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iAmAPencilYo··on There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days
(not a Twitter user) I saw the post linked below Carmacks post and I had assumed it's a comment to his post!
iAmAPencilYo··on A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide
n=1, I was on a jury about a hit and run with a gun where flock cameras across the area were used as supporting evidence that the shooter was the acused. It painted a picture of his flight after the accident in his car.

Lots of other evidence was provided along it too. The defendant also left his phone on which was more damning, but it definitely helped us, as jurors, arrive to the "without reasonable doubt" conclusion

iAmAPencilYo··on alpr.watch
That's awesome.

In the US, they are everywhere - apartment buildings, houses, business. Amazon's Ring might the most popular, but there are many vendors.

iAmAPencilYo··on Sky-scanning complete for Gaia
All of these are "Artist's Impressions". My best guess is they run a simulation based on the data from the spacecraft and then can pan the camera around as they see fit
iAmAPencilYo··on Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods
Further down, they explain the measurement errors involved:

" If you buy the same product twice, how much will chemical levels vary?

When we bought two samples of the same product, plastic chemical levels differed on average by 59%, calculated as Relative Percent Difference (RPD).

To test whether completely identical samples would show different levels of chemicals, we sent about 10% of our products in triplicate. This means we sent three copies of the product from the same batch – with matching lot number and expiration date – bought at the same store on the same day. We found that the triplicate samples differed less – on average by 33%.

Our lab’s quality control methodology lists 20% RPD as an acceptable margin of measurement error for duplicate samples, meaning if you tested the exact same sample twice, you could see up to a 20% difference purely due to measurement noise. Taking that into account, the RPD for two samples of the same product (not necessarily from the same lot) ranges from 39-59%. For samples with the same lot number and expiration date, the RPD narrows to 13-33%.

Within-product variability appears high, possibly because we are dealing with very small chemical concentrations measured in nanograms."

iAmAPencilYo··on Gentle Guide to Self-Hosting
How does tailscale help with securely self-hosting from home? I have it setup to interface securely with my PCs across networks (like at my inlaws), but not sure how it helps if i were to expose something to the world.

Thanks!

iAmAPencilYo··on Show HN: An online 2D MMO game, written in Rust and JavaScript
That is absolutely fantastic. Instant mayhem! Thank you for this.
iAmAPencilYo··on Codestral Mamba
Thank you! Very helpful as a newbie coming in.
iAmAPencilYo··on Why software engineers like woodworking (2021)
> ... I have finally finished my steam loco after 10 years I do like looking at it and driving it.

That sounds fascinating! Could you share some more about your project?

iAmAPencilYo··on PID Controllers in Unity3D (2021)
Thank you for sharing, those are awesome exercises.
iAmAPencilYo··on McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game
That's pretty cool! Is this a new development or something that was reused from decades ago?
iAmAPencilYo··on Fulfilling a reader's request for my “dot files”
Great Atuin, that's amazing. Thank you, this is indeed a game changer for having a permanent history. I use ctrl+r for everything including commands I vaguely remember but know at least some letters
iAmAPencilYo··on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
that is super cool!!
iAmAPencilYo··on Video shows ‘ghost co-driver’ added to trucker’s ELD to skirt HOS rules
Depends but in general yes. I have a relative who owns his own truck and finds his own loads. He gets paid when he delivers his load, so he's still incentivesed to go as fast as possible. Thankfully he's not as tech savvy to cheat the ELD
iAmAPencilYo··on Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut It All Down
Could you share some of these podcasts? thanks!
iAmAPencilYo··on Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?
Thank you for sharing!
iAmAPencilYo··on Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?
Would you mind sharing which tools you use or share the scripts? That sounds like a fantastic, no brainer way of saving stuff. I'm guessing there's a lot of noise too, like when you're editing code?
iAmAPencilYo··on The quiet cost of family caregiving
Just wanted to say thank you for writing this down and sharing, most importantly how it reflected on yourself and your family.
iAmAPencilYo··on Modern cloud for multiplayer games
That's really cool - possible to llshow the two games that you've built already with Hathora?
iAmAPencilYo··on World’s largest organism found in Australia
Not looking well in what sense?
iAmAPencilYo··on The impact of digital media on children’s intelligence
Thank you!
iAmAPencilYo··on Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens
Would give some example questions for this? New manager here, trying to figure out hiring!
iAmAPencilYo··on Papers every developer should read at least twice (2009)
I've started a job recently where device control using C# seems to be a big part, but was not aware of that during the interview process and I'm now looking to learn more. Are there any keywords, topics, books, etc. that you would recommended I search for with regards to device control? Thank you.
iAmAPencilYo··on Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone
Hi, could you share a little of what you do? It didn't even cross my mind I can work for a non-profit, still get paid (not top dollar) and have a good community impact (kids in your case). Thanks!
iAmAPencilYo··on Click
Would be interested in it if anyone finds it!
iAmAPencilYo··on Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers
What does BA stand for? Thanks.
iAmAPencilYo··on Snow clearing tram in Zürich Switzerland
Thanks for sharing, that was very cool.
iAmAPencilYo··on Reasonably priced color e-ink display
Thank you for the simple explanation of this tech!
iAmAPencilYo··on Understanding and writing a JPEG decoder in Python
Thank you for this; lots of details, references and detailed diagrams!

One small note - the first image you mention that we'll need to reference is a bit small to read. Zooming in on the page does not zoom it in due to format of the page. I had to right click -> View image, in a separate tab in order to be able to zoom in enough to read the righthand side of it. edit: this is on the latest version of Firefox

iAmAPencilYo··on I open sourced my game along with a tutorial on how to make it using Lua
Awesome that you open sourced the game. I got it on Steam from a post on /r/PathOfExile

(PoE is a awesome ARPG with a massive build customization and I believe inspired game creates by OP)

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