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by samtho 4y ago
I don’t think your realize just how out touch you sound. If you grew up in a well-off family where a traditional work ethic is highly valued, I can see how easy it is to arrive at a simplification like this. Getting a menial free lunch does
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by samtho 4y ago
Outside of the funding issue, most of this comes down to socioeconomic status and cultures of ethic groups. For example, a student in a wealthy household might be given support and the space to not have any other responsibility outside of a
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by samtho 4y ago
I am going to open source it. The goal was to be able to get all the SMD stuff available at JLPCB so you can just send it to be fabbed (with some thru-hole components you would just solder yourself) or I would also sell them at cost + 10%.
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by samtho 4y ago
I am in the same boat, but they do tend to become significantly dimmer over time.
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by samtho 4y ago
> LEDs must be powered by a constant-current supply, and distribution does not work well at constant-current, and is always constant voltage. So no matter what you will need some sort of switching power supply. I think the biggest proble
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by samtho 4y ago
I am designing an off-grid cabin with a solar panel array charging a bank of batteries with a propane generator backup. I run ethernet as power with a custom designed PCB that terminates at the outlet side where it exposes a 20 watt USB cha
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by samtho 4y ago
I used to do electrical installs in commercial buildings and this was starting to catch on, mainly because the the practice of running ethernet (including the 8P8C aka RJ45 connector, patch paneling, etc) is already established. This always
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by samtho 4y ago
I think I’m more on guard these days on HN which led me to be a bit too hasty in my judgement, I am sorry.
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by samtho 4y ago
> Yes, just as ridiculous as anyone who would have been against the 80s push to take fat out of dairy and pour in the lab sugar! > Why not stuff our stomachs with even more lab stuff? Why not, in any case reducing actual meat consumpt
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by samtho 4y ago
I never said chrome was not damaging. In fact, it’s damage is likely to be more widespread. The underlying point here was that it feels like we’ve picked an apples-to-oranges comparison when we say just how bad chrome is when compared to IE
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by samtho 4y ago
I see comments like this a lot and it always makes me wonder if we have collectively forgotten just how damaging IE was the web or if our default vilification of a browser we don’t like is to just compare it with IE.
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by samtho 4y ago
When I’m looking for cars to buy on fb market or Craigslist, I use very general terms and never the feature filters like transmission, drive train, body style, even fuel type. So many people enter the wrong thing (it doesn’t matter if is do
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by samtho 4y ago
>> How can we get more people to watch our videos? > Autoplay it! >> Oh no, they are scrolling away from it now, how do we get them to keep watching it? > literally make it always present on the screen no matter where they
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by samtho 4y ago
Sometimes it’s not up to the user if the company they work/contract for requires it.
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by samtho 4y ago
Most of it is the R&D, but I’m sure tooling is in there, just likely a much smaller cost in comparison.
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by samtho 4y ago
It’s still a currently-in-use acronym/term that a sufficiently large tech company could conceivably be using both meanings concurrently. This causes confusion and muddies the water of a general web search experience. Not the same situa
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by samtho 4y ago
This is still better than nothing. If a company thinks a staff software engineer is worth a maximum of $95k, for example, I would be able to spot this before wasting anyone’s time with an application and potentially an interview.
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by samtho 4y ago
> Most people are critically malnourished, so it holds on to any that it can get. This is not how chemistry works. The body will use (catalyze) what you give it, but the more reactive substances are used quicker and in greater abundance.
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by samtho 4y ago
The “couple of cents” seemed like an off the cuff remark to indicate that leaded gas was less expensive than alternatives, but I would be interested in hearing about this delta as a percent rather than a fixed cost. Given inflation, gas pri
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by samtho 4y ago
At the risk of sounding like your fourth grade teacher, you’re only cheating yourself. I would argue that using a dictionary is a tactic and one to better help you better play the game by introducing you to the idea of a decision tree. You
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by samtho 4y ago
People have a morbid fascination and collect infamous mementos all the time.
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by samtho 4y ago
Edison's was DC. He hated A/C and did public demonstrations of killing animals with A/C just to “prove” how dangerous it was. The Current Wars was a very interesting blip in history, and ultimately Tesla and Westinghouse won
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by samtho 4y ago
Usually electric generation facilities or devices are described as what they can handle at their peak. I feel as if this vulgarization of units really makes it harder to understand the intangibility not of electrical demand which is also ep
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by samtho 4y ago
I would say an SA (Solution Architect) is very different from an SE (Sales Engineer) in one fundamental way: the SA is focused on delivering value post-contract and the SE is focused on making sure the org is able deliver the value promised
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by samtho 4y ago
I can pinpoint the exact time where I fully became disillusioned with front end work and it was the day where I realized that in order to be productive with these tools, you had to set it up with the CLI.
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by samtho 4y ago
One of the most fascinating thing about working with hardware vs software is your designs are influenced by the laws of physics, but more importantly, how we choose to implement our understanding of these laws. I've gotten away with qu
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by samtho 4y ago
I used to work in forum software development and thinking CAPTCHAs would slowly become obsolete as better detection methods are pioneered but instead CAPTCHAs just got more pervasive. From my experience, any time a major provider creates a
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by samtho 4y ago
> I've always found it strange that an MVNO is able to operate on the T-Mobile network the entire time and undercut their rates so much that they become a threat. Think about it less as a network operating on T-Mobile's network
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by samtho 4y ago
AWS historically has had issues detecting if itself is having issues.
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by samtho 4y ago
Diet has been strongly linked to mood, focus, and sleep. Consequently, the hormones Dopamine, Serotonin, Epinephrine, and Norepinephrine all have receptors in the brain as well as the gut and this should not be too surprising because consum

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