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Did my thesis during these years. COVID (and remote) really messed everything in my effort to be organized, eventually I fell into procrastination, mild depression, rabbithole of organization methods, and went to a psychologist (too late I would day). I am like you: doing things alone is hard, I'm glad I'm not living alone. It push me to explore things, but still I feel like an headless chicken running randomly. Doing things in the hurry is fun, though I enjoy moment of calm too.

That said, I think nobody succeed working alone. One need discusaiona, support, structure, eventually money. From your little adventure, I see that (1) you still have motivation to work as a Dev, (2) you're bad at running business, and (3) you like teamwork.

I think give it a new try, in something that deal with emergency maybe, where you have a manager that hopefully can manage you well. It's not a start from zero, it's a start with more information about yourself and are valuable for your future manager. Knowing your limits and yourself is a valuable skill. Also go to see a therapist, you might find something too, as I did.

there is good works done in this article:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06094-5

https://www.cea.fr/english/Pages/News/brain-computer-interfa...

Kind of related to this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39735665

> The solution to these problems came from Khuri-Yakub’s lab at Stanford University. In experiments in the early 2000s, the researchers found that increasing the voltage on CMUT-like structures caused the electrostatic forces to overcome the restoring forces of the membrane. As a result, the center of the membrane collapses onto the substrate. A collapsed membrane seemed disastrous at first but turned out to be a way of making CMUTs both more efficient and more tunable to different frequencies[...]

I had the same feeling doing a phd two years ago. I think there is an unpopular opinion in science about the limits of what we can look at and what is required to achieve that. My conclusion was that the requirements are an economy of infinite growth and a society based on consumption. I did a parallel in my mind between the idea that "knowledge will always grow" and "economy will always grow". The limits are heavily related to social stability/agreement, and the tools we can have given the money(=social and environmental)/physical constraints.

I have the opinion that the FCC is the example of such bias: we don't really know what to look for, but we (the scientific community) have to survive so we'll build a political argument to keep getting funds.

I think the proposal was during a severe heatwave, and I also though "where is the social goal in that science? What does it will bring to society? Do we really need to know that far those things?". I think it's at this moment that I started loosing motivation too.

ho I see. It's kind of a programming interface, a "higher level" language, a plug-in.

for exemple, GdScript in Godot game engine would fall into the "embedded dynamic language" ?

noob question from a hardware guy : what is a small embeddable dynamic language? What would be a user-case for example?

and LoRa technology was bought only 60 millions by samtec. Sounds really cheap.

in other term, putting back the social word in the old term "socio-economy"

I agree with your second paragraph. I think the bait of "lowtech" name is thinking that the main goal is doing AI with stick and mud. It's one of the goal (ofc not literally ), but the most important one is showing alternative and inviting people to think about what is really "technology" and its implications. Mainly because browsing a website hide a ton of processes that one user don't have to think about it.

sure, the question"If I can, should I?" it suppose that you have a choice. If you have no choice, there is no questions :D

that said, a good counter-exemple is wood stove efficiency. There are simple design that are more efficient than a firecamp, and very cheap. In some cases you can do a lot more with a little bit of more(sometimes less), so it's worth it.

computers are complex indeed. That said, I don't think lowtech philsophy is about browsing HN with a Macintosh II. It does have this "get things done simple" branch, but also the ecology side of it, the reflexion about the relationship with technology, its social component, eventually the sovereignty we have over technology and its sustainability.

Inspired by recent post about how bloated is the www today.

thing is, boss is not a dev. He is a business man.

it's how "rocket stove" works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_stove

Since you burn the wood really fast, you need to delay that heat release. That's where sand comes in as a cheap and good enough material. There are also systems that heat water and store it in a tank, which also make sense if you want hot water in your house too.

your number is good, as it's the heavier from all oil. Don't work for all type of oil though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API_gravity

    Light crude oil has an API gravity higher than 31.1° (i.e., less than 870 kg/m3)
    Medium oil has an API gravity between 22.3 and 31.1° (i.e., 870 to 920 kg/m3)
    Heavy crude oil has an API gravity below 22.3° (i.e., 920 to 1000 kg/m3)
    Extra heavy oil has an API gravity below 10.0° (i.e., greater than 1000 kg/m3)

There's also a strategy, having an open position might attract some people you'll be happy to put in your database, and duplicate where X companies (contractor?head hunter company? consulting? Idk how to name it) post a job that is for only one client in reality.

It's kind of already there. When I search for "hardware computer without secureboot", the first two pages is "how to install w11 without TPM". We're not even talking about linux.

Make sense...still impressive to have x10 more objects floating around in less than half a century.

I find the most crazy thing is not the reentry, but the number of objects (satellites) visible at the beginning of the video.

And maybe the most worrying part is that there is more and more unidentified objects: https://sdup.esoc.esa.int/discosweb/statistics/

Also the number of payload really rised after 2020 (because of spaceX I guess).

1980: less than 1000 objects Today: Almost 10000 objects, including approx. 4000 in LEO only.

or US see a business while Europe see a cost. it's how business work: if you produce and consume your product, you at best earn nothing.

I also think US are a single entity while EU is multiple, US have traditionally a bigger defense industry...

thing is, you can't beat oil energy density. And its logistic. going 100% electric is really something big, maybe too big.

A good exemple is synthetic fuel: in Germany, they have really hard issues on biomass collect which is needed for "green fuel". As of today, synthesis come from coal. And we're talking about Germany,not France.

France, who would need to triple its production of electricity to replace its oil consumption from cars.

and I did not talked about the cropland needed for "biogas" and ethanol fuel. concrete, steel, agro-industry too...the list is long.

offering services, such as expertise, hosting, pushing features on-demand that the company want(and pay), doing plug-in on-demand, API limited access, promotion of a company on the website(as opensource is good PR).

for a moment, I've read porn stars as physically stars (which transmit information if you do research)...though there was idk an ai that link stars to do porn-astrology? Or that detect gas clouds that have a porn-compatible shape?

sometimes, a second is long enough to have weird ideas ahahah

would've been fun to see if putting the 15min restriction with a hidden option in the code or similar to remove it would've lead to the same result.

I'm sure many people would've paid because the free version was not advertised.

In general it does. doing bad work is better, because you deliver poor quality. but if you deliver something and then break it on purpose, it's like breaking something that belong to the company(not you). Remember that everything you do in a company don't belong to you.

for when a company want the opensource label but is too selfish to share.

filters(template?) buttons are the first things I used. You should keep them. It makes engagement. First thing I want to do on a,new thing is to test it and filters allow this quickly

It does exist with some tricks using two-way mirror. Maybe using a transparent screen can give better illusion? Idk.

Smart mirrors are a super DIY gadget to do at home. I never done one because I would not use it, but it's a good way to refurbish a laptop display.

I don't know where you live, but the default search at https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/ use sentinel-2 (the true color), 100% maximum cloud coverage (which mean any image), and the latest date.

So you should be able to find the tile of your region at a date close to today, definitely not 4-6 month.

There is also https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/ that regroup landsat and sentinel under the same interface.