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Well learning methods are a matter of personal style, so whatever works for you. But it's important to come away with thorough understanding at the end, rather than "I tried X and it worked, so X must be the right way to do it".

Anyway your question is so vague as it stands, that I can't make concrete suggestions. How about this: what are some embedded things you have already done, and what parts interested you? Or, why do you want to program embedded in the first place?

Embedded programming is often just a resource-constrained version of programming bigger computers. Unless you're sort of forced into that by end-goal requirements, you might as well program bigger computers so you can solve bigger problems, have more convenient dev tools, etc. If you're pursuing embedded without having an end goal that needs it, it sounds to me like you're just drifting.

(Added:) Hmm ok, here is one idea that I think is cool: get some popular commercial quadcopter and replace the controller code with something that you release as FOSS. That would give more freedom to lots of quadcopter users. There is something like that on an old Adacore page, but I don't think it fits existing popular hardware.

Another: watch some "Stuff Made Here" videos on youtube for inspiration. That guy builds stuff with a lot of code inside.

Also not mentioned: what is your budget? For a pure software project you are allowed to say "zero" since all you need is time and keystrokes. But for embedded, if you do anything interesting, you will end up accreting a workbench full of oscilloscopes, SMT rework tools, and so on. That takes $$$ not just for the gear itself, but for the living space that it will occupy if you are in a high rent location. One reason I don't do this stuff is I don't have the space for it.
'Apples-to-apples' is the keyword you need to read up on.
Getting slammed into lockers, having people steal your notebooks, having half your friends spontaneously turn on you...

I'm reading into your comment a little bit and projecting my own thoughts of "these things might have been character-building." That might be true, but for some they could also end up causing PTSD/similar things, difficultly trusting people, severe low-self-confidence, etc.
Heh. I skipped eighth grade, was young for my class anyway with a late year birthday, and also went to MIT.

Yes, I was young for college but it’s not like college students as a whole are these mature individuals. Was probably for the best overall.

Honestly, MIT is probably a better place than most for individuals who are maybe a bit atypical relative to other places.
Here I am stressing out because I am going to have to figure out a MailChimp replacement for my partner's service business and now you have me worrying about the multiple non-profits that I have migrated from WordPress hell to Wix. Fingers crossed that it is Squarespace as I determined that it was a ridiculously bad option due to no backup functionality.
I feel the need to be pedantic here, because your post makes a couple simplifications in the same direction that skew the results by roughly an order of magnitude.

145 is the top three tenths of 1 percent, not the top tenth.
The average high school size in the US is 854 students [1].
In an average school, you would expect there to be 2.5 students with 145+ IQ.
The largest school in each state is about 5-10x the average size school for that state. Let's call a large school 3x average, then.
In a large school, you would expect to find 7.5 students with 145+ IQ, or roughly 2 per graduating year.

"About 8" and "Maybe 1" are almost an order of magnitude apart.

1: 2011 Dept of Ed statistics https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2011/pesschools09/tables/table_05.as...
I definitely miss the keyboard and the fact that it was a device optimized for writing.

The audio out was damn good for its time too.
> Fundación PostgreSQL is a 100% independent non-profit organization not tied to any company or any other institution.

I think that it is highly dubious that a foundation that claims to be independent (from the PostgreSQL project, I suppose), with no ties to any other PostgreSQL community foundations and/or associations ("company or institution"), claims "PostgreSQL" or derivatives of the brand as its trademark.

I could not find any reason to believe that the organization behind postgresql.fund is in any way affiliated with the PostgreSQL project, as I could not find it mentioned on any of the official affiliations pages (has no mailing list, events, IRC, LUG mention, nor a link in the international sites section). I repeat, I believe that postgresql.fund claiming ownership of the PostgreSQL brand (or basic derivatives thereof) in any category is highly dubious.
Marvin Gaye vs. The Pixies comes close. :)

These were a treat thanks. I hadn't heard any of them before.
> ... we have hundreds of years of easy reproduction pre-copyright too.

