rmaus
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2 years ago
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on: Japan's airport control towers stop using 'No.1' instruction for plane takeoffs
Tangentially related, when I was on the rowing team in college the coxswain commonly replaced ‘seven’ (the only two syllable number in the 1-10 range) with ‘save’, to maintain a smooth cadence for counting 10 strokes.
rmaus
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2 years ago
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on: A complete guide to building a hand-wired keyboard (2020)
https://imgur.com/a/wyqPSeo (unsure why this is marked 18+, sorry; it's SFW).
You can see my first build (blue) in several of these pictures following similar advice to OP's guide (looping diodes, etc), with one modification where I used copper tape for the columns instead of wires.
Then the first picture you can see how much cleaner the single-switch PCB ends up, and I can assure it was far easier to solder / strip / assemble.
rmaus
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2 years ago
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on: A complete guide to building a hand-wired keyboard (2020)
There are certain kinds of fully custom keyboards, such as the one I use (Dactyl Manuform) where the keys do not sit on a single flat plane. Such a build would require a flexible PCB. This is doable for the advanced-amateur EE but the geometry is fiddly, at best, and doesn't allow for easy experimentation on key placement (spacing, offset, radius, etc, the bigger problem for me).
I've found the happy medium with single-switch PCBs ("Amoeba" is a popular one), which are fast and easy to wire up. Most notably you don't have to do the painstaking row wire stripping -- just use a plain wire from one PCB to the next in the key matrix (or an insulated wire if you have to traverse other components, which still only requires two stripped ends).
I have a few pictures floating around from my build(s) if that interests anyone.
rmaus
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2 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?
(I'm not the parent commenter), but I believe a defining quality of a senior developer is someone who I can give any problem/project to in the business domain and they return with a solution in the technical domain.
rmaus
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Moving to Mountain View CA – Places to go to hang with fellow geeks?
How exactly do you escape the tech world when you want? Just visiting SV for a couple days was borderline oppressive to me! Everyone has an idea for an app, nearly every bar or restaurant patron was discussing something technical. How do you overcome the lack of professional diversity, or am I just hypersensitive to it? Chicago is admittedly not all that diverse (we have lawyers, accountants, consultants, or tech) but the jump from ~1 profession to >1 profession results in a wildly different experience for me.
rmaus
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8 years ago
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on: U. of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory to close after 120 years
Fascinating, did he work there long enough to know Edwin Hubble?
rmaus
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8 years ago
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on: Wing Commander II
FYI, in this comment section there's a lengthy discussion regarding Start Citizen's development; lots of good answers to your question there.
rmaus
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8 years ago
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on: Wing Commander II
I think you could say that Star Citizen is the modern spiritual successor to the Wing Commander series (and is being created by the same person, Chris Roberts).
rmaus
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8 years ago
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on: Instacart has raised another $200M at a $4.2B valuation
I don't have stake in this one way or the other, but will you argue in favor of Instacart's '$10 service fee' (as mentioned by parent commenter)?
rmaus
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8 years ago
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on: The iPhoneX is Apple's underrated masterpiece
With 'Reachability' enabled (Settings -> General -> Accessibility), you can partially get around this. Activate Reachability (swipe down on home bar), then swipe down on the (now-easier-to-reach) battery/signal area to access the control center. It should be noted this trick does not work from the lock screen.
Edit: this still works even if the battery/signal icon isn't there, you just have to guess approximately where the new location for the 'top right' of the screen is, and swipe down there to get the control center.
Edit2: messed around a little more and I guess you can actually access notifications using this method, it doesn't feel very consistent for me though.
rmaus
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8 years ago
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on: Dark Site Finder: tracking light pollution to find locations for stargazing
This is a great resource for astrophotographers. I always check it prior to traveling somewhere new (particularly the western US) to see if it's worth packing equipment and taking a detour for photo opportunities.
rmaus
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8 years ago
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on: Show HN: Go Freaking Do It – Smart contract for reaching your goals
Hah, yes and no. The card said we wanted the money to go to the person we thought needed it the least. However, he knew he was not well-liked, presumably connected the dots, and thought it was funny anyways.
rmaus
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8 years ago
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on: Show HN: Go Freaking Do It – Smart contract for reaching your goals
Did something similar to this at a previous employer. We had a problem with a particular weekly meeting starting on time, so we all agreed on a $1 late fee, per minute. At year's end, the collected fees were gifted to one of the firm's wealthy executives whom we all disliked. The meeting's on-time rate skyrocketed.
rmaus
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8 years ago
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on: Untangling Spider Biology
You should read Children of Time.
rmaus
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8 years ago
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on: Understanding SOLID Principles: Dependency Inversion
Not only is it wrong, but it's wildly misleading about why dependency inversion is desirable. This article is trash; it's basically a copy/paste of the Wikipedia entry on dependency inversion, rewritten awkwardly (not to mention the usage of Comic Sans).
rmaus
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8 years ago
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on: The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined
This is completely off topic, but does it bother anybody else that we live in a world where the CEO of any technologically savvy company disseminates announcements as a picture of text?
rmaus
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8 years ago
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on: How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source community
And they are sorry they got caught, not sorry they did it. As is tradition.
rmaus
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10 years ago
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on: iPhone SE
"Stagnant Edition"
