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by atoav 1y ago
Yeah, no. Ressilient state structure is there to slow them down long enough for the popular support to throw their weight behind something else. If you have an absolutist monarchist state that is flourishing because its past 3 kings were go
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by atoav 1y ago
It is not unheard of to have single damaged lines/connector-joints within a cable. The question is whether your cable was designed that way or whether it was damaged in a way that made it do this.
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by atoav 1y ago
Maybe it is me, but I find that idea unhinged and aesthetically/semantically offputting to a degree you would have to force me to do it. I know that isn't rational, but hey, it is my personal taste and those may differ. I much pre
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by atoav 1y ago
Well which board do you select then? ESP32 boardfiles do not come with the Arduino application per default. Sure, to you and me this may seem trivial, you paste the URL into the prefs, but there are people who will get stumped by this and w
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by atoav 1y ago
I run a medialab at an university. ESP32 is great, but there are some downsides that are all not dealbreakers, but can in some cases lead me to recommend a classic Arduino-type device: 1. Lack of 5V tolerant pins. Beginners may or may not b
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by atoav 1y ago
Pdoc is great. I love it. But there is one blemish. They write on documenting variable assignments which don't support pythons __doc__ string: > To compensate, pdoc will read the abstract syntax tree (an abstract representation of t
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by atoav 1y ago
Well it is just malpractise. Even when I was an first semester art student I knew about the concept of off-site backups.
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by atoav 1y ago
Mailcow is pretty good actually. Setup on a virtual hetzner server took me half an hour, as it is a pretty simple docker container. What took a little longer was migrating my mails over, and setting all the needed DNS records (SPF and the l
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by atoav 1y ago
Well this has to do with the simple fact that social media reduces the reach of posts containing certain of those words. So if you want to talk about them and reach people.. I wish those outraged with liberal "cancel-culture" woul
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by atoav 1y ago
Yes sure, but what I mean here is stuff, that can start interpersonal conflicts. To stay with the band example, different people will have different sensibilties around their equipment and how to respectfully treat it. If everybody does it
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by atoav 1y ago
Easy, they don't really compare. Dante is meant mostly for on premise, low latency audio transmition between audio equipment that is made by manufacturers willing to pay the fee. A normal Dante Network that likes to keep those low late
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by atoav 1y ago
It can be. But there can be speech where most reasonable people would agree that it should be regulated. E.g. if some dude walks up to your 5 year old child and starts to tell them in intricate detail about his violent sexual fantasy, pre
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by atoav 1y ago
I play in a band. Since we're just 4 people a code of conduct would be ridiculous. What isn't ridiculous however is that a group of people who do some shit together need to be somewhat on the same page what is acceptable and what
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by atoav 1y ago
I find problem-solving questions always pretty good at weeding out candidates. Give them a real world problem with a fictional situation from their future job and just ask how they would tackle the problem.
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by atoav 1y ago
A pretty niche application for these kind of shaker systems is monitoring for live musicians. As of now there are products for drummers and bass players that help them experience the bass response when they use in-ear minitoring systems, e.
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by atoav 1y ago
It is always interesting to view such principles as part of iterative feedback loop rather than the truthism it is: 1. Observation: 80% of users only interact with 40% of the software 2. Conclusion: lets cut part of that 60%, since those ar
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by atoav 1y ago
I guess most people don't care about our applications at all . They care about how it solves a problem they want or need to have solved. That is the starting point. You can get people to care if your application becomes a great tool f
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by atoav 1y ago
Aa with most environmental question it is always a question about what to count and how to value it. E.g. when a plastic bag is slowly mechanically ground into microplastic by the wind, weather and UV radiation how much would it cost to col
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by atoav 1y ago
One thing I have found to be a very valuable habbit is to first think about what your software has to do on paper and draw some shitty flow charts, lists and other things, without too much care about whether you will do it (especially if it
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by atoav 1y ago
Sure, but we do agree that Hello World is MORE¹ readable in Python compared to the equivalent program in say Brainfuck? print("Hello World") vs ++++++++[>++++[>++>+++>+++>+<<<<-]>+&gt
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by atoav 1y ago
Code readability isn't a metric. It is a tradeoff. It basically boils down to: if in doubt will that programmer go with the more readable version of the code or do they stick with the slightly terse, clever hack?
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by atoav 1y ago
That was my guess. Crossplatform Audio input isn't exactly as trivial as using pipewire.
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by atoav 1y ago
Many of the "people don't understand Exponential functions" posts are ultimately about people not understanding logistic functions. Because most things in reality that seemingly grow exponentially will eventually, unevitably
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by atoav 1y ago
Having been extensively on computers for the past 25 years and I have never experienced the whole keyboard-/mouse-pain thing even in the slightest on myself. I know many collegues who did tho. I wonder whether this has to do with me be
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by atoav 1y ago
Yeah good point. The question is how can we effectively change incentives in such way the decision-makers in big corporations will feel they are taking a personal risk that can ruin their lives instead of a situation where the worst that ca
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by atoav 1y ago
Normally I'd say the same, but it is a matter of what your goals are. Ifnyour goal is to try new things and learn about computers on the way, why the hell not write your own filesystem as well? If your goal is to gain wide adoption fas
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by atoav 1y ago
Of course diplomacy is key. But even if you're talking to a CEO there is value in being diplomatically truthful. Even a CEO can't bend physics for example. If they want you to make you transmit information between two sites faster
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by atoav 1y ago
> You've put forward a false dichotomy between punching my manager in the face and nodding along silently to everything I'm told. Frankly, both will get me fired pretty quickly. No I did not. I characterized a certain type of p
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by atoav 1y ago
It is pretty clear to me that many of the things companies do get away with would land regular Joe in jail with high reliability. I think we have to start making CEOs more liable for such things, especially when done on their explicit comma
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by atoav 1y ago
> Be careful what you wish for. We could enforce client-side scanning on the OS. Everything that appears on the screen is scanned and reported. Nope. Criminals can still just build their own devices with their own operating systems. We h

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