I'd argue the world is different now. We've only had general purpose computers and ubiquitous ultra-cheap networking for the last few decades. Infringing copying on any scale required significant financial investment in the past. I think it's also safe to say there was typically financial incentive behind most mass infringement in the past (i.e. "bootlegging").

I'm not sure that's the case today. I'm guessing most infringement is today is casual-- created by the ease of copying brought on by everybody carrying around mobile computers with those ultra-cheap network connections.

> > either we abolish copyright, or all computers will eventually be turned into consumer appliances and we'll need programming licenses to write code.

> "Either we make murder legal, or nobody may own a knife or other sharp object ever again".

I'm not aware of the "legalize murder to preserve freedom" lobby (though, admittedly, the gun lobby in the United States does kinda fit that bill-- but that's a separate issue). There most certainly is a "regulate general purpose computers" lobby (e.g. "circumvention devices" and the DMCA).

> See how it's nonsense?

Equating copyright law and murder is equally nonsense.
Mailchimp isn't just email. They have ecomm, SMS, and some media companies. And they are a lot of SMB only CRM.
Novak Djokovic breaks down in tears at the US Open
Same here. I never tolerated legumes well, and cutting all plants and especially ones containing fiber cured my IBS and got rid of my chronic inflammation. For anyone curious Paul Mason has a few talks about fiber.
With a Tesla Supercharger at it!
I've been using a raspberry 3 for a long time with an encrypted usb drive for storage. Like the other commenter the pi also syncs the drive to the cloud using rclone.
UK hotels adding service charge to room rate
> Pretty soon the choice will be between

What about "Don't use Apple products"? I know that Android is just as bad in many ways...

And if all options in the modern tech industry basket of choice are terrible, well... humanity survived without them for an awfully long time.

I've gone back to a flip phone from an iPhone. I no longer use Windows if I can at all avoid it (there exist a few sysadmin tasks involving netbooting Mikrotik devices for major OS updates that are far less painful on Windows than other OSes), and have no plans to let Win11 in my life. And Apple is heading out the door too. Throw in my dislike of Intel, and... yeah, it's getting pretty thin pickings. I still have an iPad with no accounts on it as a PDF reader, but I'd like to replace that with something else (Remarkable or such).

"Agh, this is soooo terrible, but I'm going to keep using it!" just means, in practice, it's not that terrible.
> I feel much safer knowing that an exploit like this is worth hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars.

I don't. Look at how much companies like Apple pay out for responsible disclosure if they pay out at all, and then compare it to what exploits go for on the grey/black market. Typically the buyers have deep pockets and burning millions of dollars wouldn't make them blink.
Or we could mandate everyone to not consume meat, dairy and eggs...
The structure really helped me. So I did quite well, could have done better, but that really wouldn't have mattered in the end. The less structured University went less well. But lot of it was also good teachers in good school.
Heck I'm not vegetarian, but deliberately started seeking out vegetarian recipes because they have a much more diverse flavor profile and more interesting uses of spices.
AWS tenets are good inside of AWS. There is something oraclesque going on here.
My partner and I grew apart and we shut it down in 2018. Funded everything since then.
Sick people trying the human doses of Ivermectin should be the easiest risk-management decision in the history of humanity.

You have a drug that is safe in human doses, cheap, and reported to have a positive effect. You lose nothing by trying it and gaining more data.
Cows in world := 1,000,000,000

Seaweed per day per cow := 0.085kg

Seaweed per year per cow := 31.025kg

Seaweed per year for cow population := 31,025,000,000kgs

Global seaweed production := 6,350,293,180kgs

So, we'd need to increase seaweed production by 5 times. We would then need to distribute this from the largest producers (China, Japan, Korea) the countries that consume the most (Europe, US). This isn't a problem that can be solved by mandated changes in a matter of years, and I have no idea what the CO2 output would be for this sort of production and shipping.
> I'm kind of sorry for quoting the 3000 from Wikipedia [0] without a primary source.

