milesvp

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by milesvp 2y ago
As someone who lived through that era, I can tell you there are legions of devs and dev adjacent people who have no idea what it’s like to automate mission critical hardware. Everyone had to do it in the early 2000s. But it’s been long enou
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by milesvp 2y ago
I'm having trouble finding what I remember seeing maybe 4 years ago. It was an all in one cellular component with an esim. This is the closest I can find to what I remember seeing. It may lead you to some other solutions. https:/
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by milesvp 2y ago
Or worse the same SKU but “for black friday”. It was common for things like TVs to be marketed in such a way as to think it was the same product as previously, but instead was a lesser product like a tv with fewer ports and a shorter warran
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by milesvp 2y ago
I work in this space, and I’ve seen advertised components (most likely SOCs) that had “lifetime” cell data included in the price, costing, on the order of, $50. It is becoming increasingly cheap to have low bandwidth cellular connectivity.
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by milesvp 2y ago
Probably has something to do with the price of zero. The concept keeps showing up in random feeds for me, and it’s something both marketers and behavioral economists like to talk about. It seems free short circuits a lot of our normal cogni
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by milesvp 2y ago
This is absolutely not my experience. My googlefu has gone to shit. I can no longer have some sense for what I’m looking for and find it. Something I know exists, I just don’t know the terms of art to pull up the wealth of knowledge. I used
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by milesvp 2y ago
> It's a skill issue. Maybe. Sort of. Skill hints at the problem, but it's more of an experience issue. More experienced developers can give pretty reliable estimates for work they've already done. The catch is, how often
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by milesvp 2y ago
Forgive me, I may be spreading incorrect information. I’m not sure the source I’m quoting, could be that the vaccine I’ve heard mentioned is not for humans? I’ve been hearing rumor of herds of cattle being put down to prevent the spread. Co
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by milesvp 2y ago
H5N1. Avian flu that people have been worried about for decades. There is a vaccine for it, but, of course, low stocks because because it was not mammal transmissible until recently. Minks and cows are known to have caught it. It’s believed
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by milesvp 2y ago
Interesting. I think I slightly prefer take homes, mostly because they're not as hectic. The problem ends up being, that I don't have any guarantee that the other side will spend any time on it. At least with an in person, I know
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by milesvp 2y ago
The advice I’ve heard in the general contractor world, is fixed bid only works if you charge appropriately, and are very quick with change orders. As soon as it looks like the scope is changing, be it a request from the client, or some new
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by milesvp 2y ago
That looks like the work I heard about! I'm surprised I can't find what I thought was the podcast I learned about this. None of my usuals is showing results googling. This looks like a good summary of the story I heard though. ht
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by milesvp 2y ago
There's a term for this that I learned recently for this but I'm blanking on it. It has to do with a growing strategy of looking at 2 groups when trying to solve a medical problem. And, rather than find a cure for the problem, the
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by milesvp 2y ago
I’ve been doing pcb design around sensor coils for capacitive sensing. My engineering team has been playing with similar ideas around printing coils for other electro magnetic purposes. Motors are an obvious usecase. Good to see others doin
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by milesvp 2y ago
He's missing one very good technique that works for me. Decide that there is 1 thing, and only 1 thing, that you want to get done today. Ideally it should be something that can be accomplished in less than 30 minutes. Bonus if it can b
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by milesvp 2y ago
> Resolve Intermitent Connectivity Issues They lost me at this header. MQTT was quite literally designed for satellite based communication. Its biggest strength is dealing with intermittent connections. If you’re going to fire and forget
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by milesvp 2y ago
I’m not sure how to take you comment, but I feel the same(?) way. I love that I can use LLMs to explore topics that I don’t know well enough to find the right language to get hits on. I used to be able to do this with google, after a few qu
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by milesvp 2y ago
This happened to me the other day. I had framed a question in the ordinal case, and since I was trying to offload thinking anyways, I forgot that my use case was rotated, and failed to apply the rotation when testing the LLM answer. I corre
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by milesvp 2y ago
I have stared into the abyss and seen the eyes of cthulu. I am much happier writing embedded drivers than I was trying to make sense of why previous devs thought it was a good idea to move bounded tunable server side api calls to the client
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by milesvp 2y ago
This is partly why I don’t feel bad about not buying bitcoin at $12. I did the math, and given my general investing strategies, where I rebalance periodically, I doubt I’d have made more than couple hundred thousand. It’s real money, but no
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by milesvp 2y ago
>People choose to purchase unhealthy food Yeah, sort of. I’m immediately reminded of reports of health problems of people in countries that traditionally grow quinoa. The global demand for this amazingly nutritious food has priced it so
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by milesvp 2y ago
If you can time the market, then by all means, do that. The reason periodic rebalancing works, is because stocks and bonds don’t exclusively go up (or down). By rebalancing you can take advantage of a racheting effects as a result of signal
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by milesvp 2y ago
You are thinking about it backwards. Humans have a tendency to buy high and sell low. It seems to be a psychological benefit of some sort that holds us back in abstract market scenarios. By having a fixed percentage portfolio you are forcin
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by milesvp 2y ago
For anyone interested in this. Look up Professor DeMarse’s work. He trained brain cell slurries to fly flight simulators something like 20 years ago. It’s really wild how much brain cells will self organize in ways that are useful
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by milesvp 2y ago
I will give an anecdote from someone I worked with. Years ago he worked for an online poker site before they were under any scrutiny. At some point the company was being regulated and moved offshore. He was told that he had a choice at that
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by milesvp 2y ago
This was my first thought? The amount of effort I have to go through verifying what I get from gpt makes me wonder. On the other hand, there I’ve been thinking about how it might help me read datasheets. There are details that are easy to m
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by milesvp 2y ago
I can’t speak for “traditional” learning methods, since I’ve long been out of school. But I find chat gpt is about as good at first pass research as google was circa 2003. Google is no longer good for research. Used to be I didn’t know much
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by milesvp 2y ago
I can give you some timeline advice. Every merger and aquisition I’ve ever seen takes at least 7 years before the old system is no longer referenced anymore. This timeline is going to depend a lot on the complexity of the system with regard
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by milesvp 2y ago
Fun fact. Any USB-C cable that needs to handle higher wattage than 5V@3A has circuitry that talks on the CC line to let the source know it’s not going to melt.
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by milesvp 2y ago
They really were at the center of simulation. They had so many offerings that many people have never even heard of, like Sim Earth. I ran into it at a point in my life when I was playing with a lot of ideas about sustainability and waste, a

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