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Re: Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

mardef wrote: post #144
homefree wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s better than that because it includes the content - more akin to searching and putting the result you find in the comments as a guess. The anti AI HN comments are the new anti Bitcoin - your replies are much worse than someone sharing the gpt output.

These aren't anti-AI comments. We're on a forum talking person to person. It is antithetical to just spout "AI said this" repeatedly when the entire point of this place is human discourse. It's like having a group conversation in person and one member of the group contributes nothing but things they read off Google.

Hm good point. Okay, So if I may ask, What would be the more correct response imo.

Should they have searched it and kept the information to themselves? Or should they have done additional research after asking AI(like looking into its sources) and tried confirming it and actually listing us the sources of their discoveries and then disclose that they used AI.

I generally feel like they wanted to share the information but I mean :/ I'd be actually interested as to what you offer him to do actually if he was really curious and did search chatgpt.

I always feel like knowledge should be open and that just saying that knowledge out loud doesn't hurt but I do agree with your point too wholeheartedly so its nuanced imo.

Re: Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

snickerdoodle12 wrote: post #94
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #38

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Yeah but I guess they wanted to add something in the value for everyone of us while they didn't have ofc the whole knowledge to do so. their heart might be in the right place tbh. But that's my 2 cents.

Hold on, let me google a proper response to this.

Still waiting! (jk)

Re: Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

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Post by OisinMoran »

elictronic wrote: post #63
unwind wrote: post #29

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That was very clearly mentioned and linked in the article, too.

Guessing he found it from the reddit post where he mentions it in lower parts of the comment chain but not in the actual post. The project itself does clearly mention it but I had the same reaction when I first read the post remembering the mitxela project clearly. https://www.reddit.com/r/embedded/comments/1mkkd4z/my_busine...

I actually found him originally from his incredible clock: https://mitxela.com/projects/precision_clock_mk_iv

Which was posted here a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44144750

I'm a sucker for a novel clock concept, and the level of detail he's operating at is beautiful to witness. I actually have a collection of cool clocks here: https://lynkmi.com/oisin/Clocks

Re: Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

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Post by 5- »

TechDebtDevin wrote: post #45
5- wrote: post #20

i absolutely love the form factor! a similar one was beamu (eink screen, nrf52 with bt): https://nicgardner.com/2020/05/09/beamu-first-impressions/ (this was an actual product, if a bit pointless. i have one still) any others?

Do you use any of the features? This is kinda cool, I love when people pack way too many features into a single product :P

didn't really buy it for the advertised features, although networked tic-tac-toe works fine. :-)

Re: Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

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Post by SkyMarshal »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #9

Very nice, but probably a bit too expensive to just hand out. I knew a chap that had a similar hardware business card (I don't remember exactly what it did, but it wasn't as cool as this one). I remember that his card was pretty scuffed up, and he insisted I give it back, after he handed it to me. Bit weird.

Just put a QR code on the front that transmits a vCard. Or a way to make the LEDs on the back display a QR code. Then you can still show people your digital business card, even let them hold it and play with it, but it's still obvious the idea is for them to scan the QR code and hand it back.

Re: Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

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Post by _Microft »

If you are curious what PCB designs or schematics look like, you can use an online viewer for KiCad files to find out yourself:

https://kicanvas.org/?github=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FNich...

@creator of the card (phirks?): have you considered further interactivity or maybe using the LED matrix for showing text or other information?

You could use touch buttons for control as they basically add nothing to the BOM?

Edit: this is of course really awesome as it is

Re: Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

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Post by ASalazarMX »

physix wrote: post #139
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #35

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This is true. I remember a story linked from here, recently, where a designer submitted a CV that was a custom-made widget of some kind. He got the job.

In the way back days when we submitted our CVs on paper, I always cut mine to a smaller size than letter, in a branded folder. People tend to stack things with the smaller items on top. I don't know if mine actually was on top of the stack, but I can say that I basically always got the contract.

I used to subtly watermark mine with nerdy silly diagrams, in the hopes that someone noticed the hints of color and gave them a second look. I even ran a plain vs watermark experiment, and the watermark had almost double the response.

Another trick was adding a "Valid until in the cover". It seems counterintuitive that a CV expires, but it made a few companies approach me for an updated CV.

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