end of charge.
Yes no one ever did a bodge job with a trickle charger. No siree. Never worked.
Given that, you will have to have a separate battery management IC,
Do an actual teardown yourself or simply watch one of the teardown videos on youtube. They don't have battery management ICs.
The rest is simply a mechanical switch with the appropriate FET and resistor to drive on LED directly from the switch. Putting a uC on a toothbrush is a pointless waste of money, and the fact that it has one in it will last only until downward price pressure from cheap Chinese knockoffs that do not have a uC push the over-expensive product out of the market. I'm not saying that a uC wont be a better solution, as the battery charger chips start at around $1.50 in quantity; What I am saying is that these low end PICs are essentially useless.
Except that's not how they're made. The uC also provides the 30 second and 2 minute timers which the device has. $0.17 is hardly enough to make the produce "over expensive".
Alarm products can come in two varieties: Centralized control and distributed control. For a centralized control, you have "dumb" remote sensors, and a central control IC that can ready the electrical signals from multiple channels. In this case, the central IC needs to have many pins (at least one for every IO sensor attached to the system). For the decentralized controls, the individual devices need to have enough smarts to understand their addressing, but not much more. In the first case, a PIC just isn't going to cut it. In the second case, it would be cheaper to simply use any of a variety of addressable buses devices that can handle the i/o and the bus interactions. again, there is no need for a uC in the "smart" sensor, so why waste the money?
They're 0.17. Are your bus addressable chips which can then plug to arbitrary bits of hadware (a) as cheap and (b) as quick to develop thereby reducing the time to market? A clue: no.
For the blender, motor control requires a feedback mechanism that will require an analog input that the PIC can't handle.
First, speed controllers don't need analogue inputs, you need timer inputs which it does have. Second, you can bodge analog in with a comparator which the 10F204 has.
You want a MOC3021. No need to do any programming, it is a standalone chip that does the same thing, is cheaper per unit than the micro, and has the opto-isolation built in.
First, you missspelled "more expensive". Second that IS the triac. It doesn't do anything by itself. So good job, you have a TRIAC.
You can do the same thing with a 555 timer chip ($0.03 in large quantities), and a half dozen external passives to gate the behaviors.
Pics or it didn't happen. Either post a circuit diagram showing how you can build a dimmer which can be switched form leading to trailing edge and calibrated using only the main button press with a 555 or you're full of crap.
If you want that product to do anything fancier, the PIC wont have enough horsepower for it anyway, so you need a beefier uC anyways
All you've done is demonstrate your lack of knowledge of existing products and the capabilities of various chips.
So what are the uses for that? I am curious what things people have put these to use for.
It's hard to determine because people don't advertise use of them at all. However, I know that my electric tothbrush uses an Epson 4 bit MCU of some description. It's got a status LED, basic NiMH batteryb charger and a PWM controller for an H Bridge. Braun sell a *lot* of electric toothbrushes.
Any gadget that's smarter than a simple switch will probably have some sort of basic MCU in it. Alarm system componets, sensor interfaces, timer chip replacements, MOSFET drivers, smart TRIAC drivers and so on. Appliances will have this sort of thing built in. My Bosch stick blender has some sort of speed controller for the motor. You don't need much to deal with that.
Here's an example of using one as a zero crossing TRIAC controller:
http://ww1.microchip.com/downl...
Could easily be buried inside a hotplate or some such.
Oh and the dimers I've got in my house are definitely MCU controlled. You can communicate using a series of presses to do the setup (rising versus falling edge, minimum level and so on). Basically 3 inputs there (switch, pot and mains phase) and one output. And the dimmers are pretty cheap, so perfect for a 17 cent MCU.