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by sheepybloke 3y ago
That's partially why I don't want to pay for YT Premium right now... The ads are getting really bad, always being placed at the worst moment of a video, and I don't want to reward YT for destroying my user experience. They ma
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
100%. A couple of the podcasts I'm listening to are moving more towards pre-packed ads and they are horrible. I think what advertisers don't realize is how much more the live ads are worth. I'm much more likely to listen thro
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
Exactly. I'm OK with ads on YouTube if they are placed in OK positions in the videos. For example, if they are placed in a natural break in the video. However, YouTube has decided to destroy their user experience by placing the ads to
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
I rented an Ionic PHEV a while back when I was in LA and was surprised how efficient it was! I drove the entire day, from West Hollywood to Santa Monica and then down to LAX and only used about 1 gallon of gas. It blew my mind at how effic
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
I would argue it's not even that hard to find anymore. It's just the user taking the time to do some research and trying things out.
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
I liked what San Jose did and turned single-use items to request only. It's amazing how little changes like that can be so impactful, where we switch from default include to default ask.
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
It looks like they have to include a logic level shifter to talk to the ESP32, so they could use something similar for the IO.
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
I think this depends on how the ICs are connected. If it's running something like I2C between them, then your data transfer rates will be too low and you'll be quite limited in some of the applications.
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
It's interesting to me that they have both an ESP32 and a RA4M1 processor. Is the WiFi connectivity really that intensive that they need to have both processors? I thought that was specifically why the ESP32 was a dual core design. Is
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
This was a huge frustration for me as I got into embedded programming. Once I got beyond the basics, it was incredibility hard to find information to take my engineering to the next level. For example, I was doing some work with ADCs and ha
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
There is definitely a market for craft soda, it’s just hard to get the same or even a small percentage of the distribution. The 2 cola companies have done a great job of pushing other competition out.
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
100%! My uncle lives in Wisconsin, and all I ask for Christmas from them is their homemade fudge and a pack of New Glarus. Always an amazing gift!
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
I only use Spotify for music, and recently, my homepage was all podcasts and audiobooks, with only 1 or 2 lines of recommendation for music. Spotify, please stop! You’re literally turning your homepage into something that is unusable for me
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
This makes a lot of sense to me, and I think the biggest thing is this changes the conversation at a company level about which boards to buy. Generally, companies have a lot more resources to put towards supporting more niche commercial boa
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
See Meta's recent VR commercials. They have a virtual mixer that they use in a "jam session" but it looks completely impractical to use.
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
A lot of the harder problem startups are still out there. Space, climate tech, etc. are still growing and hiring!
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
Generally it's out of pocket maximum to a point, like $250k. Then it's normally split, something like 80-20, where you have to cover 20% of the bill. That seems like a lot until you have something like cancer, where you need surge
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
Pre-tipping is also getting out of hand. I was looking at doing a train dining experience in Colorado for my wife's birthday, and they automatically added in a 20% gratuity to your bill. At that point, it's not actually tipping, t
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
This is wonderful to see! I grew up around that area; in fact, there was one of the Wolverine Worldwide dumping sites found quite close to my house. This was a huge concern for my parents when the PFAS contamination was found, especially si
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
Literally just got fired from a company that was just like that. Had a great idea, but wanted to build everything themselves vs just pieces of system that could differentiate us. Add onto that a weak business plan plus trying to compete wit
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
I got started my journey into CS by getting a Minecraft server up and running on my school laptop. Adding mods, figuring out networking, how to back the server up, it got me excited and hooked on working with tech!
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
Starship achieves liftoff, but fails to stick the landing.
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by sheepybloke 4y ago
My biggest gripe with 5 over 1's is the interior and the pricing. They're all cheap drywall with no insulation, quartz counter tops with an island and stainless steel appliances, and vinyl, wood grain flooring. They then claim tha
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by sheepybloke 4y ago
Exactly. It doesn’t mean you hate your life or your wife or your kids, just that you enjoy the bit of time to decompress, prepare for the day, or just think.
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by sheepybloke 4y ago
For me, Adafruit ate Arduino’s lunch. In terms of boards, form factor, price, ease of use, there is no comparison. That’s what confuses me about this board: why should I buy this vs any similar Adafruit board?
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by sheepybloke 4y ago
Yes and no. Some of the piece you have to make need to be cast, which means having a forge make the molds, test the molds out, and then, if you find an issue, start the whole process over again. That process can take at times around 6+ mont
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by sheepybloke 4y ago
I think 3dbrow's answer is the correct response, but would also like to say is that economics is much larger than just monetary and fiscal policies at a state level. This is one of the reasons that behavioral economics has flourished i
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by sheepybloke 4y ago
Exactly. There was some talk of this on some government aviation projects where our company was generally outbid by competitors who would allegedly low-ball the development costs, then when the project inevitably ran out of money, just requ
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by sheepybloke 4y ago
Exactly. Economics likes to pretend it is a hard science because it has mathematics and formulas and hard numbers, but it's not. It is much closer with a social science, where work has either big assumptions or is much closer to a stud
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by sheepybloke 4y ago
I feel like you could break up negative stories into a lot of batches. Would you say the type of negative stories have changed? Maybe towards more outrage or drama stories instead of fear-based stories?

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