eschneider (u/eschneider)

eschneider commented on Line scan camera image processing for train photography daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/y... · Posted by u/dllu

jeffbee · 9 hours ago

Okay I was stumped about how this works because it's not explained, as far as I can tell. But I guess the sensor array has its long axis perpendicular to the direction the train is traveling.

eschneider · 9 hours ago

You use a single vertical line of sensors and resample "continuously". When doing this with film, the aperture is a vertical slit and you continuously advance the film during the exposure.

For "finish line" cameras, the slit is located at the finish line and you start pulling film when the horses approach. Since the exposure is continuous, you never miss the exact moment of the finish.

eschneider commented on Developer's block underlap.org/developers-b... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

Martin_Silenus · 19 hours ago

Sleep. Best side task for your brain.

How many times has this happened to me?

You struggle with a feature or a bug, you think about it, you weigh the pros and cons for hours... because you don't want to start something that will set you back. You're tired, but you don't want to go to sleep until you've at least made a decision for tomorrow.

Go to sleep. Now.

Then you wake up knowing immediately what to do. You hardly believe it, because it was so hard to find before you sleep. And you do it. And it works. And you know that sleep was the key.

eschneider · 13 hours ago

So much this. As I've gotten older, instead of working half the night on a difficult end-of-day problem that I'm stuck on, I just set it aside at the end of the day and by the time I start back up in the morning, I've got a good idea how to solve it.

Does it mean THAT problem gets solved later? Sometimes, but often not. And more importantly, I'm maintaining a pace that's SUSTAINABLE. I can crank on hard problems almost constantly, but I leave myself some space so I don't get burned out.

eschneider commented on Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers pistachioapp.com/blog/cop... · Posted by u/Sayrus

catmanjan · 4 days ago

As someone else mentioned the file isnt actually accessed by copilot, rather copilot is reading the pre-indexed contents of the file in a search engine...

Really Microsoft should be auditing the search that copilot executes, its actually a bit misleading to be auditing the file as accessed when copilot has only read the indexed content of the file, I don't say I've visited a website when I've found a result of it in Google

eschneider · 4 days ago

Oh, so there's a complete copy (or something that can be reassembled into a copy) completely OUTSIDE of audit controls. That's so much worse. :0

eschneider commented on 'Ad Blocking Is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned by Top German Court torrentfreak.com/ad-block... · Posted by u/gslin

eschneider · 5 days ago

Are ads "blocked" if, instead of being presented to a human, they're redirected and read by an AI?

Ad Reading As a Service.

eschneider commented on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file al3rez.com/todo-txt-journ... · Posted by u/al3rez

jasode · 13 days ago

I've had a plain TODO.txt file for over 20 years so I agree with all the benefits the author mentioned. However, I don't like it because without an app, there's no runtime loop to notify and alert me of what's coming up.

This means I don't have "ambient awareness" of what's going on unless... I open the TODO.txt file ... manually scan it... then rescan it again and again multiple times per day. It's really tedious and inefficient to manually re-read the same items again. Offloading repetition like that is what computers are good for. I just don't have a good app at the moment to turn my TODO.txt into something I don't have to manually eyeball all the time.

So even though I have a tasks in my TODO.txt, a lot of things still falls through the cracks because I forget I need to do them.

If you have the type of brain that has a built-in "6th sense" of tasks that need to get done, a lightweight-no-runtime TODO.TXT will work fine for you. But it's definitely inadequate for me and I need to fix that.

EDIT replies to "use calendar for reminders" : Yes, that's a workaround but I've resisted doing that because I wanted the utopia of my TODO.TXT file being the Single-Source-Of-Truth instead of manually copying items to Google Calendar. (Yes, I know that "perfection is the enemy of the good" and all that.) The way other people do it is they make Google Calendar itself the SSOT. But that defeats the purpose of the freeform flexibility of the TODO.TXT that has all the notes, etc in addition to tasks.

I want my TODO.TXT to be a unified view of everything I want to do in life and splitting some items off into Google Calendar is just more digital housekeeping I wanted to avoid.

The way I'd prefer to use Google Calendar is via the developer API to programmatically add entries that's based off of my TODO.TXT. E.g. : (https://developers.google.com/workspace/calendar/api/guides/...)

... but that requires an active runtime loop ... like a Python script constantly scanning my TODO.TXT and then automatically populating the Google Calendar. I just haven't gotten around to coding that yet. Yes, the irony is that meta-task to enhance my TODO.txt is already in my TODO.txt.

eschneider · 13 days ago

I've been running a text based todo/status doc for about that long and my hack for that particular problem is to occasionally do a scan and copy anything 'active' to the top (or bottom if you append to the end :) of the file. Yeah, there's a bit of duplication there (I usually just copy a short description and a pointer back to the date of the original so not so bad..), but it works for me.

eschneider commented on C++26 Reflections adventures and compile-time UML reachablecode.com/2025/07... · Posted by u/ibobev

jcranmer · 21 days ago

> What's the solution that's been around for years?

Build tools to generate C++ code from some other tool. Interface description languages, for example, or something like (going back decades here) lex and yacc even.

eschneider · 21 days ago

Debugging/modifying code generated from someone's undocumented c++ code generator is pretty close to the top of my list of unpleasant things to do. Yes, you can eventually figure out what to do by looking at the generated code and taking apart the code generator and figuring out how it all works but I'll take built-in language features any day.

eschneider commented on Ferrari Status collabfund.com/blog/ferra... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

FirmwareBurner · 23 days ago

>“We are not – we are not – a car company. We are a luxury company that is also doing cars.”

Replace Ferrari with Rolex and it's basically the same article. Veblen is such a good business model and place to work, if you can hack it that is.

Imagine you're a sales guy at Honda dealership, well you have to work hard to convince the middle aged dad why buy a CRV instead of a Toyota RAV4.

However, if you work at a Bugatti dealership, you don't need to convince the oil-rich Sheikh why he should buy the 2 million dollar car, he already wanted to buy it before he even stepped in. So not only is your job easier than the guy in the Honda dealership, it's also much better paid. The very definition of inequality. The same is true for other businesses. It's much easier and profitable selling Azure /Office 365 subscriptions to businesses, that some SW solution from a mom & pop shop.

eschneider · 23 days ago

It's not a good/bad business so much as a _different kind_ of business, with different engineering/sales requirements and different customers.

Neither is better, or more profitable over the long term than the other, but you really need to know which game you're playing.

eschneider commented on What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like? abitmighty.com/posts/the-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

pjc50 · a month ago

Agenda + minutes, in however minimal a form, is crucial. A meeting with no minutes and no agenda and a warm drink is just a tea party. Not that that doesn't have a role in organizations, but it shouldn't dominate your time.

Most standups are therefore tea parties. A previous boss of mine even used to bring biscuits, which was nice. It serves the role of reminding everyone that each other exists and are collaborating as a team, which occasionally needs reinforcement.

It's an RAF forums in-joke that being invited to a "meeting without biscuits" means you are going to be reprimanded.

Edit: good comment in this thread on the role of middle management meetings being intrinsically social/political: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44708660

eschneider · a month ago

Agendas are critical is deciding a) do I care and b) can I help.

eschneider commented on Vintage Macintosh Programming Book Library (2017) vintageapple.org/macprogr... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

eschneider · a month ago

Ooof, I still have entirely too many of those on paper. OTOH, when you need obsolete computer reference to do some bug fixes, they can be hard to find...

eschneider commented on Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding reuters.com/technology/mi... · Posted by u/spenvo

eschneider · a month ago

So novel, they couldn't even come up with an original name.