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Call me cynical, but pretty much 100% if the time when there is an article about "teen accomplishes almost impossible scientific feat" or "group of teens design world-saving product costing pennies", it turns out to be a disingenuous narrative pushed by some adult with an ulterior motive and often deep pockets.

The complete lack of details in the article does not do anything for its credibility.

Another allrounder and close cousin in time and but with much more functionality is the 4046 CMOS Phase Locked Loop.

It can be configured as a versatile oscillator like the 555, but it can also implement an FM modulator / demodulator, a FSK modem, a tone discriminator, a clock multiplier, a phase detector, a voltage to frequency and frequency to voltage converter a speed control loop and much more.

Not bad for a $1 chip. My circuits professor always carried a bunch in his lab coat pocket and handed them out like candy almost everyone anyone needed a circuit to do something to do with oscillation.

A Mercedes Benz 770K would have been even more appropriate.

I used to think that working from home was the best thing since sliced bread, when I got to stop going to the office due to COVID.

But during the five years that I worked from home, I suffered a precipitous decline in overall health. It is too easy to stumble out of bed minutes before work starts, spend the day on Zoom calls, then spend more time behind the computer wrapping things up, and then veg out on the sofa after a long, long day. Too little exercise, no meaningful human contact.

I have been working from an office for the past year or so, and my health is improving, but it is a deep hole to climb out of.

I came here to say exactly the same thing. The writing is so bad I thought it must be an AI, but then I realized that AIs tend to write much better copy than this drivel.

I wrote something similar in the 1990s. Except, I had to write the TUI library myself (in x86 assembler) since nothing like what I needed existed at the time.

I was working on a project to do ECU performance curve remapping for a rally driver friend, so mine had additional features like the ability to export memory segments as .m files for plotting curves in Matlab.

I watched a video about ECU remapping (on a modern processor) yesterday, and the guy started by using the OBD port to get access to the system. I had to physically desolder the EPROM from the board to dump it back in the day.

The kids today have it far too easy.

You illustrate the point perfectly. "Not living on the streets" is not exactly a measure of prosperity. With $55K, you cannot afford a decent place to live, a health event can and will bankrupt you, and retirement is out of the question.

Can we please not promote captain Steve? He is regarded as a pompous ambulance chaser in aviation video circles. Blancolerio is a much better resource. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnSGMPaJ2OM

For STT I use the WisprFlow app/keyboard. It is much more accurate than the built in functionality in iOS, in my experience.

It does EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE for me. It autocorrects to "and" to "and's" very single time, for example.

The author stated that their human assistant is located in another country which adds a huge layer of complexity to the accountability equation.

In fact, if I wanted to implement a large-scale identity theft operation targeting rich people, I would set up an 'offshore' personal-assistant-as-a-service company. I would then use a tool like OpenClaw to do the actual work, while pretending to be a human, meanwhile harvesting personal information at scale.

Used lenses from 30 years ago plus a DSLR from 15 years ago plus a suitable adapter will do the job, and may be in the price range with a bit of bargain hunting.

That is a very disingenuous take on the comment. We should of course target a higher level of proficiency than that, but the point is that many humans make stupid driving decisions every day. We can hold machines to a higher standard, but perfection is an unrealistic standard.

Not a dumb question at all. I grew up using actual green screen terminals, and the advent of high-resolution colour monitors and applications with dark text on a white background felt like a blessing. I truly do not understand the regression to dark mode. It's eyestrain hell for me.

Unfortunately, I was unable to test in my light-background terminal, since the application crashes on startup.

I briefly test-drove Windows 2, but have been a solid Windows user since 3.1 too.

I have been forced to use Windows 11 on a succession of work PCs, but I stayed 10 at home due to the lack of a movable task bar and the terrible right-click menu in 11.

When Microsoft started pushing hard against remaining on 10 this year, I made the switch - to MacOS. It was an easy decision, since I was finally able to get a MacBook for work, too, so no context-switching required. I run a copy of Win11 in a VM for apps that need it, but find that I rarely have to spin it up.

As a product manager, I cannot image the decision-making behind building a product update so shitty that you drive away 35-year customers.

Not always- see Costco. But in a world where every company is trying to minimize expenses to maximize profits, paying significantly above market is at the very least an indicator that there may be something fishy going on.

I have a different perspective. The worst types of cancer kill slowly and cause agonizing suffering.

Alzheimer's leads to negative outcomes for your caregivers, but by many accounts many affected individuals do not suffer all that much, if at all, due to their lack of awareness.

Right? And not even a way to get a transcript, that I can see. Who has an hour to listen to some dudes talk about a question that could and has been answered in a few seconds?

The one and only time I ever got a machine infected with malware in my 30+ years of using the internet was when I fell for Forbes.com's request to please disable my adblocker. I promptly got hit by a trojan carried in one of their unvetted ads. Browsing without an adblocker is a critical security issue, and I will drop Firefox without a second thought if they ever cripple blockers like Google did.

> I'm pretty sure AI is going to lead us to a deskilling crash.

That's my thought too. It's going to be a triple whammy

1. Most developers (Junior and Senior) will be drawn in by the temptation of "let the AI do the work", leading to less experience in the workforce in the long term.

2. Students will be tempted to use AI to do their homework, resulting in new grads who don't know anything. I have observed this happen first hand.

3. AI-generated (slop) code will start to pollute Github and other sources used for future LLM training, resulting in a quality collapse.

I'm hoping that we can avoid the collapse somehow, but I don't see a way to stop it.

I am not sure why the author specifically mentions a $7 cable when the Raspberry Pi and accessories are going to set you back close to $100. That is by far the most expensive component. The money is possibly better spent buying a programmable remote.

After a recent update, my keyboard started typing "and" as "and's". This happens 100% consistently, but only when swiping. I don't understand how such a bug happens. Yes, 's' is next to 'd', but "and's" is not even a word.

Working with 3rd party keyboards is still the same nightmare it was when the feature was introduced many years ago. For one, iOS will randomly switch you to a different keyboard. Or the keyboard will just crash.

I do not see any 'radical difference' in the numbers. Individuals who choose not to get vaccinated are likely to be less informed and more reckless in other aspects of managing their health and their lives in general, so the relatively small difference between the populations is perfectly understandable.

That's so weird. What do they teach in American schools? Apparently not even basic geography? The fact that Indonesia was Muslim is something I learned very early on - certainly before high school.

I know the 'fast way'. Took me a second or two to get the answer, but it is so obvious that I cannot imagine anyone trying to solve this by calculating a and b first.

The problem does not state that the numbers have to be integers. a and b happen to be 9 +- 2 sqrt(11)

> they’d spent a long time on solving this with algebra

I don't get it. I don't see why / how it would take any longer than a second or two to solve 'with algebra'. What does that even mean? You would just maybe write down the steps rather than doing them in your head. Is there any other way to solve the problem?

Quicker than an algebraic calculator, maybe, but very few people could get. faster with a slide rule than an ergonomic RPN calculator. like the HP 41 series. And I say that as an enthusiastic and experienced slide rule user, before I switched to a calculator.

One problem with a slide rule is that it only performs operations on normalized mantissas. You have to keep a parallel exponent calculation in your head, and that slows you down. Also, maintaining best precision slows you down.

I had the same reaction. About what you would expect from a team steeped in the Tesla mindset.