Andreas Urbán

Programmer, fighter jet (Gripen E), UAV (Skeldar), automotive sensors and factory automation (Veoneer). Into Formal methods, Tcl, Mercurial, OpenGL, Ada...

[Andreas Urbán @1amjau]

Logging off. Reachable through other channels.

[Lore-Kun @utsu__kun]

Man goes to doctor. Says he is CEO of AI startup but has no idea how to become profitable.

Doctor says solution is simple. Advanced model GPT-4 is in town. Ask it how to profit, and it will surely know the answer.

Man bursts into tears. “But doctor” he says “you are GPT-4”

[Andreas Urbán @1amjau]

My spouse and I have started managing our lives with Notion. Having lists for purchases, home renovation, party and travel planning, friend contact info and allergies, recipes for meals we like.

Works amazingly. Especially for a scatter brain like myself.

[Andreas Urbán @1amjau]

Then again I'd still be fighting making my own environment rn if I didn't submit to their build system.

Mixed feelings.

[Andreas Urbán @1amjau]

Me: Ok, this time I'll do exactly as the tutorial says to not waste any time fighting for a development environment.

Also me: CMake? Ew.

[Andreas Urbán @1amjau]

Loh and behold I got the RP Pico W today and got it working.

And yes, I did fight cmake for most the time doing it.

[Andreas Urbán @1amjau]

@_wilfredh Matlab uses one % for comment, two %% for comment which also acts as a sort of region divider.

[Andreas Urbán @1amjau]

I added a text in my linkedin bio to say a special phrase so I know they read the bio and so far none is playing by the rules.

Suggests how automated this recruiting bs really is.

[Andreas Urbán @1amjau]

@stevekrouse Sipping from a drink at the beach watching the youngsters go at it is the endgame.

[Andreas Urbán @1amjau]

EU planning carbon tax on import, to more aggressive carbon policy locally without being penalized by foreign competition.

Also brilliant, though less certain it'll work out in practice all things considered.

[Andreas Urbán @1amjau]

Since the election I've had ideas like "if I were the government I would pass policy". In a just a few days two of these came true elsewhere, suggesting it's not all crazy.

[Andreas Urbán @1amjau]

New Zealand bans smoking for everyone born after a certain date.

Brilliant.

[Andreas Urbán @1amjau]

All keyboards should have knobs 🎛️

[Andreas Urbán @1amjau]

Feel like there is a mutually beneficial agreement in there somewhere... Sharing the risks somehow.

[Andreas Urbán @1amjau]

Overall feel like most companies neglect training. In part because there's always a fire to be extinguished instead. But also because any employee may quit before profiting from it.

[Andreas Urbán @1amjau]

This is in particular obvious when people go unemployed while companies whine about how there aren't any people with the proper competences. Relying on students taking on all the risk.

[Sam Taggart (@[email protected]) bluesky @sasworkshops]

In general, even if you work at a big company with onerous policies, you have more power than you think. Don't be afraid to stand up and do the right thing.

[Andreas Urbán @1amjau]

@AllenHeard The wifi capability is a huge deal in this. Can for instance pass on resource (time/energy/memory) intensive processing to a server at ease, such as my desktop.

And wireless makes location less of an issue. Tape it to a powerbank and it could run for days or even weeks anywhere.

[Andreas Urbán @1amjau]

First experiment will be collecting temperature data in a storage unit. See how close it gets to freezing.

[Andreas Urbán @1amjau]

Ordered myself a Raspberry Pi Pico W(ifi).

Ridiculously cheap. Have had a beer more expensive than that.