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by WorkerBee28474 3y ago
Rhetoric suggests[0] you use either 'get' or 'go', not both. [0] http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/A/anaphora.htm
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by WorkerBee28474 3y ago
Yes, but that was in Alberta. The smoke in New York is coming from fires in Ontario and Quebec, which were probably started by lightning strikes.
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by WorkerBee28474 3y ago
No it's not. No it doesn't. You're just making that up. If you want to make an extraordinary claim, provide evidence.
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by WorkerBee28474 4y ago
Yes, the week (two weeks, IME) is a thing. As are contractor term limits. They reduce key man risk and keep knowledge internal. Still, it's possible to write a script to do something and then just not touch it for years. It keeps chugg
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by WorkerBee28474 4y ago
"This was complicated by some banks finding it surprisingly difficult to add numbers quickly… We have a report of Friday outflows, but it gets crunched by an ETL job which only finishes halfway through Saturday, and Cindy who understan
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by WorkerBee28474 4y ago
From my understanding the Line 6 Helix uses two 450MHz SHARC processors, ADSP-21469. Other effect/amp modelers use more or newer of the same family[0]. Can anyone comment about the relative processing power of a RPi vs the market solut
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by WorkerBee28474 4y ago
"The petition by attorney William M. Norris says the “unborn child” is innocent and should be discharged from jail so it can receive proper care. That would require Harrell to be released until the child is born, the writ argues."
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by WorkerBee28474 4y ago
I think there's an interesting social conflict in these stories. A state wants to maximize the output of its working population. More output, more taxes, more power. A company wants to capture all of the produced value of the employee&
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by WorkerBee28474 4y ago
While the average lifespan (American stats) is about 79, if someone makes it to 80 their average lifespan is 88.
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by WorkerBee28474 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_ship Amazing. I've been reading WWII history for decades, and I hadn't heard of this until today.
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by WorkerBee28474 4y ago
Instruments that play <= 40Hz (E1) include double bass (either standard or with C extension), bass clarinet, and contrabass clarinet. Percussion also generates frequencies under 40Hz.
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by WorkerBee28474 4y ago
Fire control computers, like on a navy ship, were faster than digital computers of the day. YouTube has a number of videos on them. An opamp performs multiplication faster than a digital computer (speed of light vs a few cycles). It's
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by WorkerBee28474 4y ago
For previous discussion on the same topic (different article), see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32905728 My previous 2 cents was "I worked for a company that did this in a white collar capacity - FDM. I basical
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by WorkerBee28474 4y ago
Well that just sounds like Bayes's theorum with extra steps
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by WorkerBee28474 4y ago
I worked for a company that did this in a white collar capacity - FDM. I basically regard them as the scum of the Earth. However, unlike the article, they usually rent out their trainees as consultants to big companies with broken hiring pr
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by WorkerBee28474 4y ago
Wow, I never thought I would ever see "Anonymous 4chan Poster" credited as the co-author of a paper. I guess it makes sense as an implication of the idea that "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." [0] [0] h
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Tire Review says [0] > the sensors are usually powered by 3-volt lithium ion batteries, but some use 1.25-volt nickel metal hydride batteries. There are developments underway that promise battery-less sensors in the future, having the po
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by WorkerBee28474 4y ago
IIRC CDs were the first use of dithering in audio. It's not distortion, but both it and distortion change the signal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither