hoopladler

10 ms·

1.
by hoopladler 9y ago
What's the reason why they can't make bigger chips? More costly?
2.
by hoopladler 9y ago
I think there have been a number of studies showing that poverty does directly make people unhappy, though - or at the very least, happiness is definitely correlated with wealth. Being poor is extremely stressful. Being stressed is not nece
3.
by hoopladler 9y ago
I think it was always a bit like this. You can read what people thought about advertising in the 60's, and they had the same kind of paranoid fantasies we have today, although less focused on tech, more on psychology. In reality, adver
4.
by hoopladler 9y ago
Thanks for the post! I guess there are a few things that might make these projects less of an unmitigated disaster than your analysis suggests: 1. Musk is clearly working off the common delusion that 'getting in at the ground floor&#x2
5.
by hoopladler 9y ago
I'm actually kind of embarassed by how innacurate my post was, but I can't edit it with corrections.
6.
by hoopladler 9y ago
No, I'm just confused. I used lambda when I meant ternary operator.
7.
by hoopladler 9y ago
Turing reportedly believed that programming would require “a great number of mathematicians of ability”. I think if you want to find a trend in computing, it's the same as the progression in other industries. Tooling replaces raw abili
8.
by hoopladler 9y ago
Wow - that is beautiful. You're almost certainly right about good metal-milling CNC machines never being cheap. I think the only possibility to make such a thing economical would be by re-purposing car parts (I think if you could work
9.
by hoopladler 9y ago
I don't think you're wrong. I do think that a pick-and-place machine is probably more compatible with the hobbyist world than home CNC - given that CNC inherrently requires robust construction, and robust, accurate components are
10.
by hoopladler 9y ago
I guess I figure you don't have to be good at something for it to be worthwhile. As a human, no matter how steady your hand or sharp your eye, you're always going to be inferior in manufacturing basically anything than our new rob
11.
by hoopladler 9y ago
Isn't this literally the point of computers? A processor is something that does amazingly stupid stuff 1.3 million times a second. If you do even very simple things rapidly enough, you can get amazing results.
12.
by hoopladler 9y ago
That man is honestly the most entertaining and informative tv-show I've ever watched.
13.
by hoopladler 9y ago
Well, you can actually do stuff a 3d printer does by other means. It just typically requires more skills, and often more equipment. I think your analogy falls down because an automatic bottlecapper does the same thing as you'd normally
14.
by hoopladler 9y ago
I've got pretty bad essential tremor (and bad eyeseight), so I was also wondering, what's a good way to keep the chips in place on the board? I was thinking of using a tiny dab of superglue.
15.
by hoopladler 9y ago
A replacable battery doesn't cost 150$. It's just one screw. The reason why headphones are much cheaper than hearing aids is mainly economies of scale. I think the main reason why headphones often suck are cultural, not mechanical
16.
by hoopladler 9y ago
How does this compare to doing it with a normal soldering iron? I just ordered a bunch of surface-mount components - just because they were so much cheaper, but I haven't really got any notion about good approaches yet.
17.
by hoopladler 9y ago
I don't disagree, but I think that's more because it's hard to make a shitty headphone jack, whereas it's easy to make a shitty bluetooth headphone set. If somebody actually sat down and made a good bluetooth headphone,
18.
by hoopladler 9y ago
Cables and switches always break first. It's the same in power tools - any component that you have a 200-pound gorrilla mucking around with every day will eventually break. You can mitigate this, but you can't eliminate it. It doe
19.
by hoopladler 9y ago
As a hobbyist, I'd like one. You could do projects using hundreds or thousands of devices that are -at the moment- out of reach not for reasons of price, but rather because it would take too long to assemble the devices in question. Fo
20.
by hoopladler 9y ago
The point about surveilance is it doesn't effect anyone, until it does - and then everybody gets arrested in the night. We're just a couple of decades out of the twentieth century - and if the more bloody-handed of the last centur
21.
by hoopladler 9y ago
I think electronics could work in the US. Lead times are very important. It takes a very long time for a component to arrive from Shenzen. If you have a domestic electronics industry, even a bad one, it's always at a huge advantage - s
22.
by hoopladler 9y ago
Sure - but I think it's understated how important that stuff is. If you go into a psychiatrists office looking like a mess, you're absolutely, by the book, going to be more likely to accrue a diagnosis. This isn't a critique
23.
by hoopladler 9y ago
I'm not the biggest fan of Keynes, myself. I'm assuming that's what you're referencing - since of course, the rest of the industrialized world also enjoyed unprecedented prosperity. But for my sakes, I honestly think the
24.
by hoopladler 9y ago
>Trashing the planet for future generation is certainly reprehensible and not particularly clever, but it isn't narcissism in the official psychological sense. (DSM edits aside.) I absolutely agree. My point is more that, the hidden
25.
by hoopladler 9y ago
As a fairly young guy, I think a lot of the fallout over narcissism is really a kind of sublimated culture shift. Before about 1975, unemployment was typically under 5%, and underemployment or precarious employment was far more rare. Social
26.
by hoopladler 9y ago
>revisionism that argues that it had no more power on the world stage than South Africa based on spurious GDP comparisons is just as off base. I don't think you're entirely wrong, but I think there are two factors at play here:
27.
by hoopladler 9y ago
I'm a bit skeptical about your claim that apple hardware is well engineered. I think they pick aesthetics over function, to the point that functionality is compromised - leading to computers that overheat. The result is they have a lot
28.
by hoopladler 9y ago
>Surely the Cold War would have been a real war if not for nukes, no? I don't think the US and Russia were avoiding conflict because "the UN made it illegal." No way, no how. Russia's economy, at their peak, was 1&#x2
29.
by hoopladler 9y ago
Actually, I can kinda see the advantages there - but isn't insanity just a natural result of trying to work in lots of contexts? I mean, consider something like vim. It's a nice program, well designed - but undoubtedly insane, jus
30.
by hoopladler 9y ago
Sorry, I meant plan9 in general.

More ›