leoedin

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by leoedin 9mo ago
Yeah, my main worry about retirement is that I’ll spend all my money on tools and projects.
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by leoedin 9mo ago
> In these countries, the price of the product is simply higher, to account for this Maybe on the individual level, but the aggregate effect is that manufacturers are incentivised to save money by increasing reliability. Which is a good
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by leoedin 10mo ago
Imagine being in that "not very fun" zone continuously, day and night, for decades. That's kind of what having kids is like. I love my kids and have great times with them, but there's also a lot of routine, endless clean
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by leoedin 10mo ago
I’m a twin - admittedly boy/girl, so already with some fundamental differences - and we are very, very different people. Always have been. Different interests, different ways of seeing the world, different attitudes to competition, spo
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by leoedin 10mo ago
It's a shame isn't it! The public must be protected from the backwards thoughts of history. In case they misuse it. I guess what they're really saying is "we don't want you guys to cancel us".
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by leoedin 10mo ago
I think the parent's point is that when you have a react front-end, your back-end basically just deals in structs of data. There's no HTML or templating to think about. It's just JSON-serialisable structs. That makes the code
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by leoedin 10mo ago
Yeah, I’ve been working mainly in rust for the last few years. The compile time checks are so effective that run time bugs are rare. Like you can refactor half the codebase and not run the app for a week, and when you do it just works. I’ve
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by leoedin 10mo ago
> It's the Western companies that actually come up with the original idea, whatever good that does them. I think that's a dangerous assumption to make. Certainly it's true that for most major technologies so far, western c
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by leoedin 10mo ago
His other hobby is anaesthesia? Maybe a young child that naps in the day? That doesn’t really give a whole free afternoon though. 2 hours at best.
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by leoedin 10mo ago
I don’t think I’ve met anyone in the UK who routinely checked tripadvisor for anything! I just checked a few local restaurants to me in London that opened in the last few years, and the ratio of reviews is about 16:1 for google maps. It loo
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by leoedin 10mo ago
I see a lot of Google adverts for AI that seems to be “look, you can translate your photo into a sci-fi world”. Which is cool, I guess. But it doesn’t feel like a very valuable thing to an end user. That kind of thing is mostly valuable bec
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by leoedin 10mo ago
Gas turbine power generation is already a thing. For example 20% of UK grid power right now comes from "combined cycle gas turbines" - which are a very efficient way to turn natural gas into electricity. They've solved the no
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by leoedin 11mo ago
They’ve been a Scottish thing for at least 15 years! Source: I ate one in Edinburgh 15 years ago. Scotland is the home of deep frying things that have no right to be deep fried. My English friends are alarmed when I tell them of the “half p
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by leoedin 11mo ago
You paid $2-3k for an x200? Was that a long time ago? Is that the same laptop that's sold by computer recyclers for $100?
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by leoedin 11mo ago
Synthetic aperture radar is basically building a bitmap of radar reflectivity. So what you get looks a lot like a photo. You can end up with very non-photo artifacts though - blown out pixels caused by corner reflectors, bright things can r
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by leoedin 11mo ago
Paste and adhesive are spat out by KiCad as part of the manufacturing outputs. It works pretty much the same way other EDA packages like altium do - the extra layers are part of the part footprint. If you don’t design your own footprints it
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by leoedin 11mo ago
That's true for almost all electronics. I worked on robotic arms for a few years - if things broke it was always the wiring (well, to be precise - the connectors).
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by leoedin 11mo ago
I guess IncusOS (and Incus) achieve similar goals to ProxMox? Has anyone used both and have any opinions on how they perform?
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by leoedin 11mo ago
If water is just used for cooling, and the output is hotter water, then it's not really "used" at all. Maybe it needs to be cooled to ambient and filtered before someone can use it, but it's still there. If it was being
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by leoedin 11mo ago
I don't really see how you can both allow developers to update their apps automatically (which is widely promoted as being good security practice) and also defend against good developers turning bad. How does Google know if someone has
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by leoedin 11mo ago
Great advantages for the writer . It's not a great advantage for the reader. The AI could completely change the meaning of the article and the author would be none the wiser.
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by leoedin 11mo ago
Western countries wouldn't have moved manufacturing to China in the past if wages weren't cheaper. I think the cost of labour now is kind of irrelevant. It was the cost of labour (and China being a stable country with favourable r
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by leoedin 1y ago
It was a hard read, but actually a fairly interesting article. It's a shame the author chose to format it how they did. The key takeaways - that solar is super cheap, that technology has unlocked offering hire purchase to incredibly po
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by leoedin 1y ago
It’s a funny state of the world that the flagship hobbyist “open source” development boards now both contain products from such hobbyist-hostile chip companies as Qualcomm and Broadcom!
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by leoedin 1y ago
> The person who makes the software has the duty to fix the security issues in their own code, nobody else, no matter how big they are. That’s just clearly untrue for freely available software. So every person that ever published a hobby
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by leoedin 1y ago
I'm with you. I got an iPhone 15 a couple of years ago after only ever using Android. I was expecting great things and it's just.. confused! I never have any confidence it will notify me of things. Often I just miss stuff. I actua
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by leoedin 1y ago
I was a long time Android user - but I realised I was getting through 2 or more phones in the time my wife had one. They'd either become obsolete or just die. I reluctantly bought an iPhone on this basis - it's actually going to w
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by leoedin 1y ago
You can have a debit card in the UK as a fairly young child. I think I got one at 12? I don’t know if there’s specific restrictions on buying in-game currency with them? I don’t know how they’d know though. The first thing I did when I got
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by leoedin 1y ago
The web versions of Office tools are pretty good these days. There’s a few missing features, but you can get by mostly. I don’t think my company even gives licenses for desktop office by default any more.
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by leoedin 1y ago
> low latency connectivity That's not exactly easy. I doubt on-device training will become much of a thing. But on-device inference is desirable in all sorts of distributed use cases. We're still a long way off from reliable in

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