gertlex

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by gertlex 11mo ago
Tell us more; what's driving this model as your choice? Or is it more of a "prefer getting similar to what I currently have, and this is the model that makes sense"?
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by gertlex 11mo ago
That's certifiably not fun :( Not that one ever should have to do such for medical equipment, but wonder if someone could grind down the firmer stuff on the first new mold, assuming it was kept... (Not really useful anecdote:) I rememb
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by gertlex 11mo ago
I haven't used telecoil since I had analog HAs, probably. I learned about the even lesser-known DAI (direct audio input) option before I got my first pair of digital HAs. Since then, I've used cables, and almost as long (15+ year
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by gertlex 11mo ago
I wear BTEs and got new earmolds made by phonak this past summer, but I'm in the US. I'd classify them as firm silicone, and doesn't seem 3d printed. Seems like the same material as the previous molds (which I wore for almos
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by gertlex 11mo ago
I'm in a similar age range (HAs since 1991 I guess). I also have fond recollections of the pre-digital HAs' sound. I'm using a pair of 8 yr old phonak BTEs, which have various levels of directionality focusing. (Actually, I&
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by gertlex 11mo ago
My pushing was failing for reasons I hadn't seen before. I then tried my sanity check of `ssh git@github.com` (I think I'm supposed to throw a -t flag there, but never care to), and that worked. But yes ssh pushing was down, was m
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by gertlex 11mo ago
My usecase for the steam controler was limited (robots); I've always used the dongle, and never needed/desired to explore direct bluetooth as an alternative.
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by gertlex 11mo ago
Indeed it does, I now see. Interesting!
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by gertlex 11mo ago
A niche usecase: it switches to a bluetooth connection instead of a usb dongle.
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by gertlex 1y ago
Planet/mindworms in Alpha Centauri :D
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by gertlex 1y ago
I assume that the extra regular (daily?) cycling of the battery in your car would have a notable effect on your vehicle battery's longevity. (But I'm very fuzzy on how battery improvements in the past ~decade have applied to &quo
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by gertlex 1y ago
Having had a chance to read more of the blog now, maybe the most pleasing part is your similar discovery of, "I'm writing my own kinematics, and generating plots of it is the fastest validation of that code". I did similar m
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by gertlex 1y ago
I can't quote it offhand, but it's stuff like: - Don't stick your camera on an arm and poke it around corners to see the opponent - No detachable parts? It's more nuanced than this. Not leaving "mines" I think
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by gertlex 1y ago
OP getting this robot working in about 3 months was insanely impressive. - guy whose back yard the scrimmages took place in
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by gertlex 1y ago
Feels like you're on a different tack here: improving your "own life" is different from solving "collective problems". Further, setting up solar + batteries solves a non-modest individual problem, but is not by itse
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by gertlex 1y ago
I'd assume they'd just do like European politicians do (so I hear), and advocate solely for privacy for politicians, not others. (advocate, as in write bills excluding themselves from being monitored)
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by gertlex 1y ago
I wonder how standard this globe size is. My mental one is the one we had at home that was about 15" in diameter I'd guess. Another comment talks about atmosphere being a 1 mm layer on a grapefruit... so definition of atmosphere e
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by gertlex 1y ago
Hard of hearing, from the midwest; also identified as Swedish by the accent guesser.
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by gertlex 1y ago
I didn't watch this yet but am going to be curious to hear how to not be divided about "we now have masked agents roaming the streets kidnapping people in broad daylight. In the United States.", when some clearly think there
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by gertlex 1y ago
A bit on the nose, and entirely serious: I moved to CA a decade ago to join a robotics company. I've since acquired a wife, house and dog. Wife loves to cook, and would love a 2nd dog that didn't choose me. I am a sucker for DIY.
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by gertlex 1y ago
splitlines() is sometimes nice for adhoc parsing (of well behaved stuff...) because it throws out whitespace-only lines from the resulting list of strings. #1 use-case of that for me is probably just avoiding the cases where there's a
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by gertlex 1y ago
My initial reaction to the hotel scene was: Ehhh, I like being able to read lips, as I wear hearing aids. But yeah, I'd happily just check in at a kiosk and get my room card that way. (And I'm sure phone-as-key, no-contact check-i
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by gertlex 1y ago
Thanks for the reply! I was not thinking/claiming individual cells had a BMS on them, but was referring to the "pack" level protections. Your mentioning of specific failure modes helps me, specifically breaking up the failure
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by gertlex 1y ago
How much is this mitigated by well-behaved charging circuitry? I.e. my understanding is most devices are not like the 3s lipos I put in my hobby robots, but instead have integrated charging circuitry that you just give an appropriate voltag
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by gertlex 1y ago
The 'Acquired' podcast episode on Ikea speculates that their "buy in person" was historically a cost advantage (especially over pre-assembled furniture that cost $$$ to deliver), as they didn't have to pay shipping&
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by gertlex 1y ago
I always enjoyed documenting things. So got great delight out of carefully asking the few questions I was really stuck on on stack overflow... and then half the time later coming up with a solution and adding that good answer. (Mostly this
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by gertlex 1y ago
Thought at first this was maybe just being applied to external product demos, but this reads like dev demos, too: > Since most of the time you're demoing something you previously worked on, this prevents you from working on current
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by gertlex 1y ago
>> The bulk of the rents is captured instead by providers of health-care services such as hospitals and the system’s true money-makers: insurers, pharmacy-benefit managers and other middlemen taking advantage of its opacity. > As a
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by gertlex 1y ago
Yep! where the green arrow is pointing is what I was ascii-lustrating
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by gertlex 1y ago
That was my general sense. And that "nominal" is really easy to identify visually with a (relatively slow) scan. I'd guess that means it's a clear quality control thing you (i.e. battery pack makers who are buying the

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