jaybeavers

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by jaybeavers 4mo ago
You are correct, the driving controls in AVP don’t use dwell, that is the wrong (and dangerous) approach. They use something more akin to hover activation. It’s the hardware I designed coupling the power wheelchair to the AVP, and I’ve dri
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by jaybeavers 4mo ago
Hi Will, thanks for the representation. And an actual link!
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by jaybeavers 2y ago
Yes, daily, as a virtual screen for my Macbook using a BLE mouse and keyboard paired to the Macbook not the AVP. Then I supplement the Mac with the occasional AVP side app using fingers and eye gaze control. If only the AVP ran MacOS nativ
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by jaybeavers 2y ago
Strongly disagree. As a dev who’s been in the business since the days of the first gui apps and OSes, UI can be very straightforward, but we have designed modern systems such that they are immensely complex. Styles and inheritance and as
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by jaybeavers 2y ago
I took. my wife’s Model X out for a moderately complicated drive last night and was very pleasantly surprised by the new FSD behavior. Very significantly improved over the last few updates.
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by jaybeavers 2y ago
Having submitted a number of “product breaking bug reports” through official channels while using a paid support incident, can confirm Kafkaesque and a multi year support process. Oh, I can get a person to “respond” to a problem with a paid
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by jaybeavers 3y ago
Spoken like someone who hasn’t put a match to gasoline. Having recently used gas to help start a wood slashings pile on fire, gasoline is very explosive and dangerous. Diesel will burn in place when lit. Gasoline vaporizes when let out i
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by jaybeavers 3y ago
So Avalonia is built on top of Skia which is Google’s portable 2D rendering engine. So in theory it is as cross platform capable as Chrome/Electron without all the overhead that html brings. Brilliant play, imho. Now, as long as Apple
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by jaybeavers 3y ago
Probably a much simpler answer. The programmers who work on a washing machine are probably inexperienced low wage disempowered help. And there’s an innocent rx/tx loop for a home grown notification system and noone on the team knows
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by jaybeavers 3y ago
This was my experience too. While it takes a good long while to get resolved, because my mistakes were accidental and I talked it through and followed the process, I was dealt with politely and given grace. All in all a scary but good expe
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by jaybeavers 3y ago
Thank you from someone begrudgingly paying thousands of Euros for IEC medical device standards pdfs!!!!
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by jaybeavers 3y ago
Windows NT was rock solid until Windows XP was released, but GPU performance was meh and Windows games generally didn't work well unless they were written to target NT. As I recall, there was one commercial graphical strategy game f
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by jaybeavers 3y ago
Is there a Windows client front end ide rather than a browser? It's much easier to enable alternative input from say a .Net Framework WPF app...
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by jaybeavers 3y ago
Nice to hear from you, great work! As a lifelong dev who started by learning BASICA and who's first pro job was in Visual Basic, I love your thesis. Nowadays I work with people living with disabilities and I come across kids who want
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by jaybeavers 4y ago
Both of those are reasonably met on the Steam Deck today which is running Linux… Now the Steam Deck has an x64 CPU, but I’m running my heavyweight production Windows apps today on a Macbook Pro M1 running Windows 11 Arm in a VM which in tur
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by jaybeavers 4y ago
Pardon, what part of ‘a home with electrical service works just fine’ fails to fit your definition of ‘a large scale distribution of energy’. We have an electrical power grid, dude. And it works just fine for home BEV charging.
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by jaybeavers 4y ago
You think his writing is a good time, you should have seen him when a VP would say, “Are there any questions from the audience?” He’d saunter up to the microphone, and you could see the VP’s face droop… Good times, my man. Good times.
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by jaybeavers 4y ago
You may be surprised to learn that James’ brilliant humor and willingness to speak truth to power didn’t work out so well for him at Microsoft. He’s at Harvard now, which I think is a step up from Hollywood.
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by jaybeavers 4y ago
I have three BEV chargers at my home now. i didnt need to change a thing to my “built in 2000 to code” home to do this, as it “came out of the box” w/ 200 amp service. My chevy bolt will charge at 8a (conservative) or 12a (“fast”) a
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by jaybeavers 4y ago
While this is a common refrain, as driver on my 3rd EV “charging network needed” a bad, bad misunderstanding propagated by people who dont drive EVs. I charge my EV at home. I’ve charged my EV on someone elses charge (because i needed it,
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by jaybeavers 4y ago
At this point I strongly distrust any 'breakthrough' article about research at MIT. After hundreds of these, I'm fairly convinced that any time a grad student pours liquid into a beaker, MIT's marketing department is ou
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by jaybeavers 4y ago
And how do you clean these optics? Do they still provide 110% optical efficiency while dirty? Or damaged/scratched from frequent removal/reinstall for cleaning?
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by jaybeavers 4y ago
+1 We need the Singularity to make sense of the mess known as PDF. But realistically, might this bring on the SkyNet attack if we abuse AI so?
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by jaybeavers 5y ago
Or more clearly stated, tax havens and offshoring revenue killed p2p.
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by jaybeavers 5y ago
Taxes killed p2p... https://youtu.be/5-sF7N1bfv0
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by jaybeavers 6y ago
Seems serious to me. Definitely report to the police and maybe seek help at the federal level of they crossed state lines.
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by jaybeavers 7y ago
The wisest man I met in my life was a 65 year old cab driver in Washington DC who was about to retire with $3m in the bank. He saved 10% of his income from the day he started working and didn't buy lattes or sports cars. Yes, you most
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by jaybeavers 7y ago
I miss being able to buy a complete 3rd party component for $400 that came with great docs and tech support. Yeah, there are some excellent, well documented OSS libraries out there, but they are the minority and there's no one who feel