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by wiskinator 8d ago
Anyone have an LG TV, access to ghidra and a desire to dig in and release open firmware? Because I have have everything but the TV
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by wiskinator 2mo ago
A good friend of mine (we'll call him G) worked at an auto body shop. An older client came in and was bitching about how his brand new Mazda (IIRC) kept freaking out when he changed lanes, and asked G if he could disable the lane depar
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by wiskinator 2mo ago
I don't have the citations to back this up anymore than you did, but it was also passed because of the rise in Black Power movements walking around with guns. I used to be an obnoxious gun control advocate until I learned that Califo
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by wiskinator 2mo ago
I guess I must be an AI because I could not read that to save my life. I wonder if this is like the “rotate an apple” problem.
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by wiskinator 4mo ago
Yes, I don't think that arresting people for the crime of not having money is a good idea. We also cannot seem to fund any actual drug programs, because US citizens hate the idea of anyone getting something for free.
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by wiskinator 6mo ago
Ohhh the links at the bottom of this guys site are wild and good reading. https://thiaoouba.com/ Please note I am disputing his science on the efficacy of a vertical fridge.
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by wiskinator 7mo ago
I’m interested in comparing the ratio of (accidents / miles driven) between the two. Tesla seems like it has an engineering culture built around shipping whatever version of product they have at the date Elon announces, regardless of t
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by wiskinator 7mo ago
Without the context of “Antigravity” being a product name this headline is science fiction gold.
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by wiskinator 7mo ago
The site would be better if it linked to the actual regulation that prohibits each type of business instead of just making the claim “0 new factories of this type have been built”.
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by wiskinator 10mo ago
Oh hey, it’s the history of Indigenous people in North America (especially Canada and the USA) repeating itself in Greenland. Make a biased test, call it impartial, then use it to ruin the lives of people who don’t meet some perceived stand
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by wiskinator 10mo ago
Dang. This is one of those annoying cases of finding out something that I would clearly love exists only as it leaves. I would have subscribed if I knew that the Farmer's Almanac still existed :(
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by wiskinator 1y ago
We are in so much trouble as a society. The real danger here is that ABC did it before the White House ordered or told them too. Fascists rise in power the more scared we are to speak.
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by wiskinator 2y ago
The first sentence tells you what you need to know. The leader assumes the worker is making a “web of lies” to get out of responsibility. This leader is trash. You need to listen to your employees and respond to their needs. If deadlines ar
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by wiskinator 2y ago
The NsF shouldn’t be rolling over to do what this new dictator in the US wants. This goes way beyond DEI; that’s just the trap to get insecure white men to agree with it. The NSF is “reviewing anything that goes against the stated national
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by wiskinator 2y ago
Article is paywalled but I think inverting the question is fun. Why don’t small kids in other western countries ride the subway alone?
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by wiskinator 2y ago
Good on them. I truly don’t understand how people can be against furthering diversity in a mostly homogeneous sector of society (corporate tech).
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by wiskinator 2y ago
And this is why right to repair laws are a thing. Also, genuinely I’d be interested in helping this guy hack his exoskeleton to let it work again.
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by wiskinator 2y ago
Or. And I’m just spit balling here. Plant super long lived trees. Redwoods live for >200 years. Eucalyptus grow very quickly and might be a good option too.
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by wiskinator 2y ago
Yes and, I hate working with people who think this means you can literally say “you are stupid” and that this the same as providing helpful feedback. If you are blunt to the point of being rude, then any communication you’re attempting is g
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by wiskinator 2y ago
Depends on the microcontroller and the rest of your stack but it should be fairly straight forward. Feed received frames from your MAC into the appropriate receive function in a netif, and link the output function pointer to something that
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by wiskinator 3y ago
Ask yourself why you want something that is made in the US. I have long had the same bias, and I am trying to understand it myself. Is it perceived quality of the final object? Do you feel that the environmental impact of shipping is worth
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by wiskinator 3y ago
An important thing to take from this is that if you pay your teachers well, and also make sure that all the kids in school have a house (since military folk get housing for their families), and at least one parent is paid well, then the kid
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by wiskinator 3y ago
4 profanity filled minutes of solid advice on how to be better at the slightly absurd job we call "engineering", or "development" or whatever. Also, proof that some content from TikTok is un-ironically good (though I&#x2
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The main reason projects fail (Old Coder Guy) [video](youtube.com)
11 points by wiskinator 3y ago|2 comments
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by wiskinator 3y ago
This was the most poorly written and blatantly biased article I’ve seen in a while.
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by wiskinator 3y ago
I know what you mean. I fully deleted my 11 year old twitter account, and now I get almost frustrated enough to make a new one whenever I click on a HN news web article that links to twitter for context :/
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by wiskinator 3y ago
This sounds like great tech. Keep at it for the benefit of all of us.
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by wiskinator 3y ago
NRE into the production line, especially hard tooling for plastic is huge. Plus all those things you mentioned, especially inventory risk are often underestimated. Don't forget that any manufacturing run itself is a huge risk. Tiny cha
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by wiskinator 3y ago
It's weird that I'm just finding out that there's a company that does this when their business goes sideways. Kinda also wondering if I can scrape 250,000$ together...
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by wiskinator 3y ago
> Hacker News is the most intelligent bunch on the web. What can we do to help the Reddit mods to keep the steering wheel in their hands? -- Citation needed. But in all seriousness, I think that we can stress that continuing the strike f

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