tomasGiden

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by tomasGiden 4d ago
It's either that or people complaining about "Now I can run out of data much faster". But what people forget is that not all the new tech is to improve it for a single subscriber. A lot of it is to utilize the spectrum better
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by tomasGiden 4d ago
And companies are selling electric cars even though not everyone has a petrol car… I remember people saying the same thing about 4G relative 3G and 5G relative 4G.
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by tomasGiden 10d ago
I also try to teach my children to be careful with books but beating a child surely cannot be the the right way. If we adults strike children for them treating possessions badly, are we then not saying that they are less worthy of good trea
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by tomasGiden 3mo ago
Interesting but many issues which have been listed here are valid. This is my take on the largest of them. Preventive testing is not always positive. False negatives creates a false sense of security and false positives drives unnecessary
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by tomasGiden 3mo ago
And if one were to compare cost of a dev vs cost of an LLM, the dev comes with the cost of workspace, computers, sick pay, summer party, conferences and etc etc.
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by tomasGiden 4mo ago
It is easy to say that we shouldn't limit what a person is allowed to do. That a person should be allowed to use their free will. That sounds nice because nobody want to be controlled by anyone else. But let's turn it upside down
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by tomasGiden 4mo ago
I’ve looked at confidence outputs for the chosen words from several STT providers and it’s definitely so that low confidence indicate that there is a risk that it has misheard. Not always though. Let’s say that someone is saying ”1 2 3 4 &l
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by tomasGiden 5mo ago
I would differentiate between iterative development and incremental development. Incremental development is like panting a picture line by line like a printer where you add new pieces to the final result without affecting old pieces. Iterat
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by tomasGiden 6mo ago
Guy here with kids in Swedish school. In general I support the direction of learning basic analogue skills and detoxing from the constant dopamine hits of the digital world. BUT one of my kids has Asperger’s and it is extremely hard for him
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by tomasGiden 9mo ago
I just tried out your app for the first time. First time trying to learn Spanish. I feel exactly like the user you describe but it is because I have to click Don’t remember for 70-80% of the words. I’ve always had difficulty remembering voc
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by tomasGiden 1y ago
How about in-app purchases and subscriptions? The code is already there. Is it abusive? Is it abusive because it is tied to hardware? No, I see it as the opposite. I see it as Volkswagen simplifying production by limiting variability and gi
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by tomasGiden 1y ago
I did some benchmarking on BlobFuse2 vs NFS vs azcopy on Azure for a CT imaging reconstruction a year back or so. As I remember it, it was not clear if Fuse (copy on demand) or azcopy (copy all necessary data before starting the workload) w
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by tomasGiden 1y ago
This! When you are doing something simple (as in there are known best practices) you do want people to have the same formal education. They’ll talk the same language and everything will be smooth. Nobody wants a self taught surgeon or pilo
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by tomasGiden 2y ago
I worked in the telecom business 15 years ago on 4G (LTE) and there it was considered a big savior compared to how it was done before. Basically before they had a lot of error handling code and it was a significant part of the code base (do
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by tomasGiden 2y ago
I loved the books as a child and as a father I love reading them for my children. And they love them too. Some things have not aged well in them though. Thinking specifically around the gender roles. Not matching Sweden of today. Basically
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by tomasGiden 2y ago
I think complexity frameworks (like Cynefin) describes it pretty good. When the complexity is low, there are best practices (use a specific gauge of wires in an electric installation in a house or surgeons cleaning according to a specific p
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by tomasGiden 2y ago
The job for an embedded engineer can vary wildly and it gets hard to define what embedded software even is. I’ve worked on microcontrollers in elevators and battery management systems for battery packs on the low end and I’ve worked on appl
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by tomasGiden 2y ago
Sweden here also. Quite common with 25 days and paid overtime or 30 days with unpaid overtime. And then you have parental days which are 480 in total per child which can be used both before they start preschool and for longer vacations when
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by tomasGiden 2y ago
Does it really have to be a vehicle or just a Flipper Zero like box positioned at an intersection?
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by tomasGiden 2y ago
We’re using KEDA and ScaledJob to scale tomographic reconstructions in the cloud. When a CT scanner has finished uploading a scan, we let a ScaledJob create a Job to process the data. A scan is maybe 8 hours and during that time we don’t ne
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by tomasGiden 2y ago
One of my sons had a heart defect needing open heart surgery when he was 5 days old (it went fine!). In connection to that he was enrolled in a scientific study. Apparently when you are in a heart and lung machine as an infant (<1 month
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by tomasGiden 2y ago
I think there are a few things to note to take the Eisenhower matrix from “oh, that’s a nice model” to really gain some serious value from it. First of all, you need to really work with finding the most important goals for you in your conte
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by tomasGiden 2y ago
I’m highly safety critical systems you have software (and hardware) diversity were multiple pieces of software, developed independently, have to vote on the result. Maybe highly critical pieces of Linux like the login process should be desi
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by tomasGiden 3y ago
For customers like Ericsson it wouldn’t surprise me if they request special instructions and special hard function blocks. In telecom there are certain operations that’s specified by the standard (and some which aren’t but used as a de fact
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by tomasGiden 3y ago
Very much depends on what you are working on. What SaaS is ever stopped being developed and doesn’t need ownership after 2-3 years? Products with embedded software might ship in 2-3 years but many still need bug fixes and new features long
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by tomasGiden 3y ago
Nope. This was all in house. But we are talking at home lifts for the rich and lazy (and sometimes elderly). And there was quite a bit of electronics in it with processors at each floor, on the control panel and for the motor controller and
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by tomasGiden 3y ago
Regarding the problem of strings in embedded, I once did a pretty nifty thing in a logging framework I built for an embedded system in an elevator (Cortex M0 I think it was) with very little flash for the binary and for logging. I had a log
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by tomasGiden 3y ago
Related, but not as fancily presented, the startup I’m at just scanned a coffee bean in our micro-CT that we developed. It’s especially good for low-Z (like carbon and silicon) based samples in contrast to normal X-Rays that see right throu
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by tomasGiden 6y ago
Ericsson has something similar for cellular signals over CAT5 called Ericson Dot [0]. Though I believe they have it at baseband or intermediate frequency in the cable and then shift it up in the Dot. Disclosure, I worked at Ericsson when th
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by tomasGiden 6y ago
I’ve seen some projects succeed with (because of?) visual programming languages and others fail because of them. My general feeling is that a visual programming language excels as domain specific languages where the domain is quite visual.

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