heckelson (u/heckelson)

heckelson commented on Espflash – Go CLI/library for flashing ESP8266/ESP32 with no dependencies github.com/tinygo-org/esp... · Posted by u/deadprogram

n8henrie · 10 days ago

Is this related to the popular and longish-standing Rust tool for the same purpose? I expected to see it referenced somewhere in the readme...

<https://github.com/esp-rs/espflash>

heckelson · 10 days ago

I guess they're very much related, given that they're both tools to flash images to an esp32. But from checking the repo, this seems to be an effort by the tinygo people to extend the embedded go ecosystem.

heckelson commented on Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.202... · Posted by u/PlaceboGazebo

Meegul · 2 months ago

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  / "We report here our experimental        \
  | demonstration of flexible egocentric     |
  | tooling in a pet cow (Bos taurus),       |
  | Veronika, who uses a deck brush to self- |
  | scratch. Across randomized trials, she   |
  | preferred the bristled end but switched  |
  | to the stick end when targeting softer   |
  | lower-body areas. This adaptive          |
  | deployment of tool features reveals      |
  | multi-purpose tool use not previously    |
  \ reported in non-primate mammals."       /
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heckelson · 2 months ago

For me, the cow was just below the bottom of the screen, which caused me to first wonder what the heck and then get great comic relief after scrolling down!

heckelson commented on I made my own Git tonystr.net/blog/git_immi... · Posted by u/TonyStr

heckelson · 2 months ago

gentle reminder to set your website's `<title>` to something descriptive :)

heckelson commented on There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape blog.jgc.org/2026/01/ther... · Posted by u/abnercoimbre

heckelson · 2 months ago

I can't believe this things even have microphones in them! That's a crazy amount of tech just to end up as e-waste.

heckelson commented on What an unprocessed photo looks like maurycyz.com/misc/raw_pho... · Posted by u/zdw

shiandow · 3 months ago

You think that's bad? Imagine finding out that all video still encodes colour at half resolution simply because that is how analog tv worked.

heckelson · 2 months ago

Isn't it the other way round? We did and still do chroma subsampling _because_ we don't see that much of a difference?

heckelson commented on Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026? · Posted by u/meridion

apexalpha · 3 months ago

Thanks for the suggestions!

heckelson · 2 months ago

I remembered a course called "Learn Go through testing" that looks intriguing and also for beginners.

heckelson commented on Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026? · Posted by u/meridion

apexalpha · 3 months ago

I want to learn proper programming. Maybe Go, then C(++).

I have never had a proper formal IT education, just learned everything on the go. I can write essentially everything in Python or Bash using AI. I know most (data)concepts and what data to move where in what fashion, I just don't have the hours in it to be able to do it from the top of my head.

I feel the AI is great, but it's also holding me back. Like how driving a automatic transmission is nice, but you'll never learn to drive stick from it.

Also Docker / k8s ecosystem seems to be mostly Go based. And it looks cool, the syntax.

If anyone has any courses that are interactive and can keep an ADHD mind invested in it I'm all ears.

Might be a bit of a tame goal for hckrnews but yeah.

heckelson · 3 months ago

I've been learning Go for about 4-6 months. So far I've been really enjoying the language. I'll suggest to you to work through the go tour in the beginning, then gobyexample is a great reference resource. I've also heard good things about the book "100 Go mistakes" which is for advanced users. Obviously, Go has its own quirks but if you can enjoy them and make the language work for you, it's really fun!

heckelson commented on To AI or not to AI antropia.studio/blog/to-a... · Posted by u/serchinastico

wintermutestwin · 5 months ago

Lots of reasons! First off: where else do I go to learn this stuff? Man pages are reference for people who work in CLI all the time and not for virgin learners as they are are necessarily packed with the complete lexicon but with barely a thought to explaining real world examples of common tasks. There are a million Linux websites with the same versioning issues and inadequate explanations. I guess I could buy an oreily book and learn the topic end to end even though I will only need to know the syntax of a couple commands.

With an LLM, I can get it to tell me what each parameter it suggests actually does and then I can ask it questions about that to further my understanding. That is a massive leg up over the knowledge spaghetti approach...

heckelson · 5 months ago

I like the tldr pages to learn the most common features and use cases of new command line tools! I think it's great, albeit, a bit slow sometimes

heckelson commented on California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record sfgate.com/sports/article... · Posted by u/danielmorozoff

rurban · 6 months ago

They are just suicidal.

I did surf big waves, but certainly not Nazare nor Mavs. That's just too dangerous.

heckelson · 6 months ago

I know very little about surfing, can I ask why it is so dangerous?

heckelson commented on I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory joshfonseca.com/blogs/ani... · Posted by u/vuciv

anticrymactic · 6 months ago

Or they could just tell you. Imagine talking to someone over and over again. They would tell u to get on with wherever you promised them.

heckelson · 6 months ago

oh yeah that's much smarter than what I suggested