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by lbayes 3y ago
My business partner and I built AsUnit in ~2004. [0] The first fully functional Unit Test framework for ActionScript. It was great fun and helped get my career off the ground. [0] https://asunit.org
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by lbayes 3y ago
Another multiple task app failure here. The thing that finally worked for me consistently over many years, is carrying a couple folded index cards all the time. These get lists and reminders. Mostly shopping stuff and different random notes
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by lbayes 3y ago
Having made the flip the other way, I highly recommend listening to your instincts. Neither side is objectively better or worse, but having experience in both has changed how I approach problems.
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by lbayes 3y ago
I started on front end work early in my career (mid nineties), moved to full stack and now write C full time for embedded (STM32) and Linux (RPI & Nvidia). I've essentially been digging deeper and can't seem to put the shovel
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by lbayes 3y ago
Interesting. When I look at the two codes side-by-side with normal (full) brightness, the HDR one looks quite a bit brighter. If I dim my screen brightness substantially, the HDR one also gets a lot dimmer. Not sure if this solves that prob
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by lbayes 3y ago
Both seem to work fine when I point my (aging) Pixel 5 at them rendered on my Asus laptop screen. I'm assuming there's some problem with screen-rendered QR codes that this solves, but my quick google search mostly just resulted in
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by lbayes 3y ago
I like that the article is making me think about my beliefs in the long tail and how they may be in tension with my beliefs in the pareto principle. The core long tail claim, as I remember it, was that the _area_ under the long tail was lar
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by lbayes 3y ago
Every year or so, someone shows off a feature of Altium that makes me want to take a closer look, but it's hard for me to let of those text file formats.
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by lbayes 3y ago
Nice to see you Taylor! I'm really enjoying watching the progress on your motor controller!
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by lbayes 3y ago
For folks who are considering Kicad, but not sure if it will be useful at a professional level... We professionally design, engineer and manufacture accessible technology for disabled veterans and we are also developing robotic systems for
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by lbayes 3y ago
Came here to say this. It still catches me off guard when I feel someone clenching up while we talk about ways to improve something. I sometimes take those people through a tour of my own changes and talk through all the ways those could al
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by lbayes 3y ago
Building user experiences is inherently some of the most difficult software engineering there is. It's not difficult because the existing tools are poorly made (though most of them are), it's difficult because the core problem is
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by lbayes 3y ago
I've thankfully not had a bad experience with Mouser, they're generally just fine for us. I do spend a bit more than OP though, so maybe we're in a different service bracket. I used to prefer Mouser because I thought their si
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by lbayes 3y ago
Also came here to read about AT modem commands. Still have no idea (and admittedly little interest) what this other nonsense is... Did it have to use the existing name? Did the authors not have access to a search engine?
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by lbayes 3y ago
My statistics bullshit detector flashed on this line, "Average incomes have grown much faster than in western Europe or Japan. Also adjusted for purchasing power, they exceed $50,000 in Mississippi, America’s poorest state—higher than
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by lbayes 3y ago
Brass wire sponge works great.
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by lbayes 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230325180654/https://www.newyo...
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by lbayes 4y ago
This. So much this. I've been bootstrapping my startup with Regions bank for 3 years and it has been one unending nightmare after another. It's been like having an active and hateful adversary at every single moment when you need
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by lbayes 4y ago
I just think it's the incredible to realize that with all this technology available to us, human brains are still where (most or at least much?) knowledge and lore are stored and retrieved from.
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Susan Wojcicki steps down as head of YouTube(twitter.com)
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by lbayes 4y ago
Not the OP, but just trying to be helpful. "Travelers" are paper packets that move through a manufacturing process with whatever material is being improved. Lots of machine shops have these printed out packets of specs, communicat
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by lbayes 4y ago
Leaving the (probably incorrect?) claim of suppression in the title aside for a moment, I just want to express my deep sadness about this decision. I'm an ex-Googler who has admired Golang for many years and have been considering it fo
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by lbayes 4y ago
I got somewhat excited about podman a couple months ago, and then learned that there are painful shenanigans between required versions and the (ancient?) one that is available in the Ubuntu 22.10 package manager [1]. It seemed great until I
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by lbayes 4y ago
YouTube + personal labs were far more effective and enjoyable in my experience. Electroboom and Eeevblog are a couple great channels to get started. The recommendation engine will pick up pretty quickly.
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by lbayes 4y ago
This blew my mind when going into hardware. People be proud as hell of their box businesses!
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by lbayes 4y ago
There are some excellent sequels to "The Goal", especially, "It's Not Luck," which goes on to take the theory into product and market design. It overlaps somewhat with Christensen's work on Jobs to do. I'v
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by lbayes 4y ago
The linked domain (cbsnews.com) behaved reasonably at first, and then suddenly redirected to a wall of clickbait ads and broke back button navigation.
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by lbayes 4y ago
I was raised in the American South. I always thought "mouth breather" was referring to stupid, but tough guys who did so much fighting that their smashed noses don't work anymore. Also, my nose has been broken a few times and
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by lbayes 4y ago
Just a warning not to click this link on a mobile phone. Every spammy popup and dark pattern possible.
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by lbayes 4y ago
I lived (and loved!) in Northern California for nearly 20 years and left in 2017 for personal reasons. Without a concealed carry permit, any law-abiding citizen who travels with firearms in California must keep them unloaded and in a locked

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