A 10 foot USB C cable. It reaches anywhere in the room. I can charge my phone in any position in bed. I only recently 'splurged' on this $10 item and it is the best thing ever.
You can have great espresso for cheap(er) but $100 seems suspiciously low. Manual espresso is about the best bang for you buck possible, but that stretches to $200 or more depending on how fancy you want to get.
By far the largest impact I’ve observed on my CO2 levels are from the hvac. When the fan is on the levels go down and tend to stay down, so I usually leave it on circulate which runs every ~15 mins (based on the graph structure). I use an SCD30 in the corner opposite to where I sit.
Also important is using a direct CO2 sensor (NDIR or photo acoustic) and not eco2 which can give false positives from other things in the air.
I dove into a new area recently: hardware. I have a bit of a sim racing hobby, but I only have a Bluetooth game controller. I found a project to make your own force feedback wheel base, called FFbeast. But before that, I've taken up designing and building my own shifter and (3) pedals.
I printed the main pedal frame and base with PETG, and I found some M5 hardware on amazon for pretty cheap. The pedals use a hall effect sensor to measure the proximity of the pedal to the frame base. They're wired to an esp32 ADC ports and I wrote a simple USB HID device with tinyusb and esp-idf which mounts as a generic game controller - good enough for my case. I saw some designs for a load cell brake pedal, but I wanted to do it as cheaply as possible first, so I found a stiff spring. Big inspiration was cncdan's design.
They feel great - I borrowed some old logitech pedals to compare the feel and these are much better! I think all in I spent ~$40 USD for the raw materials (spring, hardware, filament, hall sensors + wire, esp32) and a weekend of time.
I wanted badly to keep my 12, but it was too slow. I missed many things because the camera wouldn’t open most of the time. I changed the battery but it didn’t help. I had plenty of free storage. I almost wonder if it was a dud, I never observed the same on other of the same phone. I got the 17 and it’s been a great upgrade.
I have a few co workers who are deep into the current AI trends. I also have the pleasure of reviewing their code. The garbage that gets pushed is insane. I feel I can’t comment on a lot of the issues I see because there’s just so much slop and garbage that hasn’t been thought through that it would be re-writing half of their PR. Maybe it speaks more to their coding ability for accepting that stuff. I see comments that are clearly AI written and pushed like it hasn’t been reviewed by a human. I guard public facing infrastructure and apps as much as I can for fear of this having preventable impacts on customers.
I think this is just more indicative that AI assists can be powerful, but in the hands of an already decent developer.
I kind of lost respect for these developers deep into the AI ecosystem who clearly have no idea what’s being spat out and are just looking to get 8 hours of productivity in the span of 2 or 3.
Are you talking about human generated code or machine generated code?
99% of the work I've ever received from humans has been error riddled garbage. <1% of the work I've received from a machine has been error riddled garbage. Granted I don't work in code, I work in a field that's more difficult for a machine
> there’s just so much slop and garbage that hasn’t been thought through that it would be re-writing half of their PR
If I were their tech lead I would make them do exactly that. Over and over until they got the point or they got a bad performance review and got PIPed out.
The quality bar is the bar, and it's there for a reason (in my case, I work on security and safety critical stuff, so management has my back (usually)).
I'm glad when people can use AI to help themselves. If it speeds them up, great. I don't care if it writes 100% of their code. They still are responsible for making sure it holds the quality bar. If they constantly submit code that doesn't meet the quality bar they have a performance problem regardless of the tools they used.
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