PennRobotics

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   by PennRobotics 3mo ago

   Gboard has been messing with the emoji search recently. It is worse. Previously, if you type "fac" or "face" or "facep" or "facepa" or "palm" in the search box, you'd get the facepalm e
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   by PennRobotics 3mo ago

   Shopify (admin.shopify.com, help.shopify.com) was down for fifteen minutes today. shopifystatus.com showed it was "All systems operational" but for users "having trouble" click a link to contact support. That link? Hoste
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   by PennRobotics 3mo ago

   Is this related to the current Shopify outage? (I know, I know, it's actually Cloudflare.)
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   by PennRobotics 4mo ago

   Thanks for the reminder. I installed npm yesterday to extract Electron app contents and forgot to remove it afterward.
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   by PennRobotics 4mo ago

   I find a much more enjoyable interface after disabling animations on every device I use---as well as shadows, glow, blur, translucency, hover effects, and rounded corners. Eye candy is an annoyance and wastes developer time, in practice, ev
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   by PennRobotics 4mo ago

   I wish I could fully agree. Canonical is a bit pushy: "Ubuntu Pro / ESM subscription will make your machine safer! and it is convenient mega free!! ((for non-business uses))" Workplace very strictly requires Ubuntu LTS for to
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   by PennRobotics 4mo ago

   Fastmail had a UI change a year ago, where they went all "rounded corner" and created unique rows for every message that weren't so easily sorted with Stylus CSS. I emailed them about the changes, and a few weeks later the me
8. 38.▲
   by PennRobotics 6mo ago

   Around the same time, I think the Photoprism image also didn't work on IPv6 because of Traefik
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   by PennRobotics 6mo ago

   I've never really needed that, or I don't understand the need for there to be a difference. I typically tile windows into each corner based on how large I need them. When I need more than 4, I'll manually place them. What I d
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    by PennRobotics 6mo ago

    I thought having a MacBook Pro after a few decades of Windows/Linux use would be utopic, but Apple hides a ton of keyboard/mouse shortcuts, so the majority of software is slow to learn and use. Simple stuff like split screen, file
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    by PennRobotics 6mo ago

    The perfect design is no rounded corners. anywhere. ever.
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    by PennRobotics 7mo ago

    A founder I know is making reduced-pin Arm-based prototyping modules: https://www.bergsonne.io/ They're seriously tiny; basically answering the question, "What if mechatronic prototypes didn't need to be the
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    by PennRobotics 7mo ago

    I keep purchasing ThinkPads (Z13, X1 Gen 11, X1 Gen 12, T16) where the USB-C port breaks within a year (respectively: "no dock or external monitor", "no charge and only non-Thunderbolt enumeration" on a single port, &quo
14. 44.▲
    by PennRobotics 7mo ago

    I think they mean: there is no USB socket on the enclosure containing the AC-DC conversion circuitry, like you'd find on most smartphone charger bricks. The cable (with the USB-C plug on the other end) is attached to the enclosure perm
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    by PennRobotics 7mo ago

    The entire site (including page margins) being a link to HN is an annoyance edit: also, the autoscroll thing The Tailwind CSS complaints aren't wrong even today; any time I want to apply a Stylus CSS to fix someone's janky site---
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    by PennRobotics 8mo ago

    The finished product has an imprint (with commercial name, according to Spanish law). The blog post isn't commercial.
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    by PennRobotics 8mo ago

    After the 2016 election, my advisor's entire research lab relocated to Europe except for two candidates who were nearly finished with a PhD and got co-advised. The majority of us who moved became proficient in a foreign language. Some
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    by PennRobotics 1y ago

    ls and not mpv or ffmpeg? https://mpv.io/manual/stable/#options https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#Options
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    by PennRobotics 1y ago

    Trace data are sent through a large/fast port (PCIe or 60-pin connector) and captured using fast dedicated hardware at something like 10 GB per second. The trace data are usually compressed and often only need to indicate whether a bra
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    by PennRobotics 1y ago

    I just tried on a microcontroller target. Some instructions cause a ghidra.pcode.exec.PcodeExecutionException but can be manually skipped. I can get to the same stopping points as a commercial simulator, but nothing is displayed in the Stac
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    by PennRobotics 1y ago

    I've been chipping away at recreating source for a dumped FreeRTOS binary for about a year using Ghidra and Trace32. (Disclosure: I work on Trace32.) I wanted to implement something like https://github.com/neuviemeporte
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    by PennRobotics 1y ago

    Ugly. Goofy. Uninspired. Awful color palettes and far too many shades of each hue. If the bluetooth icon is lit but the containing button is unlit, is bluetooth active or not? The icons are some of the worst ever; just a monochrome abstract
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    by PennRobotics 1y ago

    I'll cover just a few taste-based issues: - The abstract doesn't even fit on the first page at a 1500 pixel height. Instead, the generally useless, overly-padded animation takes the majority of the space. - The animation felt like
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    by PennRobotics 1y ago

    It doesn't help that the Play Store has no effective way to browse recently developed apps or to filter searches in any meaningful way whatsoever. Couple that with the Indiana Jones boulder chase known as the Target API Level Require
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    by PennRobotics 1y ago

    and syntax highlighting
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    by PennRobotics 1y ago

    If you use a shotgun for this sort of thing, there's not a high risk of serious injury---particularly if you obey gun safety standards e.g. identifying everything in line with your target to the full range of your ammo. The interesting
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    by PennRobotics 1y ago

    I just threw numbers into there (population x ownership percent x replacement frequency x unit cost) to estimate the annual revenue of the smartphone market and got a few percentage points away from what the internet reports is the true val
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    by PennRobotics 2y ago

    The LKML is no gold standard. After searching on lore.kernel.org, do you click through individual messages with such insightful subject lines as, "media: camss: Format configuration per hardware version," and, "rcar-vin: feat
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    by PennRobotics 2y ago

    I don't know about every Brother model. On ours, there's a key sequence you can press to reset the toner cartridge odometer letting you squeeze out toner until the text is a satisfying light grey.
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    by PennRobotics 2y ago

    or alien and rpmrebuild :/