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by pesfandiar 3d ago
They probably used Microsoft Windows and Google Chrome too.
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by pesfandiar 1mo ago
And weekly is the right cadence for seeing the bigger picture for news too.
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by pesfandiar 2mo ago
"256k ought to be enough for anybody"
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by pesfandiar 3mo ago
There are legitimate reasons to get help from LLMs when writing, including being an ESL. The comment has substance.
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by pesfandiar 6mo ago
Hear hear. And like many other aspects of accessibility, it will help a huge number of people who may not have any severe issues. e.g. non-native English speakers using LLM-powered edits.
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by pesfandiar 7mo ago
Mea culpa. Without the proper knowledge or measurement equipment, I observed that the audio would fade out after a 30 cm distance. Combined with running it for mere seconds to test and record a demo, I assumed to be in the clear with the sp
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by pesfandiar 7mo ago
Highly recommend his Pico-based microcontroller course: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDqMkB5cbBA4GisLzRSqw... The PWM-based modulation is interesting, but as an amateur, I couldn't fully understand it or trus
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Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter(pesfandiar.com)
119 points by pesfandiar 7mo ago|35 comments
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by pesfandiar 7mo ago
> We're not the world police. That has been the bargain since WWII though. Pax Americana meant the US owned and enforced a global order, in return international trade and finance ran on its platform. Most Americans can't fathom
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by pesfandiar 8mo ago
I'm surprised and impressed that this works. I would've guessed phones have enough RF shielding and low-pass filters in the audio path to prevent this.
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by pesfandiar 8mo ago
The financial gains from starting a startup have a wildly varied distribution. The analysis won't be very practical if we assume any meaningful exit at any age. Not sure how a "weak exit" is considered the most common outcome
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by pesfandiar 8mo ago
https://www.pesfandiar.com/blog/ I recently started writing blog posts again as I'm messing around with microcontrollers
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by pesfandiar 9mo ago
Poe's Law could very well apply here.
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by pesfandiar 9mo ago
The signs of techno-feudalism have always been around in fragments (platform/cloud landlords, rent-seeking, gig work, ...), but the promise of hitting gold, the idea of democratized innovation, and the reliance on mass tech labour fuel
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by pesfandiar 10mo ago
That might change if geopolitical tensions fragment the global supply chains.
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by pesfandiar 10mo ago
As a parent, I found "The Anxious Generation" by Jonathan Haidt insightful and eye-opening.
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by pesfandiar 10mo ago
Mathematics doesn't need to remain backward compatible.
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by pesfandiar 11mo ago
It's wrong to assume the owners will share the productivity gains with everyone, especially when reliance on labour will be at its lowest, and the power structure of a data/AI economy is more concentrated than anything we've
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by pesfandiar 11mo ago
Do you mean the bubble in the financial markets, or disillusionment of capital assuming they get to lay off half the employees for the same output?
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by pesfandiar 1y ago
Can I ask what drew you to civil?
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by pesfandiar 1y ago
For sure. The engineering jobs typically have a lower pay and you'd have to start out as a junior, so higher income won't be a reason for the switch.
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Ask HN: Anyone switched from software to physical world engineering?
6 points by pesfandiar 1y ago|11 comments
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by pesfandiar 1y ago
The delineation between programming and software engineering is arbitrary at best. Everybody understands the "engineering" in software engineering has nothing to do with other certified engineering practices, so the hair splitting
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by pesfandiar 1y ago
It's a rather awkward role as you have to carve out a maker's schedule within a manager's schedule [1]. As others have mentioned, it only makes sense as the person ramps up for full management or decides against that career p
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by pesfandiar 1y ago
Your analogy would be much better with giving workers a work horse with a mind of its own. Trucks come with clear instructions and predictable behaviour.
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by pesfandiar 1y ago
I imagine it's a very crowded and competitive market to work remotely for US companies (and not through a sweat shop agency). The fact that a candidate has emigrated from US shouldn't typically be a big factor.
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by pesfandiar 1y ago
> There's a chance a highly-automated future could reduce our neccesary working hours to those boomtime levels. This has been the dream since the dawn of time (agriculture is automating food production to some extent). The gains in
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by pesfandiar 1y ago
The society has accepted that computers bring more benefit than harm, but LLMs could still get pushback due to bad PR.
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by pesfandiar 1y ago
I've played many creative games created for PICO-8 (mostly on itch.io). The system specs are limited (not just the download size), and yet it has led to innovations around simple game mechanics. They're too niche for app stores th
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by pesfandiar 1y ago
Weaning off of social media and other engagement traps would likely help with attention span too.

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