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by Sanzig 5y ago
I really like the idea of Circles. Are you planning an Android app in the near future?
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by Sanzig 5y ago
That's the joke, though: that C++ is looked down on with distain and treated as an obsolete language by some members of the younger generation of programmers.
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by Sanzig 5y ago
They're confusing it with a 35 C wet bulb temperature. 35 C dry bulb temperature would only equal 35 C wet bulb temperature at 100% RH. You can convert with a psychrometric chart [1] or with a calculator [2]. At sea level, 35 C dry bul
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by Sanzig 5y ago
I think part of the problem is that the industry doesn't seem to value embedded software engineers. The work embedded software folks do is just as complicated as that of a full-stack developer working for a SaaS company, but the salari
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by Sanzig 5y ago
The commented-out closing brace is for the if statement, not the whole function. The rest of the function was snipped, you can see the whole thing here: https://paste.debian.net/plainh/7630c424
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by Sanzig 5y ago
I think there's room for both. Going on a $ per kg metric is drastically oversimplifying the other factors that go into launch vehicle selection. SpaceX rideshare is great if you have a mission that you want to launch to a popular orbi
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by Sanzig 5y ago
On earth, about 30 feet in length due to the atmosphere, although I will admit I don't have a firm intuition for why this is the case. [1] https://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-one-pound-problem-7188...
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by Sanzig 5y ago
I'm fine with Microsoft requiring TPMs for Windows 11 installs on new build OEM machines - that's fine. Requiring it on existing hardware is asinine, there's no clear technical reason to do so.
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by Sanzig 5y ago
ML/AI/"algorithms" are the buzzwords of the day in the public and private sectors right now.
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by Sanzig 5y ago
I think I've changed my stance on compulsory voting over the years. My old view was that voting should be as easy as possible (advance polling days, no advance registration requirement, mail-in ballot options), but at the same time it
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by Sanzig 5y ago
In the mid to late 2000s, a British company sold a glorified dowsing rod as an explosives detection device to several international customers, most notably the Iraqi government [1]. I can easily see somebody taking this face restoration tec
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by Sanzig 5y ago
Hydro Québec lets me download a CSV of my energy usage for my own analytics if I want. I find that pretty neat.
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by Sanzig 5y ago
It works quite well for linear network simulations (eg: plugging together black box S-parameters from manufacturer data or extracted from a VNA) and it works reasonably well for filter synthesis. I've never used the harmonic balance si
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by Sanzig 5y ago
That's what direct-to-individual programs are for, though. In Canada we had both types of programs. Businesses qualified for loans of up to $40k, a rent subsidy, and a wage subsidy that covered up to 75% of employee wages. In cases whe
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by Sanzig 5y ago
Agreed. I think people are already forgetting how frantic the first few months of the pandemic were, despite the fact that it was only a year ago. Governments around the world were placed in a no-win situation: they could do nothing and be
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by Sanzig 5y ago
That's a really risky maneuver for Facebook. Yeah, maybe it has the desired result and the regulators back down. Or maybe competitors that have been locked out for over a decade due to the unassailable network advantage of Facebook fin
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by Sanzig 5y ago
I think this is a good approach for many public records: add just the right amount of friction to the process. Just because a record is public doesn't mean it needs to be published in a readily accessible database.
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by Sanzig 5y ago
I think it's one of those things that has changed due to the greatly reduced friction involved in accessing information as a result of the web. Back in the 70s, if you wanted to get a copy of a mugshot from an arrest, you'd have t
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by Sanzig 5y ago
It's also much easier to handle applications that require very tight timing (examples: motor control, real-time signal processing) when you're using a microcontroller with bare-metal code or almost bare-metal with a very lightweig
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by Sanzig 5y ago
I guess the question is: how close does technology R&D need to be to the core business to be a "tech" company? I don't have a good answer. Major automakers dump tons of money into R&D, but we'd never call them te
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by Sanzig 5y ago
Unpopular opinion: the use of "tech" or "high tech" to describe many of today's tech companies is a misnomer. For me, a tech company is a company that leverages advances in applied sciences and mathematics (computer
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by Sanzig 5y ago
I've got one of those entry level Brother laser printers. If you don't mind voiding your warranty, you can buy third party refilled cartridges for less than $20 on Amazon. They work just as well as the OEM ones.
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by Sanzig 5y ago
> Being able to pick Schlage and Kwikset already puts you in the probably 0.1%. What percentage of the general population knows how to dump an I2C EEPROM, do some reverse engineering to find the counter, and update the counter value? It
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by Sanzig 5y ago
The straightforward solution is to simply reject dualism and accept physicalism. There is no scientific evidence pointing to the mind being anything other than an emergent property of the structure of the neurons in the brain. It doesn&#x27
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by Sanzig 5y ago
They could have contacted a core maintainer and explained to them what they planned to do. That core maintainer could have then spoken to other senior core maintainers in confidence (including Greg and Linus) to decide if this type of pente
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by Sanzig 6y ago
> Building market share by massive "deficit spending" is how many companies became huge in the past decades. Sure, but that's got limits. If you need to sell a product for less than COGS when you start a company, no worrie
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by Sanzig 6y ago
They were included indirectly. The Dynetics bid proposed ULA's Vulcan Centaur as the baseline launch vehicle with SLS as an option. The Blue Origin bid baselined New Glenn but included Vulcan Centaur as an option. So both other bidders
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by Sanzig 6y ago
You can find a detailed description of the RF system aboard the spacecraft here: https://web.pa.msu.edu/people/edmunds/Saturn/new_horizons_rf... It's light on the details of any of the upper layers, but
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by Sanzig 6y ago
Oops, I meant to respond to the grandparent post. Sorry!
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by Sanzig 6y ago
TDMA/CDMA don't bypass information theory, though. Shannon always wins in the end. You can improve the situation with spatial beamforming, polarization isolation, mmWave bands, etc, but there eventually comes a point where the add

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