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YOU MUST MAKE YOUR GAME EVEN THOUGH NO-ONE IS GOING TO BUY IT YOU SHOULD MAKE A GAME TODAY, AFTER READING THIS you 100% disagree with this?

That's awesome to hear! Sometimes the journey is the destination, its a great project to get started with electronics.

I'd actually argue it has some wicked problem characteristics. The input space is enormous (all possible audio), perception is subjective and nonlinear, and there's no objective fu…

I didn't go into much detail about it but there's a whole rabbit hole of color theory and color models. For example, the spectrum effect assigns different colors to different frequ…

what I meant with "DevOps won't want to support it" was someone saying this before DevOps had even been asked, and by someone who wasn't even on DevOps, who just assumed that they …

the "good for them personally" reaction is so true. It's almost like a team-level version of the inonvator's dilemma, where protecting the thing you already own feels more rational…

That's fair. The title is provocative and probably overstates my actual position, which as you note is closer to "the way people practice critique in meetings is low value and here…

I like that angle a lot, and this very thoughtful comment. Distinguishing between the idea and the person is a good way to think about it. I think sometimes people cross that line …

you're right that a good idea should be able to survive scrutiny. The issue I'm describing isn't "someone asked a tough question". It's when objections pile up so ast that nothing …

Heilmeier Catechism is really interesting, thanks for linking that. I like how the questions break down different major aspects. It treats risk as one of the dimensions of evaluati…

Thanks for posting this. I'm glad I'm not alone in the monorepo club! I really believe in the benefits. Especially for a personal monorepo where the amount of code is not usually e…

thats fair, I appreciate your feedback very much! Initially, I typed out easily two or three times as much text as what made it into the final post, and had to trim and summarize w…

it isn't quite true that the categories are static, in fact, I've changed them a fair bit as I've reorganized containers. Sometimes I realize that two different containers should r…

short term memory, but I'll admit it isn't perfect and sometimes I'm pretty sure that I might be double labelling. But that's okay because even an occasional mistaken double label …

they aren't plastic, but surprisingly, I'm able to remove them with fine tweezers and transplant them when needed. They are 6mm diameter so pretty small and I've never seen them sh…

since this is cache invalidation AND naming things, does that make it the hardest?

shoeboxes are a great size for containers, but does it bother you that they aren't transparent? I really like having clear containers.

sometimes I see no dots on things that are cool and I have this innate urge to want to hold onto. One example is a Picomotor piezo actuator. It's a really cool piece of technology.…

I definitely see the appeal of an electronic version. I think it really depends on what you care about tracking. Food? Maybe use the same barcodes already on the product. Clothes? …

reading this article reminded me of a couple of quotes: "The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim" - Dijkstra …

The thesis that in the past it was safe to share ideas and projects because the execution was hard, and that now things have changed because of AI is an interesting AI, but I wonde…

the legacy of Voyager 1 is crazy, this spacecraft launched decades before I was born and yet I see it regularly talked about even today. Seeing posts about how the Voyager 1 was le…

I love articles like this that give the context and history to important but not often talked about molecules. I enjoyed this as much as the "chemicals I will never work with" seri…

you replied to an LLM generated comment. if you look at the posting history you can confirm it