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rpcope1 commented on Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’ thenewstack.io/adafruit-a... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute

malfist · 6 hours ago

Adafruit is not an arduino competitor. They sell arduinos

rpcope1 · 6 hours ago

They also sell feather and a bunch of other vaguely similar stuff and have their own "maker" ecosystem (think CircuitPython). I like Adafruit, but they are in many senses competitors to Arduino.

rpcope1 commented on Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems techcrunch.com/2025/12/12... · Posted by u/kernelrocks

grosales · 3 days ago

You would lose that bet. Walmart has invested a LOT in modernizing stuff over the last 10 years. You cannot deliver groceries in less than an hour using the old inventory. It's not perfect, but what it's been done given the scale , it's nothing short of a miracle. Source: I have been working there for 10 years.

rpcope1 · 10 hours ago

I was talking HD. Walmart has a rep for being a decent tech shop and given how well all their stuff seems to work, I would not be remotely surprised if they weren't on the leading edge of good software.

rpcope1 commented on Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems techcrunch.com/2025/12/12... · Posted by u/kernelrocks

freedomben · 3 days ago

Indeed, Home Depot's software is generally so bad. I remember around 2017/2018 time frame when they started showing up to big tech conferences (especially K8s and React.js conferences) really trying to modernize. I spent a few minutes talking to the people manning the booth (which were surprisingly high ranking in the company, at least by title), and came away thinking "I'm glad you're making an effort, but y'all really have no idea what you're doing." The left hand and the right hand had completely different ideas/priorities about how to accomplish their goals. I didn't want to make any judgments on a simple conversation at a conference, but at this point I think time has shown that it was pretty representative of how they were approaching it internally, and unsurprisingly it did not work out super well.

Now that said, I don't want to minimize the difficulty in modernizing software at a corp like HD. It's wildly more difficult than most people can appreciate. I've consulted for companies trying to do it, and there are lots of challenges with legacy systems, migrations, and plenty of non-technical challenges as well.

Shout out to Wal-mart for genuinely kicking ass at this though. I'm quickly becoming an Onn fanboy. Genearlly speaking, great products at great prices, from their USB cables up to their smart speakers and more. You can really tell from the product design and implementation that they are letting the nerds geek out and have fun! That in turn enables me to do the same :-)

rpcope1 · 3 days ago

I'll bet money any new React/K8s/${WEBSCALE} stuff they're building is still just a wrapper over the same old inventory management they've been using for years...probably something like JDEdwards on AS/400.

rpcope1 commented on Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems techcrunch.com/2025/12/12... · Posted by u/kernelrocks

bluedino · 3 days ago

Now look up impact wrenches.

  1/2 in
  1 in
  1/4 in
  3/8 in
  3/4 in
  7/16 in

rpcope1 · 3 days ago

> 7/16 in

I had a major WTF moment there, until I realized that's probably for a hex driver (and thus something totally different than what I think of when someone says "impact wrench").

rpcope1 commented on Self-hosting my photos with Immich michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/birdculture

fsh · 9 days ago

My biggest worry with Immich is how to future-proof the albums. With photos sorted into folders, it should be no problem to access them in a couple of decades. With Immich, I have to rely on the software still working or finding some kind of tool to dump the database.

rpcope1 · 9 days ago

This is why I still use Piwigo as I don't need to mess with file names and structure as far as I have seen.

rpcope1 commented on The differences between an IndyCar and a F1 car openwheelworld.net/en/ind... · Posted by u/1659447091

fcatalan · 11 days ago

I think the cars reflect pretty well the intended ethos and "vibes" of both competitions. Indycar still feels a bit like "dudes racing cars" while F1 has become a corporate hi-tech extravaganza.

Both have their appeal, but I feel Indy produces better actual racing for the spectator despite being slower and less refined technically. I do watch both.

rpcope1 · 11 days ago

Honestly after going down to the local circle track to watch the Legend cars, modified , Whelen and actual honest to God GM B-bodies from the 80s, along with other open wheel and general cool shit, it's not hard IMO to find (and be directly involved in) actual racing than watch "NASCAR" Cup series or F1. Legend cars on a road track in particular kind of takes me back to watching the super bike races (which were about as real and hardcore actual racing as you'll get) at Mid Ohio.

rpcope1 commented on Everyone in Seattle hates AI jonready.com/blog/posts/e... · Posted by u/mips_avatar

binary132 · 12 days ago

Bitcoin is at 93k so I don’t think it’s entirely accurate to say blockchain is insubstantive or without value

rpcope1 · 12 days ago

There can be a bunch of crazy people trading each other various lumps of dog feces for increasing sums of cash, that doesn't mean dogshit is particularly valuable or substantive either.

rpcope1 commented on High-income job losses are cooling housing demand jbrec.com/insights/job-gr... · Posted by u/gmays

ramesh31 · 14 days ago

>"if you can rent cheaply enough for 10-20 years the boomers will start dying in sufficient numbers that if there is somehow no reversion on home prices in the mean time there should be insufficient buyers at that point and prices will eventually fall"

But that "10-20 years" is your life, and there's no getting it back. Millennials (the largest generation in US history) have entered into our prime family starting age, and the fact that most are priced out of the housing market right now and stuck renting apartments is a complete tragedy. At a 90th percentile income, I can just barely be able to afford a home and provide for a family of 3-4 like our parents and grandparents did on a highschool education with no higher skills.

rpcope1 · 14 days ago

Yeah, it definitely feels like the TFR crisis where the actual problems won't show up until it's too late and we're basically turbofucked.

rpcope1 commented on High-income job losses are cooling housing demand jbrec.com/insights/job-gr... · Posted by u/gmays

dragonwriter · 14 days ago

59 year olds were born in 1966, so the average homebuyer is from Gen X, not a Boomer.

rpcope1 · 14 days ago

I wonder if the distribution of ages for home buyers is not a normal distribution and maybe the median and standard deviations might tell us something more here. Regardless it's concerning that the average and likely median age has shot up that much.