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by rjh29 9d ago
It is a nightmare scenario: you have a long tail of thousands of websites that are broken, a large complex codebase and you need hours of time per bug for a human to investigate and fix it. Some trickier bugs could take days to diagnose. It
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by rjh29 10d ago
I agree with you, high frequency is a totally different domain. But for the majority of projects, you don't need to buy special equipment. It's very accessible and PCBs are super cheap to print nowadays. I am definitely bitter (an
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by rjh29 11d ago
If you made the PCB then you should be well placed to fix issues with it. You don't need years of experience , you have the schematic. A microscope (if you need it) is 40 USD. A logic analyser is 10 USD. Solder paste and hot air is onl
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by rjh29 11d ago
You lost me when you referred to a multimeter as "costly equipment"
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by rjh29 11d ago
I'm still cold on this for two reasons 1. PCB review subreddit gets posts from people who use Claude to design the whole thing with 3D renders. Looks amazing. But uses auto router and 20 connections are left open. Claude said they need
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by rjh29 11d ago
Or just order the parts with their sister company LCSC and assemble yourself. It's not that hard especially if you have a hot air gun!
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by rjh29 11d ago
I don't understand your argument. PCB design is not that hard you can learn how to do it in a month or so. JLCPCB can print (or even assemble) PCBs for next to nothing. Irrespective of AI it seems easier than ever to produce prototypes
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by rjh29 14d ago
I use Gemini every day and I've noticed any subjective improvement. In many cases it feels worse because it does fewer Google searches than before. As a result I find it hard to get excited about it. I do think Gemini is underrated on
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by rjh29 14d ago
Search grounding is expensive, you can't force the model to do it either. I use Gemini a lot and it often replies with out-dated data. The more detailed the information you're asking, the more likely it is to be wrong.
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by rjh29 18d ago
While Monzo are expensive their approach of rewarding loyalty (5% off per year for Monzo Mobile) is a good idea compared to the endless switching you have to do to get the best rates.
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by rjh29 18d ago
Compared to Lebara or other cheap MVNOs their offering is not great. While they eventually give you 30% off (after 6 years) their starting price is 30% higher.
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by rjh29 18d ago
"it should be so frustrating for a dev to work on a full core banking that is mostly useless and userless except maybe 1h every 3 years." When other banks go down and Monzo stays up, even for 1 hour, that is a massive PR win and w
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by rjh29 19d ago
Why does it have to be an iPad mini? It's not even oled and there are hundreds of other small tablets available for less money.
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by rjh29 23d ago
While the device is ultimately to blame, many PD chargers will work anyway (by dangerously assuming 5V when there are no CC resistors). My Anker chargers do this.
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by rjh29 24d ago
> There were people who were lucky enough to have the six figure remote jobs at companies that were okay with them not being available during normal business hours. Those jobs were at high risk of getting cut at the next economic down cy
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by rjh29 27d ago
It was an awesome deal because I love having a folding phone. If you don't then it won't be. And it wasn't 4 years old when I bought it. It was a year old. My point is you can buy second hand of the previous model or so, a lo
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by rjh29 27d ago
Second hand zfold 4 was 600 quid when I bought it a few years ago. Hardly "multiple months of rent".
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by rjh29 27d ago
Even the earliest folds have a brush in the hinge to kick out dust and sand. I can only imagine after 6 years they've worked out the kinks.
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by rjh29 29d ago
I have 32GB and an aging 5800X3D and I have not had any issues running games yet. Honestly would love to know what games need more powerful RAM/CPU outside of stuff like Flight Simulator, or running at 160fps without framegen.
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by rjh29 1mo ago
I use Dropbox to sync my photos, I still have to tell google not to backup my photos probably 2-3 times a week.
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by rjh29 1mo ago
Some older android phones like the Huawei P20 Pro had a combination of 40 MP main sensor and 8 MP monochrome sensor and combined them to produce a better image. But modern phones tend to have zoom, normal and wide-angle lenses which don&#x2
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by rjh29 1mo ago
The real answer: making money on the App Store is extremely difficult. Developers have worked out subscriptions make more money than one-off purchases over time, even if a large % of people will refuse to engage with them.
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by rjh29 1mo ago
Only applies to Android. Apple make it deliberately expensive to publish apps and deliberately annoying to run your own apps locally (have to refresh every 7 days).
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by rjh29 1mo ago
The UK doesn't have 軍隊式教育 and that is a major factor in why Japanese society works as well as it does.
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by rjh29 1mo ago
Two things can be true here 1. The UK "surveillance state" narrative pushed in the US is overblown and we do not think about it or care about it as much as Americans do 2. Living in the UK is not "fantastic" for a decent
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by rjh29 1mo ago
Most people aren't that fast or impatient. The world isn't going to change to suit your brain...
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by rjh29 1mo ago
This stuff is user tested, many people prefer animations because they get confused if the UI changes instantly. For example if a button moves position when a sidebar is collapsed, the animation tells the user where the button has gone. You
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by rjh29 1mo ago
Where's the utility? If it's a fun hobby to optimise old hardware that's fine. But there's nothing noble about using AI and expensive modern GPUs to get 5% more juice out of old hardware.
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by rjh29 1mo ago
Reddit has the same phenomenon where the audience doing the upvotes is very different to the audience posting comments. As I'm in the second group I would love to say it's because people who read comments are smarter than those wh
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by rjh29 1mo ago
"Linux users" is a pretty big spectrum. My XFCE install uses barely any ram.

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