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New comment by ostenning in "Show HN: Sonatino – small audio dev board based on ESP32-S3"

ostenning — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:52:13 +0000

Teensy 4.1 uses an imxrt MCU - a crossover chip that is considerably fast. The ESP32 is slow in comparison, more aligned with IoT applications than realtime processing.

New comment by ostenning in "FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules"

ostenning — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 22:49:49 +0000

This battle has been happening for a better part of a decade and won’t seem to go away. Every time it’s defeated it seems to pop back up.

New comment by ostenning in "How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain"

ostenning — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 08:29:17 +0000

100K is easy to break as a freelancer. You'll obviously have more things to consider - multiple clients, accounting, legal and potential downtime, but its totally doable.

I think embedded could actually be a good discipline to work as a freelancer, most IoT products usually have a more rigid and defined development cycle than web platforms.

New comment by ostenning in "DoS Attacks in Available MQTT Implementations (2021)"

ostenning — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 04:20:58 +0000

S in the acronym IoT stands for security

New comment by ostenning in "Germany's parliament approves easing dual citizenship"

ostenning — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 03:43:30 +0000

Australians are able to fund their retirement with it, why wouldn’t Germans be able?

The main advantage that it works with both a growing population, but also a shrinking one

New comment by ostenning in "Germany's parliament approves easing dual citizenship"

ostenning — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 19:35:35 +0000

The solution to the encumbered pension fund is to transition to privately run retirement schemes like the superannuation scheme of Australia.

The problem with Germany today is that the social state is archaic and has not been updated for the modern world. Unsurprising when the government still uses fax and snail mail for all communication.

This of course does not fix declining populations as a whole, but all advanced economies go through population decline almost like a rite of passage now. Unless growth is maintained, the system shrinks. Ultimately politicians and economists are more concerned with this over any other social ramifications of bringing migrants into the country. Obviously a balance needs to be struck, but Germany doesn't seem to be good at moderate and effective policy, e.g swinging from being a haven for refugees to now wanting to initiate mass deportations

New comment by ostenning in "Israeli Justices Reject Netanyahu-Led Move to Limit Court"

ostenning — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 23:31:51 +0000

> The justices, led by departing Chief Justice Esther Hayut, argued that the standard of reasonableness was a key tool for judges to protect against arbitrary government overreach, particularly in Israel, which lacks a formal constitution.

Without the underlying framework of protections to protect democracy against populism or malignant leadership the democracy would devolve. There needs to be protections in so that the government does not erode fundamental structures.

The language that Netanyahu uses in response to this ruling, in my opinion, is quite telling.

New comment by ostenning in "2023: Focusing on a single product pays off"

ostenning — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 14:10:53 +0000

It’s really incredible how YouTube shapes the zeitgeist today. Hype cycles and their “movements” should be avoided like the plague.

At the end of the day if you want to gamble, buy a lottery ticket, then at least you are being honest with yourself.

It takes tremendous effort launching products that have integrity, and its something that should be respected, the journey is what its all about.

New comment by ostenning in "CSS Is Fun Again"

ostenning — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 13:40:16 +0000

I don't think efficiency is synonymous with frontend development. Words that come to mind - technical debt, framework lock in and dependency hell. Just to name a few.

New comment by ostenning in "The rabbit hole of unsafe Rust bugs"

ostenning — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 11:44:49 +0000

DMA, because the buffer can be linked to a designated RAM section, and it needs to be declared as a static mutable.

There would be many examples when code is running at lower levels with no OS abstraction

New comment by ostenning in "I think C++ is still a desirable coding platform compared to Rust"

ostenning — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 05:31:34 +0000

All embedded applications and libraries can be declared with no_std, removing the std dependency and heap allocation.

Shared libraries are also possible.

New comment by ostenning in "Why is the iOS keyboard getting worse every year?"

ostenning — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 22:59:55 +0000

Its really had a significant impact on my usage. Its laggy and incorrectly interprets events or even worse wont register them at all - such a fundamental aspect of using the device im not sure how they fuck up testing these releases. Latest iOS on iPhone 12 Mini.

New comment by ostenning in "Ask HN: Top 10 Timeless Software Books That ChangedLife as Software Engineer?"

ostenning — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 13:19:04 +0000

I enjoyed this one too. I remember reading about the NOP sled and it blowing my mind

New comment by ostenning in "System76's Lemur Pro Laptop Is Just a Nice Linux Laptop"

ostenning — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 23:30:50 +0000

> Most things "just work"

I find it pretty hilarious that in 2023 this can still be a selling point.

Don't get me wrong I ran arch on a thinkpad for a long time so I can appreciate the statement, but now I just use a macbook and get my work done

New comment by ostenning in "How Rust can facilitate new contributors while decreasing vulnerabilities [pdf]"

ostenning — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:08:31 +0000

I think the embedded book kind of teaches at a very fundamental level, prioritizing safety. It teaches you to use a mutex and critical section when accessing a global variable, which can easily obscure what you are trying to achieve.

Globals should be avoided in Rust, unless you have some kind of synchronization strategy because otherwise modifying them is unsafe.

New comment by ostenning in "Was Rust Worth It?"

ostenning — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 06:41:15 +0000

Opposite experience for me. Writing Rust on embedded systems greatly improved my confidence and speed. When using C a small mistake often leads to undefined behaviour and headaches. Rust theres none of that - its been a game changer for me.

New comment by ostenning in "Linux on an 8bit Microcontroller (2012)"

ostenning — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 00:58:42 +0000

“It takes about 2 hours to boot to bash prompt ("init=/bin/bash" kernel command line). Then 4 more hours to boot up the entire Ubuntu ("exec init" and then login). Starting X takes a lot longer.”

I laughed at this - amazing work once again.

New comment by ostenning in "Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder"

ostenning — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 22:15:46 +0000

Wow bravo!

New comment by ostenning in "VeroRoute – an open source Veroboard, Perfboard and PCB layout design software"

ostenning — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 07:13:04 +0000

Totally, but for how long? KiCad keeps getting significantly better, and there are no insane licensing requirements.

KiCads open format is much better for small business, freelancers and startups and while Altium is industry standard, I can’t imagine it will be for much longer

New comment by ostenning in "Climate change: Six young people take 32 countries to court"

ostenning — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 18:02:12 +0000

You frame this like its a grand plan by the globalists to usher in a NWO.

We know the conspiratorial MO. No surprises here.