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by leoedin 2y ago
I don't think the graph agrees with the essay. In the essay, the "unintentional moderate" is defined as someone who holds all kinds of views, some from the far left, some from the far right, some from the middle - but by chan
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by leoedin 2y ago
Yeah, I much prefer using a well designed self service system than trying to explain it over the phone. The only problem with most of the flights I book now is that they're with low cost airlines and packed with dark patterns designed
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by leoedin 2y ago
I had a play with the tscircuit CAD tool which they're writing this autorouter for. It's hardware-as-code, leveraging React. I love the concept of schematics-as-code. But layout-as-code is awful. Maybe AI tools will improve it eno
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by leoedin 2y ago
Open source CAD has improved a lot in the last few years. You can use FreeCAD for modelling simple parts today and it mostly works. That wasn’t the case a few years ago. There was a time KiCAD was a buggy mess. And no doubt blender as well.
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by leoedin 2y ago
It’s funny that a country so wound up in national pride as the USA can’t see that an existential threat to your countries sovereignty triggers a deep emotional response.
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by leoedin 2y ago
That’s been my observation too. My completely amateur theory is that a young child’s perception of the world - their ability to contextualise what they’re looking at - changes so much that even if those old memories are still hanging around
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by leoedin 2y ago
The foundation of maintainable software is architecture. I can't be alone in having often spent days puzzling over a seemingly highly complex problem before finally finding a set of abstractions that makes it simple and highly testable
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by leoedin 2y ago
By what basis are Brussels or Amsterdam closer to London from Manchester? Manchester is a 2 hour train ride from London. Brussels is similar, but there’s at least an hour of mandatory security and waiting. Amsterdam is much further away.
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by leoedin 2y ago
I bought a knife on Amazon. Every step of the process says “you must be over 18 and show ID to the delivery driver”. The ordering page, follow up email, tracking page, even the parcel had in huge letters “over 18 ID required”. I found the p
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by leoedin 2y ago
It's not only not really idiomatic, it's almost never necessary in practice. I was struggling to think of a time I'd ever given a type annotation to an integer local variable - because normally the place the variable ends up
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by leoedin 2y ago
> It isn't unreasonable to just stop at a port every night Is it? How many more deep water ports would be needed if every ship had to stop every night? What about if you're passing hostile or undeveloped countries? What about w
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by leoedin 2y ago
I don't think it's unreasonable to find accents from places you don't live hard to understand. A lot of accents completely shift the vowel sounds. It can take a lot of familiarisation to start to understand what each sound me
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by leoedin 2y ago
> I'm a bit nervous where I'd end up though - with code I'd "written" but wasn't familiar with This does seem like quite a big downside. It turns every new feature into “implement this in someone else’s code
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by leoedin 2y ago
I'm a bit confused by this. In practice you can't combine no_std and std within a single project anyway - because then the entire app is relying on the std library, so is no longer no_std. Surely if a user sets no_std as a feature
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by leoedin 2y ago
Digikey (and Mouser) don’t have warehouses in Europe - they express ship everything from the US. As far as I’m aware Farnell are the only major electronics retailer to have European warehouses. They don’t have nearly the same level of stock
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by leoedin 2y ago
You can have the best documentation in the world, but if it’s documenting a complex json object with many different combinations of fields, and the user has made a couple of typos, that doesn’t help. An API which provides more complete fail
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by leoedin 2y ago
Wake turbulence almost killed someone I knew flying a training jet. He landed after a heavy aircraft and the cross wind was just enough to counter the natural spreading of wake turbulence. There was basically a horizontal tornado over the r
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Espargos: ESP32-based WiFi sensing array(espargos.net)
199 points by leoedin 2y ago|35 comments
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by leoedin 2y ago
This project uses an array of ESP32s and some clever calibration techniques to do pretty accurate localisation of WiFi signals. There's an excellent companion video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXwDrcd1t-E
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by leoedin 2y ago
All the European airlines do that - I think it's a response to compensation laws about delays. The schedule can eat a 30 minute delay without anyone even noticing.
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by leoedin 2y ago
You can always tell Americans at security in a European airport because they take their shoes off. European airports don't bother with shoe removal. Are European airports statistically less secure than American airports? Is anyone even
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by leoedin 2y ago
How much safer are they? I can totally believe that the crash safety of cars improved hugely in the 90s - that's basically when large crumple zones, computer modelling of crash performance, airbags, seatbelt pretensioners etc were all
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by leoedin 2y ago
I don't think that's really true. Most of the value of homes destroyed in LA was in the location, not the building. Insurance will pay out on the cost of reconstruction - but in a lot of cases that's probably 10% of the &quot
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by leoedin 2y ago
> This will never succeed because the economies of scale are nonexistent without dominance in the commercial shipbuilding market. This is what politicians just don’t seem to realise about industry and engineering. People get good at thin
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by leoedin 2y ago
This is an incredible achievement! I've been working in hardware design for 10 years. I've touched on most of what was covered here across various projects in my career, but never all at once. To have the discipline and motivation
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by leoedin 2y ago
'aspirational and highly detailed content that resolves its details in an uninteresting or nonsensical way'. This is a great definition. All the AI text I read is somehow missing the "meat" you find in good writing. All
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by leoedin 2y ago
What kind of text are you reading? Do you work in LLM development? Or are you just noticing that many news sites are using LLMs more and more? I've noticed obvious LLM output on low quality news sites, but I don't tend to read the
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by leoedin 2y ago
Contracting rates in Paris seem to be much higher - €700-€1000 a day seems common from what I’ve seen. I suspect a big part of it is labour laws. The UK is similar. Companies don’t want to take on the legal commitment of a high salary perso
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by leoedin 2y ago
It completely killed my soft drink buying habits. So it was either a success or failure depending on how you look at it. I can’t stand the reformulated sweetened drinks. The flavour profile and aftertaste is completely different. I wasn’t a
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by leoedin 2y ago
I live in London and work for a French company. I’m travelling to Brussels and Paris fairly regularly. Many of my colleagues do the same. It’s a 2 hour high speed train. Far better than flying. Europe is a large place, but my experience in

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