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jpindar

2,108 karma · joined May 6, 2013

Embedded systems developer specializing in rf device control and instrumentation, but now open to any kind of remote work.

I am looking for new opportunities, either employment or freelance work. I have experience at working remotely and have a distraction-free work environment including a basic electronics lab.

jpindar@jpindar.com twitter.com/jpindar github.com/jpindar

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jpindar··on Make Your Own Chips for Free
Let me guess... senior citizens is probably offensive to the, uh, differently documented.
jpindar··on The use of ‘class’ for things that should be simple free functions (2020)
Customer

Player

User

Printer

jpindar··on What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to our health?
I think salt is heat-treated to dry it, but I don't know how hot it gets.
jpindar··on Want to Read More Books? A Company Will Pay $200 for Every Novel You Finish
Sounds cool until they mention that they're only accepting 5 or 10 people.
jpindar··on I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone
I use Total Commander to transfer files. It has plugins for many different kinds of transfer, but I mainly use SMB for computers on my lan and sometimes sftp for others.
jpindar··on Ask HN: What's the “best” way for a senior to begin learning how to code?
I would suggest replit.com. No setup involved, it (and all your code) is always available on any computer or phone.

Once you log in, it's one click to choose python (or another language), one click to 'Create repl', and you can start typing code. One click to run it.

There's also tutorials, various templates to start from and other people's code to learn from.

jpindar··on Plane accidentally flew around the world (2018)
Good question. I don't know how international commerce worked in the days before credit cards.
jpindar··on Where are the low level system engineers?
But now all the bots will see the words crypto and blockchain in your profile (or wherever) and you'll get even more spam.
jpindar··on Where are the low level system engineers?
Companies don't want someone who is capable of picking up x no problem. They only want someone who already has a job doing x.
jpindar··on Hacking attractiveness biases in hiring? The role of beautifying photo-filters
And they almost always say that that information is optional and will not afffect the hiring process.
jpindar··on Carrot History – Carrots in the Second World War (2008)
Does that mean you could make carrot wine?
jpindar··on Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken
As someone who lives in a valley, I find that phrase offensive.

/s

jpindar··on Companies are buying washing machines to take the chips out and repurpose them
If true, that must depend on some specific definition of 'new', since new auto parts are often built on old cores. That's why they give you cash back for the cores.

Maybe there's some fine print somewhere that describes the part as 'remanufactured', but when you ask for a new, say, brake caliper, that's what you'll usually get.

jpindar··on Ask HN: What jobs can I have knowing Python?
> Most places will hire you just based on programming knowledge, and will train you in the domain knowledge

I have not been able to find a place like that, most have a long list of requirements. Can you suggest any?

jpindar··on Buffereditor – Code and Text Editor for iPhone, iPad and iPad Pro
I like DroidEdit.
jpindar··on ‘This game is so realistic it feels just like working overtime’
This War of Mine is said to be realistic as to what living in a war zone feels like.
jpindar··on TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack
If you long press then press "not interested" on all the Dutch videos I think it would stop showing them.
jpindar··on TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack
AFAIK the content is permanent.

There's a website as well as the app.

You can look through all the videos you've favorited, but it could be hard to find a specific one. If you want to be sure you can quickly find something, you can share it or copy and paste the link. You can also follow its creator.

jpindar··on Launch HN: Koko (YC W22 Nonprofit) – Online Suicide Prevention Kit
Truth. The only reason I'm suicidal is that I'm broke.
jpindar··on The degrading treatment of Ukraine’s internet
non-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/DJ391
jpindar··on Ask HN: Starting a Career in Programming at 61?
I am almost his age and despite decades of professional experience I am unable to get a job.

Of course, its likely that I'm doing something else wrong as well.

jpindar··on Google has removed k9mail_app from the Play Store [ ]
Apparently no one at Google can believe that there is such a thing as software that doesn't require an account.
jpindar··on Hyper-realistic digital humans in Unity
The pocket computer that I'm reading this on might not be amazing but I don't think it would be disapointing.
jpindar··on US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
Also, on average, people are in less of a hurry after work.
jpindar··on EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batteries in household items
In the US it is a choice, at least for anyone willing and able to pay the full price of the phone up front.
jpindar··on Tin whiskers: What happens when they spontaneously erupt? (2018)
No, soldering doesn't send streams of liquid solder through the air. And if an occasional drip of solder does splash, it is so heavy, and has so much surface tension, that it doesn't go far and doesn't stay in the air like water droplets do.
jpindar··on Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends
>can get arrested for 14 days

How sure of that are you? Some of Russians who are leaving claim it's years, and whatever the letter of the law is, do you trust the Russian government that much?

jpindar··on Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends
It's a long border. Honest question - is it all well patrolled?
jpindar··on Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends
>15 day jail time

15 YEARS. I'd rather die, especially if I was giving my life for my country.

jpindar··on Mozilla Hubs
Low poly != garbage
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