Hey, we’ve all done it at some point in our lives so no worries, mate.

Thanks for answering though. I’m always curious how other Federal systems tend to function compared to the one I live in.
Facebook's Project Aria indicates problems for responsible innovation
> when even the FDA says it has some uses in humans.

Billions of dosages have been used by humans. 250 million people take it annually, and that's still to low.

It's a critical part of the developing world.

And once again the vile Left have shown their colors and proved all they care about is hurting people. Hurt the Rich, hurt the Republicans, hurt the low IQ'ed.

While stigmatising a vital drug used by the real poor. The Left are awful human beings to treat the poor so badly, we should be outraged.

Ivermectin is a very safe drug. Part of the reason some call it a super drug is you can use in with low amounts of training in developing countries. And when used on livestock it's very safe for consumption compared to alternatives. Its not by numbers used by rich peoples horses, the Left has weaponized this idea.

This is the fake Polio vaccines all over again.
Do you really think it's easy to drop meat consumption from the cultures of the world? Meat is a huge part of many cultures around the world, including mine. Stopping meat consumption overnight would close many restaurants and business immediately.

I'm not arguing it's not a benefit, but I am arguing that it's hard.
> From what I heard from friends, it was a great place to work.

Not in the scheme of things, especially with regard to comp. Plus, they had a shitty PHP stack that was a spaghetti web.

I desperately tried to convince my Atlanta Mailchimp friends to quit and join me at a pre-IPO company. No takers. After our IPO, I made a life changing amount. Enough to retire before 30. They got paltry "bonuses" every year.

Mailchimp had some weird cool aid that made people like working there despite there being plenty of better alternatives. I just wish I could have convinced my friends to leave.
AWS tenets are good for AWS. Rust has its own tenets. Both should be kept separate.
Specifically the forced proximity with people who may bully you, or encourage damaging or anti-social behavior, as well as the environment where social status, and the avenues available to gain it as a high school student, is the end-all of your existence.

How many bad habits are learned in high school, from catty behavior, to acting out for attention, to being physically dominant, to spending money on flashy gear, to gain status? How many environments outside of high school do these behaviors result in meaningful, lasting status gains? Not many, at least none that can be considered healthy environments. If the goal of high school is to prepare kids for adulthood, they don't do a good job of it.

Granted, not every school is like this and not everyone has these experiences. But putting teens in a social pressure-cooker among their age cohort will result in some very unnatural local optimums for behavior.
Big loss for small business. Mailchimp never received any venture capital. They focused on small customers.
I have often been heard telling people that I'm going to remap the spacebar to an underscore on everyone's computer.
DIY Custom RCA Switch Box for Audio (2012)
Ask HN: Recommended reading for decentralizing a social network?
Prior to the colonization of the US there were some 60million buffalo, with little interference from human intervention it is probably fair to say that is the population numbers for the 'natural ecosystem'? They number now in the 10,000's.

But they have been replaced with ultra high density industrial scale factory farming and this has resulted in 90million cows ...

Sure that is 50% extra, but on the scale of this sort of issue - is that really a lot? Buffalo is probably nearly 50% bigger in mass and methane production anyway.
All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.
> "Remove all existing web browsers" checkbox

Users having multiple browsers installed that they switch between is a good thing that puts more pressure on browsers to improve, and I would hate to see Firefox or any other vendor push the dynamic farther away from that.
Yeah. It’s not like being 18 rather than 16 transforms you into this somber mature freshman.
That isn't going to happen unless it's somehow forced.
Horse buggy salesmen were not protected from cars...
Delete all of your social media accounts right now
Then why am I told to "trust the science" for every lock-down measure put in place?

You're being pedantic. I was just using a metaphor to explain we have a lot more data for one thing and it's pretty clear what path needs to be taken in a fire. Yeah it's not 100% but it's much further along than COVID "science".
> They'll be just fine, don't worry about copyright holders.

