many don’t deliver enough power for a Pi 4.

What’s the difference?

Well I figure if they include the rest of the crew with the Enterprise kit, adding Ro with the shuttlecraft prevents duplication. Just need an O’Brien and a Q. Maybe O’Brien should come with a DS9 set?

Meanwhile, I’m a sky-going pilot and I’ve never had much of a problem avoiding airliners. We’ve got these really cool guys called air traffic controllers that help us out with that. I love those guys, they do a great job.

Fun fact: Bell peppers are tasty.

Something something they’re technically “amber” not “yellow”?

Probably, I was always taught that the # was just a reminder you were logged in as root, and I’m a Bash boy, I don’t know diddly squat about zsh.

TL;DR: The Arduino language is C++ with an automatically included library, but it’s descended from a Java project with an automatically included library.

Processing is a graphics and art based graphics library/IDE that uses the Java programming language. It basically includes some classes and methods by default on top of Java that makes programming graphics and even simple games a bit more straightforward.

Processing’s IDE was forked by the Wiring project for the purposes of microcontroller hardware programming. Because the Java Virtual Machine is a bit much to ask a 16MHz 8-bit AVR to run, they switched the language to C++ which compiles straight to machine code that runs on the bare metal. Again, it’s just C++ with a library included, under the hood it uses gcc to compile and avrdude to program the chip. I believe the IDE itself is still written in Java.

Arduino took Wiring and painted it teal. They’ve extended it quite a bit since then but in the early days Arduino was really a hardware project. They’ve since added support for non-AVR boards to the Arduino IDE, including ARM-Cortex and ESP32 based boards.

Raspberry Pi offers C and C++ SDKs and a MicroPython interpreter for the Pico series. Someone contributed support for RP2040 based boards to the Arduino IDE; I don’t believe that was done officially by either RPi or Arduino.

if logged in as root, wouldn’t thebprompt be a # instead of a $?

I think this might be shopped.

I program my EPS32s in micropython anyway.

you can program a Pi Pico with the Arduino IDE in C++. Some projects will just compile if you aren’t using some AVR specific features like the built-in EEPROM that the RP2040 doesn’t have.

Moon Machines Episode 5.

Same with Ball and canning jars.

I saw a documentary about that which was a total hoot. From some stiff necked old coot talking about “At Hamilton Standard we made propellers and transmission gearboxes for military and commercial applications. They made brassieres.” To this sharp old girl talking about “I was making baby pants and they asked me if I wanted to try something different. They put me in charge of quality control, and I issued each girl color coded pins. I was examining one suit, and I found a red pin, so I looked up who was issued the red pins and I went over to her and said “Here’s your pin” and I stuck her in the behind with it.”

I like to think those two are married.

Has any company of any size ever done something actually envrionmentally friendly?

My mind just played out a little skit.

in a library

Librarian is standing at the front desk, doing front desk things. A man enters, driipping wet, comic injuries such as a black eye, fake bandages etc, kelp draped around him. He walks in, looks at librarian meaningfully, stalks off into the library without a word. Stalks back up to the front desk, and presents this book and a library card.

I do have to wonder how much especially Google is gimping ordinary search in order to make their LLMs seem more useful. Just using the internet has gotten so much worse in the last few years.

the shoe event horizon.

I mean just think back to the voice assistant craze 10-15 years ago (SOMEHOW!) Apple had Siri, which actually solved a problem. Smart phone-sized touch screens are the genital cancer of computer UI, so what if we add the ability to do common tasks such as web searches, media control, clock and calendar operations etc. by voice command? Google followed suit.

Then came Alexa. Amazon wanted in, but they didn’t want to help you use the device you owned, they wanted to facilitate using their services. Meaning you had to either install the software on some other device, or they had to make and distribute new devices. Commercials featuring Alexa, often starring a pre-homicide Alec Baldwin, usually demonstrated making product and media purchases on a speakerphone-like device. I wonder if anyone has ever actually done that? Because almost all the time I want to examine the listing to make sure I’m getting the thing I want. Like, “Alexa, buy a copy of Army of Darkness.” Okay, did I just “buy” it on Prime Video? Am I about to get a copy of a DVD or Blu-Ray in the mail in two days? Did it just install the 2011 tower defense game on my Kindle Fire?

Then came Bixby, because Samsung are under the impression they need to make software for the phones they make. It does mean I can ask my cousin’s refrigerator to beatbox, and it will.

Then came Cortana. Microsoft, as usual, arrived late to the game doing a mediocre job of what everyone else was already doing for no reason other than to do what everyone else was doing. Naming their voice assistant after the video game character made it more difficult to google, most of what it did was yap during the Windows install and onboarding process, and then nobody used it because the entire reason for a voice assistant to exist - making up for the shit UI that is a tiny touch screen - doesn’t exist on PC with a large screen, mouse and full keyboard.

Windows 10 was kind of fascinating for that; Cortana was one of several technologies they tried to go all in on, releasing a big update that added apps and frameworks right into Windows, only for them to unceremoniously rip it all back out later.

And now we get to the AI era and it’s happening again. I imagine Copilot will be the first to go because nobody likes Microsoft’s built-in shit.

No, you just get a bill that some European governments couldn’t afford.