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Neat to see a Rob Robinette article pop up here, his website is a fantastic resource for guitar amp work. His articles on Amp Startup and Troubleshooting were particularly helpful …

Yeah, Carrier has been making heat pumps for quite a while now. I'm not entirely sure when they were first introduced, but when I worked there a few years ago the heat pumps were f…

George Gillard's PID document is circulated widely for teaching high school students about PID for the VEX Robotics Competition: https://smithcsrobot.weebly.com/uploads/6/0/9/5/609…

Love to see this writeup, and that you're enjoying FTC! I spent a ton of my time in college leading a VEX U team, and it was a tough but incredibly rewarding experience. It's a lot…

Neat to see this on HN! I'm in a couple of fifth-wave emo bands currently, and there's some incredible music being made in this genre right now. I'll second the recommendations abo…

I missed this comment before replying at the top level elsewhere, but yeah I would need some socks with 4 toe holes :)

A good case for toe socks here -- unfortunately I don't have the separated toes needed to wear them! I'm not entirely sure how common it is (I'm only aware of myself and my grandfa…

It's really neat to see some FRC code here, lots to be learned from student robotics competitions! Shameless plug: I work on [PROS]( https://github.com/purduesigbots/pros ), an ope…

I got hired a few years ago by emailing a contact in a "who's hiring" post. Still working there, and it's a great job! A big step up from my previous role.

QMK support on a laptop's internal keyboard would be fantastic! I've gotten very used to my corne, and switching to using my laptop's keyboard on the rare occasions when I need to …

A huge +1 for this book: I spent a lot of time reading and re-reading this book while in university, both for classes and my time leading a robotics club.

It's neat to see this on the front page of HN -- I got the chance to take an Intro to Semiconductors class from the professor in the article a couple of years ago while getting my …

https://jonathanbayless.com A pretty simple portfolio/SWE blog site with Jekyll/Github Pages

I've mostly seen Corne builds that match this description, but unfortunately they aren't very common. ( https://www.reddit.com/r/mechmarket/comments/jyfrv2/ic_the_c... )

I'm disappointed in myself for being surprised by this article, you're exactly right about this being the norm for similar software. I've found Life360 to be a helpful free tool in…

I'm really glad that this article got posted, I've been experiencing the same symptoms intermittently with my MX ergo but they haven't been quite enough of a pain for me to remembe…

Another aimless 24 year-old here, count me in!

I had the same experience interviewing this last month. A lot of companies that are remote during COVID that will pretend to be fully remote until an interview or two into the proc…

That sounds like a likely pain point here to me too - I've settled on using a Logitech MX Ergo trackball sitting between the two halves of my split keyboard. No more stretching to …

Fun timing on this post, I just started learning to use LMMS a couple days ago. It seems to be a pretty good piece of software even if there are some kinks to work out with the plu…

Came across this on Reddit yesterday, was a fantastic read. Added The Sweatbox to my "to-watch" list as well, looking forward to it.

Seconded, bought a used Steelcase for only about $100 at the beginning of the pandemic. It has been worth every penny with working from home.

I appreciate your point about nothing ever being "100% due to human error", especially in regards to air travel. I recently read "The Design of Everyday Things", a book that devote…

This looks like a perfect fit for my use case, just downloaded it! I'm using Foam instead of Obsidian but it looks like the GitJournal author is also targeting Foam support.