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by bsoles 5mo ago
Once I have developed a technique for soldering surface mount components, using lots of flux, soldering became a joy event for me. The cheapest Hakko iron (888?) and a flat fine tip works great. I have a stereo microscope but I only use it
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by bsoles 5mo ago
And eigenvectors in the first lesson!
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by bsoles 5mo ago
I have never been able to stream video from a raspberry pi zero's official camera. What tools/software were you using?
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by bsoles 5mo ago
> gparted wasn't to blame. I was. I don't know about gparted, but I always felt that "rm -i" should have been the default. The safe option should always be the default and you can optionally make it unsafe. Same goes
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by bsoles 5mo ago
Agent skills are ways of turning over our means of (software) production to our employers, while making ourselves obsolete at the same time. In the recent past, a (software) professional had to be continuously employed by their employer to
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by bsoles 5mo ago
The "design thinking" BS led many UX designers to think that they can come into any project and design user interfaces without really understanding the field, the customers, nor the application. I have seen this in my own organiza
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by bsoles 6mo ago
My favorite Jane Austen quote on this subject: Perhaps,' said Darcy, 'I should have judged better, had I sought an introduction, but I am ill qualified to recommend myself to strangers.' 'Shall we ask your cousin the rea
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by bsoles 6mo ago
One of my worst experiences as a junior member of our interview team was when a candidate was "walked out" when the hiring manager decided that the person was not going to work out. I still feel embarrassed about it myself. What a
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by bsoles 6mo ago
I never really understood Kalman filters, but there was a time I knew how to design non-optimal state (Luenberger?) observers, which are a lot easier to design and implement. I wonder if discussing those first would make things easier for t
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by bsoles 6mo ago
Another CTO "published" an AI slop to get attention to their vibe-coded company that will disappear in two years. Tell me something new...
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by bsoles 7mo ago
> Linear algebra is amazing. The entire control systems theory is basically various applications of linear algebra. Like Kalman Filter that got us to the moon. Simply amazing.
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by bsoles 7mo ago
I regularly try to donate to KiCad, FreeCad, and LibreOffice. They all have been terrific resources for me. Screw Microslop.
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by bsoles 7mo ago
His article "On the cruelty of really teaching computing science" ( https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD103... ) really resonated with me in the past, albeit it might be enforcing
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by bsoles 7mo ago
I don't know exactly how these things work, but you may run into copyright/TM issues with Deque's Axe tool: https://www.deque.com/axe/devtools/
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by bsoles 7mo ago
Also same experience here. I can write UART code with DMA in 20 lines of code on an STM32 microcontroller. Same functionality using HAL is astonishingly cumbersome. The reference manual and willingness to read it is all you need.
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by bsoles 7mo ago
I find that encapsulation of devices (UART, I2C, etc.) as classes in C++ rather than global functions that take structs, etc. as input arguments in C to be much more manageable. Same for device drivers for individual sensor ICs.
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by bsoles 7mo ago
> I will vote for and donate to candidates who also want to fight ... Fight for what? I bet to change one or more of the things that I have mentioned above. I have said "nothing will change" unless these things change; I didn&#
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by bsoles 7mo ago
Why would you claim that my statement is defeatist? It is just acknowledging the reality of how things work nowadays without saying anything about giving up. If anything, it cautions people that change will not come easily and to be prepare
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by bsoles 7mo ago
> So the solution here is straightforward: every government grant should ... People who write such sentences have no idea what they are talking about or are being intentionally naive for whatever reason. Just because your one-sentence so
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by bsoles 7mo ago
Dyson is Juicero of vacuum cleaners. So much "tech" for something so simple. A $100 Home Depot shop vacuum works as good if not better.
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by bsoles 7mo ago
Back in the day, I was running AutoCAD on a 386 PC. Now, a single Firefox tab consumes 500MB of memory. That is progress for us.
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by bsoles 7mo ago
Even on a specific STM microcontroller (STM32G031), the LLM tools invent non-existent registers and then apologize when I point it out. And conversely, they write code for an entire algorithm (CRC, for example) when hardware support already
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by bsoles 7mo ago
>> "securely" (my emphasis) connect medical records and wellness apps” to generate health advice and responses. No, no, no, and no. Are we going to never learn. Sharing medical data with AI tools is going to come back and bi
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by bsoles 8mo ago
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” - Trump Just replace Mexico with America. There
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by bsoles 8mo ago
If only I knew enough finance about making a lot of money from the impending collapse of this AI stupidity and the stupidity of AI grifters. I would put real money on it if anybody has suggestions.
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by bsoles 8mo ago
People who are normally perceived as non-boring (like talkative, outgoing, friendly-by-default people) are usually insufferable for me. People who are initially perceived as boring (like quiet, introspective, focused people) are more fascin
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by bsoles 8mo ago
If you vibe coded any software, by definition, it means you have no skills and no taste.
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by bsoles 8mo ago
>> "Either we hire good CS people who have the basic understanding of EE, and we train them to become good engineers, or we hire good engineers who are good in CS, and we try to upskill them on the CS side." The former (CS -
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by bsoles 8mo ago
Outsourcing their thinking is going to be the stupidest thing humans ever did and we won't even be smart enough to understand that this is the case.
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by bsoles 8mo ago
The title should have said "Antropic stole GCC and other open-source compiler code to create a subpar, non-functional compiler", without attribution or compensation. Open source was never meant for thieving megacorps like them. No

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