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retSava

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About retSava

Co-founder, VP eng at Thingsquare

Feel free to hit me up at marcus@thingsquare.com if you want to talk!

Avid fan of all kinds of tear-downs and reverse engineering, even the non-reversible kinds and those that leave a few parts behind after reassembly. Also, "How it's made" :+1:

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49108079

    Yes, TFA article says they never activated any power-saving, so the idle loop is more or less just staying in active mode, which has the same power consumption as doing calculation…

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    Comment #49108022

    As an off-topic remark, I've used the qoitech arc power analyzer quite a bit and it's quite nice and easy to use, when your DUT is <5V and low amps. There's also the Nordic PPK2 ki…

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    Comment #47658352

    It is. You can basically check out the company linkedin, people in similar roles/YoE, then google their name to find out their birthday, then just call our IRS. Ask for declared in…

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    Comment #46822808

    To add and not nitpick, but to add the 'a' to the subjective, we make a verb out of it. But it's not immediately obvious what that means, could also be "to put in a cabinet" (which…

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    Comment #46822765

    A fun thing you can do with this excellent sw is to slice a 3d object into slices to cut with a laser cutter. Ie you'll get a bunch of layers of eg cardboard or plywood, which you …

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    Comment #46718881

    Yup, an important caveat. And sometimes, it may not be available, due to it not legally being allowed to be sold there (eg not following relevant regulations). And that's a valid e…

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    Comment #46718879

    Yup, an important caveat. And sometimes, it may not be available, due to it not legally being allowed to be sold there (eg not following relevant regulations). And that's a valid e…

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    Comment #46718857

    It's far easier and efficient to have the seller be responsible for what they sell, rather than every buyer learn relevant regulations and research whether any potential buy follow…

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    Comment #46679178

    This is one of many exploitative habits of Amazon. Others include not ensuring products follow regulation, eg on hazardous substances (lead, etc), or on electrical safety. They als…

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    Comment #46545444

    It's like with cars - better performing drive trains (et al) is used to increase the power envelope instead of lowering fuel consumption, since that leads to more sales allegedly.

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    Comment #46182616

    I was at the Fagradalsfjall eruption at 2023. Had been to Iceland for two weeks w wife and daughter, and on the last day (since the signs were there) I decided to postpone travel h…

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    Comment #46105351

    IIRC lego had two actual patents: the basic brick, and the classic figure. The brick is expired while the figure isn't. Hence you can find "alternate" bricks, but not figures. They…

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    Comment #46105239

    It's not just cost and ads. It's having the possibility to reduce attempts to manipulate my inner reptile brain. With various clients, you can disable shorts, recommended, you have…

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    Comment #46014750

    I would assume, yet _another_ standard. There are a bunch of them, and product builders are taking a long long time to properly implement, and often buggy. And they often result in…

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    Comment #46014654

    Also, from a classic that is finally getting a sequel: Spaceballs! -We're not doing this for the money... -... we're not? -We're doing this for a SHITTON of money!

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    Comment #45977868

    I heard it's a joke. Ha ha. I do believe that humor and being funny can be learned, and thus taught. Everything from language structure, pacing, expectations (eg the listener build…

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    Comment #45693987

    I can see this being huge for 3d-printing. Apply on a sculpted .stl, reposition and download/save the new pose. There is already stuff in Blender to do stuff like that, but Blender…

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    Comment #45668930

    Isn't that the inverse? Ie auto-accept just to get rid of the UI box? Edit: their FF-page says, Set your preferences once, and let the technology do the rest! This add-on is built …

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    Comment #45668762

    I get you are speaking broadly and with apparently quite an opinion already (eg, is that common, really? or just your caricature view of an allergic person?), but I can only offer …

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    Comment #45668444

    Yeah I get that. I'm leaning towards you in this case, since it's so strongly associated ice cream dairy, but nowadays there are all kinds of frozen ice cream-ish products. But yes…

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    Comment #45655607

    That I can, and that I do :) However, I object to the notion that people being considerate of people with allergies, or people with allergies, is weird and ok to be made fun of.

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    Comment #45653458

    Is the joke that they are respectful with regards to allergies? Or am I reading a bit much of an attitude into your comment? Because it comes off as rude and tone deaf. With a chil…

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    Comment #45525256

    Furthest at the absolute bottom: "Yes :)"

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    Comment #45500051

    You're absolutely right! (/s) The tone of AI-written stuff sounds to me just like the soul-less SEO-optimized content marketing blog crap we saw the years before AI became a thing.…