scottlawson

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by scottlawson 3mo ago
YOU MUST MAKE YOUR GAME EVEN THOUGH NO-ONE IS GOING TO BUY IT YOU SHOULD MAKE A GAME TODAY, AFTER READING THIS you 100% disagree with this?
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by scottlawson 5mo ago
That's awesome to hear! Sometimes the journey is the destination, its a great project to get started with electronics.
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by scottlawson 5mo ago
I'd actually argue it has some wicked problem characteristics. The input space is enormous (all possible audio), perception is subjective and nonlinear, and there's no objective function to optimize against, only "does this f
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by scottlawson 5mo ago
I didn't go into much detail about it but there's a whole rabbit hole of color theory and color models. For example, the spectrum effect assigns different colors to different frequency bins, but also adjusts the assignment over ti
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by scottlawson 6mo ago
what I meant with "DevOps won't want to support it" was someone saying this before DevOps had even been asked, and by someone who wasn't even on DevOps, who just assumed that they probably wouldn't like this sort of
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by scottlawson 6mo ago
the "good for them personally" reaction is so true. It's almost like a team-level version of the inonvator's dilemma, where protecting the thing you already own feels more rational than supporting something that might re
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by scottlawson 6mo ago
That's fair. The title is provocative and probably overstates my actual position, which as you note is closer to "the way people practice critique in meetings is low value and here's how to do it better". The point about
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by scottlawson 6mo ago
I like that angle a lot, and this very thoughtful comment. Distinguishing between the idea and the person is a good way to think about it. I think sometimes people cross that line without realizing it. Your point about making sure people st
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by scottlawson 6mo ago
you're right that a good idea should be able to survive scrutiny. The issue I'm describing isn't "someone asked a tough question". It's when objections pile up so ast that nothing can survive long enough to be
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by scottlawson 6mo ago
Heilmeier Catechism is really interesting, thanks for linking that. I like how the questions break down different major aspects. It treats risk as one of the dimensions of evaluation but not entire conversation. That's the shift I was
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by scottlawson 6mo ago
Thanks for posting this. I'm glad I'm not alone in the monorepo club! I really believe in the benefits. Especially for a personal monorepo where the amount of code is not usually enough to run into the limits of git. I'm curi
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by scottlawson 6mo ago
thats fair, I appreciate your feedback very much! Initially, I typed out easily two or three times as much text as what made it into the final post, and had to trim and summarize what I wrote down to size. I totally hear what you are saying
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by scottlawson 6mo ago
it isn't quite true that the categories are static, in fact, I've changed them a fair bit as I've reorganized containers. Sometimes I realize that two different containers should really be one container, and when that happens
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by scottlawson 6mo ago
short term memory, but I'll admit it isn't perfect and sometimes I'm pretty sure that I might be double labelling. But that's okay because even an occasional mistaken double label is still a partially valid signal that t
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by scottlawson 6mo ago
they aren't plastic, but surprisingly, I'm able to remove them with fine tweezers and transplant them when needed. They are 6mm diameter so pretty small and I've never seen them shred like larger labels/stickers.
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by scottlawson 6mo ago
since this is cache invalidation AND naming things, does that make it the hardest?
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by scottlawson 6mo ago
shoeboxes are a great size for containers, but does it bother you that they aren't transparent? I really like having clear containers.
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by scottlawson 6mo ago
sometimes I see no dots on things that are cool and I have this innate urge to want to hold onto. One example is a Picomotor piezo actuator. It's a really cool piece of technology. I want to believe so badly that I'll use it in a
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by scottlawson 6mo ago
I definitely see the appeal of an electronic version. I think it really depends on what you care about tracking. Food? Maybe use the same barcodes already on the product. Clothes? maybe RFID patches that are unobtrusive. Things that are sub
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A dot a day keeps the clutter away(scottlawsonbc.com)
585 points by scottlawson 6mo ago|168 comments
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by scottlawson 6mo ago
reading this article reminded me of a couple of quotes: "The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim" - Dijkstra And paraphrasing another "it would be silly t
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by scottlawson 6mo ago
The thesis that in the past it was safe to share ideas and projects because the execution was hard, and that now things have changed because of AI is an interesting AI, but I wonder if it is really true. It certainly seems true that for sma
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by scottlawson 6mo ago
the legacy of Voyager 1 is crazy, this spacecraft launched decades before I was born and yet I see it regularly talked about even today. Seeing posts about how the Voyager 1 was leaving the solar system led to me learning about the heliosph
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by scottlawson 1y ago
I love articles like this that give the context and history to important but not often talked about molecules. I enjoyed this as much as the "chemicals I will never work with" series.
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by scottlawson 2y ago
you replied to an LLM generated comment. if you look at the posting history you can confirm it
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by scottlawson 2y ago
conduction direct into the ground
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by scottlawson 2y ago
The page mentions improvements but I can't tell from the main readme what is the advantage over the stock firmware, which I found to be quite nice for my personal use.
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by scottlawson 2y ago
To put this in perspective, it supports up to 3kg in the demonstration. That's a fraction of what I can support with one finger.
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by scottlawson 3y ago
If the issue is panic why not create a wrapper func with recover and present the same interface that you want?
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by scottlawson 3y ago
Actually, a tutor can be someone who plans and guides your learning process, as you described. But there is nothing to stop you as the student from inverting it, designing and planning your own leaning goals, and then going to a tutor for s

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