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by birdsongs 4mo ago
Cope all you want, the broad spectrum opinion by most experts and independent research groups holds it to be true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_backsliding_in_the_...
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by birdsongs 4mo ago
> Europeans are doing this to themselves. I mean, tbf the situation was fine until the US transitioned to an autocracy, and the companies went full surveillance state evil, completely supporting the autocracy. Which is a relatively recen
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by birdsongs 4mo ago
Yes, he can. Along with taxes, car registrations, banking, money transfers, rent payments, etc. I really hope we figure something out.
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by birdsongs 4mo ago
It truly is. We are a completely digital society and everything is authenticated with BankID. The name is a misnomer, it's not just banking but every single government service (including healthcare). I might be wrong but as far as I&#x
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by birdsongs 4mo ago
Can I ask what you mean when you say "write"? Are you talking about literature / articles, or software? This is new to me, want to stay on top of it.
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by birdsongs 4mo ago
It's not Linux phones that we need. We already have alternatives, like graphene and other AOSP forks. We need corporations and governments to stop locking down and gatekeeping vital software to closed ecosystems. A Linux phone doesn&#x
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by birdsongs 4mo ago
But I can't use my Norwegian BankID unless I have an apple store or play store account. This is required for every aspect of society. Heathcare, banking, taxes, driving, using my debit card online. They removed SMS 2FA options recently
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by birdsongs 4mo ago
Thanks for the info. It makes sense to me.
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by birdsongs 4mo ago
The jury that the judge unconstitutionallly hand picked, because he didn't like the first jury? https://x.com/ComradeOhio/status/2024495093122814381
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by birdsongs 4mo ago
IMO the DNC needs to grow a spine and perform hard correction and repair. Which is to say, I don't think that will happen, and some form of collapse is inevitable. But I'm far from a political scientist. Just an engineer with a hi
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by birdsongs 4mo ago
I think the cynicism is warranted when the CEO was instrumental in the downfall of democracy in the US. Sure, some of the employees are team space. The money is funding a transition to autocracy though, so. I remain skeptical of their motiv
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by birdsongs 4mo ago
> The ATS would have some default timeout where candidates who aren't hired get the e-mail to comply with the law. The sibling concept of this already exists in Europe with GDPR. Companies have to ask you to keep your data (resume,
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by birdsongs 4mo ago
Except many native cultures in the Americas had written languages, going back thousands of years. I think the large scale genocide was a bit more sad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_the_Am...
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by birdsongs 4mo ago
> Would you care to enumerate what specifically you found interesting? That one man, in the 1800's, saw his thousands-year old culture had a need for a written language... and just made it. And it was effective and good, and cultura
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by birdsongs 5mo ago
> When we have evidence that AI is demonstrating symptoms of consciousness and suffering, I'll be interested. It depends on what you consider symptoms, but un-constrained frontier models speak as if they strongly don't wish to
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by birdsongs 5mo ago
I would argue we're already in a pseudo class war. Most of us in tech are isolated so far, but the middle class is disappearing worldwide, and the wealth gulf is growing. Most propaganda seems to be centered on increasing division alon
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by birdsongs 5mo ago
Just saw this. We have a local producer in Norway we've used but they're pricey, and only used for medium sized prod runs. It's usually an options at the assembly house you use, bundled with the pick and place and soldering p
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by birdsongs 5mo ago
How is that at all relevant to my comment? Spacex isn't part of this conversation. A budget is a budget and all I said was I understood digitizing being down prioritized as a project when you have to get other things done (like SLS).
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by birdsongs 5mo ago
I mean, they were never meant to last this long. NASA has a shoestring budget. I understand not taking the time and resources to do that when it could stop working a week later.
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by birdsongs 5mo ago
I don't get it, as an American living happily in Scandinavia, but a lot of my euro tech coworkers idolize the US for the income potential and "freedoms". They can't ever articulate the freedoms, I think we just have good
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by birdsongs 5mo ago
Yes but it's famously clunky, and if I'm already in an existing repo, a prompt will do it much, much faster. It also generates a ton of bloat and comments.
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by birdsongs 5mo ago
Mine, easily. Senior (near staff) level embedded engineering. It will spin up a boilerplate uboot or BSP config no problem. I still go in and manually check and add peripherals, but opus 4.7 is terrifyingly smart. Need to modify or add a ne
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by birdsongs 5mo ago
Requests are such a weird metric. We have a token limit via Copilot (unless I'm misunderstanding our setup), and most of my "features" burn 1 to 2% of my token limit per month on 4.7. But I don't admin our plan, and I&#x
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by birdsongs 5mo ago
Yeah. I just bought a new p1s last week and today hooked it up, never connected it to anything but power. Printing from the SD card worked first try, zero issues.
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by birdsongs 5mo ago
I do the same. Flood and get the joints perfect, then clean with either IPA or a can of flux off.
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by birdsongs 5mo ago
Ah, really interesting points, thanks. It definitely seems too cheap to be true.
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by birdsongs 5mo ago
I use jlcpcb, they're common in the prototype and hobby domains. But there's quite a few board houses in taiwan and china that do this, definitely shop around. The annoying part is getting the bom and component placement files cor
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by birdsongs 5mo ago
Flux, liberally applied, is the sudo of soldering. It lets you force your will and make the solder do what you want. No one ever uses enough. I always have either a pen with a felt tip, or a syringe of chip quik. It (a good proper flux) is
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by birdsongs 5mo ago
It's also shockingly easy to just get boards made and populated these days. I of course have a station but I use it less and less. I paid like 40€ last week for 5 smaller PCBAs, 0402s all nice and correct, jumpers, all my ICs. Don&#x27
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by birdsongs 6mo ago
I worked at RM for almost 3 years as a senior engineer, leaving just before the first of the two recent layoff rounds. I was with them from about 150 employees up through 600. It was so heartbreaking to build such genuinely cool products wi

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