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by peteforde 3mo ago
It is a skill that you can develop.
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by peteforde 3mo ago
$0.02: the way to read more books is with a really good pair of earbuds. The Libby app (with Audible to fill in the blanks) makes it incredibly easy to train up your listening speed dramatically, making it possible to finish several books p
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by peteforde 3mo ago
It seems as though you want things both ways. The notion that an experienced person should automatically consider mentorship to be part of their job is not backed by any code or contract that I'm aware of. It's just increasingly b
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by peteforde 3mo ago
Context switches are not free. Dozens of "quick questions" over the course of a day will drag down your productivity to about one third or worse. I know that for me, it takes about 45 minutes of focus to enter a flow state, when I
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by peteforde 3mo ago
Alternative take: the assumption that senior engineers get pressured into agreeing to mentor without it formally being an acknowledged part of their job - that is, that a significant percentage of their time is supposed to be allocated to m
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by peteforde 3mo ago
You're projecting several layers of bias onto this scenario. The more busy you are, the more valuable your time... the more expensive context switching is. When you are known as the person with the answers, your day is at least partial
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by peteforde 3mo ago
It is surreal to me that a comment stating that being able to do a certification pre-check on site before booking testing got downvoted. Sure, maybe this isn't the device for that... but the idea that what I said was objectionable is j
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by peteforde 3mo ago
I was almost through the checkout flow last week before I realized that this configuration only supports a relatively narrow frequency range. I work primarily in sub-GHz radio. Please wake me up when they launch their LoRa version, that wou
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by peteforde 3mo ago
That's absolutely missing the point. EMC/EMI testing is expensive, time consuming and requires scheduling and experiment design. Being able to do local soft-run testing on-site to be sure that you eliminate the easy 90% of issues
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by peteforde 3mo ago
Kudos! This is impressive work. Even the 3D viewer is working.
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by peteforde 3mo ago
I honestly believe that folks confuse disappointment with an inability to notice their own window for what should be considered impressive continues to shift further into legitimate sci-fi territory. Louis CK's wifi on a plane bit is f
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by peteforde 3mo ago
I disagree, but not in a downvote sort of way. I think your position is defensible, but there is a valid second perspective. The sorts of folks who "won't be missed" put pedantry over productivity. To paint with a very broad
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by peteforde 3mo ago
Bingo. These days, my only deps are TinyUSB and LVGL - stuff that would be completely pointless and absurd to recreate.
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by peteforde 3mo ago
One thing I find impressive is that this part has GPIOs equal to the total number of pins minus two. Economical is the word that comes to mind.
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by peteforde 3mo ago
There's a little pop-up quiz in the bottom right of this page. "Describe your studio setup" and my mild dyslexia kicked in. I almost clicked the first answer because I initially read it as "just one or two bedrooms full
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Rift Wizard 3 now in Early Access(store.steampowered.com)
1 points by peteforde 3mo ago|0 comments
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by peteforde 4mo ago
First, you'll probably never know and this is one of those ouroboros questions that can drive you a little crazy if you let it. I urge you to not let it, because the only actual answer is that if you did work you were proud of and met
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by peteforde 4mo ago
I think your pushback is reasonable, but I want to speak up in defense of delis-thumbs-7e's comment, which I don't read as dismissive in a negative way. In fact, I'd like to suggest that he's championing free range child
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KiCad-captouch: Capacitive touch interface generation(github.com)
4 points by peteforde 4mo ago|0 comments
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by peteforde 4mo ago
It's called the Osma Pro. https://www.engadget.com/osma-pro-cold-brew-coffee-machine-r... Sadly, the company that made it flew a bit too close to the sun. I'd be genuinely sad if mine broke.
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by peteforde 4mo ago
About 6-7 years ago I bought a machine that prepares single-shot cold brew with ultrasonic cavitation. I like my caffeine potent and chilled, so this has worked out extremely well for me. When I have a guest that wants a hot coffee, I just
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Laser Phase Plate Cryo-Electron Microscopy(biohub.org)
11 points by peteforde 4mo ago|0 comments
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by peteforde 4mo ago
To be clear, you took something that I said generally - and is not just easily defended but obvious - and made it all about you and your comment. The pattern I'm talking about is easily repeatable. Someone says that they used LLMs to d
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by peteforde 4mo ago
That is not a coherent reply to my point, which is that you guys are like school yard bullies to people naive enough to throw chum into the water. We've seen this play out so many times. Nobody working on anything serious is going to v
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by peteforde 4mo ago
You sound very much like you need a long walk and/or a long hug. Please go touch some grass.
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by peteforde 4mo ago
At this point, why would anyone in their right mind respond to this question and paint a target for all manner of negativity ranging from snark to harassment to malicious action?
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iFixit tears down Trump Mobile [video](youtube.com)
6 points by peteforde 4mo ago|0 comments
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by peteforde 4mo ago
I was excited by the headline but then when I got to the page 1. I saw it was React 2. Nothing loading, just a page full of spinners I truly wish React could be launched into the sun.
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by peteforde 4mo ago
I just tried out Fable on a modest Plan prompt in Cursor. Generating that plan - not building it - just consumed 4% of my $200 monthly usage budget. That's one hungry, hungry hippo! Significantly too rich for my blood, but nice to have
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by peteforde 4mo ago
If monopoly laws were applied to Live Nation, who would pay the lobbyists? And if the lobbyists weren't paid, who would pay the politicians? Your argument works on paper, but the ground truth is that the base price of tickets is 5x wha

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