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by bsoles 10mo ago
Angela Collier has a 3-hour video on the topic (The Sham Legacy of Richard Feynman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwKpj2ISQAc ) with funny takes and criticism. It has been a while, so I cannot remember if she was criticizi
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by bsoles 10mo ago
> A lot of people quote this xkcd comic for each new implementation. However, this is not exactly the same. Well... It is exactly the same.
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by bsoles 10mo ago
> It creates robust, complex systems that work. You can tell yourself (as I did) that it can’t possibly do that, but you are wrong. Then show us this robust, complex code that was produced by vibe coding and let us judge for ourselves.
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by bsoles 10mo ago
Driving a buzzer directly from the GPIO pin will probably fry the output port if the buzzer draws anything more than about 20-50 mA.
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by bsoles 10mo ago
> It annoys me a little when people here talk about how worthless management is. I just want everyone to know that good management is very hard, ... People talk about how worthless management is, because most management is not good and m
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by bsoles 10mo ago
The "required" reading for newly minted managers in my $billion company was/is this shit called "One Minute Manager": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_Minute_Manager , including "one m
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by bsoles 11mo ago
Model reduction (for control systems), numerical precision control for matrix operations, eigenvalue computation, etc. as far as I understand.
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by bsoles 11mo ago
The most brilliant software developer (an EE PhD) that I have ever worked with has been using the singular value decomposition (SVD) to solve an enormous number of linear algebra and numerical computing problems in engineering software. The
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by bsoles 11mo ago
> How did we get to a place where either Cloudflare or AWS having an outage means a large part of the web going down? As always, in the name of "security". When are we going to learn that anything done, either by the governmen
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by bsoles 11mo ago
This again? You don't need a license to be an engineer. Every graduate of an engineering school at an accredited university/college IS an engineer. People seem to conflate an "engineer" with a "professional engineer
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by bsoles 11mo ago
The audience of software research is other software researchers. The expectation that a practicing CS graduate, even with a master's degree, should be able to read, understand, and apply in their work research articles published in aca
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by bsoles 11mo ago
> Summary: A dot product is a weighted sum of two vectors. Nope. This is incorrect. The dot product is a weighted sum of a vector's elements, where the weights are the elements of the other vector. Weighted sum of two vectors would
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by bsoles 1y ago
> having the slides effectively be lecture notes is great... This is usually considered a great sin by presentation gurus, even for lectures. For academic material, there would hopefully be a textbook as a reference material.
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by bsoles 1y ago
A lot of firmware people consider HAL libraries as harmful. In general, microcontroller companies as pretty terrible at software.
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by bsoles 1y ago
Not the OP. I have been happy so far with Proton Mail over the last 3 months. Moving my logins took some time, but I am pretty happy with Proton Pass for now and their other tools. The only dilemma that I have now is whether to use my own d
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You can now buy things through ChatGPT with new "Checkout" tool(cbsnews.com)
5 points by bsoles 1y ago|2 comments
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by bsoles 1y ago
And the main source: https://openai.com/index/buy-it-in-chatgpt/
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by bsoles 1y ago
At the risk of triggering whetstone enthusiasts, once you have a properly ground knife, all you need is a two-sided 3000/8000 grit stone. I find that I can resharpen my semi-fancy knives within minutes to cleanly cut a sheet of paper.
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by bsoles 1y ago
One of the first PCBs that I have tried to build as a 16 year old was a guitar pedal circuit from a German electronics magazine (Elo?). I used the sun as a UV source for the photoresist exposure, boiled iron chloride in my mom's Pyrex
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by bsoles 1y ago
Cloudflare is an evil company in the making. I would rather stop using email altogether than using their "private" service. No for-profit company should be in the business of blocking IP addresses' access to the Internet. I a
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by bsoles 1y ago
The Catholic Church should probably not talk about "intimacy" at all, given their track record. As much as I am not a big fan of AI/LLMs, I would love it if AI took the Church's job away.
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by bsoles 1y ago
Like when my company's bosses decided: - (pre-Covid) No working from home, face-to-face time is essential for innovation and collaboration. - (during Covid) We are doing a great job WFH. Our productivity did not decline. - (after Covid
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by bsoles 1y ago
Matlab is better than both at teaching numerical linear algebra. After all, it is the MATrix LABoratory.
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by bsoles 1y ago
A lot of hardware startups/projects use Raspberry Pis. You program in a real Linux environment and still have access to I2C, SPI, and serial ports, which lets you talk to all kinds of chips out there.
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by bsoles 1y ago
I used a Raspberry Pi 400 for couple years as my home computer and embedded software projects. It worked surprisingly well for my needs: internet browsing, C++ development, web development.
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by bsoles 1y ago
Same here. My Raspberry Pi Zero camera has been running non-stop for more than 2 years without a single issue.
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by bsoles 1y ago
> I sincerely really don't understand. This is utterly disingenuous. Do you really think "enforcing immigration laws" is what ICE is doing? Since when sending people to foreign countries without due process is a proper way
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by bsoles 1y ago
Or the medical doctor who invented Riemann integral in 2000s and actually published a paper in a medical(?) journal. It was hilarious.
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by bsoles 1y ago
Dijkstra's paper "On the cruelty of teaching computing science" makes a different distinction that is worth reading about. CS work as in developing algorithms, etc.; and "software engineering" in the sense of solvin
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by bsoles 1y ago
>> // This is a parser >> const port = option("--port", integer()); I don't understand. Why is this a parser? Isn't it just way of enforcing a type in a language that doesn't have types? I was

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