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by leoedin 8mo ago
You'd need to write an entire hardware abstraction layer to do anything useful. There's projects that do this for microcontrollers - eg MicroPython and Espruino.
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by leoedin 8mo ago
If anyone is saying "yeah, but this time will be different", just look at our society now. Arguably the only jobs which are necessary in society are related to food, heating, shelter and maybe some healthcare. Everything else - wh
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by leoedin 8mo ago
> "no matter how many books you read about ancient history, you need to have lived there before you can reasonably talk about it" Every single time I travel somewhere new, whatever research I did, whatever reviews or blogs I r
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by leoedin 8mo ago
What makes Linux not an option? Is there specific apps you need to use? Or IT policies? Or something else? The company I work for got bought by a big conglomerate, and I managed to stubbornly hold out using Linux for a really long time. It
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by leoedin 8mo ago
I almost never use word for exactly that reason. I don’t want to spend half an hour normalising my headings and fonts and margins. I want to focus on content and logical structure. I much prefer Google Docs over word for this reason too. I
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by leoedin 8mo ago
Let's assume your space solar panel is always in sun - so 8760 kWh per year from 1kWp. In Spain, 1kWp of solar can expect to generate about 1800 kWh per year. There's a complication because seasonal difference is quite large - if
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by leoedin 8mo ago
But why would you? Space has some huge downsides: * Everything is being irradiated all the time. Things need to be radiation hardened or shielded. * Putting even 1kg into space takes vast amounts of energy. A Falcon 9 burns 260 MJ of fuel p
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by leoedin 8mo ago
My neighbour has a motion activated flood light. It's annoying. Not annoying enough to risk a feud by telling them though. It also completely ruins any natural habitat for nocturnal animals. The whole concept of permanently lighting yo
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by leoedin 8mo ago
> It isn't. The difference is smaller than for a heatpump tho obviously. Where does the energy go then?
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by leoedin 8mo ago
Every air-to-water heat pump install will have a hot water tank. So I'm not sure why "don't work well" is the term used. It is true that heat pumps coefficient of performance drops as the output temperature increases. So
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by leoedin 8mo ago
I think this is the most crucial part. External heat pumps are OK - people install air conditioners everywhere already - but most houses/apartments aren't set up for large water tanks. The interior heat storage needs to be compara
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by leoedin 8mo ago
> We have banned heroin so we should be able to ban anything else that's toxic Except banning heroin clearly didn't work so well! There's still a lot of people using it. And the profits from selling it go to criminal gangs
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by leoedin 8mo ago
I think in this case it implies choice for the user. There’s an implied “if you want to”. You may use this software if you want to in one of two ways: That’s pretty clear to me (a native speaker from the UK) - i can’t really see how else
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by leoedin 8mo ago
I really don’t think it’s unclear. The use of “you may be … in one of two ways” is unambiguous. The fact someone opened an issue is evidence that one person was confused by it, but we don’t know anything about that person. They may not be a
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by leoedin 9mo ago
I use Copilot in VSCode at work, and it's pretty effective. You can choose from quite a few models, and it has the agentic editing you'd expect from an IDE based AI development tool. I don't know if it does things like browse
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by leoedin 9mo ago
I built an inventory tracking system as an exercise in "vibe coding" recently. I built a decent spec in conversation with Claude, then asked it to build it. It was kind of amazing - in 2 hours Claude churned out a credible looking
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by leoedin 9mo ago
I've been playing around with "vibe coding" recently. Generally react front end and Rust back end. Rust has the nice benefit that you only really get logic bugs if it compiles. In the few apps I've built, progress is ini
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by leoedin 9mo ago
The big problem I ran into playing around with 555s was that capacitors are very rarely the capacitance they claim. Unless you're speccing an expensive capacitor, you'll find your time constant varies quite a bit across devices an
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by leoedin 9mo ago
If I eat a wheat-based breakfast (eg toast or wheat flakes), it's almost guaranteed that by 11am I'll be feeling fairly weak due to low blood sugar. Eating oats for breakfast doesn't have that effect at all. I don't like
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by leoedin 9mo ago
Yeah, I’ve had great success at coding recently, but every time I try to get an LLM to write me a spec it generates endless superlatives and a lot of flowery language.
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by leoedin 9mo ago
Thanks for this. When I first saw this I was expecting to find it was a dead-end Chinese SoM with an ancient kernel - so the fact it's an iMX (which has great support from NXP) is great. I had a poke around the u-boot and linux repos t
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by leoedin 9mo ago
Yeah, I’ve been able to use desktop Linux without many issues in a corporate environment. The main issue was the web version of office being incomplete. If corporate IT teams embraced it, I bet most companies could be free of Windows withou
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by leoedin 9mo ago
> The push toward LED seems to be primarily for emission target related reasons Is this true? I’ve got LEDs in my house because they cost vastly less to run, and because I rarely have to replace the bulbs. Some cheap LEDs do flicker (at
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by leoedin 9mo ago
I’ve seen a few submissions recently that look great - convincing landing page, complex app, modern design - but are almost unusable due to JavaScript bugs. I’m guessing it’s the power of AI.
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by leoedin 9mo ago
I think you mean the Matebook Fold? Surely the other missing thing is that it only runs a proprietary OS that nobody except Chinese companies develop apps for?
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by leoedin 9mo ago
Yes of course. These are calculators - they are meant to reliably calculate things. I think the difference is that building 60 interactive calculators manually would force you to do a lot of manual testing. If someone built up that many int
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by leoedin 9mo ago
This is more than just a bad side project - it's borderline malicious. How confident is the OP that every single one of these 60 calculators work all the time, with all edge cases? Because if someone is on your website using your calcu
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by leoedin 9mo ago
Are a large part of the people living in a city the kind of semi-transitory-but-also-there-for-years people you describe? I'd wager that's a small proportion of almost every city. Most cities will have tourists who are visiting fo
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by leoedin 9mo ago
My dad has developed an unhealthy addiction to buying used agricultural equipment and machine tools. He's been busy importing them to his rural farm. I have no idea how we'll clear that up once he's gone! He's not a farm
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by leoedin 9mo ago
Using a Raspberry Pi (or anything running Linux) is a completely different experience from bare metal. I wouldn't recommend it for learning fundamentals. If you want to understand how interacting with peripherals and hardware works, an

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