AdamH12113

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by AdamH12113 2y ago
Sure, meaning always depends on context, but this is a lower-level difference. If I copy an English sentence from a hundred-year-old book into Microsoft Word, it doesn't change the meaning of the sentence. If I write a sentence contain
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
A hundred years from now people are going to have a very... interesting time trying to figure out what meaning was intended by the use of these characters at the time a text was written. Personally, I think putting a huge set of pictogram
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
Why does that graph look like it's upside-down? Shouldn't having more binding energy per nucleon make an isotope less stable, not more? Are the energies implied to be negative potential energy?
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
> What do you do if you have a record that includes a record separator character? You use the ASCII escape character (0x1B), which is designed for exactly that purpose.
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
The third and fourth columns of the table are only a single bit apart from each other. If you mentally swap the first two columns, you get a Gray code ordering of the most significant bits, which is pretty close to what you're looking
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
What I've always heard whenever this subject comes up in Houston is that A) burying lines is expensive (and Houston is very large), and B) Houston floods a lot.
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
I'm still confused why static linking isn't a more common solution to versioning issues. Software developers normally have no problem using an order of magnitude more resources to solve organizational problems. Is there any techni
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
Not the GP, but as an EE I can tell you that the majority of boards are not forgiving. One bad connection or one wrong component often means the circuit just doesn't work. One bad footprint often means the board is worthless. On top of
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
The conclusions are very optimistic given the results. The LLMs: * Failed to properly understand and respond to the requirements for component selection, which were already pretty generic. * Succeeded in parsing the pinout for an IC but pro
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
They haven't changed for 50 years because electronic design has been focused on surface-mount technology for 30+ years. There's only so much you can do to improve a form factor designed for DIP packages with 0.1-inch pin spacing.
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
Half of Soren Iverson's joke features are depressingly plausible and the other half are completely implausible but more compelling than any real "AI" product I've ever heard of.
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
Thank you. Not sure why anyone would write an article about a Supreme Court decision without describing the actual vote. The immediate outcome might be the same, but there’s a big difference in context and meaning between a 5-4 decision and
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
Yeah, that's a thing. 3Blue1Brown did a video on it a while back: https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/prism It's part of a larger series that starts here: https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons&#
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
The limits on packet size are based on the transfer type (control, interrupt, isochronous, or bulk) and whether the connection is low speed (1.5 Mbps), full speed (12 Mbps) or high speed (480 Mbps). The USB module on the MCU will be designe
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
Ive written bare-metal USB code on an MCU before, and I found it to be quite a shock compared to simple digital protocols like SPI or I2C. The physical and data link layers aren't much more complicated than, say, CAN, but beyond that y
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
Note that isochronous transfers require kernel-mode drivers on the host side, so you won't be able to use libusb in that case. Bulk transfers are the way to go if you want high throughput.
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
It's interesting that these are exactly the sort of conditions that the internet protocols were designed for. A typical suite of internet software from the 90s would handle easily. One key difference is that client software was install
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
You have just described the lives of most humans for all of recorded history. Seriously -- not being sarcastic. Subsistence agriculture does not provide a secure life, and (more recently) neither does working 14-hour days in a factory. And
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
Pedantic note: This appears to be a text file that was improperly converted to HTML. The body contains text in angle brackets that is not visible when viewing in a web browser, mainly the <ASP> mark for the Association of Shareware Pr
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
In retaliation for this comment, Excel glitched out and deleted fifteen minutes' worth of carefully-formatted graphs when I tried to save.
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
Billions of dollars to cram "AI" down our throats, but they can't be bothered to get Excel back up to the level of quality and performance it had 20 years ago.
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
Wow, that's pretty bad! In Texas it's +/- 3 seconds[1]. Which I wouldn't want to use for precise event logging, but for human use is fine. [1] http://www.naesb.org/pdf2/weq_bklet_011505_tec_mc.pdf
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
> A few cents, as far as I understand, but that's not the only problem Nitpick: looking on Digi-Key, in quantity, a sub-ppm oscillator is ~5x more expensive than a 10 ppm crystal -- ~85 cents for the cheapest TCXO I can find vs. ~
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
The Casio G-Shock I got in the 90s was ~66 ppm fast, which worked out to ~5 seconds/day. There are cheap crystals on Digi-Key with ~10 ppm accuracy, which is around 0.86 seconds/day. But crystals drift with age (and a tiny bit wit
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
It's surprisingly hard to keep a clock accurate over time. Typical crystal oscillators can gain or lose seconds per day. If you want to do better than that, you either need internet access (for NTP), a radio receiver of some kind (for
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
Optometrists have cameras that can take pictures of your retina and see if there's any obvious damage. You might consider getting your eyes checked out.
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
Smcin has answered your other point. Let me respond to this one: > But if you delete your comments, you won't get anything at all anymore. If they remain, real humans will still benefit directly or indirectly. And why should I writ
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
Part of the benefit for the answerer is the experience of interacting with the questioner, receiving upvotes and comments, having answers accepted, and having your name on an answer that's helped people. You get credit for answering
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
Sounds like it does. The docs have build instructions for Linux: https://docs.dune3d.org/en/latest/build-linux.html
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by AdamH12113 2y ago
> This inability to understand the difference between using a technology and having the same technology used against you is endemic to the industry. Take Crossover, which bills itself as "the Fitbit of productivity," but wh

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