sgtnoodle

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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
I recently bought their sous vide gadget and it seems pretty good. I wish it would remember its setting after erroring out, but that's very minor. It seems very accurate, within a degree.
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
$350 motherboard, $800 CPU, $200 RAM, $150 NVME, $100 cooler, $150 PSU, $200 case. $1750 + CA tax is about $1900. You could easily add another $1K by going crazy with RAM and NVME storage.
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
I went with the NH-D15 when I built my 5950x desktop. I've never fiddled with liquid cooling, and having to locate a radiator seemed like a pain. I very much hope not to need to touch it again for a decade. After tweaking the fan profi
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
I thought you meant like a jack hammer.
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
I agree that keyboard and mouse is superior, but as a grown-up with a family, it's rather infeasible. The Steam Deck has been great; I actually play a game for 30 minutes maybe twice a week. I'm hesitant to even try keyboard and m
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
If camera based hand tracking works already, it seems like a Bluetooth controller wouldn't be that hard to add in after the fact. Didn't PSVR just use a single camera and a glowing orb?
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
It's often called "necking down". The connector is higher resistance, and will indeed have more resistive loss than the wire. It's a very small length, though. The extra heat is quickly dissipated into the the nearby wir
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
According to Wikipedia, each pin is only rated to 500mA. If you look at a pinout (depending on key), there's roughly 9 3.3V pins. 14W at 3.3V over 9 pins would be 470mA per pin. It seems like comparing the amperage of M.2 to USB-C is
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
My understanding is that the Steam Deck, which uses a Zen 2 APU, dynamically allocates system RAM to VRAM. It only works in SteamOS (Arch Linux) though. Folk that run Windows on their Steam Decks need to go into the BIOS and bump the static
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
Leap seconds are completely arbitrary by committee, aren't they? I'm curious how there could be a technical dependency.
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
I've been lucky to pursue projects I'm well aligned with in terms of both technical interest and mission. Perhaps less attributable to luck, I've also always maintained a high bar for who I associate myself with, and on sever
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
How about Zipline? :-) https://legacy.flyzipline.com/job?gh_jid=5488460003
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
Thanks for the shout-out. I've been at Zipline for 7 years and have been working on the new platform for a while. Mark Rober did an amazing job showing off what we've been up to. I agree it will be really cool to see it in operati
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
Just reading the comments here, x seems to always be a hashmap. It is implied that there's no fundamental array type in the language. So no, x[0] and x[1] do not refer to the same variable, although they certainly could compare the sam
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
If you're writing a latency sensitive program, 99.9% might as well be 0% though; you're going to end up with an asynchronous anyway.
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
You all don't lightheartedly joke around with your coworkers from time to time?
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
That's a stretch. Historically, a hobo was a homeless migratory worker, differentiated from a tramp by their willingness to work. The term supposedly came into popularity in California. Technically, he's a "beachcombing barna
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
No, not at all! The most vulgar and intelligent people I met over there were in Adelaide.
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
In my experience spending time in Adelaide, Darwin, Melbourne, Cairns, Brisbane and Sydney, variations mainly come down to the relative density of curse words within a sentence. Anecdotally, the density trends upward with individual intelli
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
As another midwesterner also in the bay area, I have a lot of respect for rednecks. Talking to a colleague from Kentucky, I described an exceptionally high IQ friend of mine as a redneck. My colleague was initially offended, until I explain
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
It's fairly concrete advice I've given dozens of times to more junior software engineers over the years. People have a tendency to become emotionally invested in the code they write. A large part of that tendency seems to be due t
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
I think you missed my point then. The goal isn't to reduce mistakes, although that is often a secondary benefit. My suggestion was to shift work habits to a form where they have ownership of design rather than ownership of code. Also,
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
My suggestion is to do more design work up front before touching code. Write up a plan in a drive document or an internal wiki tool, with a focus on capturing requirements, a high level description of your proposed solution, and detailed se
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
You mean like for retrofitting an existing satellite? It seems like we're beyond the era of extremely constrained embedded environments, even for space hardware. Several hundred Mhz PowerPC based avionics computers with hundreds of MB
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
I name my wifi SSID after the last place I lived.
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
You mentioned not needing reserve energy because you're able to land anywhere along the flight path. Does that mean you can safely land and float in waves higher than 5ft, even if it isn't necessarily pleasant for passengers or go
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
3x increase in battery capacity in the next 7 years seems rather optimistic to me. Are there any specific battery advancements in the development pipeline that you know of? How are you managing battery degradation, especially given that you
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
Santa Cruz maybe? Monterey?
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
They can rip off their leg and beat people with it. They should have to check that appendage.
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by sgtnoodle 3y ago
My go-tos are OpenSCAD and the online version of SketchUp.

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