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Can you give a concrete example of tech work that a "low IQ person" would not be able to tackle?
by j7ake 3y ago
Can you give a concrete example of tech work that a "low IQ person" would not be able to tackle?
- blueflow 3y ago"Which Voltage do i need to cut Styrofoam with a resistive wire"
- CRConrad 3y agoThe voltage in your wall sockets is a given, so the question should be "Which resistive wire do I need to best cut Styrofoam with electricity?"
- gruez 3y agoThe low iq solution would be to steadily ramp up the voltage until it cuts.
- doubled112 3y agoHah, apparently I am low IQ but still getting it done.
- doubled112 3y agoDo I need to give you a number? Can I just build something that allows me to control voltage and turn it up until it cuts, then measure?
- Avicebron 3y ago240V, that's an unfair example. As a low IQ person, I sidestepped trying to actually calculate the heat generated by different resistive wires (has to be above the melting point of styrofoam) and thought linearly about what I wanted to do, which was cut styrofoam, so google styrofoam cutter hot wire, got me to amazon.
- blueflow 3y agoCorrect answer would have been "I don't know, whats the resistance of the wire". 1.2 Ohms per meter, 45cm (which was what i had) would burst in a flash of liquid metal when connected to 240V.
- Avicebron 3y agothe correct answer is to cut the styrofoam. https://www.amazon.com/Foam-Electric-Cutting-Machine-Controller/dp/B0BL7ML3K1/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=hot%2Bwire%2Bfoam%2Bcutter&qid=1706622844&sr=8-5&th=1 https://www.amazon.com/Foam-Electric-Cutting-Machine-Control...
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- GeoAtreides 3y agoWriting an embedded C program using ESP-IDF that polls a Bosch BME688 sensor, feeds it Bosch BSEC library (compiled for ESP32, of course) and then pushes the response to an AWS mqtt queue.
- HPsquared 3y ago"ChatGPT, write me an embedded C program using ESP-IDF that polls a Bosch BME688 sensor, feeds it Bosch BSEC library (compiled for ESP32, of course) and then pushes the response to an AWS mqtt queue."
- GeoAtreides 3y agogood luck with that, ESP-IDF + BSEC is one of my go to tests for evaluating LLMs; it's such a niche topic, and complex too, that there is (probably) no training data covering it and all LLMs hallucinate when asked for a solution.
- Aeolun 3y agoWhy, in all that, would you use an AWS mqtt queue?
- GeoAtreides 3y agoIn case you have multiple sensors and your organisation is already on AWS? Also, in this particular case, it adds complexity to task (https on embedded, for example, it's not as straight forward as on a normal server, for example)
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- tcgv 3y agoI can think of a few examples that often pose challenges for less experienced Devs, some of whom don't overcome these challenges, whether due to lack of motivation, capacity, or any other reason: - Handle DateTime in different timezones consistently, according to the expectations of each customer and their geography. - Proper use of caching, basic search algorithms and data structures. - Thread synchronization / race condition. - Anything that requires recursion. - Database and query tunning.