jotux

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by jotux 3y ago
>OpenAI 100% pushed an update recently that is very noticeable where they basically "nerfed" the responses >they want to turn around and charge more for the "really good, old" version of GPT- If this was the case i
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by jotux 4y ago
Heat-set threaded inserts: https://www.mcmaster.com/press-fit-nuts/threaded-insert-type...
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by jotux 4y ago
GCC has something similar: >#pragma GCC optimize ("O3") https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-7.2.0/gcc/Function-Specif...
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by jotux 4y ago
Some quick googling says tesla is ~70% [1] of the EV market and there is someone who claims to track every telsa fire [2] which has counts 97 fires since 2013. Compare that to 45k ICE vehicles fires every year and it appears that EVs are si
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by jotux 4y ago
You seem to still enjoy your current device. Have you considered purchasing rechargable C batteries?
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by jotux 4y ago
Tesla dealerships are service and test drive. If you go there and buy a car they'll just walk you to a kiosk and you order it online the same way you would from home.
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by jotux 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqai0_nnTgs
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by jotux 5y ago
After a quick look at the schematic it appears the current in the off state is somewhere around 3uA.
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by jotux 5y ago
Similar: https://bbodi.github.io/notecalc3/
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by jotux 5y ago
No, it wouldn't be a pain for me or most people. The point I was making is that giving someone a nickname they don't like is completely different from not calling someone a nickname they prefer. Regarding nicknames, I do sometimes
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by jotux 5y ago
Wouldn't this be the opposite of that scenario? As in, someone has a given name at birth but they prefer a nickname and some people find using the nickname too onerous and use their given name instead?
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by jotux 5y ago
All of DoD uses CAC, which is probably 30%+ of federal employees. And probably 80%+ of all apps DoD employees use are CAC/PIV login.
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by jotux 5y ago
>it’s very slow to reproduce I had an embedded system that hosted USB endpoints that normally booted in ~3 seconds and could connect to the host in 5-6 seconds. We found an issue in environment testing that the unit took longer to connec
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by jotux 6y ago
I prefer texting/chat because of the traceability, especially for work. The chat history is a type of decision log for me, and I really appreciate being able to go back and review or search for conversations.
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by jotux 6y ago
I rebind Caps Lock on every machine I use to make it control and basically never use the control key anymore. I find it makes common left-hand key combination much more ergonomic.
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by jotux 6y ago
>Blinking an LED with a busy wait loop square wave is way simpler and gives you externally visible code execution with less that can go wrong than printing to the UART. Yeah, but everyone doing professional embedded work uses a proper de
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by jotux 6y ago
>>there's no screen on a microcontroller so printf("hello world") does nothing. The article is specifically about ARM Cortex-M4s, which support semihosting. So most of the tools listed in the article will just automatic
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by jotux 6y ago
I'd encourage anyone doing embedded development in 2020 to give VisualGDB a try. I'm very happily developing embedded systems in VS2019 with C++17/20, and it has built-in support for every platform I would want to use. I have
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by jotux 6y ago
Just installed a 3rd party app on my pixel 3, made it the default and tried this. Worked just fine and popped up the 3rd party app.
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by jotux 6y ago
Shift+Right-Click will add a "Open powershell window here" option to the right click window as well. I think this has been around since win2k.
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by jotux 6y ago
http://hexapod-robot-simulator.herokuapp.com/inverse-kinemat...
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by jotux 7y ago
A surprisingly large number of adults live very close to their parents [1]. [1] https://source.wustl.edu/2015/12/most-americans-live-surpris...
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by jotux 7y ago
Our hiring process doesn't take 6 months -- we're only able to find a candidate, interview them, negotiate, and have them accept an offer every 6 months. Our biggest problem is just finding people to apply. In the last ~8 years I
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by jotux 7y ago
I'm on a team at my current job with ~10 other engineers, and at my previous job I was on a team of ~12. With growth, retirements, and turnover at both jobs we are always hiring. My rough approximation from both jobs (spanning about 10
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by jotux 7y ago
I specifically purchased an app on my android device ("Call Blocker") to do this, but recently google changed it's play store policies and banned apps from directly forcing calls to voice mail. I think the only way to do it o
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by jotux 8y ago
With regards to tooling, if you like Visual Studio and are working on ARM processors, I can't recommend VisualGDB enough: https://visualgdb.com/ It's not free ($189), but it removes so much friction from the embed
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by jotux 8y ago
>but you won't be using the API/drivers ST provides (such as HAL and LL), just the header. As I understand, the STM32 community kind of rejects this API as "bloated". If you're not making millions of something (c
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by jotux 8y ago
It's a low-speed differential pair that negotiates the initial communication. Once the bus knows it can go to a faster speed, it will switch to a separate receive differential pair and transmit differential pair. -Power -Grou
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by jotux 8y ago
>how many workplaces have an engineering team which are 50% female? 25% female? 10% female? 5% female? All I can find is data from 2012[1], but <20% of engineering and computer science graduates are female. I help with interviews for
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by jotux 8y ago
With regard to the DoD the CIO released some good guidance on OSS: https://dodcio.defense.gov/Open-Source-Software-FAQ/ Here is an excerpt that talks about licensing: >Q: Can government employees develop software an

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