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Kobus Coetzee

Embedded devices developer. Pretoria, South Africa.

Feel free to contact me at kobus at embeddedfool dot net.

My blog: www.embeddedfool.net

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kabouseng··on Kidney stone procedure "has the potential to be game changing"
Vitamin fizzy / soluble pills can cause it for some people.
kabouseng··on Developmental costs associated with early maternal withdrawal (2022)
Don't delay daycare for too long. The best teachers for your young kids are often other kids. I have friends who left / kept their kids too long at home either caring for them themselves or with a nanny, and the kids were developmentally behind. No I don't believe it was permanently, but it is amazing to see how fast your kids learn to crawl, walk, talk as soon as they see how other kids do it. Everyone finds their own path, situations differ, kids differ. Just something to consider. Oh and have fun with the kids sicknesses once they are in daycare, it takes an entire year for their immune systems to adapt :D Still worth it to go earlier rather than later. (My kids went to day care at 4 months which many will say is too early, each to their own, and my wife resigned her job to stay at home, still went to daycare)
kabouseng··on Water Cooled Rooftop Solar Panels
As child poster notes, the weight is a factor, and US houses uses wood frames for construction, where warmer parts may use brick construction. Can carry heavier roofs.
kabouseng··on More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck
Cannot recommend Adam Millard's youtube channel enough. Every year he reviews his top games, many of them make it to my wishlist. ex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Eo7fwGBJ4 You can have a look at other years as well.
kabouseng··on Brazil develops tropical wheat and predicts self-sufficiency in 5 years
East Germany after WW2
kabouseng··on Maryland License Plates Now Inadvertently Advertising Filipino Online Casino
Maybe they should have first checked with the other kind of Indians what it is like to live under the rule of Britain? :D
kabouseng··on I try to answer “how to become a systems engineer”
Funny (I am not too serious about this point :D ), but I feel systems engineer is actually an engineer that has a multi-disciplinary skill set (mechanical, electronic, software etc) that guides a multi-disciplinary team to develop a complex product. Now it is repurposed for full-stack software engineers.
kabouseng··on Get Ready for Team America: AI Police
Probably also the reason why new players were able to catch up with them...
kabouseng··on Elephants may be domesticating themselves
Well I am pretty sure elephants were used as mounts of war, and they were not unstoppable for opposing armies. Terrifying yes, but not an auto win.
kabouseng··on Russia’s army is learning and improving on the battlefield
US lost Vietnam war, Korean war, Bay of pigs invasion (attempted Cuba take over), Afghan war (recent one). Looks like a pattern to me...
kabouseng··on Russia’s army is learning and improving on the battlefield
Usually for tactical drones they get fitted with an IMU (Inertial measurement unit / gyros) for when GPS signal is lost. That way the drone can continue operation but do suffer from drift the longer the GPS signal is not available. But cheap IMU's fitted on smaller drones has very poor accuracy / drift.

A bigger upset is loss of communications, very few if any drones operate autonomously currently, and if there is loss of communications they may try to return to base. Off course it is more difficult to jam line of sight or drone to satellite communications than GPS.

kabouseng··on Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics
Well then Shopify should have better communicated and be better prepared, plus give the candidate enough time to recover from the flight. Bad form from Shopify if true...
kabouseng··on FDA Approves First Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Vaccine
I think it is only fair, that since T0bia did list his studies, that elif also be asked to list his studies that zero deaths are linked to covid vaccinations...
kabouseng··on Moviemaking and gamemaking are converging
That's capitalism for you...
kabouseng··on An astonishing regularity in student learning rate
Most of the humanities :-P
kabouseng··on Why fusion will never happen (2012)
Just like FTX was the least fraudulent looking of all the crypto exchanges a couple of months ago... :-)
kabouseng··on As winter approaches, here's a story about why hardware is hard
In a clean room humidity is also controlled.
kabouseng··on Replace the “very” in your sentence
Smart people simply don't waste their time with such trite considerations such as this. Smart / Successful people achieve success on an international stage, and rub shoulders with a large amount of non-native English speaking people who are absolutely brilliant, but might not have the vocabulary of a native speaker. As such they try to limit to speech to be as simple and clear as possible.
kabouseng··on What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)
SAP is the German's revenge on the world for losing WW2... :P
kabouseng··on 3D print and build a 164mm f/2.5 lens for less than $15
Nope, a lens holder is the mechanical component. Most people and people in industry would refer to either the optical element(s) or the complete assembled optic as the lens.
kabouseng··on Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a major contributing cause [pdf]
Imagine you were born in 1900.

When you're 14, World War I begins and ends when you're 18 with 22 million dead.

Soon after a global pandemic, the Spanish Flu, appears, killing 50 million people. And you're alive and 20 years old.

When you're 29 you survive the global economic crisis that started with the collapse of the New York Stock Exchange, causing inflation, unemployment and famine.

When you're 33 years old the nazis come to power.

When you're 39, World War II begins and ends when you're 45 years old with a 60 million dead. In the Holocaust 6 million Jews die.

When you're 52, the Korean War begins. When you're 64, the Vietnam War begins and ends when you're 75.

A child born in 1985 thinks his grandparents have no idea how difficult life is, but they have survived several wars and catastrophes.

--Quoted from somewhere

kabouseng··on 5G Skeptic
It's not a hard stop between cells. You don't have radio signals and then suddenly nothing because of reflections, absorbtions and the very nature of log scale of signal distance drop off..
kabouseng··on Hidetaka Miyazaki sees death as a feature, not a bug
Lucky for you there are multiple endings, so finish it, start a NG+ and achieve a different ending...:D
kabouseng··on Society has a trust problem. More censorship will only make it worse
Actually fewer die due to climate change due to fewer people freezing to death...
kabouseng··on Divorce does funny things
Haha well I wouldn't put too much weight on your "study", an article by the atlantic... Modern news channels / papers show extreme bias in their reporting and editorial content these days.
kabouseng··on Monkey Island PC-speaker music player
Monkey Island 1 and 2 is available on steam, even remastered if I remember correctly, to not damage their modern sensitive eyes that is used to high resolution graphics... Another recommended remaster is Full throttle...also available on steam and Xbox.
kabouseng··on TSMC’s dominance poses risks to the global economy
There is no way Russia will join other countries in such a UN recognition of Taiwan, as it will open a very nasty door for them regarding the Crimea...

So 2 of the 5 permanent members of the UN is already not going to do this.

And it is not only limited to non-western countries, the same argument holds for Spain with Catalonia for instance.

Real-politik is complicated.

kabouseng··on In the search to stall aging, biotech startups are out for blood
I also hate the treadmill and gym. But I absolutely love playing squash with my buddies. Get a sport with friends and make weekly exercise fun that way. (I play 2 - 3 one hour sessions of squash a week) (squash can be hard on the back and knees)
kabouseng··on One Year of TILs
And then less reputable website will hire consultants and influencers to mark their website as high quality. And then click farms will appear in India and China to mark website's as high quality at a price. And that is why we cannot have nice stuff / nice search results...
kabouseng··on An Alternative to the Suez Canal?
Longest freight trains currently run upwards of 2km. You could make trains longer but various issues crop up such as ability to radio reliably the whole length of the train for telemetry and distributed locomotive control. Also the brake line systems typically used (air actuated) becomes a factor as well as safety (can't see the whole train)
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