The observation is that most USB-C to 3.5mm ("aux jack") audio dongles are supporting high quality audio but only support the USB Full Speed (FS) data rate which is not enough for the high quality audio. This causes problems.

I had an argument with my uncle once. In Germany, there is "Pfand" on bottles and soda cans. You pay a little extra when you buy one and when you return it to the "Pfandautomat" you get back the extra amount. He was arguing that this is somehow indoctrination by the state to condition us to follow rules. I have avoided conversations with him since

That's using CSI though. The article said the researches specifically did not utilize CSI.

But regarding CSI: I evaluated that as a small part of my Master's thesis and it worked pretty OK for motion detection but not for classifying other activities, at least not on a SISO link. For more complex stuff you would need both a MIMO access point (router) and device (e.g. phone). Also, you need to constantly transmit messages to get up-to-date CSI, which is not great for power consumption as well as cluttering the communication channel. There are some other constraints, especially regarding noise. E.g. I managed to completely destroy the CSI spectrogram by turning on a microwave oven. There is 802.11bf in development, which is supposed to standardize this, because currently using CSI is pretty much a "hack", as it is not intended for sensing. Once this is widely adopted, I would start being worried, but not right now.

This is from my thesis:

At work, I have a very knowledgeable colleague who is quite the Linux nerd. I have been moved into their department and I feel like they never had the chance to share all of their accumulated knowledge with someone, so they kinda dump it onto me and every little question has the chance to become a lecture. I am very thankful for it though, because I get learn a ton but sometimes you just wanna get a bool, without learning kernel internals that are absolutely not related to the question

At a standup meeting, CEO asked whether we use AI and I was the only one who said that I don't use it at all, or very rarely, starting a little discussion. Overall, their position is somewhat moderate. They do fall for the hype a lot (especially with the recent Claude stuff) but it did not seem that it was a requirement for us to use it. But they were curious why I do not embrace this so much and I said that I can feel myself getting more and more stupid when using these tools, due to the mental offloading. This seemed to resonate a bit with the others, at least I could feel that my coworkers in the round got my point, despite remaining silent.

Coworker recently came to my desk and jokingly asked why I was typing out code by hand when I could ask Claude to generate it for me, but there was also a bit of seriousness to it, so I cringed a lot

Or just make your whole game about your pet

I really love Japanese jazz fusion. None of my friends understand my excitement about the EWI solos, they just say it sounds like Mario Kart music lol. I'm also into Buddhism, but dont have anyone else with this interest.

Haha touché. Maybe I should have added that he is a conspiracy theorist (of the Reichsbürger kind)

I really noticed it when instead of thinking how to solve X, my mind started phrasing a prompt to ask how to solve X instead, does that make sense? I found this to be a dangerous, almost evil thing, and I'm sure it is the same with my coworkers, or they just don't like to admit it. I still do this sometimes but am giving my best to unlearn it. And the crazy thing is, I did not even use it that much, only very occasionally, similar to what you mentioned you do. I do not wish to know how cooked the brains of "vibe coders" are by now...

When you can only commute with a car, yeah it's dumb. However, I have a daily commute of 1 hour with my bicycle and it's a great way to get some exercise. In this regard it's forcing me to move my body, which I otherwise probably wouldn't in my free time. Gym of life.

I think the main advantage with the wifi-based approaches is that they are usually used in a relatively static/calm indoor environment with a stable channel response and your motions are disturbing that, compared to a quickly changing outdoor environment (e.g. a city) where it would be much harder to distinguish individuals. Also, you are typically closer to the access points, making the power/SNR higher. Regarding mobile communication though, the trend is towards higher frequencies and smaller cell sizes which also give greater spatial resolution (and higher power) and some funky near-field effects can be used to get beam forming on crack: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10147 So perhaps it could work even better, wouldn't be surprised

Absolutely! These are the obvious ones, maybe you already know them:

• T-Square
  • "TRUTH" is an absolute classic, just like "サーキットの放浪者", and "Travellers"
• Casiopea
  • I think "Be" is my favourite Album, but all are solid
• Masayoshi Takanaka
  • the rainbow goblin album is my favourite, I think
  • I watch this one when I'm sad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTDK5Bluh5A

And then also some that are maybe lesser known (no particular order):

• Katsumi Horii Project
  • They have quite a lot of songs. "Way to morning" or "Flashback" are good examples. I also like "Jungle of Heaven"
• Trix
  • "ECCENTRIX" is really nice, just like "An Index"
• Dimension
• Himiko Kikuchi
• Naniwa Express
• Yuji Toriyama
• Chikara Ueda & The Power Station
• Toshiki Kadomatsu
• The Gran Turismo soundtrack also has some hidden Gems here and there

I think what I like about this genre is that it combines very catchy melodies/riffs and chord progressions with really creative jazzy solos. I have not really found much recent stuff (>2010), though. But I can recommend SOIL & Pimp Sessions. They are more recent and more traditional-jazz-oriented.

Bonus if you like light prog/math rock: Check out Elephant Gym. Spring Rain (春雨) is one of my favourite songs.

It's awesome! I used FreeCAD and OpenSCAD before and I think I will stick to solvespace for new projects. FreeCAD is OK but quite buggy and the parametric design is a pain. OpenSCAD is also great and I still use it for some things. I think parametric design is cool, but 99/100 times it is completely unnecessary for me and solvespace made me realize this. I initially disliked being unable to define variables for dimensions (and re-using them) but again it's often overkill and disrupts the flow quite a bit, so suddenly you would spend hours defining parameters and calculations that you wouldn't use anyways. TLDR: YAGNI basically. Also, solvespace is pretty :) What about you?

I would say the German system works pretty well and is well accepted but the outrage when they ruled that the lid on plastic bottles needs to be attached to the bottle was beyond infantile

Don't really have a clue about e-bikes. But looking through some e-bike chargers on Amazon, they have maybe 100 W to 200 W. USB-PD (EPR) apparently supports up to 240 W. Do note that the e-bike chargers are rated at 54.6 V, though, while PD only supports up to 48 V, and I guess the higher voltage might be required for the cell chemistry. So idk if it would be possible to design your batteries around the USB spec. In any case, you would need a separate charger and special cable to support 5 A over USB anyways.

I mentioned this in a another reply, but you just need a microwave oven basically :)

As I said, I personally wouldn't do that in my free time, especially not every single day.. because I'm too lazy haha

PIDs for can be very fun. And essentially its just 5 or so lines of code, which is something I wish they told us in uni (instead, it was mostly theory, as in the meme). I recently built a kiln which goes to 1000-something °C with a PID controller and I just set the parameters by vibes, not even some formal method. And it just works. So here is my resource: The (bit messy) controller code for my oven The code is obviously a bit more than those few lines, but I just wanted to say that the implementation is very simple, which I would have liked to know when I started out with this.

Edit: just found a bug after looking at the code again haha, so thank you :D

I have an EE Master's degree. Do I know how to do household wiring (safely)? absolutely. Do I know about what standards I need to respect? absolutely no idea

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6KpvuUS4U8w ... no problem