gertlex

8 ms·

91.
by gertlex 1y ago
I just happen to have been reading this past week, the Digital Antiquarian's IBM PC release overview (4 parts). This covers comparing Gates and Kildall (and includes e.g. the uncertainty of what actually happened with that "flyin
92.
by gertlex 1y ago
> Silicon Valley, the population of ordinary people residing there, 10 years ago (2015), heaved diversity. In corporate employment, it took decades to break through gender and race ceilings in industry to various degrees, but it largely
93.
by gertlex 1y ago
I had that thought of "existing installers are sus..." but didn't connect to "fingerprinting it as malware". Makes sense. Couple questions as savvy tech person but not working day-to-day in security/IT: Would a
94.
by gertlex 1y ago
Looks like it's a vulnerability in the installer . From a small bit of skimming, sounds like it's a user escalation vector, where a low privileged user can run the installer in a contrived manner to achieve privilege escalation.
95.
by gertlex 1y ago
As the other comments note, yep, it's been done. It seems there's a whole spectrum from lifting houses to put a new first floor below them, to moving them a bit, to moving them several blocks in a city. (to big building projects t
96.
by gertlex 1y ago
Kind of a counterpoint?: they weren't luxury, but they were higher-end. Newer tech, more metal... I didn't have an ipod in this timeframe (got a 2nd gen iPod touch in 2009), so instead had a half dozen cheap, plasticky, LCD, low-s
97.
by gertlex 1y ago
Looks like the 5th gen Ipod was the thing in 2005/2006, per wikipedia. Sounds like I graduated HS +/- a year or two of the author. In that time frame... I was using sub-GB MP3 players, with MMC cards or maybe SD cards by that poi
98.
by gertlex 1y ago
Gotcha! My main reason for advocating for byobu is it's more beginner/defaults-friendly. I've never customized it, nor fully learned its hotkeys. In my case, we have dev robots with byobu installed, and it's much easier
99.
by gertlex 1y ago
I'm sure it's manageable with proper software, as I had no such issue back in the day with my Xperia Z5(?) compact. (That said, I get similarly cranky about various gestures that just don't reliably work in some cases. I desp
100.
by gertlex 1y ago
I really appreciate this method of sharing workflows. Well catered to the audience. Actually was slightly hoping there'd be sound to the vid, too, but reading the list of actions after-the-fact was reasonable. I learned a few things I
101.
by gertlex 1y ago
Regarding your edit: The setup you describe, "how do I get my motor to turn", is lower level than ROS. Typically if I had a robot with a microcontroller to control a motor, I'd write some bespoke code (or find libraries, suc
102.
by gertlex 1y ago
> > a few years ago, the IRS stopped allowing the $1M to be deducted > It was Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which amended IRS code. And took effect in 2022 (per what I've read elsewhere, and other comments on this p
103.
by gertlex 1y ago
I think partially dismissing the question due to the bill happening "under trump" doesn't help the conversation here. If the bill was sponsored by particular reps/senators, then it's worth identifying those, so thei
104.
by gertlex 1y ago
I hadn't considered that, admittedly. It seems like that would make the information highly likely to be present... I've admittedly got an absence of anecdata of my own here, though: I don't go buying things with ingredient li
105.
by gertlex 1y ago
Feels like you're comparing how LLMs handle unstandardized and incomplete marketing-crap that is virtually all product pages on the internet, and how LLMs handle the corpus of code on the internet that can generally be trusted to be at
106.
by gertlex 1y ago
Another comment mentioned along the lines of, "it's the goto used by developers in readmes", and I suspect it's more specifically javascript-adjacent developers (as is the case where I work) The "render locally&quot
107.
by gertlex 1y ago
The couch emoji I'd agree with! I suspect the others are far less common activities than browsing phone or lounging :)
108.
by gertlex 1y ago
What single emoji would you choose instead? It seems reasonable to me.
109.
by gertlex 1y ago
Indeed. My intended purpose of such a tool would be to crudely illustrate the impracticality of everyone aspiring to such housing ;)
110.
by gertlex 1y ago
> You need to be strategic about where you live (e.g. buying the house ... I wonder what % (presumably low) of the population can live in SFHs and achieve this cities like Seattle. I should try finding if there's available work that
111.
by gertlex 1y ago
GIMP did this too. Bless Irfanview and Inkscape for having color icons still...
112.
by gertlex 1y ago
Ahh, you seem to be referring to two-directional (two-way) communication, and I took it to mean rotational direction. Was imagining servos analogous to devices that simply power a motor in on/off states, so can't reverse.
113.
by gertlex 1y ago
Curious: what is an example of a robotics servo motor with one-directional control? My experience around such started with pwm hobby servos, includes dynamixels, and I've worked with larger stuff using harmonic drive gearboxes. Can&#x2
114.
by gertlex 1y ago
I haven't regularly bookmarked sites in a decade or more. The bookmarks are in my head, and I can live with the Omnibar mostly reliably surfacing the things I didn't finish, and later recall and want to pick up. That said, I&#x27
115.
by gertlex 1y ago
Windows are a good solution, except, MS Windows (my home desktop) makes it not a good solution. I'm pretty sure the ordering of my 4 firefox windows used to stay fixed (i.e when clicking the tray icon, and seeing the 4), but this stopp
116.
by gertlex 1y ago
I'm sure there's more that could be shared about how "wants" were determined, which would counter my off-the-cusp thought here, but anyways: Yes... my ideal would be for facebook feed to be a once-a-week addiction (maybe
117.
by gertlex 1y ago
Fair question! My speculation here comes from thermistors being relatively common replacement parts. (clothes dryers, ovens) As you mentioned, temperature-invariant is tricky, and I think it's often a non-linear but close-enough for t
118.
by gertlex 1y ago
I bet some manufacturers don't even use temperature sensors in many models, and just assume an approximate incoming water temperature, and heat for a fixed time period according to calculations on amount of water in the system. This g
119.
by gertlex 1y ago
It is unsurprising that it varies by country, etc. Below is pure speculation while eating a snack: Likely dishwashers for the NZ market are designed to actually spend sufficient time heating the water. My impression from watching the TC vid
120.
by gertlex 2y ago
Probably more: "I'll save my energy for interacting with AI for something more useful to me"

More ›