brandmeyer

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by brandmeyer 4y ago
NetCDF4 (built on top of HDF5 largely through sub-setting) is considerably more powerful than excel/libreoffice. Its also easy to access through widely-available libraries. I frequently use the Python `netCDF4` (yes, it really is cap
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by brandmeyer 4y ago
Cone - er But its spelled differently. The correct spelling is `conr` for Can't Operate Nuclear Reactor.
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by brandmeyer 4y ago
There's an old joke that all growth looks exponential when plotted on log-log paper with a fat marker.
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
Are you arguing for a command economy? Doing it with prices is the best possible way, because it empowers distributed decision-making.
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
Don't underestimate the value of practice. I've watched welders build up a bead to a thickness tolerance better than 0.001" with nothing more sophisticated than a hand-held TIG torch and wire.
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
It changed a ton. Over the late 90's (ie, in my day) the per-month payments were increased up to a little over 1k. The Post-9/11 GI Bill is structured very differently and is far more generous: Tuition + BAH. There's a ton
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
In the US, the military doesn't choose the targets. Elected civilians do. The way to square those feelings is to direct them at the people who give the top-level orders, and the rhetoric used to support those orders to the public. Th
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
We're building a highly specialized product (GNSS Radiooccultation). Its specialized enough that we have to rely on hiring people with generic skills and then developing the specialized skills to work in the domain. In essence, we ar
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
This is definitely not universal. Our team switched to a soft hybrid model whereby we almost always work from the office, but use WFH for deliveries, snow days, kid sick days, etc. We did that as soon as the vaccine became widely availabl
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
This has been the standard algorithm used by every libm for decades. Its not special to Musl.
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
> The imaginary number 'i' is sqrt(-1)... what does that even mean? Relating to phase is also hard for some people, so I try to keep it even simpler. In the same way that negative numbers provide directionality on a line, the c
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
I've heard a variation on this that never quite made sense to me. Its possible that some relevant details were just lost in the retelling, and it goes like this: The employee exercised his options shortly after an IPO, but before he c
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
The last couple of recessions have placed a ton of deflationary pressure on the USD, and the fed has reacted to maintain a small positive inflation by both lowering interest rates and QE. Now that inflation is rising and the economy is also
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
POSIX time isn't quite an elapsed time standard, thanks to the absence of leap seconds.
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
Boost doesn't even have a stable API commitment, let alone a stable ABI. Every release may require involvement from users to keep up to date. Abseil doesn't even have releases any more. They expect you to live at head like GOOG
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
You can do that with boost:: or absl:: right now. No need to involve the standards committee at all.
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
Its not nearly enough to cover scalar arguments. You've got to cover composite arguments. time_t, fileno_t, fpos_t, etc may appear in structs, arrays, etc.
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
Haven't been lifted because the same regime which justified the actions in the first place is still in power doing the same things. Foreign military weapons installations didn't have anything to do with it then, and doesn't
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
> Why not epoch? An integer always means epoch. A human readable timestamp, unless it's exactly ISO8601, is pretty much always ambiguous. Because in practice, the only ubiquitous APIs for getting time since an epoch don't actua
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
Your history is wrong. The sanctions against Cuba were all well in place before Cuban missile crisis began.
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
Its a stupid reason. Russian military equipment uses GLONASS. Granted, GLONASS is just barely limping along, but it does work.
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
It sounds like you are referring to a replay attack. Mental model tweak: The signals aren't for a specific location, they are world-wide. So the "for Las Vegas" part doesn't work. Replay attacks are just a kind of denia
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
Americans regularly protest warfare without fear of prosecution. American companies and individuals regularly avoid selling products to US-DOD and/or ICE. Witness the controversy surrounding Panantir, or DOD's JEDI project, for
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
The intervention in Yugoslavia was possibly most well-justified military campaign in my lifetime, even more-so than the liberation of Kuwait.
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
They can lobby their government to stop invading their neighbors.
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
None of the above. Smaller nuclear reactor projects are an effort to reduce the capital requirements to get started. There are inherent economies of scale in the physics which promote building larger reactors. Military propulsion reactor
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
Russia isn't as big as the USSR was. You don't need to glass Siberia to make even a limited nuclear exchange unpalatable.
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
GCC supports many of the same sanitizers as well, since they were originally developed for GCC. We use GNU's ubsan and asan in our automated test suite.
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
Consistent use of language-specific tags makes it easier for tools to switch to a dedicated foreign-language parser when they encounter a tagged raw literal. The host language just provides the capability through arbitrary matchup, but its
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by brandmeyer 5y ago
I've said this before in another thread. The way I square this conundrum is with the notion that you are born short housing. Your parents cover your short position when you're growing up. But as an adult, renting is also contin

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