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by sircastor 2y ago
This is a huge space to get into. I’m on my fourth year doing an outdoor light show. My personal preference is 12v ws2811 bullet-style voltage-regulated nodes. They’re extendable, individual nodes on a strand are replaceable if you’re willi
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by sircastor 2y ago
The fact that you can install the WLED firmware _from the website_ is the cherry on top. It’s a fantastic piece of software.
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by sircastor 2y ago
The headline makes it sound like it’s some kind of consumer boycott collective action. These folks are just trying to avoid the App being offloaded during an update.
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by sircastor 2y ago
I went back to school at 37, got my degree Software Engineering at 40, having previously got my associates degree. I was working full-time while I did it, and we had our first child while I was doing it (oof, that was rough). I enjoy hobby
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by sircastor 2y ago
I think we've started to enter a weird space. For a number of "necessary" things in life (in the US), one needs to purchase insurance - in some cases its required by law, or an unavoidable policy of obtaining a loan. Cars and
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by sircastor 2y ago
It’s not CS, it’s the world. You go into any industry and you’ll find jerks that assert their power by correcting and out-explaining someone else. It’s even become a popular gendered concept: mansplaining. It feels like there are more in te
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by sircastor 2y ago
Even outside of this deal, the educational discount on Macs in this era was insane. Somewhere in the range of 40-50% off.
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by sircastor 2y ago
Apple commentator John Gruber (of Daring Fireball fame) attended Drexel in the early 90s and got a Mac because of this program. He talks about it in Jason Snell’s “20 Macs for 2020” podcast.[1] [1] https://www.relay.fm/20mac
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by sircastor 2y ago
If enough usage picks up in this fab, the supply chain will build around it. The hard part (and TSMC has said this is an issue internally as well) is replicating the business in the US. The work ethic, job expectations, cultural taboos, etc
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by sircastor 2y ago
My wife had expressed interest in taking a cruise until COVID and the cruise ship debacle when passengers were forced to stay on the ship, in their cabins for 2 weeks. Though the likelihood of something like that happening again feels prett
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by sircastor 2y ago
I find the premise that AI “cheapens art” to be spurious at best. There have been generations upon generations of crummy, unimaginative art. There have been decades of labor undercutting domestic artists. AI makes it easier for companies to
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by sircastor 2y ago
I feel like the answer is that people like their gate-keeping. There are a lot of programmers who like being part of a special club and want to manage who gets in. It’s couched behind meritocracy, but I think it can be boiled down to gate-k
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by sircastor 2y ago
I noticed a few weeks ago that when people said "subscribe" the subscribe button had a little light show that was kind of cool. From a technical perspective I like the attention mechanism and that it's automated.
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by sircastor 2y ago
I miss channel surfing (a little). But from when the cable box was a dumb pipe and the picture would switch near instantaneously. The 3 seconds between channels in the last couple of decades was super obnoxious to me.
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by sircastor 2y ago
This is amazing. It reminds me a little of betamaxmas[0]. I wish I could find a Christmas Channel! :) It also occurs to me that there are a whole bunch of people here for whom this doesn't offer any nostalgia or memories, but is purely
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by sircastor 2y ago
It wasn’t too long ago I began to understand that lawyers are just hackers, but instead of computers they hack the law. For some, hacking the law is a game - to the point where they can lose sight of the humanity intrinsic in law and simp
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by sircastor 2y ago
I think part of the problem is that When the iPad was released, Apple (and Steve Jobs specifically) had a different vision of what the iPad was going to be. It wasn’t supposed to be an “everything” computer. It was supposed to be an applian
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by sircastor 2y ago
All other things aside, can I say how miraculous this feels? I grew up in the 80s and 90s and when we were learning about HIV and AIDS in school, it felt terrifying and unstoppable. The leaps and bounds that medicine has made over the last
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by sircastor 2y ago
>Last week a Florida man admitted to shooting down a Walmart delivery drone, which he claimed was surveilling him This really Is the thing that scares me about radicalization and the shocking ease with which guns can be acquired in be Un
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by sircastor 2y ago
Yes, and it’s been broken for a long time. The crossroads of siting on one’s laurels and conflict of interest have resulted in Google’s results not being particularly good. The only reason they remain on top (IMO) is that the dynamics of se
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by sircastor 2y ago
We’ve found more stuff on Mars by driving over it than I would’ve expected.
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by sircastor 2y ago
> "It's as if every leader was given the OK to ignore it," said one Dell employee Nothing like relying on a survey only when it gives you the results you want. And a year down the line when performance is lower and morale
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by sircastor 2y ago
I managed to get 50 unassisted. Now looking at these comments I'm amused at some obvious ones that I missed. I've been writing html since ~1995 (I think) and I was surprised that <frame> didn't work. It was all the rage
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by sircastor 2y ago
Well, all I can say is that this was about 15 years ago. Updates to OpenWRT were not fun, and I was never very confident that I had done things correctly. Whether it was my shortcoming in technical knowledge, or poor documentation, it was m
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by sircastor 2y ago
My hope is that they repurpose the mini form-factor into the SE model. I don’t want a budget phone, but I’m willing to tolerate it for the size.
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by sircastor 2y ago
I personally think the original iPhone’s 3.5” screen was perfect, and I’m sad that my iPhone mini didn’t survive as a product line. My next phones screen will be big, and I’ll hate it but live with it.
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by sircastor 2y ago
Part of the challenges of early TNG is that it tries to make the federation perfect. The writing suffers because of it because there appear to be no true internal conflicts. It’s not until Roddenberry takes a back seat in the creative proce
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by sircastor 2y ago
> If you have a technical user who is perfectly capable of self-hosting, and I would argue even gets joy out of doing so, why would that user let go of that joy and pay up? Many years ago, I installed and managed OpenWRT on my routers, a
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by sircastor 2y ago
I completed a BS in Software Engineering a few years ago, and my schools program was almost identical to the CS program. The courses it lacked were (as I recall) Operating Systems and Networking (I’m a bit sad I didn’t get to take those, bu
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by sircastor 2y ago
* This Week in tech * Upgrade * MacBreak Weekly * Budget Nerds * Downstream * Hackaday Podcast * The Incomparable * The Cory Doctorow podcast * The Open Hardware Manufacturing podcast * The 3028 Beyond those, I have two skies that have comp

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