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Yeah, I didn't know that existed but I created my own make environment a while back. My arduinos have been gathering dust for about 5 years, ever since I discovered the ST nucleo64 line ... 80MHz, 1M flash, 256K sram, 4 UARTs, 4 SPI, 4 I2C, 20+ GPIO, 4 ADCs for under US$15 ... I pretty much stopped using Arduino everything.

Isn't it funny how when you ask for citations, the other person flips out and says do it yourself? Like, I have to spend my time figuring out if you actually did research or pulled something out of your ass? Sorry bro, got better things to do with my time than your work for you.

Aaaand its too late for me to delete my post.

Having used half the IDE's this person outlined, I really really really really wish every single one had a "write Makefile" option. Maybe 1/4 or the IDEs I use do that successfully. I always end up using GDB for debugging, and then the IDE for asm-level tweaking (well, I don't do the tweaking, someone smarter than me does :), but I can do 90% of my work in GDB).

In the "real world" IAR Embedded Workshop is the hands-down winner (licenses are $$$$$$), which is unfortunate because despite being so mature it is awfully clunky.

OH, right, yes. I can pay the 30% penalty. I was pointing out how irrational my brain is and the anxiety I feel when 70% of the population is nowhere near where I'm at.

He should have used the geometric mean, that's exactly what it is designed for.

The US seems to sometimes honor treaties, and sometimes not. Unless they get caught. Snowden and countless other whistleblowers have taught us that.

I have $2MM in my 401k I can't touch until I'm 59-1/2. I'm in my 40's and I'm worried of being broke when I'm 60. Insane? Probably. It's like no matter how much you have there's always fear. I keep thinking, "Yeah, it's all in funds and could just go poof if the DOW corrects back down to 7,000 because it took 20 years to get to where it is now..." Does the anxiety never end?

Cute, but facts?

As a like-/counter-anecdote, I developed semiconductor CAD tools for 10 years, after spending 10 years using them. When they first started being developed with GUIs, GUI meant UI, and its oft-maligned sibling, UX, wasn't a term. In my learnings, Xt (XToolKit) started putting words and code behind the abstract patterns in the late 80's, but our tool usability suffered horribly as more and more (usually nonresizing) Athena widgets were crammed into every goddamn corner of the screen with microscopic b&w pixmaps. Because of the lack of distinction between UI & UX in the tool design process, tools were extremely challenging to navigate with each new feature-rich release.

One of my first tasks as a project manager in 2004 was to introduce the web concepts of UI/UX into what had become essentially commandlines converted to Tcl/Tk (after Xt we went to Tcl/Tk.. ugh).

First challenge was to convince the old timer CAD devs.

Once I was able to explain there the difference between UX and UI, it waslike a light went on over everyone's head: how you use it is different from what it looks like. I know, obvious now, but not 15 years ago. We spent 10 months really driving the new buzzword UX/UI in order to get buy-in for profiling how the top 3 existing CAD tools (formal verification, layout, and timing) were being used via instrumentation and interviews. We then proceeded to completely redesign the GUIs in Qt using a consistent set patterns, icons, and workflows.

Then we had to convince the old timer engineer users.

We put a lot of effort into classes to explain how to migrate, and holy shit did we get yelled at. So much "It worked fine before, why did you change it?!?!?!?" Uhh... because a feature you use 80% of the time required 5x more clicks to get to than a feature you used 20% of the time? FML. It got better, people liked it more on our follow ups months later. [The first product to use the new suite completed in 12 instead of 18 months and I personally believe it was due to the new tools being faster, but I'm biased, and it could have been a variety of factors.]

I agree with your point that it is frustrating as fuck when a UI/UX pattern changes, and it should not be done glibly. But I have also found myself getting angry at having to adapt to a new change that ultimately made me more productive, just because of my own inertia.

/shrugs/

PS. Ironically, as a sad end to this story: the GUI's my team made in the early/mid-2000's eventually bloated after 10 years in almost the same way the original AIX/Sparc GUI's I used in the early 90's did. New coders came on board, and new managers, and they just crammed new buttons into to the tools without thinking about the UX. That was ca 2010 when I left, so I don't know where they at today, but I did have a "the more the things change, the more they stay the same" moment!!

>> Looks particularly great if written in Helvetica, printed and framed, and hung by the entrance of truly collaborative office spaces.

This is the business model of many successful mall-chain-stores.

