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by frompdx 6y ago
For about 2.5 months I found myself unemployed during this mess so I picked up Starting Forth and taught myself how to program the Arduino Uno with FlashForth. My achievements are reading a thermometer and controlling a distance sensor. F
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by frompdx 6y ago
This will destroy any credibility the protesters have. It will stop being about police violence the instant this happens. I think protesters should continue to protest without violence and do everything they can to counteract the methods
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by frompdx 6y ago
Interesting. It wasn't that long ago that a team I was on was looking for a way to do something similar in TS. In our case we wanted our types to generate JSON schemas for ajv so we could do away with writing them by hand. This seem
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by frompdx 6y ago
The things that are of greatest interest to me: - No clock. Everything is asynchronous instead. This reduces power consumption. - Forth based processors. arrayForth is intended to be the first class development tool for the chip (accordi
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by frompdx 6y ago
As a Lisp fan this is very cool! I'm not really a game developer, but I like to play around with small games in Godot. I'm definitely going to give this a try for my next experiment.
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by frompdx 6y ago
Not sure if you can call it a startup, but I think the work that GreenArrays ga144 multi-computer chips for embedded applications is very interesting. One of these days I'd like to get my hands on an evaluation board, but the price is
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by frompdx 6y ago
Definitely interesting, but I don't see any mention of being able to use this interactively or incremental compilation, which is what makes Forth, Forth. Forth isn't just syntax. It's an operating system and a programable p
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by frompdx 6y ago
I worked the whole time and at times too hard. I've been employed in some capacity or another since I was 17. As I was approaching 30 I made a career change to tech. I did work too hard during this period because I was working full t
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by frompdx 6y ago
That's a pretty good trade. I'd like to get my hands at a Hasselblad at some point in the future. I might have to get a bigger closet first.
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Glad to see there are others on HN that are keeping film alive. The great thing about film cameras is they aren't obsolete until the film is impossible to find. Even then there are work arounds and modifications that can be made. A
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True, probably if I did not have my old macbook handy I would pay the $100. When it dies or becomes unusable I'll pay for VueScan. For now I'm telling myself I'm keeping two pieces of old tech out of the land fill. The spee
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by frompdx 6y ago
> do you have a PowerBook or iBook? I have this intel based macbook: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/specs/macbook-cor... > IIRC the Classic Environment was never supported on Intel, eve
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by frompdx 6y ago
> Where are you sourcing your film from Frequently, Amazon. I also buy from a local shop but Amazon usually has better prices as much as it pains me. The film I shoot is usually 400TX or HP5 for B&W. For color I usually shoot Ekta
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by frompdx 6y ago
I like old gadgets and collect them to have and to use. - Nikon LS-IV 35mm film scanner. - 2007 MacBook running OSX 10.4 because 10.4 is the last version to support Classic Environment which I need to use Nikon Scan for mac. Works great bu
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by frompdx 6y ago
> but to avoid combating parties one-upping each other with chemical warfare That policy makes sense and seems applicable to protests to prevent peaceful protests from escalating and becoming violent.
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None. I have been out of work for two months after my new employer decided to delay my start date indefinitely due to the pandemic. I've been searching for other jobs in the mean time. I wouldn't bother looking if I could swing
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by frompdx 6y ago
1. Process: I usually write about things that interest me or things that I think will be useful to someone else. For example I have a series of articles that supplement an existing learning tool for a popular programming language. I wrote
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by frompdx 6y ago
For me, some books are much easier than others and that plays a big role in how fast I finish reading. > are you spending literally the entire weekend doing nothing by reading? For the most part, yes. > Do you take breaks? Yes. > D
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by frompdx 6y ago
I really like Grokking Algorithms. You can probably read it in a weekend if you don't do the code exercises.
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by frompdx 6y ago
And one hour photo is now considered slow.
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by frompdx 6y ago
> you have my thoughts and prayers. Pretty much. The lesson learned for me was to always have version control for the complete stack including the infra for the stack. I like terraform for this. Terragrunt at least solves the issue of
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by frompdx 6y ago
Check out Cluster AutoScaler: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/cluster... This tool allows you to autoscale the cluster itself with various cloud providers. There is a list of cloud
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by frompdx 6y ago
> Might as well rent bare-metal servers. It will cost you less. Long term, but up front costs are what make cloud services appealing. FWIW, it's possible to minimize your idle VM costs to an extent. For example, you could use one o
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by frompdx 6y ago
> I don't get why people hate it. Because it is hard to manage the configuration. It's why tools like terraform exist. Anecdote. I worked for a small company that was later acquired. It turned out one of the long time employ
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by frompdx 6y ago
I have mostly used Kubernetes for Node.js apps and find it very useful for the following reasons: - Automatic scaling of pods and cluster VMs to meet demand. - Flexible automated process monitoring via liveness/readiness probes. - Simp
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by frompdx 6y ago
I have used DO for managed Kubernetes since it was available and I am very happy with it.
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by frompdx 6y ago
Why is it insane? Was there something about this company's stack that could have avoided Kubernetes in favor of something else?
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> So I'm looking for other fun yet informative places to kill some downtime. I usually try to use my downtime for personal development. In particular, I read books about programming/cs topics that interest me. Recently that h
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by frompdx 6y ago
As a counter question, what companies track productivity well enough to really know the answer to this and how do they do it? I feel like most responses will be anecdotes.
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> I quite frankly feel I'm only doing it for the money. I think this describes everyone's relationship to work. If your current employer stopped paying you would you keep showing up? If the more fulfilling job stopped paying

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