cptskippy

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by cptskippy 9mo ago
> UPFs I think the current NOVA Classification for Ultra Processed Foods is flawed and often drops food containing preservatives and stabilizers into the same bucket as nutritionally poor items. It also doesn't do a good job disting
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by cptskippy 9mo ago
> I wonder why the big players (Google, Apple, Samsung, HTC) haven't made a big-corp product for this market. Because it impacts ARPU. It's really not that difficult, you're the product being sold.
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by cptskippy 10mo ago
That was a lot of exposition to refute what was clearly a joke.
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by cptskippy 10mo ago
The Venn Diagram of people who ride motorcycles purely for entertainment, and people who like to annoy others by being loud and obnoxious is just a circle.
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by cptskippy 10mo ago
> ...after trying electric bikes... I felt they were like toys. > ...a motorcycle...it's more about a hobby, fun. I don't think you have successfully articulated why EV motorcycles are a struggle. If anything you've cr
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by cptskippy 10mo ago
Given the silicone rubber covering over the button, I wouldn't expect the hardware to last much longer anyways.
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by cptskippy 11mo ago
I just made the discovery the other day that there are two Arduino IDEs, the old crusty one maintained by Arduino.org and the new hotness maintained by Arduino.cc. I'd been using the Arduino.org version which had mostly driven me to us
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by cptskippy 11mo ago
> But I've only programmed Esp32s using the arduino dev environment. Well you can use PlatformIO/VSCode and the ESP-IDF. If you're ok with the Arduino 2 framework, then you can use PlatformIO as well. Unfortunately Arduin
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by cptskippy 11mo ago
> Currently, they seem to favor xml-rs which only implements a subset of XML. What in particular do you find objectionable about this implementation? It's only claiming to be an XML parser, it isn't claiming to validate agains
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by cptskippy 11mo ago
> They’re calling it “Window AI.” Was this intentional or just a complete lack of attention to detail? Even their own screenshot contradicts this. Does it matter? Yes. "Window AI" suggests there is an AI manager, where as &q
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by cptskippy 11mo ago
Is there anything preventing a Matter product from also requesting an IP address from your DHCP server and getting a route out to the internet?
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by cptskippy 11mo ago
Having network access is my primary concern. The protocol was developed by the largest adware companies on the planet... I'm sure someone will chime in and say you can setup a VLAN and restrict all Matter devices from the internet yad
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by cptskippy 1y ago
> Gen 2, however, had no excuses. They had every opportunity to add active cooling and they still decided to go with just air cooling. The Lizard pack in the later Nissan Leafs has held up surprisingly well. I have a 2015 that still get
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by cptskippy 1y ago
> Some of my new TVs won’t even let me use the microphone on the remote until I give it my WiFi password. What brand?
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by cptskippy 1y ago
TLS certs use to be about Identity as much as they were about encryption. There was a pay wall to being able to have encrypted communications with clients that was the equivalent of a colonoscopy over fax machine. Today that takes the form
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by cptskippy 1y ago
When did browsers stop respecting CAs managed at the OS level?
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by cptskippy 1y ago
This is spot on. Arduino occupies a space that everyone else vacated a long time ago.
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by cptskippy 1y ago
> I've used the ESP32 native tools and they are a lot more complex than Arduino. How so? All of that is abstracted away from the users just like it is for Arduinos. In fact you can use the Arduino IDE to develop for most ESP32 chi
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by cptskippy 1y ago
Unlimited time and money will not make someone like me a John Carmack level programmer. There are a finite number of individuals operating at his level or above and having them hyper optimize code is a poor use of their time.
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by cptskippy 1y ago
> The problem is that even for things like consoles, it's usually more "cost efficient" to write normal fast-to-write code that isn't maximally effective, let the compiler do its magic, and call it good enough. Given
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by cptskippy 1y ago
Not the Op but I have PM 2.5 sensors in my house. There is one next to the stove, another in the main bedroom above the kitchen, another in the office above the main bedroom, and another in the garage. Here's two samples. One was las
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by cptskippy 1y ago
Responsibility is nice, accountability is nicer. Having to testify before Congress or pay a sub percentage point of annual profits in fines is not accountability.
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by cptskippy 1y ago
The problem is so prevalent that Microsoft has a PowerToy specifically for OCRing pixels. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/text-ext...
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by cptskippy 1y ago
Unless the App Developer has chosen to blanket deny screenshots. This is common on view accepting payment information but blanket application is also common.
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by cptskippy 1y ago
It also has errors with the locations of ZIP Codes. 92018 is on the coast but it's shown as near Ramona CA. 92010 doesn't exist.
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by cptskippy 1y ago
ZIP codes are the route a mail truck takes to deliver mail. That mail truck begins and ends it's route at a specific Post Office. The +4 portion of the ZIP code denotes where along the route something is such that mail can be sorted
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by cptskippy 1y ago
What about the other 95% of the time?
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by cptskippy 1y ago
> Most of the problems here come down to x86 laptops not implementing proper S3 sleep but only “modern standby”, which attempts to emulate the sleep mode that Apple uses that allows for emails to be fetched etc while in a near-sleep low-
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by cptskippy 1y ago
My Framework is a personal device, not for work. I might use it once a day or less for a couple hours or less. It was 100% charged this past Saturday night when I picked it up off the charger. I used it for an hour or two looking for doi
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by cptskippy 1y ago
> The main thing I learned from this submission is how much people hate Nvidia. I think there's a lot of frustration with Nvidia as of late. Their monopoly was mostly won on the merits of their technology but now that they are a mo

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