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by jerich 7mo ago
I’m the same way; I feel like Claude is doing more than just writing code, it’s getting me unstuck. I’ve been pulling projects out of the closet that have been sitting there for years. It’s because I can sit down and get started so seamless
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by jerich 7mo ago
I hacked together a tech demo of a personal project to add a Jetson Orin Nano to augment the Nikon autofocus system. (Camera->HDMI->Jetson processing->USB control->Camera) https://github.com/jerich/jetson-fa
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by jerich 2y ago
This gets such a huge thumbs up that I had to scroll up and reread it to make sure this wasn’t my own post from a revived thread from last year! I’ve been using a pixelblaze with a long string of cheap 2812 LEDs on my Christmas tree for thr
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by jerich 2y ago
Apple should hire a couple hackers to create “end-of-life” firmware for their obsolete devices; give them new life as super-specialized devices. Part green program, part customer delight, even some wacky art projects. Maybe if an iMac doesn
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by jerich 2y ago
Anyone who’s read the short story “The Billiard Ball” by Asimov would have taken it into account.
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by jerich 2y ago
I think they’re over in line behind “The La Brea Tar Pits”
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by jerich 2y ago
So the US sells some bonds, then slips a couple trillion into a brown envelope to buy Baja California from Mexico, then “lease-to-own” it on very favorable terms (0 down, 0% APR, 150 years) to New Taiwan, or Formosa II. Uproot TSMC and an e
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by jerich 3y ago
I think AirBNB has the infrastructure to upend the Realtor market. If they just add an “AirBNB listings” buyers can search and scroll through pictures. They’d have to show exact location, but otherwise pretty much the same as what’s there.
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by jerich 4y ago
I keep intending to reinvent my own controller with an RP2040, but life gets in the way, so for the second year in a row, I’m using a Pixelblaze to control the 950 LEDs on my Christmas tree. It’s a continuous string (well, 19 strands of 50
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by jerich 4y ago
Although I know financial markets are extremely complex and driven by human psychology, I can’t help thinking about thinking about it in terms of classical control systems. Do you want a smooth input, or an abrupt step input? Psychologicall
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by jerich 4y ago
After growing up on a Mac SE and going off to college with a Centris 650, I went through a string of windows PCs until the 2013 MacBook Air brought me back into the fold. I still use the 2013 MBA almost daily—mostly as an external keyboard
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by jerich 5y ago
For the first question, I ended up using this trick for a video editing app on Android phones about 10 years ago in order to cut video together on low end, out of date (Android 2.3) phones. They couldn’t handle video compression in a reason
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by jerich 5y ago
I thought it was most interesting to see how clearly crocheting was “generation-skipping” with the 40-year periods between peaks in popularity: 1890s->1930s->1970s->2010s Maybe the latest peak is pushing out due to having kids late
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by jerich 5y ago
The best Olympic coverage I’ve seen was the NBC HD broadcast of the 2002 Salt Lake City winter games. HD was still pretty new in the US. They didn’t have many HD cameras and they didn’t have an HD workflow integrated with the SD broadcast,
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by jerich 5y ago
What about 3-D printing for backyard hardscape for higher-end consumers, not homes for refugees? Mass customization for benches, sculptures, playhouses, fountains. The value is in getting something unique, not speed or cost. Or does that on
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by jerich 7y ago
Take a look at what Teledesic was planning in the late 90s. Elon’s a great guy, but nothing I see about Starlink is innovative over what they were working on over 20 years ago.
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by jerich 7y ago
After a month of Whole30 eating a couple years ago, I've completely switched from dairy in my coffee. Previously, I always used sugar and half-and-half, but a month was enough to make a permanent change. My favorite by far is unsweeten
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by jerich 8y ago
My first job in 1998 was working on the integration and test plans for Teledesic’s Optical Inter-Satellite Link Tracking (or OISLT, pronounced “oyselt”—probably the worst acronym I ever used). The design wasn’t done yet, but we were already
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by jerich 9y ago
This article and its predecessor made me think about smaller-scale solar, and I actually bought a 100W panel out of the Amazon gold box last week to start playing around myself. My first plan is to use the panel and battery to run a set of
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by jerich 10y ago
To be fair, the tinker board is only 50% more and does include additional features (some extra speed and GbE). The US release is happening right now, so that could affect availability worldwide as Asus tries to launch with sufficient quanti
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by jerich 10y ago
Ahh, memory lane. LEO satellite internet is one of the subjects that bring me out of lurking. My first job out of school in 1998 was writing test plans for the antenna pointing and tracking for the Teledesic CPE at Motorola. If I remember r
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by jerich 10y ago
Wow. What a great question! I found that I was sitting here answering it to myself. After starting down a rabbit-hole on how the browser would probably need to do some GPU initialization, I realized how much fun I'd have talking throug
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by jerich 11y ago
It took me a few looks at this picture to pick up on the fact that it is all in focus, whereas the depth of field of the f/1.8 lens is going to give you one of the subjects' eyes in focus. I was a little disappointed in the amount
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by jerich 11y ago
If you take a look through the FAQ, they do say that they are designing it to work within common photography workflows, giving example formats of JPEG, TIFF, and raw DNG (though I'm assuming the DNG is after their proprietary postproce
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by jerich 12y ago
It was actually a wife of an executive on a cruise, not a yacht. It looks like you can get cell connections on a cruise now, but I think it took quite a while. Remember, this "idea" was born around 1990. If you haven't looked
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by jerich 13y ago
I don't know about his other claims, but this one seemed a little suspicious: "Next I gave him a face by mashing up three portraits from Google images using a free trial copy of Adobe’s “Lightroom” image manipulation software." As a user o
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by jerich 13y ago
From Wikipedia on the Bayer Filter: "Bryce Bayer's patent (U.S. Patent No. 3,971,065) in 1976 called the green photosensors luminance-sensitive elements and the red and blue ones chrominance-sensitive elements. He used twice as many green e
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by jerich 13y ago
The green channel has the least noise for Bayer-sensor digital cameras (which is almost all of them). 50% of the sensor sites are green (25% each for red and blue), so there is more signal given the same amount of noise.
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by jerich 14y ago
I really like the idea of this type of physical office layout. I noticed the Mozilla office picture at the bottom of this post the other day: ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5393864 ), and it really stuck with me. I forgot what the
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by jerich 14y ago
Omission 3: Address engineering and hard science education in the US. If we could double the number of kids leaving school with an engineering degree, we'd probably start to see some amazing stuff happening. My out-there proposal for a way

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