HeyLaughingBoy

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by HeyLaughingBoy 3mo ago
There are many, many, many solutions like this on YouTube from all over the world. I have to admit that there do seem to be more Russian ones than anyone else, but maybe they're just better at posting video. I've seen an insane am
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by HeyLaughingBoy 3mo ago
Not avionics, but I've spent most of my career in medical devices. A project's Design History File would indeed have the detailed design documentation of the system. The problem would be that word "detailed." The relevan
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by HeyLaughingBoy 3mo ago
> conformal coating (which I hate for reverse-engineering), which is usually omitted from prototypes Bad memory from a couple years ago. Debugging a machine under development at a customer site, which was luckily only a few blocks from t
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by HeyLaughingBoy 3mo ago
How did you power it?
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by HeyLaughingBoy 3mo ago
It's been long enough ago that I don't use it as an interview answer anymore, but one of the most interesting things I built (technique-wise) was a Z-80 based serial multiplexer with no RAM. The only volatile memory it used was th
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
Really? that's a bit over 30 miles each way. It doesn't sound at all unusual to me.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
People move around: that's what cars are for. Trucks may not be "designed for urban areas" (whatever that means), but they certainly go into them on a daily basis.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
With a range of 77 miles, I wouldn't make it to work and back. Everyone I know (yes, it's anecdotal, but a widely-shared one) has to commute on roads where the average speed is well above 30mph. This is a non-starter for the US.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
For a significant segment of the US population, that thing wouldn't get them to work and back, so they'd have to charge it both at home and at work. And in many cases, forget running any errands, picking up kids from daycare, etc.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
I remember your blogabond posts from way back when on HN. I think you were the first to really popularize the "coding while traveling" idea.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
It's very dated by now, but The Control System Design Guide by George Ellis is a pretty good hands-on book about designing and analyzing control systems. It goes well beyond the basic PID stuff, but I found it very helpful when I was
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
> we will replace most PIDs with a small neural network for almost all industrial applications A similar argument was made in the early 90's/late 80's for using Fuzzy Logic ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
A lot of this is simply due to environment that they live in. When I was in nautical school, I was taught to always be aware of sea state regardless of where I was/what I was doing so I'd get in the habit of always knowing what th
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
Maybe they learned from the aliens?
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
LOL. 1987 is just about when I stopped using emacs. Suddenly, I feel really old...
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
I had a similar thought and posted a question. Looks like I put it in the wrong place!
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Ask HN: Languages in the Age of AI
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
We don't know if any of the opinions on HN are expert for that matter. Yet somehow, it's survived and grown for 20 years.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
Then let me introduce you to one of my favorites in a similar style: https://www.lathes.co.uk/page21.html For us lovers of Old Iron :-)
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
This is really cool. Every so often I see a yellow Piper Cub flying by just above window height (we live on top of a hill with no obstructions nearby) and I've wondered if it was flying out of a nearby airfield that I had never seen bu
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
How do you know that you haven't?
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
I started a job in summer 1998 and I had a pension until they were acquired in about 2011 or so. It was so invisible that I forgot all about it until I switched to another job and they contacted me to decide what to do about the pension now
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
A wedge is still useful with a maul. Sometimes to split a large-diameter log, you'll want to start a split and insert the wedge to open it, then you continue the split with the maul. It's helpful if you have timber that doesn&#x27
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
Because they are likely not living like that by choice. So, when they have the resources to consume more (which will certainly happen), energy-efficient choices need to be available.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
In the event that it helps: telling people that they're wrong repeatedly is not a very effective way to get your point across.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
OK. It's my work blocking something. Dropped out of VPN and I can see it now. Odd, because I can see the other sites.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
FYI: dependencydesk.com is not resolving.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
That's interesting. Traceability from Requirements to Architecture & Design (in both directions) is an issue that I've thought of building a tool for after coming across some projects that were doing a bad job of managing it.
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
Yup, and I still don't know how she was able to do that, knowing that he was there. If you know that you can't see well out of your vehicle, make sure the kids aren't anywhere near it when you're driving. Hell, when my
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by HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago
Reminds me of the news program in the early 2000's that breathlessly reported that an American company was contributing to terrorism. The "evidence?" Someone found an unexploded IED that had a component with a logo that'

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