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by sircastor 1y ago
Yes, but it's essentially fraud. The common term is "Origin washing." You have to declare the origin of the shipment, and the exception is that it goes through "substantial transformation." If you were to buy a bunc
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by sircastor 1y ago
I think there are 2 or 3 reasons: 1) Popularity. While there are plenty of die-on-a-hill users for ____ app, there are just as many people who will step away to try something and find they like it. Lots of devs use VScode, but its only been
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by sircastor 1y ago
Is this still the case? I thought Amazon started collecting (and paying) sales tax years ago. It was a big deal at the time. Are you referring to something else?
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by sircastor 1y ago
I did this, though Robotics is adjacent for me. My software is still web tech interfacing with robots. If I wanted to, I could probably transfer internally to do more direct work with robots. The way I did it was to find robotics companies
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by sircastor 1y ago
My goal is to capture unfiltered thoughts in Obsidian. This is appealing to me because it's fundamentally just Markdown. It syncs across devices (iCloud for me, though any synced storage would work) That said, most of the time it'
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by sircastor 2y ago
A bit adjacent, but I’ve spent some free time the last couple of weeks tearing down and rebuilding a cuckoo clock. I’ve been delighted learning the mechanics of the bellows, the bird, and just clock movements in general. There’s a great val
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by sircastor 2y ago
Many years ago Decipher (who made the Star Trek and Star Wars TCGs) rolled out a web platform for playing their games. It was the business model but with none of the advantages of the physical property. You would spend money on their platfo
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by sircastor 2y ago
> I don't want to have to deal with issues on this laptop. If I pull a system update, I want it to install without a problem, automatically, overnight, and not require hours of debugging and reverting and then finding a fix a week l
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by sircastor 2y ago
Have you spent any time looking at OpenCore Legacy? I briefly was using it on my 2014 13" MBP to install whatever the latest version-1 was. It worked well for a bit but I ran into an issue after an update. I bailed on it but learned la
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by sircastor 2y ago
To be clear, I was asking why OP wanted to study these specific subjects - not get a Bachelors in general. I've gotten more than one job that required a bachelors before I had one. They almost always offer the "Or requisite/s
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by sircastor 2y ago
I went back to school at 37, and got my degree at 40 (2020). I don’t regret it, though it was very tough. My classes were almost all online, and I transferred a “Associates in general studies” from a community college (obtained in 2008). He
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by sircastor 2y ago
It's important to say that evolution isn't versioned, and what we're observing isn't finished. We may be looking at an evolutionary dead-end. Which is to say that if eating the male is an evolutionary development, it mig
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by sircastor 2y ago
I wanted some amount of notoriety when I was younger. I wanted to do something important. Accomplish something that helped people. It was mostly notions of having done some really cool project that people would talk about. I'm in my mi
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by sircastor 2y ago
> Most research fails So long as the research has a conclusion, it's not a failure. We learned something. There may be something to be said for whether or not the research is a worthy topic, but that's a different conversation.
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by sircastor 2y ago
I did the same thing! For me though it was a bunch podcasts she was on.
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by sircastor 2y ago
I wrote some 6502 as my final project for school (An NES game, so a specific environment) and I found it fun and extremely challenging. I'm sure there is a lot to be said for writing ASM in a modern context, but I think it's a goo
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by sircastor 2y ago
My wife and I have had conversations about exhuming human remains in pursuit of science a number of times, and I haven't quite been able to settle on when or why it is or is not appropriate. In a personal context - it seems a violation
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by sircastor 2y ago
I've read some folks saying this is a long game seize power or establish new norms. I would really like it if there were some logic or rationale behind it. But I don't see any reasoning that's longer than "It's givi
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by sircastor 2y ago
My wife walked into my office about an hour ago with a message from her school related to grants being halted, and how they're going to try to respond. It wasn't anything that directly affected her studies, but there are undoubted
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by sircastor 2y ago
> Clippy, on the other hand, is very charismatic. Clippy was not popular. While I like the idea of a character that you can relate to, but I think it doesn't really fit in the modern context. When Clippy arrived, computers had reall
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by sircastor 2y ago
My wife and I are split on this, though neither of us are regular TikTok users. I keep coming across elected officials who are apparently briefed on something about TikTok, and they decide there’s a reasonable threat regarding the CCP or so
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by sircastor 2y ago
I got a tile on TinyTapeout9 (I think) and participated in a workshop for it at the Hackaday Supercon last November. I had a lot of fun. I had a bit of knowledge from my university digital logic class, but really enjoyed learning how the la
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by sircastor 2y ago
Over the last year I’ve gotten a couple of offers from PCB manufactures to make my projects in exchange for a review and visibility in my projects and on my site. It was tempting, but every time I thought about doing it, it felt off. I real
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by sircastor 2y ago
I think Steve ended up being a better salesperson than Jean-Louis Gassé. And to be fair, for all its incredible effort I don't think that BeOS was as mature as NextStep. As I recall, there were some early UI efforts that essentially co
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by sircastor 2y ago
My professional career has largely been web dev, where I haven’t really had to worry about resource constraints It was quite a lot of fun in my university final project to be developing on a 6502 (NES) in Assembly and find myself working in
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by sircastor 2y ago
The Apple Watch was a big contributor to my decision to switch back to an iPhone after a decade. I can’t speak to the current smartwatch market, but for many many years, the Apple Watch has been unparalleled in its category. I wish Apple wa
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by sircastor 2y ago
Likewise, my Bambu X1C changed my 3d Printing experience. Prior to it, I was spending an insane amount of time on fixing my printer, testing my printer, trying to improve my printer. The Bambu just worked. It breaks my heart a little that t
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by sircastor 2y ago
I'll add my voice to this. I stopped using Fusion360 when they adjusted the licensing terms a while back. FreeCAD has a ways to go to being at par with the likes of Fusion, but it is a capable piece of software - and once you get some
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by sircastor 2y ago
> I'm sure you know but for others reading, 12v ws2811 are grouped in threes, so not individually addressable. 5v is, and when you're working at scale power injection isn't a huge deal as you'll be doing it anyway. I
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by sircastor 2y ago
Installing WLED is about as easy as one could hope for - so easy, it's kind of unbelievable. Provided that your device has USB, you plug it in, go to the WLED installer page ( https://install.wled.me/ ) and press the ins

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