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pascoej | 10 months ago | on: I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt

It’s definitely an experience to see the food you got thrown away and be given an apple and some bread instead.

Many kids would opt to bring in a pack of ramen, crush it up, add the seasoning and eat it dry instead. Many (myself included) just wouldn’t eat to avoid the humiliation.

But, hey, at least we had that most expensive high school football stadium in the world for a time!

pascoej | 1 year ago | on: Food Colorants Before Aniline Dyes (1991) [pdf]

I know it’s somewhat unpopular because of many things are labeled with insignificant quantities or are treated as a fact of life, but Prop 65 has to be my favorite ballot proposition.

I would rather know what potentially harmful substances are in something and decide if it’s acceptable than not be told at all.

pascoej | 5 years ago | on: Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD

You can get a recycled 512gb iPhone NAND for ~50USD.

You might have to copy the original SYSCFG (containing stuff like mac addresses, calibration, etc) to one of the new NANDs using something like http://www.jcidtech.com/product/product-86-806.html

All the iDevices (including laptops since at least T1) use the same NAND packages. Pre-iPhone 8 / T2 devices use a BGA60 package, while NANDs in devices after that use a BGA110 package.

For example, the NAND chip found in the iFixit teardown of the 2019 16 inch (TSB4227) is explicitly listed as supported by the programmer linked above: https://i.imgur.com/06a0KEg.jpg

pascoej | 5 years ago | on: Autopilot on Cars for $999

I've been using this on/off since early 2019. Much better than stock honda LKAS / cruise control in terms of detecting lanes, lower speeds, etc.

The driver monitoring has gotten a lot better as well. If you are inattentive (based on your gaze) and don't respond the the prompts quickly, it plays a loud alarm and disables the system (until the car restarts) to prevent something like the videos of people sleeping in Teslas you see online.

pascoej | 5 years ago | on: California man blasts Texas 'dystopia' in Op-Ed after moving to Austin

Growing up in Texas "Are you ready to have your son judged based on his suitability for a future career in football?" hit a little too close to home.

My district built the most expensive high school football stadium to one up the town south of us that previously held the title, but we were using half sheets in class because they couldn't afford paper.

However, there's a lot of different school districts and you can surely find what you want. Not sure if growing up in the Bay area would've necessarily been a better experience.

pascoej | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you like developing on an M1 Mac so far?

I got mine on release day. Go debugger support took a while, but now it's my dream computer.

My biggest complaint is that it doesn't warm my lap. The battery life makes up for that though.

My other computer has a 3900x and it's been getting very little use even though I'm homebound.

pascoej | 5 years ago | on: A tool that increased my typing speed

This has been my experience as well. Using a non-qwerty layout is an annoyance when I use somebody else's computer or somebody else uses mine.

While I don't see myself moving back, I never recommend switching to others.

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