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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
Yeah, this stuff is harder than it looks. If you need too much time with the soldering iron, the temperature can conduct through the wire and fry other components, those sensitive ICs that are the flash chips in particular.
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
When I was in college I had a professor who joked that her standards had gone down over the years. Nowadays, her only criteria are: "no criminal record." Maybe it's just a joke and we don't need to get that cynical, but
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
I've always wondered what substances people are using, the more that they have to touch that stuff. When I was more naive and inexperienced, I was blind to this, and I also judged it. Nowadays, as long as the marketers are taking care
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
I used to think this was just restricted to pre-college math, and to East-Asian parents. After I had erstwhile-parent types infantilize me over my adult hobbies, I realized, you need a creative person in order to facilitate creative discove
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
Order independence is not a property of general-purpose programming. As much as we'd love for that to go away, it is very much a reality of day-to-day programmers.
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
I think it's worth revisiting elementary algebra, because the way most of us learned it in grade school doesn't really do it justice. With that said, we abandoned `ab = ba` because it's not useful for e.g. linear algebra. Ele
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
It’s not just work. It’s social scenes and people in general. It’s an uncommon person who does right by other people.
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
While I think many would agree that Schmidt has done some questionable business things, the undertone of the article is just distasteful. If all you do is do head-honcho stuff, then why is it unusual that you would date another like-minded
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
I think this is one of those articles that sounds smart and convincing. And that's a small problem when smart and convincing nerd-snipes the crowd here. I had a funny, similar problem when I got into sea-kayaking. There are so many vid
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
Also don’t forget that AWS pretty much lets Amazon benefit from all that VC money without being directly exposed to the risk.
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
From my past experience, when an org could not build what people wanted, there were usually (i.e. almost always) specific reasons why. The things I’ve seen have included: inability of product to capitalize on ideas that did not come from th
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
The home ownership thing prices out a large percentage of younger buyers, who are also more likely to try something new. It's just numbers, man.
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
I don't blame you. I think there's a couple of deeper issues at stake. - Distances that people need to travel are farther in North America. Just like how the smaller cars that sell in Europe and Asia wouldn't sell here, the s
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
I see two solutions to the conundrum. At one company where I previously worked, they required that employees receive 2x the time off, if you had to fix or work on anything during off-hours. Another company I’ve been at is pretty strict abou
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
I don’t think it’s that radical in a sense but trying to argue it is. When you think about it though, we kind of know that e.g. the founders of the U.S. had some sort of guilty conscience going on with regards to slavery. So we have folks l
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
In the SF Bay Area, I think that crowd basically went to, let’s block any and all development, period. There is a serious NIMBY/xenophobic component up and down the West Coast though. As an example that I can talk about, I once took vo
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
I don’t know about that. There’s a whole lot of people in Bellingham who’ve been saying it’s unaffordable for them now.
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
I think there'd need to be both regulation and enforcement in order to make that work out. If you consider 1. the game-theoretic problem that the vendors have (specifically the prisoner's dilemma), and 2. the fact that many of the
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
Russia attempted something similar with Luna-25. When they failed, their top rocket scientist suddenly died. The ISRO deserved more recognition for their success, IMO.
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
I do not see any official press releases from the California state government on this particular topic. To be clear, the Lost Coast Outpost has subtle biases. So I would take this news with a grain of salt until we see official dispatches.
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
All of the photography forums I've visited have made me nearly regret getting into it as a hobby, so I'd love to hear of some.
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
And what of the murder of Sikhs that spurred that? Or the murder of muslims in India in general? This issue is not something we want to be adjudicating. It is not a matter of black and white, good guys and bad guys. If India does not like t
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
I’d rather pay them, as long as they keep the data secured and aren’t selling it.
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
When I looked through Mozilla’s findings, it looked like Mercedes and Subaru had opt-outs. BMW sounded good in theory but didn’t respond to requests for clarifying information.
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
The alternative is getting a fairly old car that won’t be particularly safe in a collision with a newer car. We do need legislation / awareness of these issues.
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
Oh cmon, who rolls down the windows in an airplane? ;)
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
I know I’m in the minority but I preferred the smaller lightning cables to these USB-C cables that were designed to carry 100x the power that a phone would need.
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
One wonders why the automaker's can't just charge a reasonable monthly fee for 1. tracking where you left your car parked, and 2. remote-locking your car. I would vastly prefer that to playing games with our data, or trying all th
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
After the revelations about carmaker privacy concerns[0], it seems that having options from privacy-conscious Germany is necessary for the market. BMW was one of the better ones (admittedly in a sea of quite-bad), according to Mozilla'
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by lambdasquirrel 3y ago
> How is that even possible? Without more details about what this means and how it's done, this sounds a bit fishy to me. Did you visit some explicit site without VPN (or at least a private tab)? Bingo. The data brokers will correla

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