beneater

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by beneater 7y ago
Thanks for the free a11y audit! I fixed a number of the low-hanging a11y issues that you identified. As for using modern web tooling, keep in mind there are many business and technical tradeoffs that go into any engineering decision. In thi
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Visualizing quaternions: An explorable video series(eater.net)
297 points by beneater 8y ago|32 comments
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by beneater 9y ago
Real Engineering did a video about this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMTchVXedkk
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by beneater 9y ago
Very cool! I've been considering going this direction with the videos once I've finished everything for the breadboard version. Modular PCBs would make it a lot easier to rearrange things to experiment with different architectures
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by beneater 9y ago
Thanks for the kind words! And thanks to everyone for your interest.
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The night zombie smartphones took down 911(wsj.com)
3 points by beneater 10y ago|0 comments
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by beneater 10y ago
And here's a video explaining and building just such a 4-bit adder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJc9CZcvBc
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Khan Academy adds apps for young children(khanacademy.org)
3 points by beneater 10y ago|0 comments
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by beneater 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10129914
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Engineering career development at Khan Academy(engineering.khanacademy.org)
30 points by beneater 10y ago|0 comments
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by beneater 11y ago
I've done this and once had a phone rep from Geico who was convinced I worked for them because my email was something like geico@example.com. This was probably in the late 90s when email was still new to many people. She was really con
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by beneater 11y ago
I always understood it to be that the "typographic resolution" aspect of sparklines was an important characteristic and that you really couldn't display a proper sparkline on a screen because most screens just don't have
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by beneater 11y ago
See also https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2142.txt
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by beneater 11y ago
That article has a terrible title. It implies it discusses deficiencies with the Common Core standards. A much better title would be something like "Open questions in mathematics that align to Common Core standards"
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Pixar in a Box – Khan Academy(pixarinabox.org)
753 points by beneater 11y ago|65 comments
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Khan Academy collaboration with Pixar explains why math is important(pixarinabox.org)
4 points by beneater 11y ago|0 comments
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by beneater 11y ago
This looks like a lot of fun. A couple years ago, I built an 8-bit CPU from 7400 series logic gates on a giant breadboard and learned a ton. And it still works today! I strongly recommend a project like this to anyone who might be intereste
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by beneater 11y ago
The reason is because you never want routers to have to fragment your packets ever. Fragmentation is really inefficient. So any modern stack will always set DF and listen for ICMP unreachables. In other words, PMTU discovery. None of the ot
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by beneater 12y ago
It makes fixing it possible . It's unreasonable to expect that getting millions of people to agree to take specific actions to effect a very precise change in laws will be "easy".
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by beneater 12y ago
This seems likely, but also easy to work around by advertising a smaller window size. When you send ACKs, not only do you send the acknowledgement number indicating which byte you expect next, but you also send a window size indicating how
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by beneater 12y ago
I was in exactly this situation back in 1996. I moved back in with my parents and enrolled in a couple classes at the local community college. I guess the assumption was that I'd get back on track and transfer back to a 4-year program,
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by beneater 13y ago
Perhaps you should start by watching "Towards an affordable brain-computer-interface": http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5395_-_en_-_...
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by beneater 14y ago
Here's a quick port to Khan Academy's new CS scratchpads: http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/lorenz-attractor/966238447
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by beneater 15y ago
Why wait? :) https://github.com/Khan/khan-exercises/wiki