Syonyk

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by Syonyk 2y ago
> The second reason that I’ll write is to learn about something. It’s one thing to hand-wave one’s way through a presentation. It’s another to commit pen to paper (well, bytes to disk) and explain something. Quite often I’ll realise tha
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by Syonyk 2y ago
> Given the challenges of trying to characterize the content of every single video viewed, the researchers focused on the type of YouTube channels people watched. They compiled lists of channels that had been identified as alternative o
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by Syonyk 2y ago
Again, it depends a lot on your experience with vehicles. I expect someone who had driven a manual for a long while (or even learned on one but hadn't driven one recently) would be radically more likely to come to "Oh, select neu
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by Syonyk 2y ago
Because the vast majority of people driving cars don't have enough of a mental model of the vehicle systems to consider such a thing, especially in a panic situation such as unintended acceleration. If you've driven rattletrap man
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by Syonyk 2y ago
If you're using Jekyll, Jekyll Picture Tag ( https://github.com/rbuchberger/jekyll_picture_tag ) does the same thing. I use that in my pipeline for my blog, and I agree, it's very nice to just not have to worr
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by Syonyk 2y ago
... "near Cupertino" in population, not geographically. Okay, that makes much more sense. It's not really a "suburb of Des Moines" - though eventually, as they grow, it may be considered that. It's 30 miles n
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by Syonyk 2y ago
Sure. I found a handful in smaller towns in Iowa without any trouble. Even in Ames, Iowa (home of Iowa State University, 65k people per the 2020 census and I'm not sure how many of ISU's 30k students that counts), I'm findin
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by Syonyk 2y ago
blinks You can rent an apartment for that in lower cost of living areas. Like, 500-700 square feet. And won't have the risk of city zoning being upset about it lurking over your head, which seems to be the case here. > The ap
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by Syonyk 2y ago
"Efficient" in terms of what outputs, for what inputs? You can't just handwave the term as a synonym for "I think it's better!" - it actually does imply inputs, outputs, and depending on what you want to optimi
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by Syonyk 2y ago
The skill tree depends on awful lot on what you care about, and don't assume that western "high tech" solutions are the best, because they're the most complicated. From a "Built out of locally available resources, w
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by Syonyk 2y ago
Yup. I'd rather the phone be that much thicker, loaded with battery.
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by Syonyk 2y ago
So replace the battery? It's not some impossible task. https://www.ifixit.com/products/galaxy-s10-replacement-batte... It's slightly annoying to replace, but even if you have a shop do it, it's far chea
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by Syonyk 2y ago
That's not "on a phone," though. That's just schlepping an image up to the Google data center, and getting a result back. That you're using the phone as an interface to a datacenter doesn't make it "AI o
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by Syonyk 2y ago
So do the swap yourself. Part and kit: https://www.ifixit.com/products/iphone-12-mini-replacement-b... Steps: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+12+mini+Battery+Replacem...
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by Syonyk 2y ago
Apple's mobile division still seems to struggle with the ghost of Jony Ive. At least their laptop division was willing to rethink things with the Apple Silicon transition and go back to things that worked. The late Intel-era portabl
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by Syonyk 2y ago
My Sonim XP3+ has a hard shell replaceable battery and lasts a week and a half on a charge. It's not even a very expensive device, it's under $150! ;) But it is a flip phone running Android Go with no apps... That said, I think
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by Syonyk 2y ago
> The biggest motivation for US adult smartphone owners to upgrade their devices is longer battery life (61%)... Battery replacements are a thing. They're apparently not a common thing, unfortunately, because that might impact ne
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by Syonyk 2y ago
Right. But the actual use case of being able to sell your home's floorplan and general cleaning schedule/behaviors/etc to advertisers requires cloud functionality, so you need some fig leaf to cover up the requirement... I
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by Syonyk 2y ago
No, and it would be wrong for it to do so, because you've given it a very explicit set of instructions about what to do: "Give me the value of the byte of memory at the start of x." To do what you're asking, you'd d
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by Syonyk 2y ago
You'll have to be a lot more specific than "ARM" - Most newer ARM systems are little endian in practical operation, and ARM has been "flexible endian" (you can switch between big and little endian - SCTLR has the re
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by Syonyk 2y ago
Anything big endian. unsigned int x = 0x01020304; unsigned char *c = (unsigned char*)&x; Assume x is stored at 0x100. On a little endian architecture (x86, most modern ARM systems, etc), it will be stored in memory as [04][03]
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by Syonyk 2y ago
You're right. When interviewing for a team that writes mostly in C and assembly (assembly for various different ISAs), we're not going to hire someone who claims to know C and fumbles through some basic problems and can't re
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by Syonyk 2y ago
The first time I saw FizzBuzz, I immediately assumed it was some sort of "trap" or "trick" interview question - that there's some deviously subtle little thing in it that you'll miss at first or second glance,
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by Syonyk 2y ago
It's hard, and interviewing is better suited to answering "nope, not you!" questions than "yes, you'll be a good fit." Onsite interviews with a range of approaches seem to be the best I've found over the y
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by Syonyk 2y ago
https://www.sevarg.net/2023/12/30/more-flip-phone-sonim-xp3-... has some sample images from mine - it's an 8MP camera. Not amazing, but also not a 2MP potato.
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by Syonyk 2y ago
Most of the modern "dumbphones" (or "feature phones") would do this just fine for you. If you want one that can survive anything life will throw at it, look at the Sonim devices - the XP3+ (flip) or XP5+ (candybar). The
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by Syonyk 2y ago
I only know my particular area, but as a homeowner, I can do any electrical work I want on my dwellings. If I owned a rental, I couldn't do electrical work on that. I still have to pull permits and pass inspections, but it's r
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by Syonyk 2y ago
You'd need "a website" to redirect things, but if you've fully encoded the URL in the lengthened version, that website need not have any server side components. It could serve things that are handled purely client side.
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by Syonyk 2y ago
I get that. And I have friends who would appreciate such things. Just, ideally, with something that absurd going to as short a site as possible. My gripe is that my browser is apparently too-bot-like for something serving a tiny number of
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by Syonyk 2y ago
Yeah, you could just have a lookup table that's ASCII characters to "long phrases," and encode the URL that way. Have a bunch of nonsense phrases per character and select them randomly, but as long as the lengthened URL full

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