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by Liftyee 1y ago
As more of an embedded and electronics engineer, I've mentally toyed with extending these software principles into broader engineering, and some of them work decently. However, there is questionable value in making things like bridges
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Re: conflicts and politics etc. I've anecdotally found that real world things like these tend to be nuanced, and that sources (especially on the internet) are disincentivised in various ways from actually showing nuance. This leads to
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by Liftyee 1y ago
What toolchain do you use to compile Rust for it? I have about had enough of undebuggable random Arduino segfaults.
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by Liftyee 1y ago
> I guess it's kind of fetch though Do I spot a Mean Girls reference?!
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by Liftyee 1y ago
As expected based on the opening disclaimer, I'm noticing a lot of LLM "fluff" in this writing. Louis Rossmann made me aware of the "It's not ABC, it's DEF with XYZ" pattern. Also arguably overuse of the t
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Curious as I'm not too familiar - if what I've described is basic capitalism, then what is today's system like in the US? Need to look into the differences so I can be precise when debating these things. New metaphors: "
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by Liftyee 1y ago
I wonder how much reimplementation there is between this and Tailscale, as it seems like there are many needs in common. One would think that there are already low level libraries out there to handle going through NATs, etc. (but maybe this
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Ah, interesting. Serves me right for slacking in engineering mathematics classes. I think the method you're describing is one of those numerical methods approximations that I'm supposed to know about.
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Interesting points - I wasn't aware of the accuracy tradeoffs with smaller sensors, though as an engineer I should probably have anticipated it. I've been messing around with air quality measurement for a while but haven't go
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Personally felt this too, though I think I hate dishonest marketers and adversarial business-customer relations more broadly. For some reason my ideal vision of capitalism is where a company simply makes a product that solves customers&#x27
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Agree, though it should be noted that diamonds are far from the only things like this - other questionably useful social status symbols include "luxury" fashion (low quality made in low wage countries...), or even just having the
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Smallest particulate matter air quality sensor for ultra-compact IoT devices(bosch-sensortec.com)
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Pleasantly surprised to see electronics parts manufacturers on front page HN. The advancement of sensors nowadays is staggering - I'm reminded of the recent airborne dust sensor that's literally orders of magnitude smaller because
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Damn, I always thought that the fingerprint data was encoded somehow and never left the sensor hardware itself! OS-level access to the imagery seems like a security risk, but also opens some interesting possibilities for alternative uses.
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by Liftyee 1y ago
As an engineer I'm attracted towards the PID based one, but also wary of the amount of CPU cycles used just for a little animation. It seems like overkill, for some reason.
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by Liftyee 1y ago
This helped explain why my PC uses so many resources "with just a few webpages open". I didn't realise that graphical updates that seem so simple could be so resource-intensive.
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by Liftyee 1y ago
In places where QR payment is commonplace, readers without viewfinders often get round this issue with a pyramidal frame in front of the camera marking out its FOV, the rectangular opening indicating where the QR code should be aligned. Fro
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by Liftyee 1y ago
I wonder if there is some conservation of effort / "vibe matching" at play. The classic books which another commenter mentioned probably had a lot of thought put into the choices made in each sentence, while shows/YouTub
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Although I thought the writer put forward an interesting point, ironically it felt like parts of the writing were overly flowery and repetitive. The paragraphs of similar metaphors got old quickly and started to feel GPT-like. I do think th
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by Liftyee 1y ago
I like this quiz format much more than just reading a doc because I get to guess what it might do before finding out, which reinforces how well I remember it. As a Python amateur I had no idea fstrings were so powerful!
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Neat, I wasn't aware of that kind of Japanese flip phone before. Seems like one of the few phones I'd use without a case these days. I wonder if any were ever designed with a ThinkPad like aesthetic.
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Out of curiosity, why's it your last Apple product? Watching lots of Louis Rossmann has put me almost ideologically against Apple (even though they design great hardware and smooth UX within their ecosystem), but I'm not good at f
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Vim keybinds? Sadly never invested enough energy to get used to those.
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by Liftyee 1y ago
It sounds too good to be true... article mentioned none of the side effects that other commenters had rightly pointed out. Otherwise I would actually be tempted, but there are no free lunches (especially when messing with your biology).
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by Liftyee 1y ago
I've often wondered if this long-term planning and foresight is fundamentally incompatible with a democracy running on sub-decade cycles. I imagine the two could coexist if voters themselves were more aware of their candidates' lo
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by Liftyee 1y ago
I've made a couple photo/music montages with both tools. Not an advanced user, but I found Kdenlive was more stable on Ubuntu and the UX is similar between the two.
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Interesting arguments in favour of technology transfer/diffusion that I really needed. However, I wonder if letting greater economies of scale form would accelerate progress overall when those economies of scale are applied to research
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Things like these make me glad to have a Xiaomi phone with their minimal implementation of Google instead of a full on Android phone. I get to avoid this stuff being pushed on me, and I don't use any of the Xiaomi "AI" stuff
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by Liftyee 1y ago
Sidenote: Is anyone else distracted/unsettled by that faint animated circle of dots that snaps to your mouse whenever it's moving?
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by Liftyee 1y ago
A neat idea that I need (I want my Google Photos to backup my recordings too), but instantly killed the tab when I saw that AI animated character in that "see it in action" video. Call me irrational, but I can't stand the loo

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