BooneJS

Back in college - a while ago - I made a project that played blackjack. I punched holes in a real deck and optosensors would detect light shining through the holes. 4 bits. This solution is significantly more elegant!

> Of course, Google didn't pay that much. They own the hardware.

You’re right. Google had to: 1. Design, tape-out, manufacture, and deploy TPUv4 2. Run PaLM

FSD on my Model Y keeps me on my toes. Not only do I look out for vehicles, pedestrians, and wild animals, I also have to be ready to take over if it slams on the brakes on the freeway or decides the safest way to navigate a gradual corner on a highway is by having the left wheels on the centerline. I'm holding out hope.

I've seen Srb in southern Wisconsin and Smrz in central Wisconsin (ironically including Plover, WI)

Free speech is only in reference to government punishment. I can spout off and the government won't punch me in the mouth. The person standing next to me, however, might.

I don't understand why we keep expecting private companies to behave like the government.

In my experience, bash makes the simple things simple and the hard things (like complex pipelines, validating arguments, or “pure bash”) really hard. YMMV.

Python makes everything medium difficulty which can be a big win depending on the size of automation required.

We're building a house in Wisconsin soon. We think that ground-source geothermal is required for efficient electrical HVAC without gas, but if we can save a ton of $$$ and go with air-source heat pump, that would be awesome.

This report was created by Republicans.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/us/politics/wisconsin-rep...

Adobe Lightroom. It's stagnant but I keep paying.

At-will employment. I don’t see how anything outweighs that. Former employer didn’t want to raise salaries nor did they want to lose people. They chose to go to court instead. The traitorous 7?

Can you find little things in the day-to-day that are exciting by setting the bar lower? Can you pick up hobbies outside of work like wood working, reading non-fiction, or baking/cooking? Can you come up with a personal roadmap, one that emphasizes personal learning/improvement outside of work?

Your job will always be at least somewhat out of your control, and burnout can come from feeling helpless in a situation you don't like. It's time to take control of the things you can actually control.

Low-level programming, dealing with hardware registers, is so often unsigned that I use unsigned everywhere I don't need negative numbers. Youtube going 64-bit was inevitable, but overflowing 2^31 should not have been one of them. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/12/gangn...

Competition is good, and it’s the reason why Neovim was created in the first place!

Different schedules. If I weren't worried about having it on for an hour longer than necessary, I guess a timer would be fine.

I work at Google Madison with many other software and silicon engineers. Come take a look! https://careers.google.com/locations/madison/

Nearest DC is in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

I spent 13 years at Cray in CF. Great start to my career.

My HomeKit home only consists of 2 smart plugs by Eve (evehome.com). They operate over Thread which our HomePod Mini enables. We have one for the lamps in the bedroom and one on our espresso machine. Coming downstairs to a warm espresso machine in the morning is great.

Is this a "in case I switch books", or a "in case I have to look something up" convenience?

We've been slowly turning our urban backyard into a pleasant place for birds, but we still have 70% grass. It's not clear to me how to introduce native grasses without upsetting my neighbors.

We put geothermal in a house we built outside of Madison, WI. 4 wells dug, 150 ft each, for hearing and cooling. We set our home to 70F 24/7/365 and left it alone. We usually get a week to 10 days of never going above 0 F, and on some of those days the unit ran 20 hours a day to keep up.

How is this true? I think our home was 2x our family income. It’s been paid off for a while.

But how many people saw how pointless working 9-5 was when they’re making low pay that barely covers daycare? They changed their spending habits and one parent stayed home with the kids.

Any listicle that omits Kwik Trip from the upper Midwest is opening up with fightin’ words. I tell ya. https://biztimes.com/cult-brands-kwik-trip-midwest-airlines-...

My Model Y is generally unconcerned with out of place stuff on the road. Bicycles? Yes. People walking? Not really. “Yield in crosswalk” posts in the middle of the road? No.

Can I apply this article to the theme of the site? You’ll never get rich by joining a startup. Founders and investors have too much control writing the rules and making the decisions. Everyone hates bureaucratic institutions but the alternative with a startup is an oligarchy consisting of (often) inexperienced people playing the role for the first time. Even bad exits favor the founders over the employees.

One bit from this post was on taking notes. I’ve purchased several nice notebooks (moleskine, Baron Fig, etc) to use but I always hate how jumbled my commonplace notes got and I’d quit. Most of these notebooks are 25% completed.

I bought a reMarkable 2 earlier this year and have loved it. I have a notebook per subject and I can append to each without carrying multiple paper notebooks or getting upset by the lack of organization in a single commonplace notebook.

If you like paper but hate disorganization, and have the disposable income, give it or another eInk tablet a try.

My FAANG employer and my CPA both agree I owe tax on RSUs that “partially vested” while a resident. An example of 48 shares of RSUs that vest 1/48 every month for 4 years (48 months), and I lived in CA for 6 months after they were granted (not vested, granted). In months 1-6, all were 100% California taxable. In month 7, I owed 6/7ths of the normal California tax. In month 8, it was 6/8ths. In month 48, the final vest, will be taxed by California at 6/48ths of a full resident. My new state also taxes them, but I can deduct taxes I pay to California so I don’t get double-taxes.

I left California 2 years ago, and I still have 2 years of taxes to pay on RSUs granted while a resident.

I recently just used LibraryThing to catalog all of my books. The UPC camera/scanner was nice although I had to laugh when I saw a picture of a cue cat on the site! I’ve got all of my ebooks and audiobooks catalogued as well. Turns out I loved some books so much I bought them in 2 forms. Oops.

SystemVerilog (IEEE 1800-2017) has 248.