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by riskable 4y ago
> If you want to keep stuff for millennia you need clay tablets and stone, not USB sticks and magnetic tapes. Actually, there's a better way : Religion! Religion will have people devoting their lives to copying things generation
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by riskable 4y ago
> Take stone tool making -- an art that goes back beyond our species, to the homo genus itself, as a universal hominid skill. Now mostly lost to us. That's kind of sad. It's not sad! We have much better ways to make tools th
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by riskable 4y ago
Actually the weight savings is irrelevant. The advantage is in the simplification of the cable assemblies! Did you know that just about every cable assembly in every car is made by hand ‽ Hackaday wrote an article all about it: https
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by riskable 4y ago
To be fair, the comparison is against the way Windows updates itself which is like Russian roulette.
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by riskable 4y ago
> I've had trouble with sound, wireless (both wifi and bluetooth), graphics, boot, and power-state management with Linux, Hah! I could say the same for Windows! I'm the family IT support person and I've experienced all tho
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by riskable 4y ago
This awesome, haha! It's already more accurate and informative (with better sound quality) than 90% of the podcasts that exist :D
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by riskable 4y ago
A client base is not an exclusive resource that only the employer gets to have. If the doctor started a coffee shop and those same clients started going there for their coffee would it be the same? Or perhaps the whole point of such cla
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by riskable 4y ago
> If I used the company computer to access a dating-website, then could the company claim ownership of my firstborn child No, but first kiss is definitely on the table.
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by riskable 4y ago
That's probably because most people don't even think about it or bother trying. They may not even read the agreement! I've successfully negotiated contracts several times in the past. Even once at a big company (that I kne
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by riskable 4y ago
At big companies they will not change the contract for a single candidate. No way. Not unless it's a "big deal" sort of job where the executives are involved. They'll just tell you to go pound sand. The correct co
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by riskable 4y ago
That's like saying, "it's dishonorable to agree to a contract to kill someone knowing full well such a contract isn't enforceable." If one party holds all the cards in a contract negotiation it's never truly be
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by riskable 4y ago
There's an easy way to solve this problem without non-competes: Treat your employees better . Usually by paying them more . The entire concept of going to work for someone else is that it's supposed to save you a lot of troubl
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by riskable 4y ago
> there is always the risk of total nonsense hidden somewhere in the middle This is true of human-generated code as well. Trust me: Reviewing other people's code is my day job. It's exceptionally rare that a malicious actor is
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by riskable 4y ago
I always tell people that spreadsheets should be used to display data, not store it. As soon as you use spreadsheets to store data you've begun the descent into darkness.
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by riskable 4y ago
My analog keyboards use analog multiplexers (74HC4067) which is similar to how shift registers work. Except they're full of flip-flops (2-way) instead of digital logic. I made two videos talking about how I design my analog keyboard
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by riskable 4y ago
I made my own tutorial about how to design your own analog keyboard: https://youtu.be/TfKz_FbZWLQ It's ultimately the same process I used to create my Analog Hall Effect Keyboard that was reviewed by Chyrosran22 recent
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by riskable 4y ago
Don't compare web development with "normal" software development. Writing code for the web is 10,000 layers of added complexity far above and beyond literally any other kind of programming. "Normal" programming inv
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by riskable 4y ago
> some hardware registers were being initialized in a procedure that was allocating working space for a numerical part of the program, because that's here he happened to open the log file for the first time, and he wanted the loggin
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by riskable 4y ago
Not really. gzip doesn't know that it can eliminate enormous swaths of unused code paths. I've seen enormous code bases drop from multi-megabyte downloads (even using gzip compression) into mere kilobytes from minification strat
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Show HN: An analog keyboard with 3D printed switches(youtube.com)
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by riskable 4y ago
Yeah that's the problem though: A lot of websites don't set the password field to "type=password" or they don't set the second (verify) password field like that. Why do they do this? Either the web developer
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by riskable 4y ago
Even though it's resolved I do find it very interesting. The reason why it still exists on the home page is evidence that others agree with this sentiment.
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by riskable 4y ago
If the author is here (or notices this post) I found a typo in the article: > "But in practice you can do significantly better, especially for lines that are nearly horziontal..." I must say though, "horziontal" does
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by riskable 4y ago
Regulation might be able to fix it: Prevent streaming companies from owning content production. Split up companies that already exist like this (e.g. Comcast, Netflix, Disney, et al) then the content creating entities will be forced to
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by riskable 4y ago
In embedded programming it can be useful to control an animation on an LED matrix since a lot of LED drivers and multiplexers enable pins based on the bits passed through their respective drivers. Example of how you might animate 8 LED con
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by riskable 4y ago
The argument the author seems to be trying to make is that fusion power will never be realistic because it'll be too expensive. Then goes on to explain why it's expensive today . You could make the same exact argument about w
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by riskable 4y ago
Better embedded GPIO. RPi Zero is a great little board/computer but the capabilities of the GPIO pins are lacking in a lot of ways. Speed being the biggest problem. This little $8 board will run circles around even an RPi 4 when it c
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by riskable 4y ago
...and the network intrusion detection system throws up all sorts of alarm bells about IPs being spoofed and duplicate IPs in use. I assume MacOS actually only re-uses IPs if it sees the lease hasn't already expired but it might be d
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by riskable 4y ago
Do bots count as "users" in this context?
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by riskable 4y ago
As I understand it, yes that's exactly how it's meant to work... You drop in a pellet, blast it to the point of fusion, capture the energy, then repeat.

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