AdamH12113

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by AdamH12113 1y ago
From an API designer's standpoint (especially if that API has paying customers), Hyrum's Law is something that has to be taken into account. But from a user's standpoint, it is engineering malpractice, plain and simple. At th
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
I use tabs for indentation and spacing for alignment. Tables should be aligned with spaces. A wrapped line can be tabbed up to the start of the previous line and then spaced for alignment.
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
This is not even remotely correct. Historically, Microsoft's biggest problem with Office was having to convince people to buy the new versions since the basic feature set was fairly complete. The file format upgrade in 2007 was the onl
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
The real money-grab was turning Microsoft Office into a subscription service in the first place. SaaS is a cancer on personal computing.
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
That example puts silkscreen reference designators on component pads, which is... not great.
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
That’s probably not going to happen. RF simulations are done using extremely expensive special-purpose software, and many components (including basically all digital and mixed-signal components) don’t have simulation models available at all
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
I wish I had something more specific for you, but my experience is more on the demand-adjacent side (as an EE) rather than directly on the software side. The companies I've worked at have posted on the regular job sites but mainly work
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
If you're willing to leave Silicon Valley, there are a lot of small companies out there that need one or two or a handful of decent software developers to do useful but non-cutting-edge work. They can't pay Silicon Valley money,
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
The example is simply wrong, according to other sources. This along with the inconsistent formatting makes me wonder if it was written by an LLM. It's a shame; this seems like an interesting topic.
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
Yeah, I actually have a decades-old two-layer board that I need to reproduce and I would love to be able to feed images of it into some sort of tool and have it generate a schematic (or at least a netlist) automatically.
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U.S. Mint Moves Forward with Plans to Kill the Penny(apnews.com)
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
Unless there’s a leak (and there shouldn’t be) CPAPs are much quieter than you think they are. The only time I even notice mine (Resmed with P10 nasal pillows) is when using it from a battery during a power outage when everything is dead qu
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
I went looking for the date of this post because I honestly thought it was from the 1990s, when top-posting actually won. The date is more important than you're giving it credit for. Every creative work has a context and an implicit pe
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
Needs a (2018) added to the title -- the list of recent posts[1] gives the publication date as 2018-06-13. Incidentally: Bloggers, please put dates in your actual blog post templates. The date is an important part of the context of any ar
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
Amazing that even within the last decade a site as large as LinkedIn could be storing unsalted passwords. How does anyone fail at this in the modern era?
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
Are there any similar articles on the state of the rest of the Stack Exchange network? There are many, many other SE sites that have nothing to do programming and are often less amenable to being answered via LLM.
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by AdamH12113 1y ago
I think the GP is referring to manually operated elevators, in which a human inside the elevator pulls a lever to tell the elevator when to move. When I was a kid, my dad worked in a building with a semi-automated elevator that had floor bu
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
The packets look like the little salt packets that come with fast food, and the stuff inside looks kind of like salt.
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
If you're wondering what's up with the name, "Ren'Py" is a pun on the Japanese word "ren'ai" (恋愛), which means "romantic love".
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
An octet is a group of 8 bits. Today we normally use the word "byte" instead. The term is often used in older internet protocols and comes from an era where bytes were not necessarily 8 bits.
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
> What's the alternative? A customer service job where you can be rude? A customer service job where you can be merely polite and professional without also having to be artificially cheerful and enthusiastic. Or, if you must put o
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
Microwave communication goes comfortably into the tens of gigahertz range, and visible light is in the hundreds of terahertz. So it is about a factor of 10,000.
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
Ah, that is better. Thanks!
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
What's wrong with the SR latch debouncer?
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
One thing that immediately came to mind upon seeing the title is the way that efficient (digital) radio communications look much more similar to noise (due to information density) than old analog communication methods. The article seems to
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
I’ve often wondered if going with 64-bit addresses with a dotted quad hex notation would have eased the roll-out. I remember a lot of resistance when IPv6 was first announced along the lines of “I can’t memorize/type in giant addresses
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
He was also a long-time maintainer of the Usenet Physics FAQ and has been writing about physics and mathematics on the internet for decades. So not only is he the real deal in terms of knowledge, he also has a long history of communicating
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
Estradiol valerate (which is what the article actually names) seems to be used for a wide variety of female reproductive health issues, especially when (as the article suggests) it's compounded with other drugs. It's also used by
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
Computer Science is a sub-field of mathematics. Mathematical concepts usually become more useful, not less, as they become more general. Even elementary ideas like counting and arithmetic don't include practical limits. My favorite e
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
Note that the question here is about the C language itself -- obviously a physical computer is not equivalent to a Turing machine with infinite storage. But the issue seems to be that C fundamentally uses the idea of addressable storage -

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