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by samtho 3y ago
That seems like the point of the company demonym, got to drink that kool aid. What I find personality disingenuous (or perhaps even insidious) is the push to make everyone feel like they are an integral part of a group and then treat them l
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by samtho 3y ago
I did not downvote, mainly because I don’t think the downvote button means “disagree” but there are some statements you make that probably resulted in a “yikes” for more then a few people. > Then when they do eventually lower their stand
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by samtho 3y ago
A dating app is not a delivery service, it’s lead generation. The divide in behavior along the gender line is explained as actors behaving rationally in a free market. If you have many options available to you (and you don’t see who you are
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> Seriously asking, what do these USB/battery irons do that's desirable? Not necessarily a feature of only battery powered ones, but the more “high tech” irons have an advanced thermal sensing and regulation feedback loop that
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Flying was not as expensive as I thought especially since I found a school that lets you pay by the lesson. Once you got your 40 hours, you can, without much restriction, fly general aviation aircraft (that you are type-rated on) wherever y
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by samtho 3y ago
Authority is relative and is more nuanced. Only in recent human history have we seen a deliberate separation of church and state, for example. Prior to this, they were intertwined to a degree that would be incomprehensible to us now. As a n
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Same with California, some of the most expensive real estate in the country and world is located on the coast and they are not shy about building houses there.
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by samtho 3y ago
Google as a company just does not care. No amount of pointing out violations of web standards or norms is going to make them care and statements such as this only amount to indignation-fueled, self-congratulatory rhetoric.
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by samtho 3y ago
There is an ICCID, that is usually burned into the eSIM. However, SIM and eSIM are actually a tiny embedded system with a rudimentary Java byte code interpreter and you can insert firmware to dynamically swap between the reported ICCID. Usu
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I’ve been working with IoT for about 8-ish years and the one thing that has rang true for across platforms, designs, customers, and use-cases is that you can only squeeze so much performance from a setup that wasn’t properly optimized for l
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by samtho 3y ago
From Mayo Clinic: > Personality qualities include thinking very highly of oneself, needing admiration, believing others are inferior, and lacking empathy for others.
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by samtho 3y ago
For a younger, student electrical engineer, they could easily gain the appreciation for the engineering that went into these things. Especially as a someone who wrote a lot software prior to completing my EE training, I wanted to learn on s
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by samtho 3y ago
Run long tubes (1-3mi) out into then ocean with perforations so you can diffuse the highly salty water back into the ocean without disrupting local ecosystems.
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This is a bit of wisdom that is easy to miss when you are developing a product. When people are getting worked about something and are very vocal, positive or negative, it means they care in some way. Instead of going into the doom spiral o
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I wonder if home automation is one of those things that eventually gets figured out and we look back at today thinking, “we tolerated that ?” or if it never gets solved at a standards level and we just have egregiously subpar experiences d
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by samtho 3y ago
> There are standards, but every major smart home tech company wants to be the controller, not a slave. This is really the crux of the issue. First, from a business perspective, it makes sense: why sell a one-time hardware device when yo
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by samtho 3y ago
Maybe we’ve all been getting the “I” component wrong and it’s suppose to be Intranet of Things?
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by samtho 3y ago
I work in IoT and I don’t install anything on my home that isn’t local first and doesn’t require internet access. As you can imagine, the list of these products is very small, most of them are things I custom made. The problem with IoT is t
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by samtho 3y ago
Web3 was doomed from the start and we all knew it. Instead of strictly focusing on the decentralization of the web, it became shorthand for, “here’s how we turn http into another ICO/NFT grift!” It should have been a peer-to-peer docum
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by samtho 3y ago
It is my understanding that the get most of their revenue (>95%) from fees charged to larger contractors and developers who all have access to a self serve portal (you just need a contractor license # which is not hard to get). As they b
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Building inspection is actually like this in my city. If they get a tip about unpermitted work, they just bring the permit application, will waive a few fees so it costs $7.50, and they electronically send it to the office wheee someone app
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PRC global trade is propped up by extremely low-value, often non-essential goods on the export side and they import much of very essential food supplies and some other raw materials to make these goods. We have already seen a shift in manuf
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by samtho 3y ago
It’s sad that this is likely the case. In general, an “As is/no warranty” shrinkwrap contract should be sufficient for legal protection but won’t prevent people from filing nuisance lawsuits, which I suspect they wish to avoid altogeth
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I just can’t see the PRC and the CCP in its current form sticking around long enough. Between their demographic collapse and pushback on globalization amongst some of the largest nations and economic zones who trade with China (not the ment
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by samtho 3y ago
I did an electric conversion with an old Vespa, it was literally just a shell I got for about $300, packed it with a beefy BLDC motor and a driver (from a standup electric scooter) that let me change the speed based on the thumb throttle. I
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C had the opportunity to include this but they did not. It is my understanding that they wanted to design everything in C as inherent to the language, rather than magic types, especially a struct. There is an elegance in the notion that a s
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by samtho 3y ago
I suspect this still only works if you can utilize the capacity and have simultaneous deliveries, which would required a cluster of deliveries, thus likely not good for rural areas.
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by samtho 3y ago
I’m going to say that people buying this product from Arduino for ostensibly using with the Arduino IDE is not going to care much about using a pre-RISC-V chip.
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How hidden contracts took over the Internet(npr.org)
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This will always be a cat and mouse game: as cars become more complicated and have more security features, there are just more points of failure. A toolmaker for thieves or locksmiths will get a new car and automate the exploitation of a vu

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