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Does Espressif have large marketshare outside of hobbyists?

stbtraxon Want to be an actuary? Odds are, you’ll fail the test

From experience from a few close friends: Actuarial science is always in the lists of top jobs but it's a terrible career. It's quite limiting and doesn't pay particularly well. The companies are all old and stagnant and the amount of time put in to studying for exams is taxing. It'd be much better ROI to put that time into studying for sw-eng roles. That is, unless you're particularly interested in memorizing math formulas for insurance calculations

stbtraxon There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid test kit

probably not worth your time unless you're looking for an art project. you can get a devkit for dollars that has pins brought out and more flash and ram https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001593980172.html

stbtraxon MacKenzie Scott is giving away more money, faster, than anyone has before

yeah because all of the wealthy bootstrapped themselves and didn't start with a fortune or great privilege

stbtraxon A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead

what? They spend a crap ton on marketing and it seems to have paid off. I don't really know how their bikes are particularly that much better than other stuff out there. It's not like they make the drivetrain and carbon frames are pretty commodity at this point. Unless you buy into the layup marketing and special construction that only they can do hype.

stbtraxon The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo

which somehow encourages other users to look at their user profile

So, hinting that they're a woman on reddit?

stbtraxon A street snack that has baffled botanists

where can we find your vlog?

stbtraxon What can mRNA treat next?

How would an antibiotic help with a viral infection? Might as well start using some essential oils and homeopathy. If that regimen actually worked, we'd probably see it more widely used and studied.

They investigate each death reported to VAERS to see if it was actually vaccine related. Given how many millions of doses were given out, and especially to people that were already old or clinging on to life, 3,544 is not unexpected. None of those were directly attributable to the vaccine.

stbtraxon Be skeptical of Ring's indoor security drone

What are you talking about? Is your marriage living out some outdated trope of totally changing after your wedding?

stbtraxon Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians

Your analogy doesn't follow GP's logic. It's more like: do you want to watch olympics where rich kids with sports coaches do mediocre to well, or do you want to watch an Olympics where a state-sponsored scholarship program gives you the best of the best amongst poor/middle-class/rich people because talent is not distributed only amongst the rich.

stbtraxon Portland adopts landmark facial recognition ordinances

It will try to recognize you but you will not be in the database, so it will say match not found. Presumably nothing would be stored about you in that interaction

stbtraxon C++ was the fastest growing programming language in Sept according to TIOBE

Having been in emb systems for a decade+: I'm not sure I agree with that. MCU prices have been relatively stable for the past decade. Sleep modes etc have existed for a while and are not drawing in new people. VCs are investing less in HW startups. Most won't invest in ones that don't have recurring revenue. Imaging sensors are made by a few large players and CMOS on-chip motion is not that useful since you can do the same thing with PIR. AI accelerators coming in to emb linux class projects is a new thing but I'm not sure who is using that besides the big companies at this point. Also, the growth in C++ is probably in the new standards, which are not well supported for embedded compilers (emb linux excluded)

stbtraxon Coping with Cats

I've been to a few friends places where I've smelled it. I would never tell them.

stbtraxon Interchange in Houston is the same size as an entire city center in Italy

Sounds like some paranoid parenting that seems to be in style right now. In Tokyo kids take the subway by themselves as young as age 9. In denser cities the density helps in that other people help socialize/watch your kids and they can bike around to their friends place when they are older. As someone who grew up in a denser area, then moved to a sprawly suburb where you were dependent on your parents for getting you around, and lack of public space made activities revolve around consumerism, I greatly preferred the dense area.

stbtraxon Interchange in Houston is the same size as an entire city center in Italy

I dunno about other places but I can get to everything within ~10 min bike ride in SF. I have a car too for longer trips but I really don't like driving and enjoy the side effect of free exercise. It's not for everyone, I'm sure people with kids and people in non mediterranean climates might find a more car-centric lifestyle more comfortable

stbtraxon What Shell Am I Using?

the article is about finding the specific version and path

stbtraxon Realtime California Air Quality

They have devices that you can buy and install. Check out their website

stbtraxon Realtime California Air Quality

This is very frustrating. Agreed, they should turn them off by default.

stbtraxon Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers flee and rents fall

I'm not sure what you're comparing it to, SF is known to have a world-class food scene. There are multiple examples all of the things you listed(except maybe british but who wants that?), as well as things that you don't find in may other cities: burmese, cambodian, laotian, peruvian.

stbtraxon Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers flee and rents fall

who wants that long of a commute? It's all relative and the salaries here more than make up for it. I'm sure someone in the texas exurb would think you're nuts for paying that much in hoboken.

stbtraxon Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study

is there a centralized place with information like this but for other companies as well?

stbtraxon George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter

are you comparing a year timeframe (10 mil) to that of incidents recorded in the scale of a few days/weeks?

stbtraxon Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes

>Black lives matter is destroying cities across the USA.

You're right in that there is unfortunately some damage being caused to property, with some of those not having large corporate backings or insurance to recover from it.

It's apparent that there are some opportunists using the protests as cover, or that this is a misguided small fraction of people protesting.

If we're talking about what is destroying our cities, this is a small blip. We have a opioid crisis, thousands of people routinely going bankrupt not being able to afford healthcare, and a government that stacks the odds against the working-class in favor of the rich. Corporations are getting more powerful and there is a greater wealth disparity than ever before. If anything that is what is destroying our cities and this is some minor symptom of it.

stbtraxon San Francisco, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn

Have you seen SF hotel rates during convention season? The most basic rooms go for $3-400. Have you tried to book a Paris hotel in summer? In my experience your statement is not true

stbtraxon Sod – An Embedded Computer Vision and Machine Learning Tiny C Library

What kind of embedded processor is this meant for? cortex-m3 low level or more like a cortex A class?

stbtraxon Strava cuts off leaderboard for free users, reduces third party apps

I use apple watch activity and import to strava just fine. I only started a few weeks ago though so maybe it's improved since you've used it?

stbtraxon A sweary, ranty YouTuber who's become an isolation cooking sensation

check out Adam Ragusea as well. He's like Kenji but a bit more on the practical side of the spectrum

stbtraxon A sweary, ranty YouTuber who's become an isolation cooking sensation

I appreciate his very high production quality but I don't get the appeal either. I think it has to do with the intersection of movie fandom + food media

stbtraxon Disabling Snaps in Ubuntu 20.04

What problem were snaps trying to solve?

stbtraxon Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of Covid-19 fight

you can make that salary at a big tech company