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Show HN: Claude-o-meter, a tachometer for your Claude use(github.com)
2 points by jdcarter 4mo ago|1 comments
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by jdcarter 4mo ago
Adafruit's documentation and software maintenance is also top notch. I just built a new project using an ancient, no-longer-sold Adafruit PiTFT Plus which I had in my parts bin. Their software installer worked great on latest PiOS, and
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by jdcarter 3y ago
Brilliant execution. I see so many knob-based inputs on home appliances where they have physical detents but the input encoder does not match the detents. Say you turn the appliance on, it starts at setting one, and you need to turn the d
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by jdcarter 3y ago
I've had very good luck with the integrated fixtures. I have a number of them in my house and only one has failed (of maybe a dozen). This is a lot lower than the failure rate of LED bulbs. They are far brighter than the lights they re
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by jdcarter 3y ago
I bought many of the Home Depot private label LEDs...and had to replace every single one of them. Outright failure, buzzing, flickering. They're just terrible. I've replaced them with Philips.
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by jdcarter 4y ago
I'm just the other way: had an Instant Pot for a couple years (which is great) but I bought a Zojirushi rice cooker and LOVE LOVE LOVE it. Japanese medium-grain rice in the Zoji is amazing. I cook 1-2 cups nearly every day to snack on.
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by jdcarter 4y ago
The red handwriting font is exceptionally good; I'd love to know what that is. It looks very natural, I assume with a ton of ligatures.
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by jdcarter 4y ago
I used Photoshop and Illustrator for years and years (going back to 1990's) and switched to Affinity about 2 years ago. There's a lot of little details that are different--say, when you grab a resize handle, does aspect ratio stay
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by jdcarter 4y ago
For the HP48/50 fans here: try the HP Prime. The color display is amazing. It requires some relearning because the UI is different, but it still has full-featured RPN mode. The keys are good, too--it looks and feels like a proper HP ca
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by jdcarter 4y ago
Only the last Danger device ran NetBSD; all prior ones used a proprietary, in-house OS. It didn't run any of the normal BSD userland, however, as Danger had its own Java-based userland and UI layer. Danger was bought by Microsoft, howe
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by jdcarter 4y ago
> why do you say setup and loop are the worst imaginable way to write embedded software? Because there's neither abstraction nor ways to combine things. Say you have a device that needs to do two things, and you look up some example
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by jdcarter 5y ago
I'm using XXHash3 for verifying data integrity of large (10+MB) blobs. Very fast and appears to work very well in my testing--it's never missed any bit error I've thrown at it. Aside: when storing hashes, be sure to store the
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by jdcarter 7y ago
Thanks! Glad you found the site useful. Unfortunately, we were too far ahead of the time in lots of regards--processors were slow, screens were bad, battery technology iffy, no mobile data service that normal humans could afford... These da
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by jdcarter 7y ago
I worked there for 5 years, and I maintain some historical artifacts from the time, including a gallery of Magic Cap handheld devices and some interesting concept art from Magic's very early days: http://joshcarter.com/
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by jdcarter 7y ago
Migadu is the place to go--they charge for traffic, not mailboxes. I'm in a similar boat with lots of domains, aliases, and mailboxes. My family comfortably fits in their "mini" plan, $48/year.
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by jdcarter 8y ago
Based on the review, it looks like the iOS 12 password manager has matured quite a bit, but it doesn't say anything about integration with an external password manager. How have things changed for 1Password users?
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by jdcarter 8y ago
Does anybody else miss the style of Aphyr's older posts, with animated Barbie dolls and such mocking the product under scrutiny? Examples: https://aphyr.com/posts/317-jepsen-elasticsearch https://aphyr.
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by jdcarter 8y ago
Right, BeOS ran like a bat out of hell even on low-end 603 PowerPC's. The 68K emulation in MacOS worked surprisingly well in terms of compatibility, but at a significant performance cost.
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by jdcarter 8y ago
I recently looked into the research on this topic, and it absolutely agrees with you--failures are not independent. Papers of note: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/fast08/tech/full_papers/... h
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by jdcarter 8y ago
If you like the idea of Dwarf Fortress but want more sci-fi and less ASCII, check out Rimworld. The game has a similar bent towards story-telling with crazy events that befall your beloved colonists. It's far less daunting to the newco
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by jdcarter 8y ago
My daughter couldn't breathe easily when she was young--when sleeping you could literally hear her breathing from a room or two away. Like having Darth Vader sleeping in the next room. After tonsil/adenoidectomy at about 3 years o
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by jdcarter 8y ago
"Pragmatic Thinking and Learning" by Andy Hunt https://pragprog.com/book/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-learn... I found it tremendously useful both in my career (where I can legit say I'm pretty good
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by jdcarter 8y ago
Further, if you want to read the Bible end-to-end, consider a chronological Bible. It organizes passages into when they occurred in time, for example in the Old Testament there's overlaps between Kings and Chronicles; in the New Testam
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by jdcarter 9y ago
Unfortunately I can't say with confidence; mine is one of the servo-controlled ones that cost exactly $1K (new). I don't have first-hand experience with the stepper-driven ones. I will say, however, that 3D printers in the sub-$50
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by jdcarter 9y ago
Most vinyl cutters can use a pen as well. I have a Graphtec CE5000-40 cutter with a 15" wide bed, and I have adapters so I can stick sharpies of various sizes in it. Plus it has niceties like a USB interface and plugins for Illustrator
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by jdcarter 9y ago
As I understand US law, when you're in public you have no expectation of privacy, and you can't do anything about having your photo taken. This is tangental to your point, but does that also mean that Facebook is legally free to I
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by jdcarter 9y ago
Relevant recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16152050 Also bitfinex'ed writes extensively on manipulation: https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/
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by jdcarter 9y ago
"In case there was any doubt, the US Navy has confirmed that there is 'zero training value' in drawing penises in the sky."
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by jdcarter 9y ago
I've switched all my new embedded projects to MicroPython, and I've found it far superior to Arduino for managing complexity in your software. No more loop() function that gets totally out of hand! Having an OS underneath with sup
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by jdcarter 9y ago
This makes the radio transponder I put on my cat look totally amateur by comparison. I need to step up my game.

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