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The perfect alarm clock would start lighting your life dreams on fire if you didn't wake up, cause that's whats happening anyway.

What if we regulate batteries even more? i.e. what if, in some magical perfect world, the world get's together and agrees on batteries for phones like how we agree on AA,AAA,D,C batteries? Even more though.. a standard connector, a standard comms bus, a variety of sizes, and they were designed for reuse as efficiently as possible.

Now we can scale up volume, swap them out, be free to purchase from a different manufacturer, and have scaled up recycling services.

As is the Ocean.

Booked a time!

My mother is living alone in her house and we are getting to the point where she might not be able to live alone. I built "Still Kicking", a picture frame that monitors her motion and sends back basic reports and can detect falls and sleep quality to a phone app, to help give her more time at home.

It's just an mmWave sensor connected to an ESP32. But it works nicely, and I'm thinking of starting a company making them, though I'm not clear if the elderly would be ok with this minimal (no camera) intrusion.

It would just work out of the box.. the real one would have a small cell modem so it wouldn't need any networking setup, and it would act as a gateway if you have more than one in a house. There are industrial versions of this for nursing homes. This would be a bit more warm and fuzzy for home use.

https://moveometer.com

What a trip. They must all be so excited!

I hope they will come back as ambassadors of peace.

<private prison owners enter the chat>

I always talked with the people I managed about their career goals, and always tried to adapt their job to be a closer fit to those goals. When I couldn't do that I would acknowledge that and even help them find a different job that did fit.

How else can we expect to get the best out of people?

51 year old electrical engineer here, same thing! (minus the retiring part cause finances)

It's given me the guts to be a solo-founder (for now). I

Building a faster and more accurate replacement for the BOD5 (Biochemical Oxygen Demand) 5 day test used in wastewater.

Great.

But make climate control 3 knobs: Fan speed + off, temperature and output ports. Put the AC button inside the temperature knob, and the 'recirculate' button inside the output ports knob.

With the radio have a push on/off volume knob that starts up at the SAME volume as always (i.e. relative, not absolute) and NOT the previous volume. The volume knob should have some resistance to it. Opposite that have a tune knob for precise tuning, and pressing that gets you into setup and navigates you through it. This should have the same resistance, but the outside has some indents so you know it's not the volume knob. Have 6 preset buttons and 3 'banks' with a single 'next bank' button. pressing and holding a preset will save it with a beep for confirmation. On the steering wheel: up/dn for radio should be seek, not next/previous preset. There are 6 nice big buttons for presets but when traveling seek up/dn is the main way we change music.

On the door have the rear view mirror controls, and above that have a knob for dashboard light brightness.

2008 Honda Fit was close to a perfect car. https://www.carsdirect.com/honda/fit/2008/pictures/interior

I loved this game. I want to make it into a mud.

Same with "Odie" in Garfield.. kindof.

A good start, but let's see more.

I biked around the US for 1.5 years, and loved every minute of it. Initially I had a hammock (Hennessey) and then a 1 person tent. Lived at a whitewater rafting company, was invited into a music festival, and was invited into people's homes and fed 2-3 days a week. I stopped to do the family thing, but gearing up to take them on bike trips soon.

Used QNX for an audioserver.. got MP3 encoding and playback ported to it. Visited the headquarters and Dan Dodge instructed his team to help us in any way we needed it.

We needed the help. Thank you Dan!! We eventually ported to linux about 6 years later, but you helped our startup get up and going.

It's time for tech to go back to its roots and starve the kings and 'noblemen' of our talent.

Stop working for billionaires.

I work in Oceanography.. The solar panels on individual buoys also get cleaned by rain, and can work ok vertically because of reflections. We have special diode bypass panels made so if 10% is covered in poop (SeaLion poop in our case) only 10% of the power is reduced.

Our biggest problem with small wind turbines on buoys is fishingpeople throwing line into them.

But yea, solar for power generation at sea is not realistic.. and you are stealing it from the tiny animals that make up our carbon sink. https://twilightzone.whoi.edu/explore-the-otz/value-of-the-o...