I'm not. I'm worried about the freedom to program general purpose computers and the freedom to create derivative works. It seems like copyright holders have been consistently using their lobby to make both harder.
It’s like funding in the sense that you can get an engineer who demands (for example) $200k in comp for $100k cash and $100k in stock options, saving the startup lots of cash in the beginning.
At tnis point in time I would not believe anything Apple is saying. After all backslash they just postponed it, to make it better and to avoid negative PR for the new iPhone.

Traces of CSAM are found in iOS 14.3
https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/18/apples-csam-detec...
The seaweed/bromoform stuff isn't as perfect as some articles make it seem, raising food safety and animal welfare questions (which explains why it isn't widely adopted yet despite the properties often ascribed to it):

https://www.wur.nl/en/Research-Results/Research-Institutes/l...

I also remember a comment claiming that the cows don't like it because it makes them noticeably sick.
“I don’t know why we need birth control, people can just stop having sex until they’re ready to reproduce”

When you start your response from a place that is unreasonable, nobody is going to give you the time of day. Telling people to just stop eating beef is both unreasonable and just flat out not going to happen in at least several generations with many steps in between - if it ever happens.
The hardware sucked too! IRQ conflicts and changing jumpers! And better not close the case before you verified the new settings. :-D
I skipped the last year of High School; I took (and passed) the California High School Profeciency exam as soon as a I could, but was convinced to stay one more year and they made the credits work to get me a degree. Then I did two years of Community College and got an AS before transferring to an out of state 4-year engineering college (where it took me three more years to get a BS, because the curriculum weren't aligned). Community College felt a lot nicer than high school, and the two years of college experience made it easier to manage living in the dorms and later with my not-yet spouse. Having almost all of my humanities already taken care of was nice too. Having a gap in hard Math classes wasn't great though; having swapped that information out, it was hard to page it back in.
I would say that the grade below consumer grade is “functional prop” grade.

There’s a type of consumer electronics available on Wish/AliExpress/etc., which is designed for people who want to appear at a glance to be using a certain expensive device, for status-signalling reasons. The devices only have to be real enough to allow you to pretend to be using them without drawing suspicion, and only have to be rugged enough to last until the device being mimicked isn’t fashionable to have any more (at which point you get a new knock-off aping the new cool thing.)

Surprisingly, these devices do work! They wouldn't be convincing otherwise. (How can you seem to be using the best new phone if you have to pull out a different phone to check your text messages? How can you seem to be playing a Switch or a PS4 if it doesn't turn on and show pictures and sound on the screen/a TV?) It's just that they work as terribly as you can imagine, given that costs are optimized to meet the minimum needs of someone playing pretend and no more.
Fwiw, as far as I'm aware, the principles and priorities outlined in the referenced article [1] were core Rust principles from the early days while it was still a project at Mozilla, rather than anything Amazon has defined recently.

They may have become more formalized over time, into a sort "Six laws of Rustbotics" sort of thing. Eg.:

- First Law: “Reliable: If it compiles, it works.”

- Second Law: “Performant: Idiomatic code runs efficiently, except where doing so conflicts with the First Law.”

etc.

The crux of it all is prioritizing reliability and deterministic elimination of undefined behaviors above all other priorities. Only a handful of languages have done that in the past (Ada, Haskell, etc), but none reached mainstream acceptance in the way that Rust has. That is something new.

I'm not aware of that particular value being closely associated with Amazon, moreso than Google or any other US Big Tech company.

If not for Steve's concerns here, I would have guessed the opposite, that Rust is defining Amazon's engineering culture and principles, than the other way around.

But it also sounds like Steve is being the canary in the coalmine here, and calling out something that may not be a huge problem right now, but could become so in the foreseeable future, and implicitly calling for governance reform similar to other communities [2] to prevent it. An ounce of prevention now is worth a pound of cure later.

[1]:https://www.infoworld.com/article/3633002/the-future-of-rust...

