GrumpyYoungMan

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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
> " BUT calling the gameplay boring with lots of running around is a fair statement. NieR:Replicant is worse. " Both Niers are RPGs after all, in terms of mechanics, and traditional RPGs are even duller (attack/defend&#x2F
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> " ...so that anyone with some computing background can build a processor, freely. " They could already do that. I designed and laid out in silicon a 32 bit processor as part of my undergraduate studies in computer engineerin
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5y ago
The old joke that " Consultants tell you what you already knew but didn't want to face. " has been around forever for a reason. It's even an accepted tactic by business units to hire a consultant to document all these k
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Once you reach your mid- to late-30s, you'll find your ability to spend time learning decreasing due to aging and increased personal and family time commitments. You also find that, much like compound interest, the more you know, the
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by GrumpyYoungMan 6y ago
It's been tried but never achieved any significant commercial success. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Memory_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-RAM https://en.wikipedia.o
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by GrumpyYoungMan 6y ago
> " If I were to go into the office, I'd need to either (a) spend longer over the same tasks to stretch them to fill out the day because I'm constantly being observed, or (b) finish my work at the same rate and ask for mor
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by GrumpyYoungMan 6y ago
I'm not sure if this is what you want but there are devices for people with hearing disabilities that will flash a light if a phone call comes in. Versions exist for both land lines and for cell phones, for example: https:/&#x2F
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by GrumpyYoungMan 6y ago
It is in certain niche areas. For example, when working on a smartphone OS, maximizing battery life is paramount. There are specialized power measurement instruments that one attaches to the phone when trying new features / builds to
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by GrumpyYoungMan 6y ago
Petzold's Code is a popularization aimed at non-technical readers, as you said. ECS is a textbook aimed at college-level CS and Comp. Eng. students and goes into sufficient technical depth for the reader to build their own digital com
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by GrumpyYoungMan 6y ago
I have both a computer engineering education and have read the book. My recollection is that it's good for what it is but omits[0] a heck of a lot of necessary background knowledge to apply the material outside of the limited context
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by GrumpyYoungMan 6y ago
As I understand it, the frequency bands for the various GNSS systems either overlap or are adjacent (see, for example, https://gssc.esa.int/navipedia/index.php/File:GNSS_navigatio... ), so interference with one me
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by GrumpyYoungMan 6y ago
For computer science specifically, that's unfortunately not possible because the GRE for CS was discontinued in April 2013.
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It's interesting to see the bifurcation between developers and software engineers continuing to deepen. Most developer jobs have been simplified, compared to pre-2000 development, that the knowledge conferred by a CS degree is indeed
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by GrumpyYoungMan 6y ago
Apparently slingshotting around the sun is needed to get any appreciable velocity. Start thrusting at 90 degrees to the line between the ship and the star as soon as the ship materializes to enter an orbit.
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by GrumpyYoungMan 6y ago
> " ...I do not remember RAM failing in an unpredictable ways. " I'm about halfway through my career and I have seen something like that happen exactly once; the erratic behavior of the machine had my team scratching our h
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by GrumpyYoungMan 6y ago
> " So in the 70s you could pay per request billed to millisecond precision? " It's been a while since I encountered it but yes, mainframe time was so blisteringly expensive that usage was accounted for on a per-job basis
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by GrumpyYoungMan 6y ago
If you're after a MOOC-like experience, I'd recommend CalTech's highly-regarded "The Mechanical Universe" series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8_xPU5epJddRABXqJ5h5... It covers basic mec
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by GrumpyYoungMan 6y ago
Perhaps Coherent was the other UNIX you were thinking of? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_(operating_system)
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That's unnecessary since there's pre-calibrated mixtures referred to, unsurprisingly, as "calibration gas" readily available. Googling for "carbon dioxide calibration gas" will find you what you need as well a
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by GrumpyYoungMan 6y ago
Yup, this absolutely works! I always write my performance review as if I were updating my resume. If I don't like what I see, that's feedback to myself and motivation to change my plans for the next review period. This particula
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by GrumpyYoungMan 6y ago
Life is about keeping the human race in existence long enough for one of our descendants to figure out what life is actually about.
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by GrumpyYoungMan 6y ago
> " I’m not sure what there is to lament except maybe a lack of processor and OS variety? " Yeah, but that's something we should lament; we're stuck at a local maxima for both. The ability to try out new ideas and ar
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by GrumpyYoungMan 6y ago
I reside in the US and have met only one person over the past 25 years who used a fountain pen.
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Regarding lecture 16, Intro to QA testing, my feedback as a practitioner would be: - Typo - "principle goals" / "principle techniques" instead of "principal" - Add accessibility and internationalization un
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They might be able to do it with an Earthworks M30 measurement mic, which claims accuracy down to 3 Hz, and an appropriate digitizer. It's expensive but not as blisteringly expensive as lab mics like Brüel & Kjær's gear.
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Use rsync to copy the files over. It only transfers changed files and can use file compression to reduce bandwidth so it's highly efficient.
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by GrumpyYoungMan 6y ago
Being a research librarian at a tier one university might be interesting. I enjoy books and helping others find information.
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The vast majority of testers are manual testers. Testers with software development skills are used in the FAANGs and other segments where one pretty much has to be a developer in order to understand and write tests for the product but they
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by GrumpyYoungMan 6y ago
Requirements can vary. The institution I went to did require a differential equations course after Calc III even for CompE students. And, yeah, it was painful. Either way, I agree with you 100%; if the student doesn't like math, the
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by GrumpyYoungMan 6y ago
Assuming that you actually mean computer engineer (as in digital logic and computer hardware) and not software developer, as so many people here are assuming, there are a lot of resources available: For a gentle overview of how digital logi

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