I just finished reading The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals its Secrets. It’s about the limits to, and complexity of, theories about causation. I was going to say that it was “postmodern”, but I think instead I will say that it’s “ultramodern”.
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Game On!
MagPi
I discovered the MagPi magazine. A Raspberry Pi magazine free in PDF format.
BEAM Robotics
See The BEAM Reference Library for an interesting take on robotics.
Linux: generated/autoconf.h
See What is creating the generated/autoconf.h? for tips on how to generate autoconf.h for the Linux sources.
Instead of
gunzip < /proc/config.gz > .config
Use
cat /boot/config-$(uname -r) > .config
Qt Creator
Note to self: I have installed Qt Creator 9.0.0-beta1 (8.0.82) in
charm:/home/jj5/repo/git/code.qt.io/qt-creator-install/bin/qtcreator
RCU and Unloadable Modules
Found an article about the implementation of read-copy update locks in Linux: RCU and Unloadable Modules.
Building Qt
Today I am going to try:
Books
Some books I’m interested in: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Kindle Edition and What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View. So much to read, so little time.
Raspberry Pi Model Information
So I found this great article: Checking Raspberry Pi Revision Number & Board Version
To enable the `pinout` command (which is kinda cool):
# apt install python3-gpiozero
See CPU info with:
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
And see model information with:
# cat /proc/device-tree/model