PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]

Anarchist, autistic, engineer, and Certified Professional Life-Regretter. I mosty comment bricks of text with footnotes, so don’t be alarmed if you get one.

You posted something really worrying, are you okay?

No, but I’m not at risk of self-harm. I’m just waiting on the good times now.

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  • way more than $π million.

    I don’t need more than $π million. I just need enough to get some stuff started. I’m not interested in getting rich.

    I would also use the first loop to take medical tests of my health as much as possible since it wouldn’t matter if I went into debt in the first loop.

    Fair enough, but I really need the charm. I’m autistic and I’m not good at being social. I’d definitely be willing to give up a few years of life for more charm.





  • Thanks for replying. It sounds like you basically get two (or some number well below one keys per character) keys and the set of possible characters gets somehow distributed between the two “real” keys, then the keyboard uses a predictive algorithm based on previous input to guess which keys were meant to be pressed.

    IMO I’d be willing to try out an implementation of such an idea so long as I could run the predictive algorithm locally on my phone. I do think that current autocorrect + predicting which keys were pressed would require a lot more training data than just a generic autocorrect to get it working sensibly, and I think it would take a lot longer to converge to the user’s “style” if it ever does.












  • The context is a group project you have to do for school?

    Yeah, grad school. I was expecting four years of college to filter out unserious students.

    The reason I am checking is that these often turn into one person desperately trying to get the others to do something and ending up doing it all themselves.

    I genuinely hope they just ask me to do the whole thing, because I can do the whole thing myself. I brought them on because I need to learn to work with people. Naturally, I would always work alone, but I’ve been burned a few times trying to take on group projects solo and burning myself out, so I brought on some people to split the work.

    What is it you’re trying to get them to do? Why do they need to read the stuff you’re sending them?

    I don’t want to give out too many details in case they show up here, but I am trying to get them to write basic implementations of a few key features. They need to understand how the microprocessor actually communicates with the peripherals so they can configure it (and the peripherals) correctly. This topic is exactly what the course is about.

    No one reads this stuff unless they absolutely have to. What is the purpose of asking them to read it?

    It’s a coding-intensive project where we need to communicate with a few peripherals without locking up the rest of the system. There’s no way to just “figure out” this stuff. You either read the code, or you read the docs, or you flounder.