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The Chinese appear to have achieved both.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I'm not the entrepreneurial sort - too much stress for me. Still, I recognize potential opportunity.
ESP32s use a Tensilica LX6 or LX7. Some of the newer ones use a RISC-V
None of them use ARM, which is unfortunate for a number of reasons.
However, there are innumerable ESP32 based kits with integrated displays and peripherals. It's what keeps me, and many other people coming back to them.
Hardware-wise they have some impressive features, but the CPU itself is a let down, particularly the floating point.
I'm not sure how ESP32s practically cornered the market on cheap all-in-one IoT gadgets, but if an ARM contender were to enter the field with fancy peripherals and touch screens built in it would be a game changer.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Many letters I do not recognize as per usual. May I say my own "inventions" are limited to a mouse pad w/ Teflon surface which I utilize a crude form of nice and slippery a new kind of mouse wrist rest also which I utilize a crude form of id est a kind of a springy cloth suspended at each end superior to the usual foam also an ergonomic Dvorak keyboard optimized for Vim which I am learning the keyboard of which unfortunately I am not utilizing.
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Punctuation. It's not just an abstract concept.
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It is the final frontier whosoever will. 
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honey the codewitch wrote: the CPU itself is a let down, particularly the floating point
<OldWarHorse>You kids and your fancy-schmancy processors with floating point. Back in my day we simulated floating point with 16-bit integer arithmetic and liked it. Hell, we didn't even have integer multiply or divide instructions!</OldWarHorse>
Software Zen: delete this;
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* steps gingerly off of your lawn *
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Software Zen: delete this;
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Google Docs (on my phone) keeps getting worse.
I open a file on my phone, edit it, and when I go to save it, it asks where I want to save it... I want to save it to the same place I just had you open it from, you morons! Overwrite the existing file just like you always have for years. Baaahhht nooooo... now it makes a new version!?
Glad I bought a fresh bottle of tequila.
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I find that enough Tequilas make me forget...well everything!
One Tequila, Two Tequila, Three Tequila Floor!
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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As for me, I'm sick of Windows wanting to save stuff on "One Drive". I've deleted as much that's associated with that swill as I can. But if I forget to explicitly save something where I want it, Windows recreates its accursed One Drive folders and puts it there anyway. 
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Knock on wood, this hasn't happened to me. Probably because I did the workarounds to only have a local account on my machine. But I still use One Drive on it, so I can edit some files on my phone. And it hasn't bit me in the butt (yet).
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Perhaps their (business) idea is to utilise Drive space for (nearly) duplicate files, so that the need arises for buying extra Drive space.
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Well, I think they are trying to disincentivize storing documents locally, which is what I do.
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Amarnath S wrote: Perhaps their (business) idea is to utilise Drive space for (nearly) duplicate files, so that the need arises for buying extra Drive space.
It's called versioning.
It certainly has its uses, but the choice to enable it or not should be up to the user. And make that choice obvious, not hide it 7 menus deep into your Settings.
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Versioning, from what I know, uses deltas to store differences, so that the overall storage space is reduced.
However, here, are they are duplicating files, even with small deltas, so that space gets occupied, that the free space quota gets filled up, and the (lay) user needs to purchase space?
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Amarnath S wrote: Versioning, from what I know, uses deltas to store differences, so that the overall storage space is reduced.
That's in an ideal world, but reality is that you can make copies and slap a "versioning" label on it.
And, as soon as you have binary files, you can bet they're just duplicating files and not trying to come up with deltas.
So for a general-purpose storage solution, they probably do the same and don't make any special case out of file types that would be easy to create deltas for.
And why should they? The more space used, the more space they can sell the customer, as you said.
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Was that a copy of the original bottle, or did you want to overwrite that one?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You know the one:
GUI interface using visual basic to track the killers IP address CSI - YouTube
I still recall my first reaction, which went something along this order:
a) You're gonna do what now?
b) If whatever you have in mind was actually useful, why would you need to write it now, shouldn't it already exist?
c) That sounds very specific, why would you announce to everybody listening you're gonna use VB for that?
d) The more I think about the whole thing, the more questions get raised
...and finally,
e) When writers don't know the first thing about a particular subject, they just shouldn't go there. Someone will pick up on it, and if it's dumb enough, it'll reach legend status. Or might that have been the original intent all along? 
Don't ask why I suddenly started thinking about this. Must be a late-Friday afternoon thing.
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