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by roland35 6y ago
Having started working remotely just before the pandemic hit (good timing I suppose), I was curious how the daily schedule would be different. I am sure that being at a remote-experienced company is better than companies starting it for th
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by roland35 6y ago
The datasaurus is an interesting concept, but I think the biggest issue with most of our society is basic mathmatical fluency. This idea of "visualizing your data" or "sanity checking" can be expanded to a lot of situat
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by roland35 6y ago
That robot may be more valuable in a company that makes custom items like toys or signage. For car manufacturing, they are making hundreds of thousands of cars a year of the same exact shape, so a few hours if setup isn't to bad!
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by roland35 6y ago
Thank you for putting what I have always thought into a clear paragraph! Back when I was working on a consumer robotics system that issue (what can we expect a random consumer to do to their home/yard to simplify the robot's job)
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by roland35 6y ago
I agree with the author about how the risks are more obvious to higher ups than benefits and that is why rules generally stay the same. However, one thing that I learned as a new parent is how important it is to have consistency! I think a
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by roland35 6y ago
That is my biggest concern as well. Plus the reality that if both parents come down with serious symptoms the kids likely have it, so it would not be ideal to send the kids to other family members to watch long term
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by roland35 6y ago
Yeah this is definitely not surprising to the least! Even if I was laid off I am more worried about my children having long term health effects (or worse) than missing a few bills, and that is before considering how flexible lenders are cla
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by roland35 6y ago
Back in first grade in the early 90s we had a computer lab class where the teacher taped a handkerchief over the keyboard and forced us to learn touch typing. At the time it seemed ridiculous (and sweaty!) But looking back I am glad I lear
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by roland35 6y ago
Ha yes it is hard to believe it when people say it, almost like when someone has to tell everyone they are smart it often means they aren't that smart...
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by roland35 6y ago
I don't mean to generalize that Big Tech has awful work life balance or other problems (I am sure it is mostly the opposite!), but rather there are lot of things smaller companies can and should offer to be more appealing.
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by roland35 6y ago
Yeah I think "hit by a bus" generally means there is 0 chance of knowledge transfer and is more a disaster recovery term than a talent retention term. Unless you really burn a bridge with your workers they should have at least a w
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by roland35 6y ago
FAANG companies can certainly offer more money, but there are lots of things other companies can offer too (besides Ruby on Rails apparently). - ownership of the product and process - less red tape and politics - good work life balance - lo
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by roland35 6y ago
This works well if the laptop is front and center, but I actually have my laptop in a stand which holds it vertically to save desk space. I suppose the laptop could sit in my stand at 90 degrees but that might look a little strange! There
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by roland35 6y ago
So far my most effective method has been to stop trying to categorize and organize my notes. I just use org mode and: - have a to-do list up top. I try and keep notes as I progress through these - below is a "waiting" group of tod
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by roland35 6y ago
Yes, pollution regulation is a classic example of something which has a huge cost on one group (business) and a minor benefit to a large group (everyone else), but the minority is much more motivated. It is an unfortunate byproduct of our
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by roland35 6y ago
Keeping a log also makes you seem more on top of things to colleagues and managers! I have a poor memory myself (at least with conversations... I seem to remember just fine where most athletes played college ball or other random useless fac
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by roland35 6y ago
I have a very basic version of something like this called a Bus Pirate, based off of a PIC. Unfortunately the Bus Pirate is more or less a dead project. I also have a Saleae logic analyzer which is a fantastic tool, but only reads data. T
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by roland35 6y ago
I believe this can work but please be careful doing this! Tool batteries are capable of supplying very high peak current and could cause a small fire. Lithium ion battery fires are not trivial, water alone may not be enough to stop it.
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by roland35 6y ago
The touch bar is an interesting concept, but I hardly use it as a new Mac user (got a MacBook pro for the first time ever this year), as cool as I thought it was at first. I wish it had a few features to improve the experience: - ability to
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by roland35 6y ago
I did this before learning about other tools! But you can download ddcctl from GitHub, then create an automator "quick action" with no input from any application. Then I created a flow of "Ask for text" (brightness), &q
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by roland35 6y ago
My favorite Mac shortcut is now option-command B, which I connected to an automator app which changes my external monitor brightness. It calls ddcctl which is a command line script which communicates over the displayport connection to cont
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by roland35 6y ago
As a new security engineer, thank you! I also believe security engineering is not just abiutbweb apps but applies to everything. So far the things I've learned have opened my eyes to a lot of things, such as seeing someone share a Goog
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by roland35 6y ago
I think it is also hard to compare different candidates this way, even assuming they both have a similar level of commitment on GitHub. A take home exercise at least allows them to compare the same thing
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by roland35 6y ago
What concerns me the most is that if this recent attack was accomplished by this outfit, it seems very likely state actors probably have infiltrated Twitter and may be sitting on information a bit more subtly.
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by roland35 6y ago
InfluxDB and Grafana worked great for us when I created a live monitoring system for a fleet of prototype test robots. It was simple to set up new data streams. We started with Graphite but switched to InfluxDB for it's flexibility (Gr
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by roland35 6y ago
That is a good point about subcontractors, many times they end up being cheaper in the long run because they do it right (hopefully). When we were renovating my home I oftentimed worked with the contractors and asked questions. Hopefully it
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by roland35 6y ago
Landscaping seems to be the biggest source of flooding! Here in the Midwest we don't have as much moisture as the northwest, but we do get frequent large storms in the summer which cause flooding. I'm grateful to be living on top
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by roland35 6y ago
This is a tough problem for companies. At my last job there was an "advanced concepts" group which had a lot of freedom and latitude, but they had a poor reputation for not really producing anything useful. The few things they did
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by roland35 6y ago
Are there any line streams of hardware development? I'm getting into Kicad circuit design and it would be good to see how an experienced user works with it!
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by roland35 6y ago
As long as it's thinner than a standard page of printer paper, according to apple at least!

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