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by eschneider 6d ago
After doing this a few decades, one of the things I've discovered that, working 15 hours a day is insanely overrated. A shocking number of 'impossible' problems become quite easy if you just think about them lightly overnight
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by eschneider 1mo ago
It looks bad on the insurance paperwork.
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by eschneider 2mo ago
Cool. How many did they add?
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by eschneider 2mo ago
Yeah...AGI isn't going to successfully replace Chris. But you know what this shit will do? It'll teach people that any information that they share about what they're doing or how they do it will ultimately be weaponized again
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by eschneider 3mo ago
Failures in production remain expensive.
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by eschneider 4mo ago
This...has been a feature on security cameras for at least a decade.
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by eschneider 4mo ago
There's a fine line here when dealing with customers. Sometimes it works well to answer the exact question, if you can, and follow up with "Can you tell me a bit why you're asking so I can understand a bit more about the prob
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by eschneider 5mo ago
It's ok to reject for any number of (or no) reasons. Nobody needs to feel like a jerk for taking a project in the direction they want.
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by eschneider 5mo ago
This seems...fine? I know when I run into bugs in a project I depend on, I'll usually run it down and fix it myself, because I need it fixed. Writing it up the bug along with the PR and sending it back to the maintainer feels like co
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by eschneider 5mo ago
Well, this is disappointing. They were my goto site for keyboards. :/
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by eschneider 6mo ago
That sorta surprised me. Once I could identify a connector type from a schematic, it was almost never a huge problem getting them in small (1 to 5 piece) quantities. It's mostly a question of finding the right distributor.
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by eschneider 6mo ago
Because when the AI customers explode N months down the line, you don't want to be on the hook for a new factory.
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by eschneider 6mo ago
Interesting...1999 is probably a bit early for that Bosch to be running one of the usual ECU update protocols like UDS. It sounds like it's in the bootloader and looking for a valid executable. So the FW updater is likely in the bootlo
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by eschneider 6mo ago
ECU software development is sort of my day job. If you're going to go down this path, I seriously recommend getting the specialized plugs and connectors and making your own wiring harnesses to whatever size you need. It's absolute
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by eschneider 6mo ago
I mean...you should always design with speed in mind (In that Jeff Dean sense :) but what 'premature optimization' is referring to, is more like localized speed optimizations/hacks. Don't do those until a) you know you&#
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by eschneider 7mo ago
Ok, fellow old hacker here. I have a similar problem and I found that a lot of the hand pain was from mouse/trackpad usage. My hands have been a lot happier since going to a trackball because I don't do nearly as much gripping and
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by eschneider 7mo ago
Non-technical founder? Can you line up investors or customers based on your pitch? That's pretty much the acid test.
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by eschneider 7mo ago
They didn't go anywhere. Lots of excellent starship/space opera novels out there with more coming out each year. There's just lots there stuff too. :)
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by eschneider 7mo ago
Nice! Old me and my old bike are sticking to 200kms this year. :)
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by eschneider 8mo ago
Who wants to be on-call for someone else's buggy vibe-coded app? Sign me right up for that...
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by eschneider 8mo ago
Very much this.
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by eschneider 8mo ago
Yeah...I know some delta pilots and apparently the inflight computers were sometimes spending more time playing chess than flying the plane...
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by eschneider 9mo ago
Alas, AI generated code is usually more tech debt.
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by eschneider 10mo ago
Is my remote experiences strange or do other remote workers not have some sort of chat where people ask if you've got a minute and drop in a video conference link if they need a quick chat on something?
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by eschneider 10mo ago
I've had to cook from scratch for many years because I've lived with people with various food restrictions and sometimes that's just the easiest way to do things. That said, you really don't need to spend 1-2 hours a day
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by eschneider 10mo ago
screams incoherently
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by eschneider 10mo ago
They'll figure it out. As Charles de Gaulle said "The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
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by eschneider 10mo ago
Comments are a gift to future you. When you pick up the code again after 6 months/years/however-long-in-the-future and it looks like something you've never seen before, the comments you left should be notes you need to build
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by eschneider 10mo ago
Hmm...a lot? For a complex work, you'll sometimes do some number of sketches and studies and drawing and underpaintings...Lots of things get tried/discarded/modified before you land on a final painting.
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by eschneider 10mo ago
As my old art teacher used to say, "You work on something and it gets better and better and then it turns to shit."

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