robotjosh

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by robotjosh 4y ago
Its not just awful mods, its awful paid admins. It was a step in the right direction to ban hate speech. The people they hired have decided that being mean to racists is “hate speech”, while ignoring actual hate speech and letting racist s
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by robotjosh 4y ago
looks like openai isn’t letting people build chat bots anymore, or are deciding what kind are allowed with no notice.
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by robotjosh 4y ago
This just sounds like punishing people, not incentivizing. People just want to see others punished, they would never want to use such a system themselves.
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by robotjosh 4y ago
Reddit hired more paid moderators, to whom being mean to racists and other people they like is “hate speech” while actual racists and nazis run amok being shitty to actual protected groups. Reddit is turning into the next stormfront.
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by robotjosh 4y ago
This was my experience too. I got banned from my city’s subreddit for the stated reason “don’t move here” and then harassed across several local subreddits. Paid reddit admins determined that is not in fact harassment. Then later these a
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by robotjosh 4y ago
What can anybody do about it?
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by robotjosh 9y ago
It sounds like this would work for beginners or certain people who know rust and not C. A new firmware language could never be widely adopted if it is not made for the career firmware engineer to use.
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by robotjosh 9y ago
The first problem with doing this in arduino is that the pwm is interrupt based. So that limits the frequency. There is a tone library that can generate a pwm for a specific tone, but these are interrupt pwms and it cannot work correctly
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by robotjosh 9y ago
These problems that embedded rust is trying to solve are not a big deal. In C you try to minimize what happens in any interrupt, usually just set a flag, save a result, and return. You generally use atomic instructions on gpio. To set or
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by robotjosh 9y ago
You will want to code on the avr directly. The problem with audio processing on arduino is that there is a 1ms system tick that is higher priority than user code. It causes audio signals to sound scratchy, even a solid tone because the ar
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by robotjosh 9y ago
What is limiting about being able to step thru each instruction?
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by robotjosh 9y ago
Politics means "everything that affects society" so how can a company like google ignore "everything that affects society?"
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by robotjosh 9y ago
Nobody knows how to do this anymore. About half the projects I got when I freelanced were projects that were finished but "just needed" a boot loader.
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by robotjosh 9y ago
If things have gotten cheaper, why does everything in a 1917 sears catalog, adjusted for inflation, look so inexpensive? Solid metal tools used to cost less than the modern walmart plastic thing.
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by robotjosh 9y ago
This article made my chrome tab use 8gb ram and slowed down my computer. They're doing client side bitcoin mining or something.
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by robotjosh 9y ago
Someone should start a college with only a few administrators and simple buildings. It could cost at least 1/4th of what it costs now.
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by robotjosh 9y ago
Nobody has ever asked to see my degree or if I have one. They only care what I can do and how much it will cost. I looked into taking a few classes but saw that tuition has quadrupled making 2 classes cost more than an entire semester whe
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by robotjosh 9y ago
When I was in school textbooks weren't expensive and they did get destroyed by little future criminals.
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by robotjosh 9y ago
If anyone were seriously developing an educational app they would make it browser based so any computer could access it.
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by robotjosh 9y ago
Schools would have to solve bullying before they can give kids computers. How many tablets get smashed on purpose by shitty children?
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by robotjosh 9y ago
What I really need is windows 10. Can a hackintosh run parallels with windows 10 ok?
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by robotjosh 9y ago
The study said it considered "all other risks" but did they really factor in all the cyclists who get murdered by drivers?
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by robotjosh 9y ago
Some laptops have a built in battery along with a swappable battery. The battery life people could get one of these and get enough spare batteries to smoke the mac several times over.
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by robotjosh 9y ago
I canceled my youtube red over this. They've blacklisted channels that are specifically against racism because of some channels that support racism. They don't want to offend racists? I'm keeping my 5/month and will no
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by robotjosh 9y ago
Open office plans are awful, just as bad as cube farms where they mix their yacking sales people in with engineers. I've spent brief time working in many different office layouts and none of them were places I'd like to work. On
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by robotjosh 9y ago
This attitude is understandable. A lot of the "college grads" I graduated with were people who I watched for 4 years not try very hard and walk away with the same degree as I had after I worked really hard preparing myself to be
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by robotjosh 9y ago
freertos or projects like that could help. They need different drivers anyway so good rtos support would mean you can ignore the official sdk.
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by robotjosh 9y ago
The vendor SDKs are the weak link, not the compiler or language. Development could go 4x smoother if the vendor code were solid. Every single project I bump into sdk bugs that make it clear they have shipped code that was not tested. Its
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by robotjosh 9y ago
I was ready to pay 6k+ for a max MacBook pro with external gpu and whatever other usb-c accessories they were going to sell. The lack of a ram upgrade caught me off guard, really no ram upgrade in like 6 years? Really its usb-c-only and t
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by robotjosh 9y ago
The first thing I did when I ditched mac was to get a pc motherboard/ram/cpu/psu and bolt it out of the way under my desk. More room on my desk is an upgrade. Nobody really makes enclosures designed to be out of the way.

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