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by milesvp 6y ago
Yup, it's a very common way to get a product with high sales and ratings. You put up a low cost, high volume, high quality item. Sell it cheap, then after you have enough 5 star reviews, swap all the pictures and text with a new higher
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by milesvp 6y ago
Time to get a usb to amiga disk drive emulator? I know they exist, and a quick google search turned one up. I have a friend who got an fpga amiga emulator, and after about a month finally got the thing to do proper smooth scrolling on a mod
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by milesvp 6y ago
I’ve used amazon basics single arm wall mounts for the last 3 years, and dual arm deskmount for the last 2 years. They are pretty good quality, I’ve had no reason to look to replace them with another brand. edit: apparently I have the premi
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by milesvp 6y ago
I know someone who did law school career counseling at one point. The glut of lawyers has had a downward pressure on law salaries, but pay and even hiring tends to be highly correlated with the tier of the law school a lawyer grated from. I
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by milesvp 6y ago
Yeah, while I agree with the parent about taking the time to disassemble a rom for larger projects, I feel he may be ignoring how low a barrier to entry it is to just modify some hex values and see them effect the rom you’re playing. It use
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by milesvp 6y ago
This is a problem EE’s currently talk about. People good at analog electronics are starting to age out of the workforce. There are a ton of people who got into electronics 40+ years ago by fiddling with things. This is harder today than it
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by milesvp 6y ago
Yeah, never underestimate the value of solid rollback steps. Never deploy anything without some plan to get the system into the previous state, ideally with a button push. And for those rare cases when you can only roll forward, like with a
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by milesvp 6y ago
Your comment made me feel compelled to mention a Blizzard talk I came across recently on the ECS (Entity Component System) architecture they used for Overwatch. It looks suspiciously like a function first architecture in that they don'
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by milesvp 6y ago
I've only recently come across Nile Red, and I highly endorse his videos. I somehow managed to spend over half an hour watching him extract water from epsom salt, and even though it was nearly the equivalent of watching paint dry, it s
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by milesvp 6y ago
This. Any article that doesn’t mention risc-v in the context of fpga design is missing the use cases that put it on my radar originally.
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by milesvp 6y ago
I think a lot of the volatility could be attributed to moving money around. When you want to move money out of a country you need to find someone willing to sell bitcoin in the currency you have. Then you need to find someone willing to buy
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by milesvp 6y ago
There’s a better answer in this thread, but a tl;dr/eli5, is that if all I can do is buy a stock then the only information available in the price are the people who believe in the stock/bond (usually as a proxy for belief in the c
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by milesvp 6y ago
Maybe. Part of the problem currently, is there are too many short positions compared to the total issued shares. It’s what makes this a short squeeze. If you try to short now you’ll help elleviate the squeeze, though you may have problems f
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by milesvp 6y ago
This is my current nightmare. I’m writing firmware for a flash chip for a consumer product and I’m totally paranoid about getting into some situation that triggers enough writes to brick the item :(
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by milesvp 6y ago
I think the author is missing a key point in that software is vastly more complex than it was in the 90’s. The few times I’ve tried to contribute to open source, I spent more time trying to convince projects that my pull requests fixed the
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by milesvp 6y ago
If you use your phone for calls, I highly recommend a good headset that can handle full duplex audio. For years I couldn’t figure out why I hated talking to people on my cell phone when I loved talking over land lines. I finally realized th
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by milesvp 6y ago
There was a paper I saw a few years ago that showed a high correlation between the diversity of a lab (racial, cultural, income, political, age, anything they thought to measure) and citations of published work. My personal experience is th
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by milesvp 6y ago
> Infinite scalability is also a curse This was the key sentence, I think. This type of problem actually shows up in other domains as well, queueing theory comes immediately to mind. Even the halting problem is only a problem with infini
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by milesvp 6y ago
I recently looked at some of their hiring material, and one of the before after leadership showed a lot of bullshit in the after. The content was nearly the same, but it felt embellished in a way that left me feeling hollow. It was some onc
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by milesvp 6y ago
I think you may be missing a few things. Fiber is important to avoid painful stool compaction. Soluble fiber also slows carb absorbtion and lowers the glycemic index of a meal which is generally a good thing. As to your macronutrient concer
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by milesvp 6y ago
I think you might be missing another dimension, in that it depends on the size and type of bug. "See a problem fix a problem" is a common mantra in physical work type environments I've been in. You don't wait for a manag
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by milesvp 6y ago
I tend to agree with you but you might find this more common than you realize. I’ve noticed in my lifetime products I like change their recipes. I’ve also seen products once labeled as ice cream now labeled as frozen dairy dessert. I’ve see
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by milesvp 6y ago
Yeah, it's actually worse than that. Anyone trying to access DRAM on this hardware rev needs to be aware of the problem. Whether or not they use [] in that particular code they need to know that memory accesses will bite them. They als
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by milesvp 6y ago
> operator overloading for non-arithmetic purposes I’m not sure it makes it a ‘good’ idea, but I recently needed to overload [] on an embedded system. The chip we used in a design didn’t have enough pins for both SPI and external memory.
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by milesvp 6y ago
The article makes some good points, and I’d be inclined to agree with its conclusion, but I think what it’s missing is the speed that orbital manufacturing will happen. There will be exotic materials that can only be produced in orbit. This
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by milesvp 6y ago
The math I did was pretty basic. BOM*quantity + mold cost. Those are sort of the basic knobs you can fiddle with. Not all molds are equal. I was just talking with someone last week who was going to 3d print one of the housings for a compone
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by milesvp 6y ago
There are certainly parts that are unobtainium, that's why you need to have a good relationship with someone who has good relationships with parts distributors. A very important part of component selection is to make sure that you can
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by milesvp 6y ago
This article sort of glosses over the actual cost of designing the hardware. You should be able to get 500 units made working through a factory. Though minimum qty for parts can be as high as 5000, usually factories can find most components
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by milesvp 6y ago
You may know this, but, white rice has one of the highest glycemic indexes (along with white bread). High GI foods tend to be addictive, in that spikes in blood sugar are sort of a double whammy, the sharp rise help cultivate future craving
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by milesvp 6y ago
And in other news twitch users pick some other random term to use pajoritively... Having maintained a list like this it’s amazing the words that get banned, and it’s a potential arms race. I’m not sure how you combat the kind of toxicity th

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