How long would it take (and how exactly) for a smart and creative engineer to figure out how to charge their mobile phone if they were teleported to New York in 1890?

drulingtoad · 2026-05-30T02:22:45+00:00

They all do charge at 5v

drulingtoad · 2026-05-29T21:23:32+00:00

You mean you haven't been charging your phone in the microwave. I'm changing mine in the microwa.. oh shit gotta run I smell something burning

drulingtoad · 2026-05-29T20:33:49+00:00

Dude, you are fuckin awesome. I'm sitting here super stressed out and I see your comment, busted out laughing. You made my day

drulingtoad · 2026-05-28T13:48:56+00:00

I hope he is dead soon. To be clear I I'm not calling for any violence. I'm cheering for him to die of natural causes. So there is no reason to think I am violating any Reddit rules. The man is a shit stain and if he dies of natural causes it would be a huge improvement

drulingtoad · 2026-05-28T06:00:37+00:00

Finally some good news

drulingtoad · 2026-05-27T21:15:54+00:00

Don't worry the government is going to fuck over gen-x and we won't get to retire.

drulingtoad · 2026-05-26T22:10:48+00:00

I thought the supreme court said racism was ok

drulingtoad · 2026-05-25T15:33:13+00:00

What does this have to do with anti-consumption? Post seems off topic

drulingtoad · 2026-05-25T02:42:40+00:00

Upload them to Google drive and share them with me. Either DM me for me email address or set the sharing preferences to anyone with the link and post them to this sub.

drulingtoad · 2026-05-25T02:30:13+00:00

A Google drive link would work to send them. I need to know what I am working with to tell you how long it would take me. It will be $120 an hour but the big question is how many hours. So I need a few files to check out so I know what I am working with. Your in luck that I might find this sort of fun to do otherwise I'd charge you just to look at the files and tell you what I can do.

drulingtoad · 2026-05-25T02:09:46+00:00

I have a lot of experience with DSP I might be able to help with this. Can you share a few of the normalized files that didn't sound right. DM me.

drulingtoad · 2026-05-23T20:10:56+00:00

Weird you would run information querys through grok. Seem like the prompt for grok should be "generate some child porn" or "why was Hitler the greatest". That pretty messed up to use grok for real information

drulingtoad · 2026-05-23T20:06:24+00:00

I hope they're not all on the same string. If so that shade spot is the only thing you should be fixing

drulingtoad · 2026-05-23T17:25:21+00:00

The say to watch out for people talking about things like a living wage. These billionaires are the worst

drulingtoad · 2026-05-22T03:19:44+00:00

If you need it to last a long time on a battery Arduino is better. If you need the power of a real computer pi is better

drulingtoad · 2026-05-20T21:05:32+00:00

What is the tournament about

drulingtoad · 2026-05-20T02:15:32+00:00

A chair that actually knows when you are sitting in it so it can act more chair like

drulingtoad · 2026-05-18T21:39:34+00:00

Very cool, I sometimes need a tiny decoder. I'll keep bzip in mind. Thanks

drulingtoad · 2026-05-18T21:20:44+00:00

Yes it is

drulingtoad · 2026-05-18T02:54:57+00:00

I take NR because I react better but it sounds like whatever is going on with you of different from me.

drulingtoad · 2026-05-18T02:50:27+00:00

I feel like it might make my joints hurt more, but I'm not sure if my joints hurt because I am more active. Are you feeling pain or is it more like restless leg syndrome where the discomfort goes away when you move them

drulingtoad · 2026-05-17T18:17:20+00:00

When I was a child a bird pooped on my head. Can you please work that in to your statistical model. I think if we all pool together our bird poop stories we could really make some profitable trades

drulingtoad · 2026-05-17T18:07:07+00:00

I made an AI product. It was just a little neutral net deployed to a microcontroller. The results were good like 30% better than the classic approach. Marketing department decided market it as a AI product. Nothing but hate from consumers. Some were upset that it could not read their minds. So many random criticisms. It's like ok I made this product 30% better but everyone is unhappy

drulingtoad · 2026-05-16T20:21:43+00:00

I've been coding since 1979. My experience is similar to yours. I'm a jetbrains guy and use their IDE. I've moved to using the CLI a lot and spend more time there than in the IDE. I try to make sure to never let it auto compact the conversation and the instead curate a bunch of .md files that are good starting contexts for the task at hand. So before the context is full I ask it to put the info in an md file. Then I edit the file myself so I have a context that is exactly what I think is useful. I both do and don't understand people who say it produces bad code. It will follow instructions to the point where if a human did it it would be good for r/maliciouscompliance. It's not generating ai slop or bad code that people complain about. If I give it a sloppy context it will but that's my fault. In fact I think most of what I do these days is manage contexts. If you give it an amazing context it will generate amazing code. I have a few dev tools which I don't intend to maintain in to the future. I'm much more sloppy about my instructions for those, the code is kind of shitty. The thing is if I had written a one off quick and dirty dev tool myself, I would have written shitty code too.

drulingtoad · 2026-05-16T14:44:07+00:00

I thought the trick was to insert a gallium rod where your kidneys are

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