Readit Newsthedjinn commented on Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use quanticdev.com/articles/c... · Posted by u/soygul
I just replaced my MacBook Late 2013 after similar usage. No repairs, no hiccups or any component failure whatsoever except for a very badly degraded battery - it lasted about 1.5 hours on a full charge at the end. There’s a lot to be said about Apple but honestly I don’t see any other manufacturers that produce laptops that last so insanely long. Hopefully my new one will last as long as well :)
I'm on a 2012 MBP with similar experiences. Every year I think about finally replacing it, but hold off on it because everything still works fine apart from some increased fan noise and reduced battery capacity (which doesn't concern me too much). If you treat your laptop with care it really does last a long time.
At some point I expect I will stop getting MacOS updates which will force me to upgrade to a newer model.
thedjinn commented on A personal story about 10× development nibblestew.blogspot.com/2... · Posted by u/bkor
I have been thinking about doing something similar -- would love to hear more about this if possible!
It's basically a Pi, a buck regulator, a tiny COB USB audio interface and an SSD1306-based 128x32 display. Removed all connectors and replaced them with soldered wires so it packs neatly into a tiny box.
The software is all custom and written in C, using Jack for low latency audio and my own driver for the display (Adafruit makes a Python driver but it eats half of your CPU and is not optimized for i2c bandwidth or high framerates).
I built a guitar stomp box using a Raspberry Pi Zero to trigger samples with a foot switch. Runs on 9 volts and has a very bright OLED display so I can still see what it's doing when I'm playing in a dark venue.
Looks decent. I would suggest adding more tunings for us metal players that play lower tunings (for example, I play 2 whole steps down)
Not really a trick of Vim itself, but when using Vim from the terminal I find ctrl-z very useful to background Vim, type in a few shell commands for git or whatever and then use "fg" to hop back into Vim.
There is a lot of apps to recognize some things. Popular example are PlantNet, PlantSnap for recognizing plants. They all have similar functionality, you take a picture of the object and then the app show you a list of objects it thinks what is it. Click on it, you can see more information about the object.
There are many things which visual identification is helpful, e.g. dog breed, animal, plant species, vintage watches, artworks, ...
Everyone is expert in something and may have a lot of images of the objects and information about it. They should be able to share this knowledge to other people.
With our Lookuq platform, it is super easy to create an object recognizer app without coding. All you need is photos of the objects and some information about the objects in tabular form (CSV, Excel format). Then you can upload it to our website, let the system automatically create and train the model to recognize the objects. After that just use our pre-made app (available on both iOS and Android) to recognize the objects and show related information to the objects.
I would love to know what you think about it?