SlowRobotAhead

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Comment · 2 years ago
I can tell you having been responsible for the aspects of a TINY scale in comparison button, about 30,000 units a year, that buttons are fucking hard man! It's so much harder to make a button than an entire PCB. You wouldn't think so, but you need to be GOOD at injection molding, stresses, DFM (design for manufacturing), cost analysis, generally know ALL the options to produce something, production tolerances and more just to talk to the actual experts in those fields.

Other poster is correct, it's a big deal, and it's why screens have replaced buttons in cars. It's so much cheaper to make a screen. Which is funny because as an EE, I judge a new vehicle first by how many buttons they still have.

Comment · 2 years ago
I liked it, but couldn't get past "this is just Bioshock in space with a more mysterious plot". Then the reveal, well, IDK.
Comment · 2 years ago
There is no doubt AI won't be used to fix the fully voiced issue. That is such a no-brainer.

As to graphics, my favorite games of the past 5 years were average graphics at best. (Subnautica, Outer Wilds, Hollow Knight, Hades... Red Dead 2 ok not that one)

Comment · 2 years ago
I think the Starfield TV show is going to have difficulties, it'll just be people switching between planets every scene.
Comment · 2 years ago
I'd really love cables from my office to my livingroom.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's getting there, but the day that old.reddit doesn't work is the day I never go back even for small community stuff.
Comment · 2 years ago
I am confused why you think this is a problem reddit wants to solve. They're in on it homie.

Now there is a stock price to protect. They literally are obligated to keep the bots running because it directly effects the stock price.

It's new stupid world.

Comment · 2 years ago
There is almost no difference in r/politics and the other "formerly default" (but still default by means of network effects) subs.

It's all the same lunatic that has no idea they're on the other side of the horseshoe as "the bad people".

Comment · 2 years ago
What? You don't like getting strongly opinionated advice from kids that haven't even gotten their first internship yet?

I swear some of the things I've been downvoted for in r/embedded is just out of control nuts.

Comment · 2 years ago
>the only informational resource on the web that's still unscathed is Wikipedia

Ask a conservative about that opinion. Do it before you do exactly what I'm accusing you of and downvoting the bad man who said the thing against "your side".

EDIT: Yea, thanks for the gaslighting but Wikipedia's organized effort to remove conservative editors to shift a left bias in the content is well documented. I'm the crazy one injecting politics into "fair and unbiased wikipedia" lol

Comment · 5 years ago
That list of murdered trans people is awful.

I wonder why only two I could find were trans men, and almost all were in large cities? Is it that much safer to be a trans man than a trans woman?

It’s a shame there isn’t any details at all around the circumstances of their deaths. I wonder if that could have relevant content at all?

Comment · 5 years ago
“ Ful ofte in game a sooth I have herd saye!” (Many a true word is spoken in jest)

Accredited to Chaucer

Comment · 5 years ago
> Software keeps retrying. We get hit by a massive flood of DNS traffic asking for http://facebook.com

If you aren’t using exponential backoff algorithms for your reconnect scheme - you should be!

I have a device in the field, only a few thousand total, but we saw issues when our shared cloud would go down and everyone hammered it to get back up.

Comment · 5 years ago
Do you know more than the medical experts in India and Japan? Should they be mocked?
Comment · 5 years ago
I don’t know much about myocarditis, but isn’t it possible and even likely a large number of those cases would be undiagnosed?

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