GrumpyYoungMan

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by GrumpyYoungMan 4y ago
I say this jokingly but if you really, really wanted to go all out, you could use an artificial head with mouth simulator, e.g. https://www.head-acoustics.com/products/artificial-head-bina... Being a very specializ
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
The least expensive option to start out with is to try out emulators running the ROMs (for home computers) or operating systems (for minicomputers like the PDP-11 and VAX that you mention and decide whether you really enjoy playing around w
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
> " Question: do elite institution degrees confer any addition to market value commensurate with their cost, or do they simply select for people who already have high market value? " Speaking only for STEM, an elite STEM progra
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
Something like that's already been thought of: Alessandro Forin's eMIPS project a few years back developed a prototype processor with a small FPGA fabric directly embedded into the processor that allows for creating custom instruc
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
> " Too bad win32 is such a finicky and verbose API that's painful to use for anything beyond the simplest of dialogs. I tried. The MSDN documentation doesn't quite cut it. TheOldNewThing by Raymond Chen is a must-read to
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
You could try Nystrom's " Crafting Interpreters " as an introduction but really you're asking about a topic that is usually covered in the final year of college because it has so much pre-requisite knowledge. You do nee
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
There are inexpensive RFID tags with anti-counterfeiting features meant for retail goods, since that's become an increasing problem. They're primarily intended for retailer use since ordinary people don't have a RFID reader
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
It's largely figurative anyway so it's still valid. But, if I were to change it, one thing that's dramatically different from the era of Heinlein's youth is that the world is a much smaller place that it once must have
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
If JMeter or other off the shelf tools don't do what you need, writing your own load generator is the only other option. Fortunately, putting together a simple one is not that complicated.
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
I'd suggest the posts / talks from Brendan Gregg, a performance expert at Netflix, that have featured on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=brendangregg.com . Most students will likely find themselves empl
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
There are a few decent examples given by the Linus kernel devs on a LKML thread where an unfortunate soul wandered in and suggested that they refactor to get rid of GOTOs: https://lkml.org/lkml/2003/1/12/
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
> " The issue I think is that people today read "GOTO Considered Harmful" without really understanding the world at the time. ... Just because it was a bad idea to do everything with a GOTO 60 years ago shouldn't mean
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
What's even worse is that, at the machine language level, condition and unconditional jumps are all that there are; we've all been using GOTOs constantly without even knowing it. :)
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
I'm more inclined to believe Collabedit's stats as a measure of language use in indsutry since it's commonly used for online interviews. http://collabedit.com/programming-language-stats
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direction_finding If you wanted to do it cheaply and crudely, you at least need a portable spectrum analyzer that covers the frequency range you're investigating and a rubber duck
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
Well there's 1) The businesses that sell hardware are run by people whose expertise is hardware, not software and 2) the type of people who have the right combination of skills and inclination to write drivers are rare but also can ear
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
Previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9388751 FPGAs are entering FAANG level datacenters and some faint awareness is seeping into the biggest tech companies but I don't foresee it entering common
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
Along with the soundtrack, John Patrick Lowrie's amazing voice work also form some of my most vivid memories of the game. I still get goosebumps when I hear his narration of the opening cinematic: https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
Total Annihilation was the first to have projectile physics for artillery and other weapons. One could actually have, for example, an artillery projectile in mid-flight accidentally collide with an aircraft. [EDIT] Not mentioned on the BAR
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
IIRC while there are UHF RFID systems that can give rough physical locations, a clear line-of-sight between the reader and a UHF RFID tag is needed to get an adequate signal. If another book were on top of the book with a tag, that tag wou
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
Personally I'd start with Corporate Confidential by Susan Dephillips. Skip the first chapter but pay attention to the rest. You aren't in academia anymore and this will give you some hints as to what's expected of you as
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
The interesting bit here is the discussion of the considerations that go into designing hardware based random number generators and how their specific implementation on a resource constrained mobile device works.
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Adding a ChaCha Cipher to Precursor’s true random number generator(bunniestudios.com)
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
Probably Military History Visualized's " Why Japan had NO Chance in WW2 ": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ag2x3CS9M . Go to the 12:30 mark for the the near-final ship totals.
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
I avoid VMs when benchmarking for the same reasons you cite. Benchmarking is difficult enough to get reproducible results without adding another variable to an already noisy process.
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
Over a lengthy career I've discovered that rule number 1 in the engineering world is "Nobody ever reads anything." This holds true even if they were supposed to beforehand and swore on a stack of bibles that they would.
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
No worries; good luck to you.
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
From the small bit I know about non-medical graduate admissions, the rigor of the program is a factor in graduate admissions but it only matters when comparing a candidate with good grades from a weak program and a candidate with equally go
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
Kind of but at some point the rubber meets the road. You see a lot of comments on HN that say " Wow, this person came from a top university / FAANG and yet couldn't pass our interview or did badly on the job. "
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
> " Does University Choice Matter? " A better university matters only if you're able to take advantage of what it offers. While the core curriculum is more or less the same for all accredited colleges / universities,

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