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Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life(toaster.llc)
843 points by davekeck 2y ago|299 comments
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by davekeck 2y ago
Totally agree, the time to crack down on these devices was before they were needed in the first place. Apple created this situation, I just hope they don't feel the need to "fix it". Given their sensitivity to bad PR, I'
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by davekeck 2y ago
> I wish @Apple would devote an employee or two to cracking down on such a technological, psychological abomination as this. What can Apple do though? Any change that cracks down on this will render these devices unusable for thousands o
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by davekeck 2y ago
I’ve heard that explanation a few times but I find it very hard to believe that's the primary reason. I can't imagine Costco would devote two workers full-time to that -- it’s simply against their lean philosophy. That's the
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by davekeck 2y ago
My main beef with Costco is exiting the store, where they insist on checking your receipt as a loss-prevention measure. The presumption of guilt irks me way more than it probably should.
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by davekeck 2y ago
I don't know if it "deserves to be known" but I made debase to make git editing easier: https://toaster.llc/debase
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by davekeck 2y ago
A proposal: for a trial period of 2 years, allow businesses to open without any red tape. Fire / plumbing / electrical / etc inspections are scheduled for the earliest slot, but doesn't prevent the business from opening.
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by davekeck 2y ago
What verbiage would you deem acceptable, if "claims" and "hallucinates" are both out?
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by davekeck 2y ago
When I was researching what SD card to use for a camera product a few years ago, Samsung's high-endurance cards were by far the best bang for the buck endurance-wise. The choice ultimately came down to Samsung "PRO Endurance"
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by davekeck 3y ago
https://youtu.be/xjtmEoGszeA?t=24
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by davekeck 3y ago
> Cost was 330 USD for PCB manufacturing and assembly of two PCBs and additional 225 EUR (240 USD) for components from Digikey that I soldered myself. This is including 24% VAT and shipping costs.
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by davekeck 3y ago
> (Neither Tan nor Collin responded to requests for comment.) I love that they tried to reach Jia. I keep thinking how interesting this story would become if Jia did actually show up again.
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by davekeck 3y ago
> then some lower probability tokens may be chosen Can you explain how it chooses one of the lower-probability tokens? Is it just random?
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by davekeck 3y ago
I'd set one up myself but I'm worried I might look like a grifter. Anyone here with more OSS credibility interested in setting one up? I'm ready to donate...
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GoFundMe for Lasse Collin, xz maintainer
37 points by davekeck 3y ago|9 comments
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by davekeck 3y ago
Sounds like our projects have a lot in common. I had my boards made in China but the yield was also not great (~80%). I had to repair a lot of them after they arrived, but from what I learned I think I could get close to a 100% yield if I d
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by davekeck 3y ago
I definitely need to improve the marketing! I'm working on adding some professional shots of the device. In the meantime I can send you a unit in exchange for feedback if you're interested -- email in my profile.
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by davekeck 3y ago
The video (very end) and the website both say 192k. Where did you see 2150?
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by davekeck 3y ago
Really appreciate the feedback. Can I ask what platform you'd be interested in using the software on? I'm 100% with you on e-waste -- I hate that we throw out so much of our tech so quickly. (I used my 2016 iPhone SE as my main ph
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Effects of Sunlight on a Camera PCB(toaster.llc)
9 points by davekeck 3y ago|7 comments
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by davekeck 6y ago
I had the same question for the naming of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which IMO should be named "Linux Subsystem for Windows" The best explanation I can think of is that the people naming it wanted the first word to emphasi
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by davekeck 6y ago
> not enough to influence someone who thinks in 4 commas According to Wikipedia, her net worth is 16,000,000. (I must be missing some commas somewhere.) You don't think offering someone 4% of their net worth to speak for an hour cou
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by davekeck 6y ago
> - represent bool `true` with ~0 in the ABI So `true` would be 0xFFFFFFFF (assuming 32 bit)? Can you explain the advantage of that? Presumably 0 through 0xFFFFFFFE would be considered false?
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by davekeck 8y ago
On macOS you can monitor the progress of many commands with Ctrl-T. With cp for example: $ cp Test Test2 ^T load: 3.42 cmd: cp 86526 running 0.01u 4.36s Test -> Test2 6%
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by davekeck 10y ago
Regarding error context: I'd advocate simple error-chaining using a linked list. If a function fails, it returns an error wrapping the underlying error as the cause, and so on up the stack. The top of the stack can inspect or print the
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by davekeck 10y ago
But a number between 0 and 1 could be arbitrarily close to 0 and 1, which I thought could be proved to be equal to 0 or 1, which are integers. So isn't this not necessarily a contradiction?
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by davekeck 11y ago
I don't see a race -- the article says: "Take no action when SIGINT is received while you wait for a child. You make a note of the fact that you did receive it, though." Then, after waiting on the child, "Look at whether
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by davekeck 12y ago
Reference cycles aren't a problem for GCs because any objects that aren't reachable from a root set of nodes are considered garbage and get collected. (I only read part of the article, but hopefully that answers your question...)
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by davekeck 12y ago
> people expect the display to become the only visible component of the computer ... from a usability as well as a design perspective I'm not sure putting the ports on the rear of the e.g. iMac improves usability. It certainly looks
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by davekeck 12y ago
Geez this wesolows guy seems bitter as hell. I guess it's helpful to have a reference of what not to become as we grow older.

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