use have been hit the hardest in terms of price increases. And mini PCs aren’t a good replacement for the Pi in embedded

I mean, yeah I’m aware that LPDDR SDRAM chips are in short supply as a lot of the capacity was shifted for other types of SDRAM, but is it enough to allow for an entire SSD to be included at the same price? Its not like flash prices haven’t also increased a ton.

I was also thinking that there are cooling systems (fans are expensive!), cases, etc. that add costs to mini PCs that mean they really shouldn’t compete with SBC in price.

I don’t get how they can justify this. I can get a proper mini PC with 16GB RAM and an 500GB NVME SSD for less than that.

Please stop shopping at places that treat you as if you are a criminal. Self checkouts are already customer hostile but essentially being treated as a potential shoplifter for using one should cause you to take your business elsewhere if at all feasible.

Do we know what percentage of visits are from not logged in visitors? I imagine that all the people that visit reddit through searches for information are not likely to be signing up for a account, so they will be losing a bunch of that traffic and ad revenue.

Putting all that community generated information behind a login screen is a massive loss even if you don’t use the site regularly.

This is the thing that drives me absolutely nuts with how most people use LLMs at work. I’m fully capable of asking the LLM to create slop, I need others to actually check and ensure their documentation is useful and correct before communicating it with others.

The benchy website has a document about how to evaluate it.

Could be an issue with flow rate, is the issues are in areas with higher volumetric flow as shown in the slicer you might need to slow down your printing or increase your extrusion temperature for those areas.

We’ve learned that checks and balances only work as well as they are enforced.

You take on a fucking lot of responsibility, start giving demos, working with product managers, marketers, help teach people what is possible in the product and what isn’t. This isn’t a chill gig. It rarely is. It usually involves a fuck ton of effort and planning.

This is just part of jobs in general and if you had any indication it wouldn’t be you were lied to. One of the early things I remember being told in engineering school is that you will have to be social and work on a team. As soon as a project requires more than a few people then you will be working on cross-functional teams and need to work together with a variety of people.

Often you will be underpaid compared to the effort you put in

You might be shocked to learn that employers do not pay for “effort”, they pay for the (perceived) value you bring to the business. People that get paid well are value multipliers (or they play the game well enough to appear that they do). The people that work with them do more because they are there guiding things. If you don’t bring that value, you tend to top out at “Senior” engineer titles and the pay that brings with it. I’ve had to have somewhat blunt conversations with people to explain that I’ve given them a poor performance review not because they haven’t put in the hours, but because they aren’t using their effort efficiently. Working overtime consistently is an indication of poor prioritization and delegation more than having too much work.

As someone that absolutely despises self-checkout I’d be happy if this was the case, but I don’t believe this. I’ve had stores open up near me this year that only have self-checkout options.

I’m not doing labour for a company where I’m not getting a discount for it. I’d rather wait longer in line for a person to do it than to go through self-checkout out of principle. Plus all self-checkouts I’ve ever used are designed end up pissing me off because they are designed to be user hostile.

Especially when responding to someone writing you to express gratitude, using an LLM is super disrespectful IMO. You shouldn’t need an LLM to write, “You’re welcome, thank you for helping with ____.”

Be concise in your emails, that respects a person’s time and still gets the message across.

There are two types of autofocus systems that cameras use, phase detect and contrast detect. Contrast detect is what all point and shoot style cameras (and early mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras) used where they identified contrast of vertical edges and used that to determine if an image was in focus, this is a slow process as the camera needs to figure out what direction to move the focus and check the image at multiple focus positions to compare until the camera determined it was in focus.

DSLRs have a separate sensor up near the viewfinder that does phase detect autofocus, this is different in that it can determine how far the lens is from being in focus and go directly there which makes it significantly faster which was crucial in many professional applications.

Eventually sensor manufacturers figured out how to integrate a version of phase detect into the pixels of the sensor itself. While these didn’t perform as accurately as the separate phase detect arrays in DSLRs, they had an extra trick where they were able to create a hybrid autofocus system that used the phase detect array to get close and then contrast detect to get accurate focus. It was only once this was implemented on mirrorless cameras that the advantages of SLR disappeared.

The end of DSLR cameras has been coming for some time. Manufacturers have been slowly phasing out their DSLR lens lineups over the past few years and I don’t think Canon or Nikon are making that many DSLRs at this point. At some point it won’t make sense for them to keep the lines around and the stock will dry up.

It was clear around the time of the Sony A6000 that mirrorless would usurp the DSLR in the near future, that camera had already matched much of the performance of the high end cameras. Once the lens lineups were fleshed out more and the autofocus was applied to full frame there was little reason to buy into the older systems.

There was a bit of controversy when Framework promoted Omarchy and when prompted about it they didn’t respond strongly enough about DHH’s views. They also sponsored Hyprland which has their own controversies and it seems many tie the two projects together since it is the compositor that ships with Omarchy.

I’m of the general opinion that the hullabaloo about drying filament is largely not warranted in most cases. PLA is just not very hygroscopic and can sit out for months without any issues. Even PETG I don’t have any issues with it sitting out. The room I print in sits at about 50% humidity most of the time.

I keep most of my filaments in a box with dessicant that I bake maybe once a year, but I’m not convinced it is really doing much. The only reason I have a drier is that I started printing occasionally with materials that are much more hygroscopic (e.g. TPU).

I mean dashcam or microscope, they are just a cheap sensor and SoC with a couple output options, they aren’t doing anything intensive or specialized there. Just stick a different lens in front and they could be the same device. Maybe some slightly different controls in a variant.

This drives me nuts, when an urgent issue comes up I value concise, accurate answers so we can quickly agree and actually do the work.

We had an urgent issue recently and upper management wanted a plan for validating the fix. Rather than talking to the expert the manager one level down just sent an AI written suggestion without checking with anyone. After having checked with the correct person, I had to respond with “This is the MIL standard, we should follow this” while “ignoring” the manager’s email. Luckily I had the goodwill to get away with correcting people like that.

I don’t see how posting after you get back protects from this anyway, you might still get the fraudulent alert and think your card was compromised while on your trip. It only really helps in that you are back home when dealing with it.

Micron DDR chips are still being added to many consumer devices. They just would down the side the sold SSDs and similar direct to consumers.

The companies are still focusing on larger customers that are willing to pay more, one has to wonder how they will fare when those businesses aren’t willing to pay as much and the companies they told to take it or leave it have options from China.

Seriously, you can setup VPNs to only allow specific trusted devices. With critical infrastructure it should be a whitelist only security model.