leggomylibro

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by leggomylibro 6y ago
Oh, mostly the forest-y and nature-y states - Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arizona, Washington, Oregon, California...I would've liked to see more of Montana and Michigan, but it gets cold up there
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by leggomylibro 6y ago
Interesting - you learn something new every day. I guess my trip was probably biased towards states with lots of parks and forests, who probably had more incentive to protect their local environments.
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by leggomylibro 6y ago
Yeah, I noticed these signs along the highways in Texas when I was driving around the US. And I chuckled at how they used the "Don't mess with Texas" phrase despite having much lower littering fines than most other states. Li
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by leggomylibro 6y ago
KGB doesn't exist anymore - you might mean the FSB or GRU? Anyways, plenty of countries have security agencies whose main job is to violently protect the local kleptocrats these days. China might be a better example to point to for eve
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by leggomylibro 6y ago
Some applications that don't need a complex GUI use web browsers as a frontend because they are cross-platform and they come with a bunch of 'free' UI elements like buttons, text boxes, sliders, etc. You can also style things
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by leggomylibro 6y ago
Isn't the Earth sort of a people tank, though? It's pretty big, but there are only so many variations on "tree", "mountain", "valley", "cave", "swimmy thing", "flying thing&qu
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by leggomylibro 6y ago
If you're lucky, your language/library/etc might have a fairly active IRC channel or similar. Popular languages often have a myriad of channels dedicated to different subtopics. They're nice because like you said, discus
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by leggomylibro 6y ago
The S2 lacks Bluetooth though, doesn't it? The second core is meant to handle the network stack, leaving the first core to focus on program logic. With ESP8266s, it can be hard to write complex applications while keeping heavy WiFi usa
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by leggomylibro 6y ago
Something like a 3D printer that could produce integrated circuit dies from blank wafers; "VLSI" means "Very Large-Scale Integration". But we're still a long way from that being feasible. Even if you had a magic box
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by leggomylibro 6y ago
I once made a single-transistor latch by accident. It acted as a single bit of memory and retained its value for weeks until I got bored with the project. I had been making magnetic snap-together circuits, so I had a bunch of small PCBs wit
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by leggomylibro 6y ago
Cool - it's amazing how much easier FPGA development has gotten in recent years thanks to efforts like YoSys and these sorts of frontend projects. RISC-V has also been maturing over the same timeframe, which is bringing mainstream open
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
I know that's what the courts say, I just think it's insane and indefensible. And that erodes my trust in our judicial system and my respect for our institutions. Or it would, if I had any left. If the law doesn't apply equal
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
It's incredible how far we've fallen; the border exception is particularly terrible. I was once driving along I-10, which is an 8-lane / 80mph interstate. CBP had blockaded the entire road, and were pulling every single car a
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
The computers would still stop working eventually; the universe as we know it also has a finite lifespan, and a machine will always require some amount of energy to function.
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
The idea of individual immortality seems at odds with how the universe works. But the idea that consciousness is an emergent property of matter and energy is appealing, because it opens the door to the idea that we are all facets of the sam
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
I've never really liked Bill Gates the Microsoft owner, either. If you appreciate what the Gates foundation has done, consider that it's called the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
In my experience interviewing candidates for a FAANG, people say that they weight "CQ" heavily behind closed doors, but it is mostly used as a way to enforce various -isms under the guise of "probably would[n't] be a goo
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
That defeats the purpose of this being a single United nation. Do you really think it would be healthy to artificially accelerate the rapid fracture of our collective unity? E pluribus unum. We stand together, or we fall apart. At least, fi
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
It looks cool, but they trained their models on people reading printed sentences out loud. Would that actually translate to decoding the process of turning abstract thoughts into words? The researchers also note that their models are vulner
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Am I the only weirdo who prefers lead-free solders because they don't flow as much? They dry almost as soon as you take the heat off, which keeps parts from moving off their pads while it dries. And the iron doesn't seem to &quo
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Do you know of any good papers on analog computers? They sound like interesting tools, especially since there are some sorts of problems where small amounts of unpredictable error can be helpful, like repetitive Monte Carlo-style simulation
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
ESP8266s aren't very pleasant to work with, and in my experience it can be hard to accomplish much in program logic while keeping the WiFi stable. But the cottage industry around these addressable LED driver boards is getting pretty ri
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
They still record the data and maintain a profile on me even if I don't have an account and have never used their app. How is that my fault?
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
It's past time for us to get serious and apply HIPAA-style protection to the storage and transmission of PII, without exemptions. Companies like Facebook will complain loudly that they won't be able to survive, but that is not our
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
I think you can thank this sort of hack for the widespread availability of cheap cloned "ST-Link" debuggers. They use STM32F103 or F102 chips inside, with firmware that was probably lifted from the debuggers on ST's evaluatio
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Individual transistors are made of doped silicon, but I think that integrated circuits still contain plenty of metal - the gates are connected by 'wires', after all.
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Yeah, I ended up leaving to go hiking for like 3 months. I don't want to go back either.
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
I once worked somewhere that did blameless technical postmortems very well. Whenever something broke, we kept asking questions until we had uncovered what went wrong, and we constantly reminded each other that our failings were in the proce
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
PICs are also very low-power and low-cost. They still have a bit of a niche in the world of modern microcontrollers, unlike some popular 8-bit MCUs that I could name...
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by leggomylibro 7y ago
Nice! FYI, you can use those USB phone-charging battery bricks for a nice compact 5V output in those sorts of projects. I think TSA-approved ones run up to 100Wh, and they're easy to recharge. Most of them will cut power after a minut

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