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Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 121

Don't tell me where to go. By "jerks", I mean the people responsible for replacing bilingual street signs with French-only street signs, at the expense of taxpayers. Because being bilingual wasn't good enough, they have to have FRENCH ONLY! If you're not one of those jerks, then I wasn't referring to you. (I have tremendous respect for the people that speak multiple languages fluently. People that refuse to learn the language skills needed to communicate with the people around them? Not so much.) As far as Canada being far better off than the US is under current leadership, I concur. I'm hoping when donnie dementia is no longer around I can sit down with my Canadian friends and buy them a beer again. What are y'all drinkin' these days? (Pretty sure it's not American!)

Comment So? (Score 4, Insightful) 24

That's exactly why open-sourcing drivers is a GOOD thing! I once paid good money for an HP flatbed scanner, which became unusable when the next version of Windows shipped and HP declined to provide drivers for it since they were no longer making any money off the scanner. So I had to throw it away.

Comment Huh? (Score 2) 121

One thing I can say for the British is that they pronounce words exactly the way they spell them. (See aluminium/aluminum). So, while my Canadian coworkers pronunciation of "schedule" bothered me as an American, I cannot call it incorrect! Obviously, the Canadians still consider themselves to be British... er, with the exception of a bunch of francophile jerks in Quebec.

Comment Re:Ick! (Score 1) 43

The implementation I'm using is basically using PySerial to drive a USB-connected BLE device talking to a remote PSoC6 BLE device. I'm blaming PySerial for the problem, but the problem _could_ be caused by bad firmware in the BLE device. BLE isn't famous for good throughput either, but the throughput I'm seeing is several orders of magnitude worse than expected even for BLE. I agree that communication channels can be badly implemented in any language, and they frequently are. I'm just used to communication being interrupt driven (especially over a UART), rather than waiting for the interpreter to schedule processing every byte.

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