flyingpenguin (u/flyingpenguin)

flyingpenguin commented on Show HN: Bayleaf – Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard graz.io/articles/bayleaf-... · Posted by u/sgraz

flyingpenguin · a year ago

I have been working on a very similar build.

One feature I decided was a requirement is holding me up. I really want pogo pins on the sides of the keyboards, so that they magnetically attach and the left will charge the right.

How do you charge the left and the right since they require separate cables?

flyingpenguin commented on Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting theverge.com/news/609207/... · Posted by u/ambigious7777

ielillo · a year ago

The USA has 240 volt plugs. They are only used for high power appliances such as AC or ovens. If you want, you could add a plug for your high powered space heater AKA gaming PC.

flyingpenguin · a year ago

The problem there would be your breaker. I am not an electrition but I can tell you that when I tried adding a heated MAU to my house, I had to switch to a 120v washer/dryer because my electric panel did not have space for another 208v line.

(Note, my building is actually 3 phase 208 volt not 240volt so I don't have 240 volt plugs but 208volt plugs)

flyingpenguin commented on Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond ft.com/content/5122706e-3... · Posted by u/pseudolus

UniverseHacker · a year ago

> Inflation makes it harder for the current generation

It's not obvious to me that this is the case- if your wages go up with inflation, and you store money in stocks/bonds that keep up with inflation- doesn't it also just make any debt you have gradually reduce overtime?

flyingpenguin · a year ago

This is why being in low interest debt is so amazing. Take two people with the exact same job tracks, same appartments, family, interests, etc...

But give one of them $2,000,000 in mortgage debt at 3.0% interest on 3 properties that are rented out, and don't have the other have anything.

In 15 years, those properties will be worth 2-3x as much, and the debt will still be 2,000,000. This is what happened to boomers even though they don't realize it. Its not that houses are some amazing investment, its that no one will give you 7figure loans at 3% interest to buy stocks with money you don't have, but they will do it for a property.

flyingpenguin commented on Nordstrom family to take company private bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung

mitthrowaway2 · a year ago

I don't think department stores are failing because they're a bad business. I think they're failing because they're being gutted by corporate raiders for their real estate assets.

flyingpenguin · a year ago

I disagree, I think they are bad business.

I have come to absolutely detest online shopping. I have to return so much stuff, live with so many things that I don't actually love, generate sooooo much trash, and spend hours on hours researching everything because I can't hold it in my hand.

Then I walk into REI and ask them if I can try on a size 9 wide of a running shoe. They tell me they don't have it, so I ask them if they have any wide... they don't have a single wide shoe. Then I ask what they have and they say "Ohh we have 200 of the exact same shoe in the exact same size in stock"

And then I go order 5 different 9-wide shoes on amazon and return 4....

flyingpenguin commented on Updates to H-1B uscis.gov/newsroom/news-r... · Posted by u/sul_tasto

pandaman · a year ago

It's not an assumption, Affirmative Action along with many other requirements is mandated for the contractors working with the US. You can start from here https://www.dol.gov/agencies/odep/program-areas/employers/fe...

flyingpenguin · a year ago

I have worked for a few defense contractors in my time. There is significantly more diversity outside of defense than inside defense.

I had a team of 14 with 2 women and 1 non-white male. I had a team of 10 with 0 women and 0 non-white male. I had a team of 20 with 1 women and 0 non-white male.

Looking at it another way, thats 40 successful white male hires, and 4 successful non-white male hires.

if only having access to 91% of jobs instead of 100% is the reason you can't get hired....

edit: To clarify, as a software developer of 10+ years both in defense and faang, I have never once had a team where there was less than 50% white men.

flyingpenguin commented on GitHub Copilot is now available for free github.com/features/copil... · Posted by u/ksec

thot_experiment · a year ago

If anyone is looking for a free/local alternative Continue + Ollama is acceptable. If you're just doing run of the mill programming it will work well out of the box.

I'm glad it's open source so I was able to fix most of the issues I had with it and now my copy is in a great place. The documentation is in places many versions behind the actual code so it can be tough to figure out how to set things up when you're venturing off the beaten path. That all being said the granularity of control you have when using local models leads to an experience that's far better than Cursor/Copilot, I really enjoy that it reads my mind a lot of the time now (because I have prompt engineered it to know how I think).

Ultimately, isn't this just the way of things? https://thot-experiment.github.io/forever-problems/?set%20up...

flyingpenguin · a year ago

I found the plugin did not prompt the model often enough. I would finish writing aline, and go to a new line and sit there waiting to see what the AI thought would be next, only to realize continue wasn't prompting...

flyingpenguin commented on The size of BYD's factory twitter.com/taylorogan/st... · Posted by u/elsewhen

seanmcdirmid · a year ago

I doubt the Americans will let them do that so easily.

flyingpenguin · a year ago

A quick google search of "BYD Mexico" tells me it is already starting.

flyingpenguin commented on The size of BYD's factory twitter.com/taylorogan/st... · Posted by u/elsewhen

codedokode · a year ago

> As another example, if Tesla sells Model 3s for $50,000 and BYD comes in with a similar spec car priced at $25,000, then putting a 100% tariff on it will drive BYD's effective price up to $50,000 allowing Tesla to compete without undercutting or outright selling at a loss.

Doesn't that mean that American will have to pay $50 000 for a car that is worth $25 000? While people in other countries will be able to buy cars cheaper, buy more of them and maybe it somehow improves their life quality.

flyingpenguin · a year ago

The purpose is to prop up local companies.

Which is not always a bad idea, having a local supply and innovation of something can be rather important, local money is less "Gone" than foreign money, think of how healthy small towns are when all of the shops are local vs when they are not.

The problem comes when there is no realistic local competition. If you don't make something locally at all, an import tariff is just a stupid tax.

flyingpenguin commented on The size of BYD's factory twitter.com/taylorogan/st... · Posted by u/elsewhen

harrall · a year ago

I believe outsourcing can be a symptom of not innovating anymore.

Imagine having to contract out every prototype to a metal working shop — it slows down your ability to iterate because you can’t just go downstairs and try it.

But once you have a design set in stone, outsourcing is cheaper than doing it in-house. These companies specialize in producing parts with economies of scale.

But if you do it for too long, you kind of lose the ability to quickly iterate. Striking a balance is hard.

flyingpenguin · a year ago

I think its a symptom of economies of scale being able to go too far. Cost per unit seems to keep going down basically infinitely and it is a problem.

Making less than 10,000 of anything just doesn't seem to make economic sense unless you assume there is a chance no one will want any of them.

flyingpenguin commented on An Update on Apple M1/M2 GPU Drivers lwn.net/SubscriberLink/99... · Posted by u/MrBuddyCasino

GeekyBear · a year ago

> People booting linux on their macs to play games would really annoy Apple probably.

You dont have to boot Linux to play PC games on Mac.

Apple already provides the tools you need to build a Mac native equivalent to Proton.

There are several options built using those tools, both paid {Crossover) and free/open source (Whisky).

Whisky combines the same ooen source Wine project that Proton leverages with Apple's Rosetta x86 emulation and Apple's DirectX emulation layer (part of the Game Porting Toolkit) into a single easy to use tool.

https://getwhisky.app/

flyingpenguin · a year ago

The problem here is that apple only provides Metal as the graphics driver. This solution instead creates a native Vulkan driver which has solutions to hardware<->vulkan incompatibilities built in at the driver level.