Given the 768K Day discussion I figured it might be helpful to post this. I've been referring to it since 1996 (same HTML1.0 format!) but it has jumped around the web to many hosts over the decades.

Have you tried an HSA? What are the caveats on yours? Does the money roll over? Are there limits on how much you can put it? Does the bank that owns your HSA invest it? HSA's look like they were designed to save people money, but they are really just another way for banks to get more capital to invest, which is why there are so many caveats on them. I think it is abhorrent that an HSA even has to exist. An easier sol'n would be to allow no minimum limit on tax deductions, it just makes more paperwork for people. But I think HSAs are a bandaid to a broken system.

Yet here we are. Remember when Obama fought to have healthcare prices made transparent so that we could shop for the cheapest medical treatment, and that was beaten back severely by the lobby? The compromises the ACA made to bend over backward for for-profit insurance companies were an example of how much power the lobby has. I think if we've learned anything is that we need to go all in on single payer and completely remove for-profit insurance, IMHO, because of exactly what you're saying about the free market: it doesn't work for certain things (if anything, really): military, education, healthcare all the three classic failures of the freemarket. I think this is why all the dems are embracing Healthcare for All: everyone is getting screwed by healthcare except the 1%.

Two of the smartest semiconductor process (physics) engineers I met in my 30 year career were both Evangelicals who were preparing for the rapture. Let that sink in.

If I was worth almost $100,000,000,000 dollars I'd be batshit insane and think the world revolved around me, too.

Calling Quantified Self! (https://quantifiedself.com/)

Damn, that's astonishing. I hope it ends up on youtube: I still watch grainy recordings of HBO from ~1980 for laughs, would love to see what "real" TV with commercials and programming was like over 40+ years.

>> It is community building in a different construct

Yeah that's a good point, but it is more of a broadcast mechanism, isn't it? Like, I follow people I'm interested in on twitter like Adam Savage and Simone Giertz. But they would never reply to a post to them b/c they get flooded by their legions of followers.

Thanks! I have a 7p and noticed those didn't work. The 5-click method is easy to remember.

Twitter is the literal opposite of community-building, like usenet used to be.

Not that I'm nostalgic, usenet simply could not scale to the number of users we see online today.

I think Reddit is closer to usenet in its DNA, but usenet groups were TINY compared even the smallest popular subreddits. reddit isn't perfect by any means, no one has solved the scalability issue, but if it weren't for mods, reddit would be even worse than it is right now.

'.' and ',' generally can be rubbed off or overlooked if the font is too small or if printed on paper/plastic, etc, hence the more reliable notation you mentioned.

Hmmm... node+electron solved MacOS/Linux/Windows, but the snag was I implemented everything in JavaScript, probably not doable for most folks, but for the past 4 years support has been very easy and I have encountered zero platform issues (except for icons on MacOS). I guess I'm the one anecdote that succeeded.

>> historic highs remain, until they don’t.

As someone who started a 401k fresh out of college in 1988, this fear will be in the back of my mind until convert my entire portfolio into bonds. Probably in a few more years it'll begin.

Only if you are forced to use facebook. Its more of a problem in developing nations. I'm glad Myanmar finally gave Facebook the boot as the default portal to the internet.

When the day comes that we are forced to use a social media platform... heh, we'll all just roll over and start using it. Revolution takes too much effort.

Ah, no I think I misread it. Thanks.

It sounds like he created a co-operative. This is the case in Oregon where lots of milk growers...er...dairy farmers pool their resources into a funnel organization, Tillamook Farmer's Co-op, that handles packaging, distribution and marketing. This is such a wild story tho, I loved reading it.

Fair enough. If you're going to make a point, do what "literally" all the other good posts do and footnote it. Don't put the burden of proving your point on the reader, that's your job in the OP.

No site, but I also misread the title of the post: I make no money doing it. It is just a hobby. I make kayaks and canoes. Been doing it for almost a decade, I make about one a year.

>> Tiny apartments are a health hazard they damage both your physical and mental health,

>> they aren't any more environmentally conscious

>> this whole minimalism fad is complete horeshit litterarly sold too and by useful idiots

>> can live in a literal prison cell

You seem to be ranting. I think most of your points are beliefs without facts or just things you've invented to be angry about.

If they didn't have to force a kitchen and bathroom into each room they could have a little more space. The boarding house model of the early 20th century was on to something.