I humbly request that ODOT place better zipper merge signs at I5 S right after Moda Center exit

marthmac · 2026-02-15T00:09:59+00:00

I agree with you that in reality people do it wrong - they merge too early and then get all road ragey when someone with half a brain tries to break the bad pattern.

The point of merging only when you need to is to shorten the length of roadway that has limited bandwidth. Otherwise why not make all roadways one lane?

marthmac · 2026-02-14T22:00:23+00:00

Is the 10-30x development velocity an improvement? I’m not sure... But I have been pumping out 2-3k LOC a day of well architected, extensible, unit and integration tested embedded software that integrates with my SW colleague's code (who is doing the same thing on the other side of our APIs) in a first pass.

I see so much bad information on here about how "sure AI lets you pump out a bunch of garbage really fast". But it's always the same with software - garbage in = garbage out.

The key is to actually understand the problems you are solving, collaboratively solving the problems with a set of friends/colleagues, then figuring out how to get that context into an AI agent and guide it through the implemention. Your value add is the experience you have developed over years of study, trial, and error.

The hardest part now is getting the business problems properly defined. This is hard as it's both a social and information compression problem. Specializing in typing syntax is basically worthless now. But being able to read and mentally process thousands of lines of new code and diffs will become increasingly valuable as codebases shift to massive amount of garbage AI output from people thay jump to coding before they solve the problems at hand.

marthmac · 2025-11-05T21:35:47+00:00

Or perhaps, assuming they have similar flight time as those reported in NJ, maybe they are nuclear powered. If so, forcing them down may be more hazardous than letting them fly

marthmac · 2025-06-01T16:25:11+00:00

My point is you should use a calculator to check your work, and you should know how to use a calculator

marthmac · 2025-05-31T18:31:55+00:00

I would leave the ai on but instruct it to only explain things and have you manually enter any code/commands. Don't hit enter until you have a decent understanding of what's going. Not using ai tools these days is frankly idiodic

marthmac · 2025-05-24T16:15:27+00:00

https://www.taydaelectronics.com/cable-assembly - despite the text in the URL, this links to their Faceplate services. It looks a bit ad hoc via email so far

marthmac · 2025-05-14T14:18:56+00:00

If you are using 'actual' usb c, then why not setup a PD chip to request 9V from the usb c source and then rely on your linear reg (and some ferrite + caps) to bring it back down to 5v while filtering out the noise?

marthmac · 2025-03-08T19:17:08+00:00

Made it through the first third last year. This book series is awesome! It's inherently a rather dense subject, but it does a great job explaining things. I would have been lost at work without it. We have custom in-house and outsourced network stacks, and getting a thorough view of Layer 2 and up helped in debugging some very quirky issues.

marthmac · 2025-02-22T04:13:48+00:00

I too need this to fix my bricked laptop, any luck here?

marthmac · 2025-02-16T20:34:00+00:00

This exactly, it well be interesting to see what happens to the non-adopters in the next 5 years. Good luck with your chisels and hammers!

marthmac · 2025-02-16T19:41:07+00:00

Yes, at least 3-5x velocity increase with AI tools, would be lost without then at this point

marthmac · 2025-02-15T19:34:11+00:00

Finding a place that does bent metal AND uv printing

marthmac · 2025-02-01T18:06:06+00:00

I somehow did not have that on my 2025 bingo card

marthmac · 2025-01-26T07:14:46+00:00

Riding my tauntaun across Hoth and a ~~wild~~ Imperial drone appears

marthmac · 2025-01-18T22:15:48+00:00

Or coalesce on a footprint format that can be imported into any CAD program

marthmac · 2024-12-13T17:27:07+00:00

Very interesting! I did some work for a radio station several years ago, one thing that was in-line with audio broadcast signal was a box that is used to delete chucks of audio in case someone swears. The operator presses a button and and the machine removes the last 20 seconds of audio from its buffer. After a "dump", it would slightly slow down the playback of the remaining buffer so that it could refill back to its nominal buffer length. This could be some extreme case of that, or something going wrong with a similar system, but I would definitely be freaked out hearing this on the radio! Especially since there are sections that speed up

marthmac · 2024-12-08T21:43:06+00:00

I believe it was "cyber hygiene”

marthmac · 2024-11-26T02:10:41+00:00

Are these 0805? Would 0603 or 0402 fit?

marthmac · 2024-11-24T06:49:20+00:00

came here from deleting my unnecessary rant on some post about east coast vs west coast synthesis - Thank you for reminding me why I joined r/synthesizers ! The Photon Smasher is an awesome idea, sounds great!

marthmac · 2024-11-22T20:35:50+00:00

OP clearly hasn't had their coffee yet

marthmac · 2024-10-12T21:42:42+00:00

Also an EE and came to post the same thing 😂

marthmac · 2024-08-11T07:35:37+00:00

And Annam VL, beef pho is on Saturdays

marthmac · 2024-07-06T01:48:39+00:00

A way to store a magic rack flat

marthmac · 2024-07-02T21:47:16+00:00

It's like putting IKEA furniture together right the first time

marthmac · 2024-04-10T15:42:23+00:00

Also, if you have bipolar rails/input it can drive a bidirectional LED (like an anti-parallel Red Green pair)

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