Some people at work have started using Claude and it’s very demoralizing. If anyone wants to hire me to fix vintage computers and build pointless weird shit please speak up.
dijkstra would not have liked this
Rob Norris
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@spills Kudos on making your own shelves. I'm on my way to IKEA to buy some and I feel defeated.
@deech For us it's mostly a sanity check. The problem domain is complex and it's easy to misunderstand things or miss special cases. It's also easy to just not know about library function X so the eyes help with inadvertent duplication. So I find it worthwhile.
I made this simple PCB vise a while back and I use it all the time. Here are the model files and BOM if you'd like to make one. https://github.com/tpolecat/3d-models/tree/main/Vise
@avi That is a very beautiful website. Nicely done.
I successfully resisted commenting on a discussion of optional brace syntax in Scala. Please clap.
Seven ICs on the HRG test bad, as do all the electrolytics and one of the transistors. There are 64 RAM chips on the other board that I need to test, but first I need to build a tester. This is how you run out of stack space. 8/n
@deech Embedded Rust requires special hardware for programming/debug so all the tutorials end up hitting logging and gdb in chapter two. The anxiety just melts away, it's amazing.
It’s summer in Texas, which means gigantic thunderstorms and river camps full of kids. We got three emergency alerts last night about flash flooding, which isn’t really an issue for us personally but I’m very glad they’re being more proactive this year.
@twilliability It’s rabbit holes from here to the horizon in every direction so I don’t feel qualified to offer guidance.