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by baylessj 10mo ago
Neat to see a Rob Robinette article pop up here, his website is a fantastic resource for guitar amp work. His articles on Amp Startup and Troubleshooting were particularly helpful when I built a tube amp for the first time. I hadn't he
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by baylessj 2y ago
Yeah, Carrier has been making heat pumps for quite a while now. I'm not entirely sure when they were first introduced, but when I worked there a few years ago the heat pumps were far from a new addition to the product line.
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by baylessj 3y ago
George Gillard's PID document is circulated widely for teaching high school students about PID for the VEX Robotics Competition: https://smithcsrobot.weebly.com/uploads/6/0/9/5/60954939/pid
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by baylessj 3y ago
Love to see this writeup, and that you're enjoying FTC! I spent a ton of my time in college leading a VEX U team, and it was a tough but incredibly rewarding experience. It's a lot of fun and made me a much better engineer. It&#x2
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by baylessj 3y ago
Neat to see this on HN! I'm in a couple of fifth-wave emo bands currently, and there's some incredible music being made in this genre right now. I'll second the recommendations above, and add: Saturdays at Your Place, Ben Qua
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by baylessj 3y ago
I missed this comment before replying at the top level elsewhere, but yeah I would need some socks with 4 toe holes :)
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by baylessj 3y ago
A good case for toe socks here -- unfortunately I don't have the separated toes needed to wear them! I'm not entirely sure how common it is (I'm only aware of myself and my grandfather having this), but the webbing between so
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by baylessj 3y ago
It's really neat to see some FRC code here, lots to be learned from student robotics competitions! Shameless plug: I work on [PROS]( https://github.com/purduesigbots/pros ), an open source programming environment fo
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by baylessj 3y ago
I got hired a few years ago by emailing a contact in a "who's hiring" post. Still working there, and it's a great job! A big step up from my previous role.
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by baylessj 3y ago
QMK support on a laptop's internal keyboard would be fantastic! I've gotten very used to my corne, and switching to using my laptop's keyboard on the rare occasions when I need to is a bit disorienting.
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by baylessj 4y ago
A huge +1 for this book: I spent a lot of time reading and re-reading this book while in university, both for classes and my time leading a robotics club.
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by baylessj 4y ago
It's neat to see this on the front page of HN -- I got the chance to take an Intro to Semiconductors class from the professor in the article a couple of years ago while getting my EE degree. Semiconductor design never really piqued my
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by baylessj 4y ago
https://jonathanbayless.com A pretty simple portfolio/SWE blog site with Jekyll/Github Pages
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by baylessj 5y ago
I've mostly seen Corne builds that match this description, but unfortunately they aren't very common. ( https://www.reddit.com/r/mechmarket/comments/jyfrv2/ic_the_c... )
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by baylessj 5y ago
I'm disappointed in myself for being surprised by this article, you're exactly right about this being the norm for similar software. I've found Life360 to be a helpful free tool in many regards but as is so often the case, if
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by baylessj 5y ago
I'm really glad that this article got posted, I've been experiencing the same symptoms intermittently with my MX ergo but they haven't been quite enough of a pain for me to remember to look into fixing it. I will be taking a
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by baylessj 5y ago
Another aimless 24 year-old here, count me in!
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by baylessj 5y ago
I had the same experience interviewing this last month. A lot of companies that are remote during COVID that will pretend to be fully remote until an interview or two into the process.
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GitHub Copilot Beta – My Experience(jonathanbayless.com)
1 points by baylessj 5y ago|2 comments
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by baylessj 5y ago
That sounds like a likely pain point here to me too - I've settled on using a Logitech MX Ergo trackball sitting between the two halves of my split keyboard. No more stretching to move the mouse!
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by baylessj 6y ago
Fun timing on this post, I just started learning to use LMMS a couple days ago. It seems to be a pretty good piece of software even if there are some kinks to work out with the plugins. Ran into issues with loading VST plugins, apparently t
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by baylessj 6y ago
Came across this on Reddit yesterday, was a fantastic read. Added The Sweatbox to my "to-watch" list as well, looking forward to it.
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by baylessj 6y ago
Seconded, bought a used Steelcase for only about $100 at the beginning of the pandemic. It has been worth every penny with working from home.
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by baylessj 6y ago
I appreciate your point about nothing ever being "100% due to human error", especially in regards to air travel. I recently read "The Design of Everyday Things", a book that devotes a lot of its time to discussing this s
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by baylessj 6y ago
This looks like a perfect fit for my use case, just downloaded it! I'm using Foam instead of Obsidian but it looks like the GitJournal author is also targeting Foam support.
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by baylessj 6y ago
I'm consistently listening to the following podcasts and would highly recommend them: The Bike Shed, Coding Blocks, and Soft Skills Engineering And these others are tech related but not specific to software engineering: Cortex and Linu
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by baylessj 6y ago
A minor nit, the author references MX Linux as being the most popular Linux distribution currently when that is not truly the case. Yes, MX Linux receives the most page views on DistroWatch [1], but that does not directly correlate to actua
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by baylessj 6y ago
I personally use VSCode as a text editor in the sense that you describe. I edit my notes in VSCode with Foam, a similar tool to Roam Research. Similarly my blog is based on Jekyll and Markdown files so I use VSCode to edit those markdown fi
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by baylessj 6y ago
C is also used a lot in embedded environments where the hardware won't support languages with a larger footprint. Quite common in my line of work.
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by baylessj 6y ago
I also found that blank keycaps improved my typing ability when I built an Ergodox clone. I agree that the blank keycaps played a role in reducing my desire to look at the keyboard, but I think the columnar layout of the Ergodox played a mu

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