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by cbsks 1y ago
As Asimov predicted, robopsychology is becoming an important skill.
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by cbsks 1y ago
The killer application for me is that my wired Ethernet security cameras are on a VLAN that I firewall from the internet.
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by cbsks 1y ago
It’d be funny if he bought it then returned it to Mars.
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by cbsks 1y ago
I’m surprised that a “tech company” provides a Chromebook instead of a laptop.
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by cbsks 1y ago
What’s up with wvdbozpfc.com? There’s a bunch of random looking domain names: cmidphnvq.com, rpqihexdb.com, facebook.com. I’d guess they for advertising?
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by cbsks 1y ago
The keyword is "mono-monostatic", and the Gömböc is an example of a non-polyhedra one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6mb%C3%B6c Here's a 21 sided mono-monostatic polyhedra: https://arxiv
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by cbsks 1y ago
> Weapons expert Ted Postol of MIT claims Israel's missile defense is only intercepting around 5% Do you have a link to this? I’m curious to read more.
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by cbsks 1y ago
If you can transfer to another team internally, do it. Otherwise start looking for another job. I’ve done both to escape bad managers. In my experience there is no way to “fix” a bad manager. The only solution is to leave.
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by cbsks 1y ago
I’m terribly sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Fyre Festival 2 has been cancelled https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/music/new...
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by cbsks 1y ago
"REPENT, HARLEQUIN!" SAID THE TICKTOCKMAN Nebula Award, Best Short Story 1965 https://files.libcom.org/files/Repent,%20Harlequin%20said%20...
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by cbsks 1y ago
> Why not require two or three reviews if they are so helpful at finding mistakes? For secure software, e.g. ASIL-D, you will absolutely have a minimum 2 reviewers. And that’s just for the development branch. Merging to a release branch
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by cbsks 2y ago
https://oka.wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/OKA-2024-Annual-... Those are the 3 most viewed articles created by OKA editors in 2024
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by cbsks 2y ago
My deepest apologies.
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by cbsks 2y ago
Why not start now, Mr. INTPenis?
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by cbsks 2y ago
Skateboarding?
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by cbsks 2y ago
Have you talked to your manager about it? I’m at a large tech company and I know people who have requested to stay at their current level.
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by cbsks 2y ago
I interviewed at NUWC Keyport when I was in college. Seemed like an interesting place to work but they didn’t have any real programming roles at the time. My interviewer asked if I had experience with UML and talked about how he wanted some
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by cbsks 2y ago
You can also do the inverse and cook pasta like rice. Put pasta in a saucepan and just cover with water then bring to a boil until all the water has been absorbed, stirring occasionally. That has the advantage of keeping all the starch so y
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by cbsks 2y ago
Not a team player, I see. This will be reflected in your next performance review.
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by cbsks 2y ago
It’s a reference to 1984 by George Orwell. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_geography_of_Ninet...
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by cbsks 2y ago
Because the UK is “on our side”. We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.
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by cbsks 2y ago
There’s even an emulator that is super helpful when designing new complications https://www.sensorwatch.net/docs/firmware/simulate/focus/ The firmware code quality is good as well. Well documented and ea
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by cbsks 2y ago
NOAA publishes the harmonic coefficients for each tide station, so if you hard code those constants into your program you should be able to generate accurate tide predictions. I looked into it a bunch before it started to feel less fun and
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by cbsks 2y ago
Not yet. I’ll clean it up someday. But not today.
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by cbsks 2y ago
I’m excited for the replacement LCD. The stock display has a bunch of restrictions on which segments can be active at once https://www.sensorwatch.net/docs/wig/display/
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by cbsks 2y ago
There’s an algorithm you can use to calculate future tides but it’s complex and I wasn’t sure it would even run fast enough on the watch. I gave up after a few hours and ended up generating an array of high/low tide levels and times fo
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by cbsks 2y ago
For watch hackers, there is an alternate PCB with programmable microcontroller available for the F91W https://www.sensorwatch.net/ I got one for Christmas and it has been super fun to hack on. I programmed a new face for mi
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by cbsks 2y ago
Also see https://www.gentoo.org/
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by cbsks 2y ago
There’s a fascinating series of YouTube videos of someone buying and refurbishing a church organ https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLluPQLh1xzlI7EMB5qIxDd_1O...
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by cbsks 2y ago
Yes, there are serious drug interactions that can occur with MDMA. The one I’m most familiar with is not to take MDMA if you also take any MAOI, which is listed in that article. Being hospitalized would certainly lead to a bad trip, in my

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