mrwoggle

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by mrwoggle 5y ago
Just printed your doodles and put them on one of our whiteboards. Most of my fellow devs are from a 3D modeling and design background and have a hard time understanding anything more than push and merge (using a GUI). I tried to explain the
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by mrwoggle 5y ago
Yeah, you become a better programmer. And if it is fun while you at it, it another win.
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by mrwoggle 5y ago
A lot of game developers have written a 'toy' game engine. A lot of embedded developers have written their own little OS. A lot of web developers have written a 'click this button to autogenerate web pages' tool. And so
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by mrwoggle 5y ago
Did you live like this for a period of more than 5 years? You just gave a snapshot from an ideal situation. Fact is, income is always less, spendings are always more. Don't know about the US, but in Europe living on minimum wage, tryin
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by mrwoggle 5y ago
Good analysis. I'd like to add the cost of change. At some point you will move places or change jobs. You will have periods of less income and more spendings. This adds up. A few months of saving evaporate.
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by mrwoggle 5y ago
People of all ages use VIM!
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by mrwoggle 6y ago
Come on, this is a very narrow view of things. There are a lot of people that can't just quit their job and start their own business, because well, they don't have any savings or access to credit. The work-money trade could be ver
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by mrwoggle 6y ago
> and there is not a serious place on earth that would let me touch their codebase. If you have already a CS degree and you spend a couple months refreshing your memory, you would be amazed what codebases you can touch.
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by mrwoggle 6y ago
It should work on Kubuntu and X11, but I remember that the installation and configuration process (or at least the documentation) is a bit lacking. Make sure you also install the ibus-[input method] package. If you don't the ibus prefe
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by mrwoggle 6y ago
Same for me. been using ibus-pinyin for a few years
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by mrwoggle 6y ago
> Anything below 60Hz in VR has a significantly increased chance of giving motion sickness due to latency. I think there is a subtle difference between fps (avg) and latency. I would say that a 'stable' latency is always better
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by mrwoggle 6y ago
What about LC3? It was announced a year ago?
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by mrwoggle 6y ago
I just made hello world window in qt. It's 28 kB. edit: typo
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by mrwoggle 6y ago
Real question, what do some people mean with native C++? Or stuff like react native? Seems like it just equals more performance / peels away an abstract layer.
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by mrwoggle 6y ago
I know QT is dual licensed for application development. How's the licensing here?
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by mrwoggle 6y ago
Wouldn't that be startups? Maybe a hardware startup since you are a MechE.
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by mrwoggle 6y ago
"If you are worried about the money, just buy a house" Say this to a Chinese or European guy. You're very privileged lol
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by mrwoggle 6y ago
I started a new job before covid hit. Some other devs started to annoy me. Just those silly things many people have. Like sighing every other second and never ending chit chat. I mean, I can tolerate it. But WFH is so much better. I can wea
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by mrwoggle 6y ago
CircuitPython and MicroPython are great for hobbyists or if you need to prototype something quickly. It becomes very limiting for bigger embedded applications. Is the chip and are all peripherals supported? Probably not.
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by mrwoggle 6y ago
Of course, why go through the troubles of putting in the extra hours, if there is no financial compensation or appreciation? Personally, I would just optimize stuff or propose new features for a product if I would learn something/gain
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by mrwoggle 6y ago
So, let's say after COVID, people start getting back to their cubicles and continue to crank out office hours just as before. Except you, you continue working from home (after some convincing arguments to your boss/management that
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by mrwoggle 6y ago
They work like machines! It is hard to compete with them
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by mrwoggle 6y ago
There are a few FAANG-ish companies in my country that pay well. Besides those companies, it is really hard to get a good salary. Other companies top out at 60-80k EUR. And then you'll probably need a lot of experience. It is not hard
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by mrwoggle 6y ago
As someone who's working in haptics, not in the adult industry, but in VR: What are most actuators like? Are they ERM's or LRA's or even VCA's? Your interface is pretty generic. Vibrating and rotating at a certain amplit
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by mrwoggle 6y ago
Thanks for this write-up!
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by mrwoggle 6y ago
> To put it in short, C programmers hate needless abstraction and work with raw memory and hand-crafted data structures whenever possible. More data, less code. This. Even if it is less safe.
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by mrwoggle 6y ago
> If you are interested in developing, you will be getting early access to an ambitious Free Software mobile platform and you can help contribute to Plasma Mobile and get a headway designing new apps that you can test and deploy right no