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by bigiain 2y ago
I don't trust FaceID (technically, I don' trust the cops with FaceID), so I'm entering my (6 digit) PIN every time I take my phone out of my pocket anyway. The only thing that'd make me hesitate to set this down to singl
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by bigiain 2y ago
Lots of quadcopter flight controllers use 9DOF IMUs , with 3 gyros, 3 accelerometers, and 3 compasses. The absolute directional data from the compasses solves (at least most of) the angular/gyro drift. The translational drift is harder
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by bigiain 2y ago
Lidar would reveal your drone existence and location to the, ummm, "park rangers" when you are “delivering supplies” to “lost hikers” in GPS-denied environment.
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by bigiain 2y ago
Inexpensive barometric sensors are _remarkably_ sensitive too. Like enough precision to detect less than 10cm or 4" changes in height/altitude. Note that's "sensitive", not "precise". The atmosphere change
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by bigiain 2y ago
Looks like it doesn't handle year transitions nicely? In NSW Australia, it shows 11 days between Dec 21 and Dec 31, but Jan 1 is a public holiday here and you capsule add Jan2&3 plus the following weekend to get 16 days 21 Dec 2024
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by bigiain 2y ago
So did Australia.
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by bigiain 2y ago
FWIW, I'm 57 soon. Old enough that I could totally be some random HN poster's grandfather...
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by bigiain 2y ago
There was always something intensely satisfying about walking into some retail store and seeing boxes on the shelf containing CDs with software I'd written. (On the flip side, there was that one time we had to destroy 5,000 CDs because
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by bigiain 2y ago
Same sort of timeframe, a project I worked on used netwoking via mobile hotspots on a bunch of Android phones with SIMs from a provider that used CGNAT. If the target websites wanted to block that, they'd be blocking well over 10% of a
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by bigiain 2y ago
WordPress right now is very much a "Let's wait and see what happens in the Matt/WPEngine debacle before committing to any new projects" kind of choice. There is a non zero chance that Matt/Automattic/wordpress.
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by bigiain 2y ago
I have gut feel (perhaps only because my echo chamber includes the Rust Evangelism Task Force) that Rust/WASM is likely to become the go to stack for complex web apps. Google (collectively) have written quite a bit about Rust adoption
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by bigiain 2y ago
I wonder if this technique could be used in typical stepper motor controlled "step counting" 3d printers and CNC mills, to provide closed loop servo-like control? Have real time micrometer-precision measurements of your x, y, and
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by bigiain 2y ago
The DYI Drones and Ardupilot comminities were using mouse sensors to do "optical flow sensing" for accurate low altitude position hold around 10 or so years back. https://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/common-
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by bigiain 2y ago
That QNX demo floppy was _magical_ back in the late 90's, revealing just how fast things _could_ feel on a 486 DX2 or DX4 CPU compared to the same use on Linux/Windows at the time. I've always had a somewhat positive view of
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by bigiain 2y ago
I disagree. Like @turtlebits, I was waiting for the part of the story where websocket connections between their AWS resources somehow got billed at Amazon's internet data egress rates.
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by bigiain 2y ago
> "blocked access to baways.com because it’s in our database of phishing and malicious domains" Which amusingly (but not for you, since you can't see it) is one of the main topics in the article, that the security breach u
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by bigiain 2y ago
Chk-cah Chk-cahhhhhh
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by bigiain 2y ago
The whole The Seduction of Claude Debussy album by Art Of Noise is _sublime_. (For the art, I don't even recall if it does anything interesting stereophonically...)
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by bigiain 2y ago
Can I take Karin Dreijer from Fever Ray instead?
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by bigiain 2y ago
Sevdaliza is _so_ good.
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by bigiain 2y ago
> Employee metrics are useful for a big picture view. Which "employee metrics" do you find useful for that? Because in my experience, it's pretty much guaranteed to be someone who isn't anywhere near leading on the ty
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by bigiain 2y ago
> Helping a colleague doesn't show up on the dashboards? Fuck that. Digging into what looks like a security vulnerability isn't on the sprint board? Fuck that. Managers who are the sort of people who don't value helping yo
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by bigiain 2y ago
> There are servers needed for the app to work, right? But why? This is described as "a simple app, in which we listed all the recipes we ever prepared, and it would propose randomly three of them. We would then choose together one
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by bigiain 2y ago
Anyone seen Jia Tan around lately?
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by bigiain 2y ago
There is a "here's ours" link in the first sentence on the homepage. Sadly the css hides all it's link styling. (Proper "brutalist webdesign" would have that as underlined blue text)
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by bigiain 2y ago
At least the links have nofollow on them (so only the ignorant/lazy/fraudulent SEO bottomfeeders will try to abuse this. Which I guess, to a first approximation, is "all of them"...)
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by bigiain 2y ago
Nice. Reminds me of this: https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/
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by bigiain 2y ago
Not everyone is as chill about that as you. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/06/20/a-quanti...
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by bigiain 2y ago
"I took down prod and accidentally dropped the entire db table of real customer transaction data. But I've got a date tonight with that new hottie from the gym." = Good day.
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by bigiain 2y ago
That's my "secret weapon" when flying. Foam earplugs inside noise cancelling headphones. Even on short 1hr flights, it's amazing how much less stressed and more relaxed I find myself after disembarking. I can get 8 or mo

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