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stbtrax··on Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
Not that you share the same views but at least directly funneling money to someone harming many.
stbtrax··on Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
Haha, as a tangent: I don't get the endurance of the pout pout fish book. It teaches a terrible lesson. It bizarrely mishandles both consent and depression. Similarly bad: the rainbow fish.
stbtrax··on Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others
To be fair, you stop them from submitting the bad fish before they have a chance. I never submitted a fish that wasn't already 'green' for %
stbtrax··on A camera that shoots 40k FPS decided the 100-meter sprint final
what wearable transponder has that kind of accuracy? ultrawideband is cm level in ideal conditions
stbtrax··on An Unusual Furniture Design Niche: Behind-the-Sofa Consoles
we don't all have TVs in our living room
stbtrax··on Deadly morel mushroom outbreak highlights big gaps in fungi knowledge
Is it common to eat raw mushroom? I've only even seen it in poorly made salads
stbtrax··on Every default macOS wallpaper
Sonoma is wine country in Northern California
stbtrax··on Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks
Why would you go in to a restaurant that has TVs if you don't want that? This is borderline sociopathic behavior. You sound like the religious police of Iran imposing your view of what culture is. You should assimilate instead of trying to impose your draconian views on others
stbtrax··on Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home
Which domains?
stbtrax··on Cloudflare employee posts layoff call with HR and goes viral [video]
to make the typical emotionally-dead but overly emotive HR people squirm
stbtrax··on Automatic bike transmission concept is wild and spiky–and could be a big shift
This is essentially what's done in internally geared hubs in a more reliable and enclosed manner.
stbtrax··on YouTube's ad blocker crackdown escalates, aggravating users
you have a public profile with your real name, employer, and research interests and you're posting about workarounds to not pay a small subscription fee?
stbtrax··on The Pinouts Book: Pinout functions for 130 commonly used components
not trying to be negative but: who is the audience that cares when random new components are added to an arbitrary collection?
stbtrax··on Animated Knots
I personally found the low frame rate stop motion-esque animations on this hard to follow when learning knots a few months back. Simple close-up videos on YouTube served me better.
stbtrax··on Show HN: Flux Copilot – Generative AI for hardware design
Who is the target audience? It seems like experienced EEs would know most of this stuff. Complete beginners would just not have sufficient context. Is there some middle of the road electronics hobbyists that you are targeting?
stbtrax··on Seinfeld Transcripts
If you like that type of writing, the British Comedy ‘Coupling’ does the multiple story lines coalescing quite well. IMO even better than Seinfeld.
stbtrax··on Google stopping coding competitions
Google's equity is cash. Ziplines is not real. I would much rather work at Zipline but given the delta in cost I would rather not forgo $1-200K a year to work there given bay area housing costs.
stbtrax··on Google stopping coding competitions
There is absolutely no way your salary is comparable. Are you only counting base and not tcomp?

edit: Ah, he's counting start-up equity as not worthless. That's definitely one way to value it.

stbtrax··on Hindu and Indian State Senator condemns anti-caste-discrimination ordinance
Before you all get rage-baited: he's not pro-discrimination. He's implying that creating a law for something which (he believes) doesn't exist is overly punitive and casts a group in a negative light. It's like if they passed a state law specifically banning a specific ethnicity from eating bats. The law implies and gives racists ammo to say that the specific group likes to eat bats.
stbtrax··on Databricks counts being laid off as “red flag”
I agree with you in that you can’t infer whether it was random or performance related but RIFs first start with underperformers from the last review cycle at a lot of companies.
stbtrax··on Ask HN: What are some of your “buy it for life” purchases?
I had some I bought about 10 years ago, but did not use for 8 years. The sole completely de-laminated and fell off on a hike. Turns out not wearing them can lead to that
stbtrax··on An ode to that “coffee friend”
This is my experience as well. I appreciate my friends getting me some coffee but too many bags of expensive burnt Kona coffee have been thrown in the trash. And I don't need N+1 drippers as gifts
stbtrax··on Show HN: Visualization tools for bicycle wheelbuilding
He's saying it properly and isn't even remotely strange in my mind. Are you from the midwest? You might be used to the midwest accent's vowel lengthening
stbtrax··on Peloton replaces CEO and lays off 2,800 people
I keep seeing this argument, from presumably 20-40something single men. I ride outside a lot and indoors too. 1. trainers don't work if you have 7+ bikes in a household with differing drivetrains, even the ones that attach at the wheel. 2. watching people ride and sitting on a trainer is kind of boring 3. peloton content is pretty engaging (maybe not for you) 4. the subscription cost is not an impact to finances
stbtrax··on Open-Sourcing our Firmware
Man I remember reading this CEO's hobby blog a decade ago. Glad to see him doing cool stuff https://eclecti.cc/
stbtrax··on No Hello (2013)
Sometimes it's a trick to see if you're there so if you don't respond to the following question with similar speed, the sender (incorrectly?) assumes something's up
stbtrax··on Show HN: Life calendar – use the concept of Memento mori to embrace every week
The thought of not having anything significant to remember a week by, and then thinking about how finite those are seems to depress me more than inspire.
stbtrax··on Native American restaurants
Are you saying that the commonality between the cuisine is the level of heat in the dish? That's like saying Irish food is as spicy as Swedish food so they are pretty similar.
stbtrax··on Native American restaurants
Do you have a good resource for finding localized-Indian food in the bay area?
stbtrax··on I quit caffeine
Zojirushi keeps the drink too scalding unless you pour it out into a different vessel. Try an Ember mug. A little annoying to keep it on the charging coaster but keeps it at a drinkable temp indefinitely.
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