Hacker News: inamberclad

New comment by inamberclad in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

inamberclad — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:34:21 +0000

SpaceWire is also just LVDS with an uber-minimal routing protocol. It runs on a lot of satellites.

New comment by inamberclad in "If you thought code writing speed was your problem you have bigger problems"

inamberclad — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:08:44 +0000

When you get to the really tightly controlled industries, your "formal" language becomes carefully structured English.

New comment by inamberclad in "I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270"

inamberclad — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 05:37:29 +0000

Oh almost certainly. PROCHOT is programmable.

New comment by inamberclad in "Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf]"

inamberclad — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:47:29 +0000

I have these taped up above my desk at work. I've been able to point to at least half of them from one time or another

New comment by inamberclad in "CEO of health care software company sentenced for $1B fraud conspiracy"

inamberclad — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 05:48:40 +0000

I'd like to see a prison sentence for corporations.

New comment by inamberclad in "QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop"

inamberclad — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 05:47:42 +0000

Wow, this could be quite useful for poking at the head unit in my car. It's also running QNX.

New comment by inamberclad in "Military standard on software control levels"

inamberclad — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:19:54 +0000

Absolutely. If you look at an extensively used standard like DO-178C for avionics, it really says very little about how to program. Instead, the emphasis is on making sure that the software has implemented system level requirements correctly.

New comment by inamberclad in "Ford teams up with Renault to make EVs that can rival Chinese brands"

inamberclad — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:04:22 +0000

Ah, not coming to the US.

New comment by inamberclad in "The power of proximity to coworkers [pdf]"

inamberclad — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 02:26:22 +0000

Framing "less code written" as a trade-off is a red flag to me. Anyone who judges productivity by lines of code written should inquire with me about a limited time, fantastic deal on a bridge...

New comment by inamberclad in "How Slide Rules Work"

inamberclad — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 02:55:32 +0000

For the past 10 years, I've worn a slide rule every day. It's a small circular one modeled after the E6B aviation slide rule, with markers for common aviation conversions.

New comment by inamberclad in "The Death of Arduino?"

inamberclad — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:35:50 +0000

Thanks to the open source nature of the Arduino ecosystem, you can make it so!

New comment by inamberclad in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

inamberclad — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:49:07 +0000

It's also because the cars are getting so much taller, especially in the US. Driving a smaller car is terrifying when a lifted Dodge fitted with anti-aircraft spotlights blinds you while going the opposite direction.

New comment by inamberclad in "Being poor vs. being broke"

inamberclad — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 02:19:24 +0000

Absolutely. Our disposable society is a privilege for those who can afford it and an absolute curse for those who can't.

New comment by inamberclad in "A modern 35mm film scanner for home"

inamberclad — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:24:01 +0000

The biggest pains of film scanning are in the post process color balance and dust removal. Unless this can improve those parts of the workflow, it's only going to be a minor improvement. I like the continuous reel movement of this scanner vs a flatbed though, that can improve the physical workflow quite a bit.

New comment by inamberclad in "At the end you use `git bisect`"

inamberclad — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 19:08:04 +0000

'git bisect run' is probably one of the most important software tools ever.

New comment by inamberclad in "Jujutsu at Google [video]"

inamberclad — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:20:52 +0000

Not really on topic, but I think it's funny that most MMA style gyms always offer Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai as two classes, right after each other. Of the two, Jiu Jitsu seems to generally be the more popular one.

New comment by inamberclad in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"

inamberclad — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:50:42 +0000

In house delivery has existed for a lot of business for a long time. For instance, nearly every pizza store would do delivery themselves. Many still do. However those services didn't introduce a middleman between you, the store, and the driver who extracted money from all 3.

New comment by inamberclad in "Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models"

inamberclad — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 23:58:41 +0000

Enjoy your nazimobile

New comment by inamberclad in "Matrices can be your friends (2002)"

inamberclad — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:39:41 +0000

Matlab deliberately notes that its matrices are laid out like this since most matrix operations occur on columns, a whole column can be loaded on a cache line.

New comment by inamberclad in "American solar farms"

inamberclad — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:54:12 +0000

It makes fantastic sense in Texas too because air conditioning is such a high portion of demand. Clean energy production reaches its peak at midday when everyone has their AC going flat out.