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by milesvp 2y ago
FYI. In the embedded space, peripherals refer to the chip's built in capabilities. Typically there is a peripheral that handles SPI, a peripheral that handles I2C, a peripheral that handles USART. There might be a peripheral that handl
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by milesvp 2y ago
I only learned to tie my shoes 18 months ago. All my life I’d been tying granny knots and wondering why I was always tying my shoes even with double knots. Someone posted a page here on the topic, and it was a revelation. It still feels wro
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by milesvp 2y ago
I know a guy from south africa. That country was forced to switch to fiber optics at least a decade sooner than the US because copper pirates were everywhere. He was telling me 20 years ago that it was not uncommon for someone there to acce
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by milesvp 2y ago
I’ve been experimenting with this for the last six months. I find some days the pomodoro technique to be a game changer, other days it seems to get in the way. It’s been hard to correlate my experiences with real data, and I suspect it has
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by milesvp 2y ago
I think you’re missing a subtlety with markov chains. It’s not about picking the next work with highest probability, it about picking the next word using the next word probability distribution. I played with them almost 20 years ago, and th
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by milesvp 2y ago
Very much this. It kills me when I search for something that I know for a fact still exists on the web, and there is no way of finding it through google. I used to comb through page 10+ regularly for hits for things related to my search, a
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by milesvp 2y ago
To add another point to this, is that people at different points in their career are interested in different problems. A chore that a senior dev might be an exciting opportunity for a junior. Similarly a daunting task for a junior might mig
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by milesvp 2y ago
I know a person with sort of an odd type of diabetes that requires multiple different ways of treating to keep her blood sugar low. She was taught to walk daily, not to help her blood sugar today, but to literally help it tomorrow. Her data
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by milesvp 2y ago
Please be careful pushing xylitol, "sugar alcohols" are neither a sugar or an alcohol. This, of course, is exactly the thing that makes them desirable as a sweetener substitute, the body doesn't really know what to do with t
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by milesvp 2y ago
Feynman has a fantastic anecdote about getting over what we might today call burnout. He was not interested in work at all in his professorship, when he noticed a wobble in a plate being thrown, and wondered about it. He spent all day worki
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by milesvp 2y ago
I mean, the logical extreme is to let them hang out in an opium den... I'm pretty sure that will likely have some pretty extreme psychological repercussions. I can tell you from personal experience, letting a young child watch some gra
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by milesvp 2y ago
I refuse to let my kids play Roblox. "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy ...". That place is full of kids scamming each other, and I've not heard many good things about the company either. I was onc
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by milesvp 2y ago
I think you may be confusing what is providing the payout. There is not a single game I’ve played that payed me money that also had a well defined path to success. Gambling any simple game is a near gauranteed loss of money. Poker can payo
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by milesvp 2y ago
My experience dealing with Espressif is that they are pleasure to work with professionally. I come from a world where Atmel made a lot of sense for the lower volume I deal with. Atmel support was ok before they got bought by Microchip, now
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by milesvp 2y ago
> But this can't be right––for no one commits that fallacy I most certainly cannot agree with this premise. I’ve met many people who make this mistake all the time. I even have a friend who is amongst the smartest people I know who
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by milesvp 2y ago
Proton is good enough, that I haven’t booted windows to play a game in 3 years. Lutris has been good for those not on steam. I tend to play a lot of indie games with a couple multiplayer competitive. YMMV
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by milesvp 3y ago
I'm not sure how to interpret "keep people honest", but you should know that most crime statistics show downturns during economic slowdowns, for similar reasons as the article. People stay home more. Most crime seems to be cr
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by milesvp 3y ago
One of my favorite weekend projects was an autoclicker. I had (have?) an intellectual infatuation with incremental games, and just found them to be incredibly alluring. I already knew how to write an auto clicker in software, using either e
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by milesvp 3y ago
Teenage labor participation is at some of the lowest levels ever. Most teenagers who would have otherwise gotten jobs, are now trying to do things to pad out their college applications. My suspicion is that you would have a hard time payin
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by milesvp 3y ago
Impressive uptime. Sidenote: I used to take pride with these kinds of uptime. I now see it as a significant risk. If I take over a machine with an uptime of more than a month, I assume that the machine cannot survive a reboot. Which means I
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by milesvp 3y ago
My experience on HN for the last 15 years is that the tangential, loosely correlated, comments tend to not only be the most interesting but lead to the most interesting threads.
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by milesvp 3y ago
I’m curious about what is happening in the field of reversable computing. I haven’t heard much about it at all in the last 20 years. Basic information theory tells us that it takes energy to destroy information, so building ALUs that limit
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by milesvp 3y ago
I’ve been watching a lot of healthy gamer youtube channel, the host likes to really geek out on brain science. One of the big take aways I’ve gotten watching him, is that sleep serves a layered purpose psychologically (and physically as per
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by milesvp 3y ago
My experience is that the best devs should not be crushing tickets. Just like the best surgeons have some of the worst survival rates, because they get the hardest patients, the best engineers should be working on the hardest problems the t
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by milesvp 3y ago
I think it may be unfortunate to lump Ikea in with Bauhaus. While I agree with the general sentiment that Ikea tends to be single use, the idea of the flatpack was truly revolutionary. Shipping furniture used to be crazy expensive, but the
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by milesvp 3y ago
I think ot was Joel Spolsky who wrote about this with regards to working on MS excel. The ability to convert to the competitor’s format was the final nail in the coffin for them. Once they implemented that feature, there was almost no reaso
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by milesvp 3y ago
The game is mastermind with letters. Even mastermind probably has prior art. Also, hard to say that there is a right to stop clones given rules aren’t copyrightable.
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by milesvp 3y ago
"I wanted something that expressed the fun I had using the internet, as well as hit on the skill, and yes, endurance necessary to use it well." I miss how fun the internet used to be. There is something lost with the current torre
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by milesvp 3y ago
This is sort of my fear with LLMs. Not even that they spit out bad answers, since bad answers are everywhere, or even that there is no good way to verify the quality of the answers, it’s that it will drive away the use of overflow sites. I
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by milesvp 3y ago
Might be more accurate to change “accidentally” to “intentionally”. Or “I found a bad dump in MAME and corrected it”

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