Scored a new hire! Offer accepted yesterday.
They should provide substantial relief once they are onboarded.
Was a wild experience. One candidate was caught in an outright lie.
Confirmed a leaking flush valve.
Estimate puts leakage at 140L PER DAY. That’s almost half my bill per month, and pushes me into the higher cost bracket.
Savings will be €120/year!
It’s nice to know the water utility does not care about identified leaks.
Capturing ALL the data!
Next step is to confirm the leak at the toilet. Should be interesting to correlate usage paired to energy meters on the washing machine, dishwasher, and the hot water.
I found a use for the onboard NPU on the Framework - little classifier for my Todo list. That and it renames screenshots for me with a classifier.
Otherwise it’s reeeeeaallly bad at doing anything. 50tops and 20b just… hallucinates.
I've been noticing the water bill is consistently high and suspected a leak - found a slow one in the flush valve of the toilet, and decided to hook up an ESP32 and CC1101 to monitor this going forward - turns out the meter already suspected a leak.
No word from the utility on this though :/
Chris retweeted
📡GNSS測位の大敵「マルチパス」に強いアンテナを試作！
トランジスタ技術11月号の特設では，地面や建物に反射した電波の影響を抑えるGNSSアンテナを試作します．
GNSSでは，直接届く電波だけでなく，地面などに反射した電波も受信してしまうことで，測位精度が低下することがあります．そこで，アンテナの放射特性を工夫し，後方への放射を抑える「モノポール・モード」と「ダイポール・モード」を組み合わせます．
📍 実際の環境で測位性能を比較
📡 マルチパスの影響を低減
🔧 アンテナ素子を工夫して試作
📊 cm級測位を支えるアンテナ技術を検証
高精度測位は，受信機だけでは決まりません．
アンテナから攻めて，測位精度を改善します．
#トランジスタ技術 #トラ技 #GNSS #みちびき #衛星測位 #アンテナ #マルチパス #高精度測位
Going on the internet is a bad idea.
sigmaphoto.com/sigma-fp-l-ca…
Accidentally figured out a candidate lied to me. Then the technical presentation happened and it was clear as day they had no clue about the thing they apparently "built."
Bad part was that on first presentation to me, my director, and peers the candidate came across as extremely competent. If we had not done the technical test, they would have passed.
Say what you want about take-home tasks, but it's extremely valuable to tease out time management skills, if the candidate can back up their purported skillset (made a big API mistake, but reported years of experience), and honesty (a very explicit lie in this case)
Fortunately another candidate impressed, was honest, and will be getting an offer letter today!
Me:
Me: Hey Meo, I'd like to cancel this one line I specified in the online form.
Meo: all good!
Meo mails me a physical letter stating my _entire_ service (phone lines + fibre) is being cancelled with a nice €222 penalty that I discover in my mailbox today...
I've been on the phone 30mins trying to reverse this.
Chris retweeted
I designed an analog mixed-signal radio chip with an AI agent: about 700 prompts in a week, and it's now submitted for tapeout.
Here's how it went at each step of the design, the times it was confidently wrong, and how I caught them.
youtube.com/watch?v=c53n4mH_…
#ASIC #opensource
I’m hoping my network can help here - I’m hiring! Looking for an experienced Senior TAM that’s solid on the technical front and capable in front of customers.
Happy to chat to anyone that’s interested. Role is remote, but US-based.
linkedin.com/jobs/view/44817…
Anyone want to guess why the Framework display at the bottom is a couple of frames behind the 49” display at the top?
Dumbing it down + being enthusiastic about learning opportunities + praise seems to be the recipe.
I think the Android TV capture is what scared it off.
The stars aligned and two of my friends who live on opposite ends of the world were in Lisbon.
Make the trip, pick up the phone, do what needs to be done for your friends!
This reminded me to cancel my invoicing software subscription. I don’t use any of the online/tracking features anyway, so might as well just generate the PDF directly.
It’s not that I’m against giving money to someone, it made my life easier when I sent 5 invoices a month, but it’s down to a handful per year.
You can craft an invoicing app in 10 mins now.
