devanl

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by devanl 1mo ago
Do hanging tennis balls (and their expensive gadget relatives, laser pointers) help with backing in straight? In my mental model, the tennis ball tells you when you've backed in / pulled in the appropriate distance. I'm not s
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by devanl 1mo ago
It's really neat that the author took the time to fabricate their own light. I've been looking for something similar in concept for when I back into my garage from a side street with basically no driveway. It's a very narrow
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by devanl 6mo ago
To add on to what others have already mentioned, the PDF has more details on bisphenols which paints a less dire picture than the press release. 1. There are no EU-wide regulations restricting on BPA concentrations in electronics devices. 2
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by devanl 1y ago
The black and silver and white and silver sample photos look like they may be using HASL surface finish (aka, solder). If you're handing out business cards with a HASL finish, make sure to spend extra for the lead-free version.
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by devanl 2y ago
Huh, that's quite a bit more than I would expect. You already ruled out the 12V battery in the other thread, but there could be some other factors that would keep your car awake. Does it only happen when you park in front of the garage
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by devanl 2y ago
While the idle draw is relatively high on Teslas compared to other EVs (even without sentry mode enabled), 7.5% is quite high. I track my stats with Teslamate and it estimates typical SoC loss of 1% over a day. What I have seen is that the
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by devanl 2y ago
The typical level 2 charger doesn't have to use HomePlug, but most recent EVs will have a HomePlug modem in order to speak ISO15118 to negotiate the voltage during DC fast charging through the CCS1/2 connector. The pilot pin that
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by devanl 2y ago
This feels a bit like a case of a "Python from 10 years ago in my head" vs "Python from 10 years ago in reality" meme. Chained comparisons have been in Python since I started using it at 2.1. It looks to me like they&#x2
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by devanl 2y ago
That's pretty much exactly what they're saying in the video. They show their off-the-shelf dev kit which features a generic omni-directional rubber-duck antenna with quoted 1dB of gain (essentially nothing) and 21dBm of transmit p
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by devanl 2y ago
In Rust, you can't implicitly omit fields when instantiating a struct, so it would have to be a bit more verbose, explicitly using Rust's analog to the spread syntax. It would have to look something like: f({ hours: 2, seconds
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by devanl 2y ago
As hinted at, but not elaborated on by the first part that mentions temperature monitoring, those wires in free air expand and contract with temperature changes. The cables need to be able to support their own weight without collapsing or
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by devanl 3y ago
Taxes in the US are locality sensitive. The county sales tax rate varies by almost a full percentage between counties where I live, so depending on whether I ship something to my home or to the office, the amount of sales tax due is differe
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by devanl 3y ago
I've observed that Comcast takes advantage of the separation of "fees" into a separate category to increase fees while keeping the service rate the same, allowing them the flexibility to raise prices even if the customer is o
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by devanl 4y ago
Setting aside issues that can be safety related where consumer equipment overlaps with legacy equipment, there is a tragedy of the commons effect to not attempting to regulate radio power limits. It's incredible how well WiFi works for
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by devanl 4y ago
It's been a while since I've tolerated the git gui interface, but when I used to use it, the line-to-chunk logic would regularly fail on short 2-3 line spans. There's a stackoverflow discussion [1] that suggests it was fixed
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by devanl 4y ago
I've deployed an internal version of the upstream project (ya-webadb [1]) before. It can be built as a static site, and the upstream version publishes to GitHub pages, so it's really easy to self-host. 1: https://github
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by devanl 4y ago
In case you haven't seen the UF2 file format, it's specifically designed to be robust w.r.t ensuring that the content makes it to the target intact despite common OS quirks. https://github.com/microsoft/uf2
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by devanl 4y ago
I've looked into this in the past. I would suggest using the full GDPR-style takeout-all-my-data request from: https://www.netflix.com/account/getmyinfo As one would expect, Netflix's tracking provides quite
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by devanl 5y ago
The initial WebUSB proposal included the notion of "allowed origins", but it was eventually removed in favor of user freedom. The device can provide a landing page URL for the browser to show when the device is plugged in, but oth
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by devanl 5y ago
In my mind at least, the issue with relying on on ownership, especially in a smaller team with limited resources, is that the owner isn't just the person who authoritatively understands that subsystem. The owner ends up being assigned
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by devanl 5y ago
I agree that code review is not a great medium to disseminate information about the codebase, but assigning individual ownership and accountability doesn't make the need to share information go away. Ownership and accountability are wo
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by devanl 6y ago
I really like the idea of CodeTour, but unfortunately I'm the only person at the office that uses VS Code. I'm hoping that some day it'll be possible for my coworkers to follow a CodeTour without installing VS Code. Either wh
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by devanl 6y ago
> I have never experienced such an interview, both when I am the interviewer and the interviewee, and I've been thru the entire process at multiple FAANGs. I've been through the all-day on-site interview at two FAANGs and every
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by devanl 6y ago
I think I'm picking up that your model of how a typical technical interview is structured is different from what the other commenters have in mind. It sounds to me like you view the technical interview as being split into a high-level
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by devanl 6y ago
I agree that collaborating in real-time is important, but I disagree that interview conditions allow you to assess real-time collaboration abilities accurately. In a real life situation, both you and your partner will be generally familiar
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by devanl 7y ago
It's not as important as you would expect for a couple of reasons: 1. The size of the data is often much smaller - the savings from using an nlogn time algorithm vs a n^2 algorithm are much smaller when n=10 versus n=10000. There'