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"256k ought to be enough for anybody"

There are legitimate reasons to get help from LLMs when writing, including being an ESL. The comment has substance.

Hear hear. And like many other aspects of accessibility, it will help a huge number of people who may not have any severe issues. e.g. non-native English speakers using LLM-powered…

Mea culpa. Without the proper knowledge or measurement equipment, I observed that the audio would fade out after a 30 cm distance. Combined with running it for mere seconds to test…

Highly recommend his Pico-based microcontroller course: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDqMkB5cbBA4GisLzRSqw... The PWM-based modulation is interesting, but as an amateur, …

> We're not the world police. That has been the bargain since WWII though. Pax Americana meant the US owned and enforced a global order, in return international trade and finance r…

I'm surprised and impressed that this works. I would've guessed phones have enough RF shielding and low-pass filters in the audio path to prevent this.

The financial gains from starting a startup have a wildly varied distribution. The analysis won't be very practical if we assume any meaningful exit at any age. Not sure how a "wea…

https://www.pesfandiar.com/blog/ I recently started writing blog posts again as I'm messing around with microcontrollers

Poe's Law could very well apply here.

The signs of techno-feudalism have always been around in fragments (platform/cloud landlords, rent-seeking, gig work, ...), but the promise of hitting gold, the idea of democratize…

That might change if geopolitical tensions fragment the global supply chains.

As a parent, I found "The Anxious Generation" by Jonathan Haidt insightful and eye-opening.

Mathematics doesn't need to remain backward compatible.

It's wrong to assume the owners will share the productivity gains with everyone, especially when reliance on labour will be at its lowest, and the power structure of a data/AI econ…

Do you mean the bubble in the financial markets, or disillusionment of capital assuming they get to lay off half the employees for the same output?

Can I ask what drew you to civil?

For sure. The engineering jobs typically have a lower pay and you'd have to start out as a junior, so higher income won't be a reason for the switch.

Most of the people I know have gone the other way, from mechanical, civil, or electrical into software, but I’m curious if anyone here has managed the reverse: leaving a software d…

The delineation between programming and software engineering is arbitrary at best. Everybody understands the "engineering" in software engineering has nothing to do with other cert…

It's a rather awkward role as you have to carve out a maker's schedule within a manager's schedule [1]. As others have mentioned, it only makes sense as the person ramps up for ful…

Your analogy would be much better with giving workers a work horse with a mind of its own. Trucks come with clear instructions and predictable behaviour.

I imagine it's a very crowded and competitive market to work remotely for US companies (and not through a sweat shop agency). The fact that a candidate has emigrated from US should…

> There's a chance a highly-automated future could reduce our neccesary working hours to those boomtime levels. This has been the dream since the dawn of time (agriculture is autom…