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by aswanson 3y ago
Lol
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by aswanson 3y ago
When dealing with humans, marketing is everything.
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by aswanson 3y ago
No one knows your true value but yourself. Move accordingly.
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by aswanson 3y ago
Facts. I remember daycare costs almost equalling mortgage payments back in the early 2000s, for 2 kids. It's wildly expensive to have kids in the US.
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by aswanson 3y ago
Same. The thing I had to learn very late is that you have to do the homework. Always. That's something I never had to do up until college.
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by aswanson 3y ago
How close is mandarin to Cantonese?
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by aswanson 3y ago
The Chinese labor force has been reaching parity recently. Hence pushes into Vietnam & India for manufacturing.
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by aswanson 3y ago
A kubernetes cluster.
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by aswanson 3y ago
What makes one chemical more able to store a greater energy per unit mass than another? Wouldn't the theoretical limit be a volume of pure electrons compressed in the densest unit volume possible? Say, stored in a magnetic field?
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by aswanson 3y ago
What are the theoretical limits of electrical energy density?
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by aswanson 3y ago
My question is, why is every integrated adc/dac in almost every commercial microcontroller stagnant at 12 bit resolution? It's been that way for decades now. Is 16 bit that difficult?
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by aswanson 3y ago
True in business as well as life.
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by aswanson 3y ago
Didn't have to be that way. At one point they had the gui & mouse when the rest of the world was using paper tape for computer I/O. It's all about vision & execution.
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by aswanson 3y ago
I liken open offices to a situation where I'm balancing a pile of plates in both hands and hundreds of other people are in the kitchen and can trip me or shove me at will, causing a mental stack crash.
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by aswanson 3y ago
Yeah. We've only given off signals detectable in space for 200 years and have only existed for around 200000 years as a species. Less than a blink of an eye from a galactic time perspective.
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by aswanson 3y ago
It is.
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by aswanson 3y ago
Actual lol. Thanks.
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by aswanson 3y ago
Seems like a commercial for a startup on HBO's Silicon Valley.
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by aswanson 3y ago
I thought tik tok grew through virality.
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by aswanson 3y ago
Not your keys, not your crypto. Never use exchanges.
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by aswanson 3y ago
Ill defined, but yes, definitely a thing.
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by aswanson 3y ago
That's been the case with every technology made by man since fire.
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by aswanson 3y ago
This is what Andy Bechtolsheim essentially said when he talked about why Sun had to develop the SPARC chip. Motorola was just too slow. Great initial architecture not iterated on fast enough.
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by aswanson 3y ago
Almost, not always. I'm personally terrified any braking mechanism is under any level of software control, for example.
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by aswanson 3y ago
One of the things I think hardware should adopt from software is modular debuggability of system components. I'm a software guy building a display board with a battery management system. I'm building the bms as a pluggable compo
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by aswanson 3y ago
In electrical engineering, there is some iteration in development (board spins). But nowhere near the flexibility of software. That's why it's almost always better, imo, to turn a hardware problem into a software one.
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by aswanson 3y ago
Adc near a switching power supply made me lol. Some guy at a previous gig did that with 190v pwm motor drives. No autotouter in the loop. Just a bad human.
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by aswanson 3y ago
I wish I could share the details. Honest to God.
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by aswanson 3y ago
Computer Geezers would make an awesome band name.
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by aswanson 3y ago
Jesus Christ. This outdoes the hilarity/horror I heard when someone got contracted to implement a battle management system in Microsoft Office.

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