Junk_Collector

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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
FPGAs aren't really analog. FizzBuzz is just a counting operation, so the analog equivalent is just a pair of accumulators that discharges to a "Fizz" or "Buzz" led or perhaps a plotter arm if you wanted to print t
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
I actually think that novice hobbyists are better off with the venerable 741 because there is just so much clear and concise documentation on it's use in hobby projects that have accumulated over the years. Once you have a grasp of wh
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
That's funny because the US actually has reduced per capita CO2 emissions by about 20% back down to levels not seen since 1960. Edit: I suppose I should include a source. From the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center at Oak Rid
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
Am I the only one who notices that you can't throw a board in the bed without strapping it because all of the modern trucks have 6 ft beds instead of 8 ft?
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
Disney uses something similar in a lot of their stage shows at their parks. They use a water fountain to create a screen and project onto the water sheet. It works surprisingly well, but I would assume that it is pre-rendered.
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
They're used in Smartphones too in the form of S.A.W. filters.
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
Maybe you should read up on the history of HP. It is largely considered to be the case study in how a company can be ruined when technical management is replaced by "MBA" management.
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
This is a function of the permittivity of the material. A Vacuum is 1, the lowest possible. Air is 1.0006 so you won't see much difference. Fiber optics of various types are usually on the order of 2 to 3 (closer to 2).
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
It's a good book and I really respect their management philosophy which could not be more different than modern corporate theory. Just look at this snippet of Dave's statement on the purpose of a corporation (The whole thing is r
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
When Bill and Dave were finally out of the company there was a stark 180 in philosophy. You can always tell when management is about to do something sleezy in any of the HP spin offs (including HP) because they invoke the founder's to
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
Your first link was paywalled so I couldn't read it, but the potential issues with meta-analysis papers has been discussed to death already. The article you linked second, is interesting. He makes some bad claims (The electric fields
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
A finding from your link. "the biological activity of any specific type of EMF is inversely proportional to its frequency and proportional to its intensity"
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
If anyone is interested in this sort of thing, I highly recommend getting into your local Ham Radio club and learning about Fox Hunting events.
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
This is getting beat up but it's prescient. There have already been calls for DRM inclusion on 3D printers and consumer CNC machines. The bans start with objects of violence, i.e. guns and knives. Next it will be to prevent copyright
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
Nothing in the link is clickbait though. It's a town repeater station being told to vacate land because "advancing technology" has rendered it's benefit to the state obsolete. They then request $7500 to perform a study
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
It's pretty telling when they want almost 10 grand, about half of which is recurring, to draft and administer a lease without ever discussing what the lease might entail.
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
That's how you know it's a Google product.
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
It's the same market and in the same band so, yes. No useful technical details yet to know much about it.
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
Yeah, Jeri's Amphour talk is one of the things I make people I know who are trying to get into tech startups listen to. It's a great insight into what happens when a sucessful startup gets the wrong kind of VC help. For what it&#
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
Sort of. If you don't have roads out to those rural areas you can't bring food into the city. If you don't have power infrastructure out to the sticks, you can't produce food nearly as efficiently. The modern city can
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
Here is the actual study for your perusal https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S147020451... Unfortunately, it only covers the 7 countries that funded the study, but it is much more in depth than
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
Well no, what I said was, a decade ago was the most active period for Hurricanes. This current decade is less active than the previous one, or the 1930's or the 1960's. Most decades have little to no Cat 5 hurricane activity so i
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
It appears that Hurricanes are fairly clustered when broken down by decades so that the most active time period for category 5 hurricanes was the 2000's with the second most active being the 1930's followed by the 1960's. It
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
They do; I thought that this was common knowledge. A quick example from a few years ago http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,135999,... See also last election.
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
You might call that a failure of management.
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
User interfaces are measurably slower than they were 20 years ago by at least an order of magnitude depending on how you measure it. They also do more, so it's up to the particular user and use case to decide if the trade off was good
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
Perhaps instead of assuming a position that he didn't actually state and calling him "confused" you could have addressed his larger point that the vocal proponents of climate action alienate large portions of the population b
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
You could do this today without any sort of "smart" appliance for about $1.00, $50 if you are being lazy. Just get a super simple micro-controller and radio on a board and throw it into your fridge. Have it record the temperatur
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
I think we are pretty much in agreement. It really doesn't help how much the government is willing to stretch the definitions of R&D and System Engineering either.
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by Junk_Collector 7y ago
Sure it's inconvenient. It's inconvenient to staff anyone in the government. If I could have ordered employees like pizza on any staffing vehicle, I would have staffed them regardless of nearly anything else and never looked bac

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