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by milesvp 8mo ago
Forgive me, my bar is high, but I tend to agree with you. I didn’t have a good way to indicate that I find value in a small number of comments like these without potentially undermining my greater desire to avoid toxic comments here.
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by milesvp 8mo ago
This drips of sarcasm. While the parent comment is low quality, it can be seen as merely noise. your comment actively makes this site toxic. Please refrain from such comments in the future.
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by milesvp 8mo ago
I would contact Facebook legal directly with documents showing the problem. Legal’s job is always to minimize liability for the company, and they have levers they can pull in any organization, no matter how “hyper scale” they claim to be. B
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by milesvp 8mo ago
Could be the way guns are defined in UK are different. There is a fundamental problem in US law specifically, that you can purchase legally nearly any part of a gun separately, but only need to register the lower receiver. These are parts t
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by milesvp 9mo ago
Same. I was afraid that there was some bad egg that managed to get into Adafruit, or maybe someone was having a real bad day. You never know what kind of person someone is off camera, but Adafruit as a company has always managed to give off
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by milesvp 9mo ago
> botched crimps On a tangent, I’m amazed at how bad most random crimps I see on the internet are. Also, the number of people who debate the use of solder on crimps without discussing potential issues with said solder is too high.
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by milesvp 9mo ago
> PCIe through very fragile ribbon cable We had a problem trying to bring up a couple of Pi 5, hoping they'd represent something reproducable we could deploy on multiple sites as an isolation stage for remote firmware programming. E
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by milesvp 9mo ago
Raising taxes should never be seen as a way to raise revenue. Even if the Laffer curve has come under attack, there is still some profit maximizing rate which I’m positive most modern countries are beyond both at a static rate and at a grow
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by milesvp 10mo ago
It’s been fine? Are you completely immune to attention grabbing features? I absolutely cannot use win11 as it comes on a stock lenovo. Maybe you got your hands on some corporate version with some of the standard settings off? But between th
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by milesvp 10mo ago
If you could afford an amiga around this time, you most likely weren't impressed with any of the consoles. Even if you had a commodore 64, you may not have been interested with the NES, my experience was that the games on the commodore
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by milesvp 10mo ago
BTW, if you don't know Benn Jordan, his YouTube content is fire. I happen to be in the intersection of things that he likes to think about, but every video I've seen of his lately deserves front page HN treatment. It is that good.
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by milesvp 10mo ago
So usually you would DNP the parts and they wouldn’t populate at the factory. But sometimes you have a bunch of boards already made that for some reason you can’t use for another SKU, and so you put them in another housing, and change the b
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by milesvp 10mo ago
Mics have a pretty standard look, and are hard to miss on the board. It would be more insideous if there were cheap film caps leading into a very expensive ADC. I work with with analogue audio, and it’s very important to design around the n
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by milesvp 11mo ago
Worse, is that a lot of these people are acting like Moore's law isn't still in effect. People conflate clock speeds on beefy hardware with moore's law, and act like it's dead, when transistor density rises, and cost per
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by milesvp 11mo ago
What’s interesting about this, is there are actually game theoretic repercussions to what the author is expressing. By making implicit knowledge explicit it changes entire game trees. You no longer play the i think that he thinks that I thi
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by milesvp 11mo ago
I'm a little disappointed at the amount of me tooism in this thread. I think a lot of people here have maybe had really bad collaborative experiences. Maybe that's the default? most orgs are going to be bad at most things (tm). I
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by milesvp 1y ago
First know that the body will stop making vitamin D before you reach overdose quantities. This means you should take vitamin D in the morning.m rather than the evening. Second know that vitamin D is fat soluble. So if you are losing weight,
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by milesvp 1y ago
Parent may be surprised how many people live paycheck to paycheck because they take vacations. I’ve recently come across a financial audit show that might be generously described as Dave Ramsey meets Jerry Springer. I get the impression fro
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by milesvp 1y ago
Some of it is practice, but it can’t be understated that many of those games were built with extreme low latency. Input low latency, CRT low latency. The games were already “NES hard” add a couple frames of latency, and you may have halved
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by milesvp 1y ago
Any building taller than 15 stories is likely already sacrificing square footage for height. As I understand it the square footage maximizing height with modern building techniques and materials is somewhere around 15 floors. As you go tall
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by milesvp 1y ago
Having done quite a bit of politicing at a centuries old, med sized company, I can tell you that what management wants you is the assurance that this particular problem won’t happen again. Ideally there will be an actionable outcome, so som
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by milesvp 1y ago
"Assuming we just keep doing what we're doing, where will we be in 12 months?" I find this one interesting, a business youtuber I follow said he finally realized that his teams all got ~5% better every year if he just left th
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by milesvp 1y ago
I've thought about this a lot, and wonder if the last mile problem could be lessened with an uber style pickup you suggest. I have a civil engineer relative who follows this stuff better than I do, and he says all the pilot programs h
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by milesvp 1y ago
I know a lawyer who almost took a job in state government where one of the primary duties was to make sure that the punctuation in the bills going through the state legislature were correct and accurate. For her, part of the appeal of the j
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by milesvp 1y ago
Seriously. Imagine the fractal nature of software problems (you do need firmware right?), and add that on top of a layer that has poorly documented errata and non standard peripheral variants. I'm currently making a board to solder ont
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by milesvp 1y ago
For more context, dsp chips historically were how you could get better better performance than was typical in the embedded space. At a time when you had sub 100Mhz typically in a chip that would be used in musical equipment dsp chips were s
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by milesvp 1y ago
It’s a common thing here on HN to believe that remote is superior for productivity, and I’m always reminded of Richard Hammond’s observations about open door vs closed door coworkers. He noticed over time that the closed door workers were m
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by milesvp 1y ago
The interest rates were wild in 1982. My dad said that no one would lend for a mortgage, and we ended up doing seller financing to buy my childhood home. Also, not enough people talk about housing prices in high interest rate environments.
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by milesvp 1y ago
It doesn’t even have to be as nefarious as trying to maximally charge. Very often what seems like a simple product offering can actually be quite nuanced with services or goods bundled or unbundled. I’ve listened to many sales calls where t
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by milesvp 1y ago
What I find fascinating, is how much this concept scales to places it seems like it shouldn't. I had taken the idea to heart early in my life for anything that require dexterity. But it wasn't until mid career that I saw it work a

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