idealstingray

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by idealstingray 5y ago
> Obviously, people shouldn't do that. I'm not sure this is obvious or even particularly well-publicized. The "official recommendation" in the U.S. for many meds is that they be flushed down the toilet, especially sch
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by idealstingray 6y ago
As a robotics engineer, I'm surprised how controversial "hardware can't remote" is turning out to be. Sure, some things can be done fully in simulation or by mailing everyone on the perception team a bunch of sensors.
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by idealstingray 6y ago
A few other comments have mentioned the LEGO Mindstorms system, which is a great choice if you don't want to deal with hardware. If you go that route, I would strongly recommend using ev3dev [1] in order to avoid the LabVIEW-based pro
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by idealstingray 6y ago
My apartment's current A/V setup is an old third-hand projector I picked up for free pointed at a blank wall of our living room. The only thing I paid for was the serial cable so I could configure the correct input port, but even
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by idealstingray 6y ago
Trying to learn frontend so I can make myself a better to-do list/calendar app. I'm a robotics engineer so I have no idea what I'm doing, but it's fun. Due to executive dysfunction, I tend not to have a very good idea
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by idealstingray 7y ago
I'm a college student and do most of my work from my dorm room, which is also where I sleep, eat, and socialize. For me, lighting is the main thing that helps me differentiate "work mode" from not-work mode. I have a video
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by idealstingray 7y ago
Do you have any hobbies outside of tech? You could try talking about those. If not, just about everyone listens to music, so "what kind of music do you listen to?" is a decent opening question that might take you somewhere inter
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by idealstingray 7y ago
I really like this script! My neat trick is to directly ask "Do you just want to vent? Or do you want my advice?" If said in a gentle and non-sarcastic tone, this works pretty well on other engineers with meh social skills. I
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by idealstingray 7y ago
For me, a quick "hang on" or "sorry, one sec" acknowledges people enough that they don't feel ignored while I make my notes, and is also scripted enough that it doesn't usually knock the thoughts out of my head
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by idealstingray 7y ago
I'm at a school where most classes have all of their materials online for free. Usually a professor will post lecture notes and/or slides online and recommend an optional reference textbook. When I do need textbooks, I generally
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by idealstingray 7y ago
By way of warning, GMMK uses a proprietary keyboard layout editor that only works on Windows (I tried running it in WINE and got nowhere). If editing your keyboard layout in firmware is important to you, I would recommend the Massdrop CTRL
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by idealstingray 7y ago
As a complement to phaus's excellent comment, I'd like to talk a bit about keycap profiles. The two main categories are cylindrical and spherical profiles. Almost all off-the-shelf keyboards have cylindrical profile keycaps on t