I agree - also an EE - and I think it is similar to 'programming music' packages like Sonic Pi. If you are used to reading and writing standard music coding will be an odd and difficult change. Right now we have a comfort for seeing the layout and such physically, and since that is how we manufacture it this is going to be an output anyway, but there is some future world where it is all put together automatically within the requirements we specify and we have an entirely new way of designing circuit boards. Each component would come with not only a footprint but an array of basic design implementations that would mix and match with others.. autorouting on steroids of sorts.

search youtube for motivational videos. Play one when you are down. Skip if you don't like it - there are an infinite number of them.

I did a startup making a mp3 player that was attached to whole house audio distribution systems. We got an angry email from a customer saying he woke up to ABBA playing full blast at 3:00am. While it was likely an integration/timer issue, he was wondering 'why ABBA? what is the player trying to tell me?"

The control system was sending 'play' with nothing else, which was more of an edge case based on our UI, and so it started at the beginning of the list of artists, and ABBA was at the beginning of that list.

Other players might have started at the beginning of the list of songs, but for some reason (25 years ago) we chose the beginning of the list of artists. Later on it was configurable - random, favorite playlist, etc.

We just started putting our kids on the potty around 5 months old.. they liked to sit on it and we would read to them. Sometimes stuff came out. But more importantly it was part of our routine before and after naps, and so by 1.5-2 they were fully trained mostly by themselves.

Waiting too long can create issues with sitting on a seat with a hole in it - at least make that a common thing you do.

We use MS365 at work. Outlook for the web is ok until you try to use the 'groups' feature. I need to hold a 10 minute tutorial on the backwards UI for the group view within outlook.

The 'groups' functionality is decent.. so sad they hide buttons and kinda just stopped working on it.

I made my DOS apps using National Instruments DOS GUI.. it was oddly wonderful, and super easy to make full fledged applications with 'c' calls. It's a shame they now just make bloatware for niche testing environments.

Then I got into visual basic in the later 90's and was able to build amazing apps as well. Then it all got overly complicated seemingly.

..and the woman can hear the heartbeat, and when it gets different it can have a closed loop affect that causes unnecessary stress.

good. It's not a sustainable lifestyle. Imagine if you had employees and payroll to hit and sales are slumping and you are running low on cash and your investors are yelling at you, your customers are never happy... That's a lot harder of a situation to deal with.

I dropped out of being an entrepreneur and normal life with a normal job is just a sweet sweet vacation. Bonus if you don't have to talk to the outside world and have good coworkers. You are a super human now.. be considerate of those who can't produce as much as you. The normal world moves slow. Turn up your patience dial and get home for soccer practice.

In my startup we had a customer who said they weren't going to pay us. I was upset and pissed as I had given them another chance after a previous payment issue to help them out of their hole. It felt personal.

My lead salesperson asked "do you know what a sunk cost is?" "no" "it's an accounting term for money that can not be retrieved, and going after it will probably only cost you more money, so you just have to write it off" "your being upset is compounding the loss. Let's spend that time and energy creating new sales instead of being sad about old ones. You need to write this off"

Felt 10x better, we then brainstormed and invented.

I've always had this dream of taking doom and building a map like the workplace.. but still with the occasional zombie. We all see each other, and meet up in the conference room to join a 'group zoom call' or something like that. There would also be a 'minecraft' room that puts us all on the same server to build prototypes and brainstorm together.

I wouldn't bet the farm on VR.

We should all be crying... Practically nothing has happened of any consequence, aside from this pandemic, to have any actual impact on climate change. We need a WW2 level of change in our lives. We need better public transportation and trains to reduce use of cars and airplanes, build nuclear plants, eat less meat and dairy..

Shatner went to space and was profoundly changed. What do we need to do for us all to be profoundly changed?

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3129/emission-reductions-from-...

Also with the leaf _how_ you drive makes a big difference. No AC or heat and accelerating slowly when safe can extend it a bit.