PennRobotics

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by PennRobotics 8d ago
Partner's mom lost phone. Partner called me with mom's password. I went to Find Hub. Entered email and password. "Hold on, we're sending the lost phone a verification text."
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by PennRobotics 8d ago
The article was clear and reflects my own opinions: If you use an untrusted machine, you either revert to the least secure backup method (your master password in Bitwarden) or don't log in. If your phone is your trusted device and beco
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by PennRobotics 9d ago
Something about the find syntax never sat well with me, and I don't search often enough that I feel I need to learn it. My "find" is almost always tree -if | grep "<whatever-pattern>$" | head -1 head,
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by PennRobotics 9d ago
:) the closely related not-at-all-random fizzlefade from Wolfenstein: https://fabiensanglard.net/fizzlefade/
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by PennRobotics 10d ago
Stardew Valley has two random number seeds. One is the normal character seed. The other, your multiplayer ID, can be determined by analyzing the save file. Except! On the Switch, you can't easily access the save file AND the random num
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by PennRobotics 10d ago
"Select all photos with motorcycles" *shows 4 photos with mopeds and 0 with motorcycles*
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by PennRobotics 17d ago
Current-gen X1 Carbons are sold with 400 or 500 nit IPS displays. I have complaints with nearly every other aspect of the ThinkPad---even the universally praised keyboard---but the display has been stellar.
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by PennRobotics 17d ago
Lenovo and Linux support should carry an asterisk. Hopefully their acquisition of Phoenix fixes much of the "too quick to market" problems they seem to keep having. My ThinkPad Z13 (aka AMD Carbon) was a piece of garbage: arrived
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by PennRobotics 19d ago
It's been a while since I've used Twitter, but I thought the tweet ordering was never chronological. Has this changed? You just have to trust that the algorithm will always surface relevant information to the top of the feed?
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by PennRobotics 19d ago
I recently layed out and ordered a single-sided two-layer board with only a minimum config STM32 + crystal, two USB ports with ESD protection, and two LEDs (one is always-on). I went for commodity SMD parts and it still costs 20 USD per uni
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by PennRobotics 22d ago
At the very least, you can (and probably should) put a plaintext netlist and BOM into an LLM to triple-check your work. It will use the part datasheets and decent EE logic to cross reference pins and parts and polarities and generally check
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by PennRobotics 22d ago
I still believe Amazon is uniquely qualified to dominate and capitalize in this "mass data gathering" space. They have trucks, packing material, and streamlined logistics. They have a ton of robots that are mobile and/or ware
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by PennRobotics 24d ago
No worries. I'm glad I went down the mobile browser rabbit hole again. I tried half a dozen browser this afternoon and then found Omni Browser (another Gecko-based one) and might stick with it. If that still disappoints, I'm cauti
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by PennRobotics 24d ago
Mere mention of "reverse engineering" gets me kicked back to Opus. Where I reside, reverse engineering for interoperability is generally legal, and interoperability (e.g. getting a USB HID and USB MIDI devices or DOS programs to w
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by PennRobotics 24d ago
I'll reinstall now for a fresh opinion vs Kiwi (my current least hated mobile browser; Chrome with Extensions minus tab groups or AI junk) Prefaced: I respect Mozilla's mission. All of these criticisms ARE overly harsh. At the sam
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by PennRobotics 29d ago
I just knew this would be about Bambu. It is nuts that they can be fairly transparent how anti-consumer they are while still succeeding. It's really a testament to the quality of their printers, marketing, and long-term strategy. If
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by PennRobotics 1mo ago
To the person in the comments suggesting asking for forgiveness rather than permission, it's hard to know which of the many laws won't have warnings during their enforcement e.g. "no website imprint, pay us," versus, &qu
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by PennRobotics 1mo ago
I am in a startup with three other full-time engineers and a strong intern team. We all have advanced degrees, but more education and better ideas wouldn't help us at this point. So much of our time is spent on non-engineering tasks: q
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by PennRobotics 1mo ago
This comment got me curious, so I searched for cheap laptops with mobile internet. There's at least one LTE Chromebook now for about 300 euros. This might be my next laptop if it can run Tailscale and remote desktop.
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by PennRobotics 1mo ago
The G-Shock is great but not perfect. Some things I wanted when I was deployed in the desert: No metal against skin AT ALL, silent but sturdy flap for covering the display (bonus if nonmagnetic), less/no nooks to collect sand/mud,
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by PennRobotics 2mo ago
I had the goal to eliminate annoying ads in some apps that I use. I deleted the user data for those apps and also applied restrictions so they could no longer access internet. Ads still showed up. I mostly stopped using these types of apps
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by PennRobotics 2mo ago
Meh. Stacked PRs (where a PR is already a stack of commits, and reviewers can perhaps communicate with each other to coordinate scope/responsibility) are a bit like tab groups in the browser when tabs, multiple windows, and workspaces
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by PennRobotics 2mo ago
"Bug uncovered" doesn't mean "bug fixed." Concrete example: yabridge is a tool to let Linux users run DAW plugins designed for Windows. Some changes to Wine (yabridge's main dependency) made yabridge stop worki
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by PennRobotics 2mo ago
One of the dumbest auth workflows I experienced in recent times: My partner texts me, "Mom lost her phone somewhere in the zoo." I go to log into Google Find My Phone with her password. It sends a mandatory verification SMS... to
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by PennRobotics 2mo ago
Same here, and to anyone trying it out for the first time and confused why it's not working: - insert mode - that is a (typed) dash between Ctrl+K and M - uppercase M (aside: the K can be upper or lower case)
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by PennRobotics 2mo ago
Shape "pill": rounded Shape "square": still rounded ----- It's visually creative. At the same time, the reactive animations would bother me (to the point of deeming it unusable) in any production app or website. I&#
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by PennRobotics 2mo ago
Except it's actually a massive pain in the ass for unrelated projects and users. One example: Robbert van der Helm has a very popular (in the Linux music editing world) program, yabridge, which enables DAW plugins written for Windows&#
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by PennRobotics 3mo ago
Flagging, to me, seems like pissing in the wind. If I notice serial posters submitting extremely low effort content (a pair of their own posts every waking hour from "6 months and 5 minutes ago", off-topic wikipedia nearly once a
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by PennRobotics 3mo ago
a.k.a. the most recent stable LTS, which will be succeeded by 26.04.1. Unless your hardware doesn't work on 24.04.4, I would not upgrade to 26.04 yet, unless you enjoy unexpected behavior in the console.
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Show HN: Unofficial cross-platform Shure MV client(github.com)
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