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I feel like you're getting hung up in semantics such that your essay doesn't say the obvious: coding is "easy" relative to confidently knowing how and what to do next at every stag…

Let's say you're in the market for an $1800 frequency analyzer such as https://siglentna.com/spectrum-analyzers/ssa3000x-plus/ Well, if you want to use your new tool to analyze som…

That's why we're here. Even the lame posts on here have survived vastly more scrutiny by smart people than >99% of what is published online.

Maybe I'm an outlier, but I find that my main reason for discontinuing Ground News/Nebula/whatever is that I subscribe aspirationally and never actually make time to consume the co…

Everyone's experience will be different, but I will say that I have not received significant network effects traffic on Substack nor have I ever been tempted to click on suggested …

I've been talking to them since before my first comment to you, and they are unable to sell even a single unit to a verified engineering team. They told me that if I am willing to …

Thanks for reminding me that that exists! I'll have to give it a try, as it seems to have matured significantly since I last checked. That said, outside of casual experimentation, …

Every variant comes up as not available. This is the listing, right? https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007516847708.html

I have serious beef with ChatGPT's text-based circuit schematic drawing abilities. Even though the model itself appears to be fully coherent about the big and little picture aspect…

This is really cool. I would love to switch from using the SoM I'm currently using to the Radxa CM3 but I cannot find even a single unit actually available for purchase on any of t…

Right... except I'm asking so that I can apply his techniques to my PCB, which you know nothing about.

Very happy to hear about your success! I'm curious to hear more about your anti-counterfeit strategies beyond just enabling encryption. I'm curious if you feel like anti-counterfei…

Again: getting a call is enough to knock someone out of deep concentration. Anyhow, in addition to not hating LLMs, I would add "try not to use dramatic, hyperbolic devices in casu…

That's really interesting about German law. I didn't know that, so I appreciate learning. I suspect that if we were having this debate over dinner, we would agree on far more than …

I wish I was there with you to witness the look on your face as you slowly begin to realize that something as simple as a call can and often will absolutely pull you out of the flo…

I'll defer to John Green, here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80SCl6n0TEo

It is a skill that you can develop.

$0.02: the way to read more books is with a really good pair of earbuds. The Libby app (with Audible to fill in the blanks) makes it incredibly easy to train up your listening spee…

It seems as though you want things both ways. The notion that an experienced person should automatically consider mentorship to be part of their job is not backed by any code or co…

Context switches are not free. Dozens of "quick questions" over the course of a day will drag down your productivity to about one third or worse. I know that for me, it takes about…

Alternative take: the assumption that senior engineers get pressured into agreeing to mentor without it formally being an acknowledged part of their job - that is, that a significa…