making stuff work

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I might have to quit this place before everyone here becomes a semiconductor process engineer
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i make expensive clankers do work that would take me half the time to complete myself just to feel something
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US having a โ€œPay Laterโ€ category for cards is insane
iOS 27 *finally* fixes the card picking experience in Apple Pay 100x better. Not 2x. Not 10x. 100x ๐ŸŽ‰
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ASML should be treasured and supported. It is arguably the greatest company in Europe.
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backrooms is fun as hell
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why is the notch upside down bruhโ€ฆ.
There is also a wafer from TSMC with Rubin chips on display at Computex.
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what a brilliant idea, tell this to all semis start ups and keep the monopoly of tooling companies. sf will forget what epistemology is
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one thing I noticed is that founders with HW backgrounds tend to write more disciplined software, but the main advice for them is break some of those assumptions to move quicker in the earliest stages of startups
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the biggest asshole in the industry might save us from the pioneer chains, im praying for it everyday
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"Kate's pussy threw a code today..."
Examining Kateโ€™s 1% She has suspected endometriosis. This affects at least 1 in 10 women, likely more. Here sheโ€™s getting an ultrasound. Historically you needed surgery just to diagnose it (incisions are made in the abdomen). We're doing a non-invasive route. Typically women live with endometriosis for 7-10 years before being diagnosed. Itโ€™s the leading reason women aged 30 to 34 get hysterectomies (permanent surgery to entirely remove the uterus). This condition is where endometrial-like tissue starts growing outside the uterus, in ovaries, bowel, bladder, even the diaphragm. This tissue inflames, scars, and glues organs together. Our first step is to find out if @_katetolo has it. Initial measurements weโ€™re doing: trans vaginal ultrasound pelvic MRI w and w/o contrast hormonal labs All during the early part of her cycle to get the clearest picture. During her ultrasound, a slim probe, about the width of two fingers, 10-12 inches long (although only a small portion is inserted) is covered with a protective sheath and lubricant and gently inserted into the vagina (patient has to empty their bladder first). This creates real-time images of the uterus, ovaries, and surrounding pelvic structures. While inserted, the probe is turned 90 degrees to evaluate all the various structures, angles and views. There is no radiation exposure. The technician is looking for scarring, ovarian cysts, adhesions, and for organs that are fused together with tissue. This ultrasound can confirm endometriosis but it cannot rule it out. What endo does to the body: 90% report pelvic pain 50% report severe fatigue 26% report infertility. However many sources cite 30 to 50 percent. 50% experience pain during sex. Many have pain with ovulation, bowel movements, and urination Severe bloating called โ€œendo bellyโ€ where the abdomen visibly distends There are a handful of theories about why endometriosis develops but the honest answer is no one is quite sure. Weโ€™ll keep you posted on her results.
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huge win
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you can go far in the music world with machined aluminum and some potentiometers, and i keep forgetting that
Huge news for the unemployed
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this behavior is only accepted towards companies with clean rooms
This is how people in SF act when they meet someone who works at OpenAI
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we deserve the memory shortage, who is pasting 16 BILLION CHARS
May 13
fun fact- the new MX Master 4 has 16gb of ram to manage the cross device smart clipboard its $299.99 because of this
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slop is in the eye of the beholder
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i love my job man
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It's 2026 and your CEO just sent you a 2,400 line pull request. You get a cup of coffee and sit down to review it. It's a disaster. A dozen unrelated refactors. Unused methods with names like `convertFromBase10` and `normalizeBeforeSerialization`. You catch a few hardcoded API keys, but that's ok. It's part of the dance. They didn't consider that someone might look at this diff. Here's a comment buddy. They respond in an hour (after Copilot, qodo, CodeRabbit and Greptile finish their reviews) saying we shouldn't worry about "implementation details" anymore, those are relics of the past. Hey let's jump into a room and figure it out. We can't just agree to disagree, this is probably my last job in tech and I can't watch this fucker burn the place to the ground. The PR merges and goes to prod. You feel a shared sense of apathy and dread with Hannah the intern (she has to review his AI generated social media posts ever since Grok got too imaginative). That night you go to sleep and have nightmares of that code. You can still see the shapes of it on the backs of your eyelids. You go to work the next day ready to quit. You no longer understand the system. There is no foundation. Time to use those savings and an SBA loan to buy a liquor store and never login to GitHub again.
Itโ€™s 2018 and your coworker just sent you a 400 line pull request. You get a cup of coffee and sit down to review it. Itโ€™s beautiful. Elegant micro-refactors. Crispy method names. You catch a few things, but thatโ€™s ok. Itโ€™s part of the dance. They didnโ€™t consider extensibility on part of their API. Hereโ€™s a comment buddy. They respond in an hour saying they think we should do one piece differently than your comment. Hey letโ€™s jump into a room and figure it out. We canโ€™t just agree to disagree, this code is too important. The PR merges and goes to prod. You feel a shared sense of ownership and accomplishment. That night you go to sleep and dream of that code. You can still see the shapes of it on the backs of your eyelids, your IDE syntax highlighting sparking neurons in your reptile brain. You go to work the next day ready to go. You understand the system. N is your foundation. Time to build n 1.
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as a livid hater of openai with a sub, atp even if anthropic has marginally better model why even bother using it? 5.5 has been an absolute blast and if progress stopped right now im quite alright
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making a self improving discord bot is the most fun ive had with llms in a while
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i aint reading no parity bits son
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CANbus is retarded Just use UART Or, if your MCU is dog shit, I guess use i2c
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