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by frompdx 5y ago
So, even self driving AI will demand more than the federal minimum wage?
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by frompdx 5y ago
I help manage some rental units for my family and it's definitely not passive income. It's not full time work, but something requires your attention regularly. There are plenty of pitfalls where you can find yourself losing mone
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by frompdx 5y ago
You can definitely find a used vending machine on craigslist. I see them regularly. Buying one isn't the hard part (maybe moving it). As others have said, finding a location for it and keeping it stocked is the hard part.
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by frompdx 5y ago
The linked articles about "Inquiring Based Learning" (IBL) seem to be making the claim that this type of teaching is somehow more effective than lecture based teaching. I'm not entirely convinced this is true. My doubt is i
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by frompdx 5y ago
My suggestion is to read Parkinson's law. Not everyone needs to contribute something every time. Some meetings include too many people anyway.
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by frompdx 5y ago
I have no desire or plans to return to the office. Everyone's experience is different, but for me remote work is a net positive. - Instead of commuting for two or more hours a day to travel a mere sixteen miles, I use that time for we
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by frompdx 5y ago
In addition to arduino-forth.com, definitely check out Starting Forth by Leo Brodie. It's a great book. Probably one of the best technical books out there. You can read it for free online. Sadly, it is out of print. You can find
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by frompdx 5y ago
One of these: https://www.amazon.com/HiLetgo-USBTiny-USBtinyISP-Programmer... It allows you to burn the FlashForth bootloader on an Arduino, or to re-burn the Arduino bootloader if you'd like to program your Arduino wi
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by frompdx 5y ago
Don't forget to grab a programmer. I use a HiLetgo USBTiny programmer. They go for about $8. Also, do some googling about how to work with Forth on the Arduino. Not too much out there but it should help round out the FlashForth doc
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by frompdx 5y ago
Personally I came across FlashForth last year and have had a lot of fun hacking on my Arduino boards with Forth.
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by frompdx 5y ago
I recommend trying both to see which one you like the most. If memory serves, Elm's architecture is inspired by the re-frame library for ClojureScript.
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by frompdx 5y ago
My tinfoil hat theory is that making local development difficult is the goal rather than a side effect. Why not just run the stack yourself if it's that easy? Better for Amazon if the development process for using their services invo
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by frompdx 5y ago
I think the idea is to run a regular http server locally that forwards requests to your lambda handler function for the purpose of testing. When you actually deploy your lambda, you just hook up the lambda handler function and leave the ht
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by frompdx 6y ago
I understand where some people are coming from. If you have kids, a small house or apartment, an incompatible work dynamic with your partner (they do sales, you do code), or some combination of those, WFH likely sucks. On the flip side, if
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by frompdx 6y ago
Starting Forth is a great programming book. One of the best I have read. I picked it up last year when I wanted to learn Forth for the purpose of programming ATMega with FlashForth as an alternative to using Arduino IDE or C. Forth reall
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by frompdx 6y ago
Yep, it was an aftermarket HD. The original was about half the size.
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by frompdx 6y ago
Indeed. But I definitely had a collection of MP3s on my Win95 machine as soon as Napster hit the scene. I was able to fit exactly one Blink 182 album on my 1GB hard drive. By the time my mom gave me her Pentium 2 Win95 machine when she u
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by frompdx 6y ago
My vote goes to either 2000 or NT4. Believe it or not I used NT4 as late as 2011 to load programs on an even older CNC lathe.
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by frompdx 6y ago
One of the most frustrating things for me about Windows 8/8.1/10 was the classic theme (Win95/NT style) was no longer a UI theme option without downloading something third party. It really is the thing that killed my interes
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by frompdx 6y ago
That page says Azure DNS is all good. Seems wrong.
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by frompdx 6y ago
Bunn VP17. I bought it after I got tired of how long it took to make coffee with a chemex.
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by frompdx 6y ago
I like this and submitted my own personal blog. Out of curiosity, are the blogs curated in any way to prevent the site from being overrun by blogspam? Some feedback, I think adding pagination to the "all" page would be nice, mayb
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by frompdx 6y ago
I love the play by email concept.
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by frompdx 6y ago
I do wish there was an http client/server component in the stdlib. That's probably my biggest gripe at the moment. I think things are evolving in the right direction though. Recent updates have added an event loop module and ha
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by frompdx 6y ago
I mostly add that some people argue it is not a lisp because frequently someone will comment saying Janet is not a lisp whenever I mention it in the context of other lisps.
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by frompdx 6y ago
The arguments I have seen are based on Janet using arrays/tuples rather than cons cells. Here is the author addressing this on reddit a while back. https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/aqwedz&#
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by frompdx 6y ago
Janet is a good option if you are looking for small binaries. Some people argue Janet is not really a lisp. Regardless, it has many lisp features you would expect like macros, is cross platform, and can produce statically linked binaries.
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by frompdx 6y ago
Out of curiosity, what is the objective of this?
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by frompdx 6y ago
Briefly, I looked on Reddit and Twitter to confirm HN was down. This was after I confirmed that my internet was still functioning. Then I finished my workout and tried not to instinctively refresh HN between sets. AAD was also down. Merc
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by frompdx 6y ago
Definitely not. I don't feel comfortable with the idea. It also really cramps my style if I decide I want to stay home one day.

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