robomartin

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by robomartin 6mo ago
I thankfully learned that lesson about twenty years go. Google had a product that allowed you to park domains with them for ad insertion to generate some revenue. Owning over 400 domains at the time I though, why not? The process through
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by robomartin 7mo ago
If we were serious as a society about fighting this disease we would engineer an approach that guarantees early detection on as many people as possible. My guess, not having looked at numbers at all, is that the societal cost of late detec
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by robomartin 7mo ago
I was afraid of that. I hope you find a path. Having lost several members of our family to cancer over the last several decades, including my mother, I sometimes question where all the money going into cancer research has gone. Maybe what
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by robomartin 7mo ago
Not sure what you mean by "open replacement".
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by robomartin 7mo ago
Pinterest is useful. I mostly use it to get industrial design ideas on some projects. They do send other email without stupid titles. Those are "like" fine.
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Dear Pinterest: Stop It
2 points by robomartin 7mo ago|6 comments
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by robomartin 7mo ago
> it could also hack your home network, delete your family pictures folder, log into your bank account and wire all your money to shrimp charities. It's interesting that Jason Calacanis is fully committed to OpenClaw. In a recent
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by robomartin 8mo ago
What you highlight here is a vexing modern problem. Today, my kids, between 20 and 27, actively socialize with friends through gaming. Seen in isolation gaming is a monumental waste of time. However, there's this social element that
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by robomartin 8mo ago
Interesting. I have worked in ITAR environments with serious security and have never experienced 30 minute lines at the door. In fact, I can't remember lines at all. Hard to understand what happened here. Was it really a single turns
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by robomartin 8mo ago
> We'd need the story told by the children-turned-adults to make any fair judgement. True enough. Of course, you are not going to get that in this case. All I can say is that those commenting here about potentially cataclysmic con
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by robomartin 8mo ago
> The issue I take with modern games like CoC is that they are psychologically engineered to be mentally harmful Precisely. I am not saying I am perfect as a parent or that this was the best possible approach to the situation we had. N
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by robomartin 8mo ago
> The thing is, what are the parents to do beyond restricting things? Well, I can't speak for parents (as in all parents). I can, however, tell you what we did. When two of my kids were young we gave them iPods. The idea was to loa
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by robomartin 8mo ago
Product management --and managers-- can be, shall we say, interesting. I was recently involved with a company that wanted us to develop a product that would be disruptive enough to enter an established market, make waves and shock it. We di
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by robomartin 8mo ago
The video was likely recovered from local flash memory on the camera itself. These kinds of devices are not uploading raw video to the cloud. There are several reasons for that. The first is that you cannot rely on connectivity 100% of the
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by robomartin 8mo ago
> I truly do not understand the appeal of proto board. I didn't understand your comment until I looked at the pictures in the article. To me "proto board" has always meant wire-wrapping. I lost count of how many of my de
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by robomartin 9mo ago
> But we haven’t had any substantial evidence despite the current administration trying to claim otherwise. Take politics out of it. My comments are not at all based on politics or ideology. It's purely a matter of process issues.
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by robomartin 9mo ago
Think that through for a moment. Hint: They never see the ballots. My point wasn't to paint a water-proof scenario. It is to illustrate just how unreliable and dangerous mail-in voting can be. There are other vectors for manipulation
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by robomartin 9mo ago
You arguing with the wrong person. I am saying that we need to go to in-person paper ballots. The comment you responded to was about the scenario of someone getting a bunch of ballots and filling them out at home or making their household
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by robomartin 9mo ago
Not a problem. We should pay for them to get proper identification. This is likely an infinitesimally small percentage of the population qualified to vote. As the other commenter said, you need identification for most important things in
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by robomartin 9mo ago
I have to present my passport to get on a plane, enter into another country, register into a hotel and return to this country. I have to show either my passport card (another passport-like ID in the US) or my RealID-equipped drivers licens
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by robomartin 9mo ago
That's the wrong perspective. The minute votes go into the mail system there is no way to know just how many mail-in votes might be subject to fraud. In other words, your characterization has no basis in evidence. Note that I am not
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by robomartin 9mo ago
I've seen the opposite as well, and at a high level. In this case it was an incompetent VP of Engineering who was seriously lacking domain knowledge when a new set of projects outside the norm came into the company. Instead of having
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by robomartin 9mo ago
I simply started this comment thread to say that there's a substantial, massive, actually, difference between hobby and commercial/industrial products and here you are blowing it up into a fucking ridiculous moronic argument tryin
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by robomartin 9mo ago
Nice concept, yet, this isn't realistic but for a few special cases. In simple terms, if a company has a continuum of products of a certain category over time, the designs (hardware, software, manufacturing, testing, etc.) are typicall
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by robomartin 9mo ago
> This is why your snark is so easily detectable If I argue with my wife about medical matters (she is an MD) her response might look or sound snarky to some. In reality, she would be correct in telling me how and why I would be wrong.
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by robomartin 9mo ago
> You're missing the point: the line between hobbyist and prototype now doesn't exist - there is a continuum where devices are made in single digits, tens of units, and progressively scaled up. This isn't the 80s/90s
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by robomartin 9mo ago
> What's missing from these parts which makes people reach for ESP32 by default instead? I didn’t directly answer that question before. Strictly speaking, nothing essential is missing from many of these other parts. In fact, in prof
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by robomartin 9mo ago
> Translation: they're expensive, and getting them working involves jumping through hoops more complex than simply getting boards off Amazon and launching VS Code. They aren't equivalent, and the sneering isn't helping. Wh
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by robomartin 9mo ago
> The TI parts seem a bit expensive in small quantities, but the Microchip and SiliLabs parts are like $6-7 in single units from Digi-Key. Is it just that the dev kits are in the >$50 price range which puts people off compared to ESP3
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by robomartin 9mo ago
> I have a SolidWorks Students License and it's the most frustrating piece of software I have ever used. Yeah, you need to invest time to learn it. I do understand the frustration when learning something new. I get it. However, y

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