[2]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28514002
I agree wholeheartedly with you on that. It's certainly a hard problem right now, which is why I don't like people that just say "it's not a problem with C/C++" or "just use the system's package manager".
Exploit development is a skill like any other. Instead of learning things like software design patterns, distributed systems, software reliability, etc you would have spent time learning about memory layouts, OS designs, mitigation techniques, decompilers, etc.
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Blunts n Blockbusters
Subquestion:

Does anyone have any good tools to pull (hopefully backed up) data off of failing disks?

What about imaging disks that are in filesystems your computer cannot read?

Ideally, these would be crossplatform, but suggestions across OSes would also work.
If anyone is going to save public sector from private, it's gonna have to be good-actors in private sector.

Public sector is long, long, long beyond corrupted. The only way forwards is to carefully migrate away from the infested wreckage into something built from the ground up.

It's like a code-base that's been hacked mercilessly, and was written in a dead language to boot.
Unfortunately our politicians are controlled by Rupert Murdoch and funded by BHP/Coal...
Here are the docs for exporting/importing enums: https://flow.org/en/docs/enums/using-enums/#toc-exporting-en... - works fine with the new export/import syntax.

Docs for enums compilation/runtime are here: https://flow.org/en/docs/enums/defining-enums/#toc-enums-at-...
Punktförmige Zugbeeinflussung
Windows Phones were awful in general but provided something that no full featured smart phone can: simplicity.

Notifications? Hardly.
Browser? Barely works.
Apps? Pshh.
Instant messaging? I hope you like SMS!
Games? There’s a couple good ones you never heard of that won’t be maintained.

But heck, if you want peace and quiet and while still offering the basics in good form, the Windows Phone couldn’t be beat.
Maybe their own whole category.
Unless you went to HS with one of biggest gifted programs in a major city, where that level was common. I would say with some certainty they were fine with college aged social activities.
Source on this? I thought this was the whole point of US laws like DMCA. If you comply with all reasonable and lawful takedown requests, you are supposed to be safe.

It particularly shouldn't require YOU as web host to try to ascertain the legal status of every 100-year old sound clip. That's not realistic, as Youtube's experience clearly seems to show. It does require you to respond when someone sends a signed document claiming it's theirs.

I'm not a lawyer etc., would be happy to have this explained if I'm wrong.
> Adult work & social life has practically nothing in common with high school.

Some might say it is similar to being in prison though…

At least for part of high school that’s what it felt like at times for me. The biggest issue being the forced labour - sorry, I mean “homework” - of which the burden was substantial and the benefits not at all clear.

At the time I remember being very depressed that even when I was at home and away from the school that I often didn’t enjoy, instead of indulging in my hobbies (which, coincidentally, is how I learnt practically all of the specialised skills that I used to kick off my techology career) I was forced to complete endless hours of dull and unsurprising homework. I understand the benefits in moderation but the sheer amount assigned to me was actively detrimental to the point of robbing me of a big chunk of my free time as a teenager.

I desperately wanted to continue teaching myself programming (this was in the early 90’s) but instead I had to complete some mindless essay about sedimentary fucking rocks.

Not to mention that I had undiagnosed ADHD so the homework took me forever and created considerable stress.

Having said that, it was so bad (and felt so pointless) that even though I was academically pretty strong and had wanted to go to University from quite a young age, I instead quit school at 16, immediately got a job in a business consultancy (using my self-taught programming/design skills) and was running small software projects for huge multi-national businesses within a year. By the time most of my peer group graduated University, I had about 5 years of a software development career under my belt and had already started my first business.

In retrospect I don’t think I would have done anything different, apart from putting about 500% less effort into the sedimentary rock essays.
In the case of Spain, if a foundation bankrupts their assets can only be transferred to another non profit organization. It's against the Spanish law for a company to buy a assets of a foundation
Effectively the argument would seem to be for homeschooling, probably in a minimally structured way.