This already happened with Affinity Photo v1 on iOS; a lot of functionality did not work after an iOS update. It feels like Apple changed something in their libraries, so it doesn't even matter how robust your software is if the underlying OS doesn't honor compatibility.
The Apple ecosystem, in general, is notorious for this: If you update your OS, some 3rd party applications will suddenly no longer work, because Apple keeps introducing breaking changes. But, if you don't update your software, other 3rd party applications will quickly abandon you and block you from using their software until you update. So, you're damned if you do, and damned if you don't. Complicating this is: if your hardware is "too old" (as deemed by Apple), you can't update your software, so eventually you're left in the dust. You can't win.
Tesla FSD (but not autopilot) deliberately tracks the car in front of it, as well as the lane and tries to follow that car (and takes it as a safety signal and slows when the car above swerves out of the lane). It's interesting behavior, and usually annoying, but this is why it's there.
Most radar cruise control is set low on the bumper which allows visibility into the vehicle in front. My 12 year old car with adaptive cruise control will sometimes begin slowing when the car two cars ahead starts slowing. Sometimes because it requires a truck or suv or otherwise a vehicle with a higher ride height for radar to pass under. When it’s a Miata in front of me, I will only track that Miata because it’s so low. At the same time.. I can see over these lower cars. The ford flex however is a car that stands out as a low sitting vehicle that is rather tall for its ride height.
That said none of this matters if the object or vehicle in front of the following car is stopped. The radar system will ignore it as part of the background.
I'm one who started with only a BS, and I'm at a top-20 public university in the US. It depends on your PIs, but I've definitely been appreciated on many of the projects I've worked on (e.g., listed with 2nd most ownership percentage on invention disclosures, which also won a campus-wide yearly award).
Admittedly, my path was convoluted; I started as a engineer to help with non-research software at a large lab, and got pulled on to projects via reputation. But I was replacing a Master's student who was essentially at the same academic level as me anyway. It does pay less, but I made the tradeoff for the quality of projects, which was worth more to me at this point in my career. It's still much more than I need, just not at industry levels.
I explained my problem in a confusing way. The main problem is solely that I can't find the word I want to say. Normally, I'd just freeze up and just keep racking my brain for the right word, but my coping mechanism has been finding a related word or phrase to keep the communication going.
But, you mention practicing. What do you think is the activity to practice? Are there tests/games/exercises that strengthen that part of thinking you know of?
I believe I’m going through the same journey as you are and what I use as practice is:
- Before getting into a meeting when I’m expected to present information I run all the talking points (and expected questions) and think through how I will explain it using the least amount of words
- Whenever writing an email I do the same process. Write the draft version and look for sentences where I think I can replace a sequence of words for a single one. Rinse and repeat until the email is a short as it can be
Both activities will force me to search (and recall) words that didn’t come to me at first. After using the same words a few times they will get stuck in my brain and come more naturally the next time. If you keep repeating the process eventually you will become more articulate and communicate more clearly
* Reading aloud text in a very quick speed. Maybe I need more practice in just brain-to-mouth coordination?
* Flash card style training, from just words to even actor headshots (because that feeling of "I know that person but I can't remember their name" is a similar feeling).
* Just speaking more, maybe getting into VR Chat or something similar.
Waveshare is probably the easiest way to play with eInk today. If you're willing to look at different sizes, they offer displays with partial refresh already built in.
Agree, the waveshare modules are great. They’re also (surprisingly) available via Amazon Prime, which is nice when you’re excited about a project idea and don’t want to wait 2-3 weeks for a shipment from China.
From my experience with this project, all ePaper displays _can_ do partial refresh, but some may have the drivers (LUT) included, others you might have to find some community-sources ones or design it yourself. In the post I link to my drivers for partial updates for the 4.2”, and in the footnotes there is a YouTube video going into lots of detail on how the drivers work if you wanted to write one or update it for a different display.
Could you send some links to the community you found who were hacking away on the partial refresh drivers? I have a 7.5" that I started with and would love to work off of whatever has already been accomplished.
I start chats with a separate "Hey" message solely just for the chance that the recipient is sharing their screen in a meeting. That way others in the meeting will only see the "Hey" popup and not any details of the rest of my message.
