scottbez1

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by scottbez1 12d ago
Heh, I just got a waveshare RLCD to play with sunlight visible higher refresh rate, but then I compared it side by side with the exact e-paper display for this project and I felt buyer’s remorse; the contrast is soooo much worse on the LCD.
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by scottbez1 29d ago
Gas tax has always been a proxy metric for mileage in order to implement usage based costs to help offset the many billions of dollars California spends maintaining roads every year. Gas as a proxy for mileage breaks down with widespread EV
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by scottbez1 3mo ago
I’ve been building a plug-and-play controller to use motorized faders with ESPHome and other microcontrollers easily, called FaderBuddy. It’s a small board with a ATtiny1616 and motor driver that mounts to the bottom of Behringer MF60T repl
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by scottbez1 3mo ago
I think the big question here is how effective can you make training and monitoring across a widespread population in practice? In aviation, commercial pilots have very strict and extensive training and monitoring and as a result are genera
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by scottbez1 4mo ago
More strictly than firearms, in fact. Some of the proposed 3d printer laws will require printers being sold to be capable of evaluating what you are using them for and blocking “bad” usages. I’m not aware of any such legislation around fire
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by scottbez1 4mo ago
You are conflating two things: appeasement and actual change in principles. Externally it can be hard to distinguish these, but it is easier to get a sense of it with more signals. From Bambu’s historical and continued actions, specifically
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by scottbez1 4mo ago
What you’ve said is true but also misses the point. Licenses have never been about stopping bad actions because a bit of text can’t prevent someone from buying materials and building things, just like a speed limit sign has never stopped so
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by scottbez1 4mo ago
It’s rough but I understand it. You can be entirely in favor of the open source ethos, even as a commercial entity, but then certain actors can take advantage of that ethos and just directly commercialize your R&D investment and take al
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by scottbez1 4mo ago
Correction is one of many signals, and it’s better than ignoring pushback, but it’s still usually worse than not needing the correction in the first place. Sure, a manufacturer that didn’t need to course correct yet doesn’t mean they won’t
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by scottbez1 4mo ago
I have the original CC. It’s a fine budget machine for single color - plenty fast and good quality prints. They rubbed people the wrong way launching the CC2 with multi-color support before they developed the multi-color add-on that was pro
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by scottbez1 5mo ago
I wouldn’t recommend this outright without recommending some research first. Some brands put the over-discharge protection into the tools instead of the batteries, so using one of those batteries in other tools may permanently kill the batt
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by scottbez1 5mo ago
They’re incredibly wasteful due to inefficient power transfer which is a huge issue with wireless charging. And it’s not just wireless that’s inefficient; with a usb connection you’ll typically lose at least 15% in a good buck/boost st
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by scottbez1 5mo ago
This is false. It is only legal in the rare event that a passenger requires curb-side access for accessibility/ADA reasons; any other use is still illegal. To quote SFMTA taxi training: Only drop off in a separated bike lane if you hav
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by scottbez1 5mo ago
It definitely would make sense, especially if they are capacity constrained, but it’s also a losing PR move for whoever moves first in the space unless the big players all shift at the same time.
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by scottbez1 5mo ago
Subscription models only work when marginal costs are low and/or there’s a good variety of usage that roughly averages out. Or, you need to be able to kick out abuse. Unfortunately for those of us who just want to eat a nice filling me
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by scottbez1 5mo ago
I was surprised that incident didn’t seem to get as much attention since that was a pretty major data corruption bug, but I guess it was a much smaller scope of impacted repos/customers than a lot of these availability issues?
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by scottbez1 5mo ago
Yep, I’ve bought a few thermal printers recently and webusb support (marketed as Chromebook support) was a major deciding factor. Thermal printers aren’t well supported by built in printer drivers, so it’s nice to not have to install some q
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by scottbez1 5mo ago
How does the security of userspace drivers compare to having drivers within a sandboxed web environment with access to only the devices you’ve explicitly allowlisted?
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by scottbez1 7mo ago
GitHub seems entirely uninterested in improving the code review experience (except maybe the stacked PRs thing if that ends up shipping) for well over a decade now. Things that I’d consider table stakes that Phabricator had in 2016 - code m
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by scottbez1 8mo ago
Yeah, Tesla gets to blame the “driver”, and has a history of releasing partial and carefully curated subsets of data from crashes to try to shift as much blame onto the driver as possible. And the system is designed to set up drivers for fa
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by scottbez1 8mo ago
The US commercial aviation industry did not get to its excellent safety record by simply shrugging and accepting a “no-fault accident”. There are always systemic factors that can be improved, for example working on street design to separate
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by scottbez1 8mo ago
I’ve found that adafruit usually includes a cuttable solder pad for the power led when there’s real estate available. Just cut one of those traces this week in fact!
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by scottbez1 8mo ago
Heh, many years ago I actually started writing a dedicated diff viewer app for Android [0] that specifically had synchronized horizontal scrolling between the two sides, and I remember finding it relatively usable in landscape, and I’m sure
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by scottbez1 8mo ago
I’d love this, if only for improved diff reviews possible compared to a terminal window! Would also work better for intermittent connectivity.
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by scottbez1 8mo ago
How do I use a laptop while standing on a train each day? It sounds like a laptop is sufficient for you, but I suspect (based on myself and other responses in this thread) that a laptop is not always viable for many people; this tutorial ap
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by scottbez1 8mo ago
It’s a simple idea but one that hadn’t occurred to me yet. I spend hours each week riding transit, and use Claude for a bunch of side projects and have Tailscale set up already, so looks like I’ll be giving this a try this week! Doom coding
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by scottbez1 8mo ago
Similar for cooktops - I’ve seen IR-reflectance-based touch controls go haywire due to dimmable overhead lights, and heard of frustration with capacitive controls going haywire from liquid splatters. There are some very real benefits to tou
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by scottbez1 8mo ago
Can you be more specific about these “mandates” you take issue with? IIHS doesn’t have any mandate power over manufacturers (they are not a regulatory body) but they do align with insurance company interests, whose goals are to pay out less
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by scottbez1 9mo ago
Very different standards - in its current form of emergency autoland it just needs to be proven to result in equal or better outcomes as a plane with no rated pilot onboard; the best case is another person that knows how to use the radio an
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by scottbez1 9mo ago
Latency makes this hard even with local connections, it’s essentially impossible due to physics to do it offshore. And I believe Waymo remote access only allows providing high level instructions (like pull over, take the next right, go arou

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