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mikeInAlaska commented on SSD1306 display drivers and font rendering subalpinecircuits.com/ssd... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

mikeInAlaska · 8 months ago

Here's a rust version i made with bitmapped fonts for both i2c and SPI https://github.com/scopenews/minimalSSD1306driver/ I was running this on my pi as a demo.

I normally work with C++ on esp32 for these little displays, and in there I use a screen buffer for partial refreshes which makes them very fast !!

mikeInAlaska commented on What made the Irish famine so deadly newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/pepys

mikeInAlaska · 9 months ago

We went to the Dunbrody Famine ship exhibit in New Ross, Ireland a few years back. It was a neat exhibit, first they seat you in a dark small room and show a movie detailing the situation, then the wall opens up and the ship is nicely framed in the view, sitting outside in the River Barrow.

They then take you out to tour the ship.

mikeInAlaska commented on Micro keypad to do your regular Git push/pull/add/commit actions gitsyncpad.xyz/... · Posted by u/aravindkumarv

mikeInAlaska · 9 months ago

Is this an actual problem to be solved? I would not want our repo "attached" to devices capable of one click operations.

mikeInAlaska commented on Alexa+ aboutamazon.com/news/devi... · Posted by u/fgblanch

doctoboggan · 10 months ago

I ordered the first echo the day it was announced, and was excited about the possibility for years.

But that "possibility" never turned into reality for me and I ended up only using it to start timers and play music. I've since abandoned the product line and do not have faith that Amazon will develop this into something actually useful, rather than something that is used to sell me products and surveil on me.

mikeInAlaska · 10 months ago

I enjoy coming up with questions deemed so politically incorrect that alexa responds with a BONK noise.

mikeInAlaska commented on Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line soranews24.com/2024/12/21... · Posted by u/edward

mikeInAlaska · 10 months ago

Ended up on Elmendorf Air Force Base (at the hospital) this way once as a little kid in the early 1980s. The bus actually went from Anchorage onto the air force base and then called it quits. That was definitely my station of despair. "Mom... drive onto the military base and get me."

mikeInAlaska commented on US bill proposes jail time for people who download DeepSeek 404media.co/senator-hawle... · Posted by u/soundworlds

mikeInAlaska · a year ago

From the article:

> Hawley introduced the legislation, titled the Decoupling America’s > Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act, > on Wednesday of last year.

On Wednesday of last year you say.... hmmm what wrote this article

mikeInAlaska commented on OpenAI O3-Mini openai.com/index/openai-o... · Posted by u/johnneville

jen729w · a year ago

> Testers preferred o3-mini's responses to o1-mini 56% of the time

I hope by this they don't mean me, when I'm asked 'which of these two responses do you prefer'.

They're both 2,000 words, and I asked a question because I have something to do. I'm not reading them both; I'm usually just selecting the one that answered first.

That prompt is pointless. Perhaps as evidenced by the essentially 50% response rate: it's a coin-flip.

mikeInAlaska · a year ago

Maybe we should take both answers, paste them into a new chat and ask for a summary amalgamation of them

mikeInAlaska commented on PCBs, copper pours, ground planes, and you lcamtuf.substack.com/p/pc... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

yujzgzc · a year ago

All I know is that it makes it very hard to solder anything to ground with my cheap underpowered soldering iron

mikeInAlaska · a year ago

I switched away from full solid copper floods due to this. (Even with nice soldering equipment.) I still use full size floods but they are more like basket-weave patterns, probably 50% copper. I rotate the pattern on my second inner plane.

mikeInAlaska commented on PCBs, copper pours, ground planes, and you lcamtuf.substack.com/p/pc... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

mikeInAlaska · a year ago

Four layer boards are so cheap now, it's all I choose. I usually do two internal ground planes and route my power on one side unbroken. I haven't made an interrupted return path since watching Rick Hartley videos.

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