inmysocks (version: awoo) @inmysocks@awoo.space

I managed to solder the wires onto a tiny surface mount microphone.

The microphone is 4mm x 2mm and has 6 pads on it. I soldered a 24 gauge wire to each one.

I haven't tested to see if it works yet, but I feel accomplished.

The mic in question is https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/knowles/SPG08P4HM4H-1/423-1433-1-ND/10130508

So the client just came up with a great idea:

Do exactly what we did a year ago and gave as the first demo of what we are working on and said that he should continue with this.

I am getting lost in designing a robot

These little wireless modules I want to use for my mesh network cost barely more than 1 euro and have a max range of 800m.

Technology is weird.

It really feels like apple dropped the ball with swift.

A big part of that is the documentation which seems to be half outdated and half things that don't work.

Grumble

I was told "I am using private GitHub repos to make a privacy first cross platform application"

I have some bad news...

Object oriented programming is not my friend.

Todays task: Improve the stability of my software that connects to my custom USB HID thingy.

Google has graciously decided that it will delete some of it tracking data after 18 months*!

* On new accounts, and only the raw data that it stores, none of the models or analysis of this data. It also make no mention how 18 month old tracking information having almost no value to them because it has already been sold and incorporated into any models they are using the data for.
You can turn this on for existing accounts, and this isn't a new thing they offer. The big thing here they are trying to push is that somehow changing the default time for when the data gets deleted is a big win for privacy.

So perhaps that first line should be:

Google decides to save money by clearing out some old archives it can no longer exploit and trying to claim it is charity.

The client is clueless. Like, beyond clueless to the point of aggressively fighting the idea that having a clue is possible.

This is to the point where I don't think that meaningful progress is possible.

So despite me getting paid partially in equity for this project I am treating it as dead, if the client wants more work they can pay or buy out my stake in it, otherwise it is just dead

Some of the linguistic analysis stuff could be interesting, but I don't really care

I am bad at object oriented programming

Like really bad at it

I don't know why

Client < we want to make an rss scraper so we don't have to pay for access to a news ticker api for our historical data so we can get better results by only looking at high quality sources for our market sentiment data!
Me > That isn't how this works, the noise means we only see trends when you have huge amounts of data.
< So can you make the rss scraper? we only need like 10 sources! I want the better results!
> .........
> That isn't how math works.
< But high quality sources! Better results!!

I still maintain that it is objectively bad design to have a programming language where the default behaviour is to run commands synchronously and then when you have an asynchronous function instead of marking that it does something differently, you make the version that behaves the way everything else is the language does.

*glares at javascript and node*

It turns out that my simulations were running about 5x longer than necessary.

It wasn't wrong, but the system reached steady state after about 50k steps and I was running each one for 250k steps.

So instead of only doing one more batch I get to do more batches and hope this gives good data.

it turns out that my table of ~50 million rows had no index. So that may be part of it.

it is really really annoying but otherwise you get 1000 emails spread out over a week each asking for something tiny that should have been included in the original contract.

Before having to work directly with clients I always thought it was weird that people charged for things like quotes and consultations to determine what a job would be.

Now I fully understand. People have absolutely no respect for your time or expertise and the only way to get them to be at all specific or have their shit together is to change them for every tiny thing.

You want a tiny update? You pay for my time telling me you want the update, and my time making the update