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by bsder 11mo ago
> You should have stopped to think about why such a person was hired in the first place The hiring process is probably barely better than random, and, probably even closer to random for a junior hire. Junior hires mostly don't know
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by bsder 11mo ago
> We rely almost solely on sight for driving (and a tiny bit on sound I guess). And proprioception. If I'm driving in snowy conditions, I'm definitely paying attention to whether the wheels are slipping, the car is sliding, th
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by bsder 11mo ago
Not on modern high-frequency switchers. GaN stuff can be 99%+ efficiency. The frequencies are multiple MHz which shrinks the inductors significantly--sometimes allowing PCB based coils (See Anker 120W teardowns).
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by bsder 11mo ago
But, why use those parts? These circuits take a lot of parts to do a job that you can do with modern high frequency stuff with a lot lower cost and parts count. The normal point of a capacitive doubler is either to give you a voltage you ne
515.
by bsder 11mo ago
Welcome to healthcare plans in Texas. This same price gets you a platinum plan with Sharp or Kaiser in San Diego and wouldn't have those gigantic deductibles. He moved his business from California to Texas and is now complaining about
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by bsder 11mo ago
> Not that it changes your point but the funny thing is that Anker was a no name Chinese brand on Amazon like UGREEN back then. They company was one of the first to construct a business plan around the idea of "Storefront and logist
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by bsder 11mo ago
Then the Apple II would never have sold. The 6800 was expensive versus the 6502--almost 10x (6502 was $25 when the 6800 was $175 which was already reduced from $360)!
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by bsder 11mo ago
> The question is... as someone who's invested in the stock market, what do you do? Nothing, unfortunately. The problem is that the bubble is a stretch of time while the burst is an instant. So, you lose all the benefits of partici
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by bsder 11mo ago
Sure, as long as you stick to digital and purchased IP. If you can get a "library" from somewhere (like the one Google released from Skywater), then you can use static timing analysis on the interconnect between the library blocks
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by bsder 11mo ago
Yeah, the 6809 is just ridiculously good to learn assembly language on. Motorola cleaned up all the idiocies from the 6800 on the 6809. The attention the 6502 get is just because of history. The advantage the 6502 had was that it was che
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by bsder 11mo ago
And if he cleaned it up, an even larger number of people would be calling it written with AI. Shrug. If he were berating a specific person, I might flag it. Berating Github and Microsoft as an organization? Nah. Given that CEOs seem to no
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by bsder 11mo ago
It's also very strange because more than 75% had some level of sustained weight loss after several years. That's way better than any other weight loss program . Nothing else even comes close.
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by bsder 11mo ago
Erm, exactly? Space 1999 was "OK for the time" at its best . You never got the equivalent of "The City on the Edge of Forever" or "Balance of Terror" or ... Space 1999 had resources and star power. It should
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by bsder 11mo ago
> The actual plots of Space1999 were pretty laughable And sooooo slooooooooow. Given the fact that is was such an expensive (for the time) show, I really, really want to know how it is that they couldn't cough up for a writer that c
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by bsder 11mo ago
Partially, but it's also because 90% of your work in "data science" isn't direct analysis. You need to get the data from somewhere. Do you need to scrape that because Python is okay at scraping? Oh, after its scraped
526.
by bsder 11mo ago
Can we please go back to "You have to make an account on our server to contribute or pull from the git?" One of the biggest problems is the fact that the public nature of Github means that fixes are worth "Faux Internet Point
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by bsder 11mo ago
> realize that the man was a scumbag. If so, then you are painting everybody, including the wife, with that same scumbag brush. The wife didn't have to get married, but she did because of the social pressure. The wife didn't h
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by bsder 11mo ago
> There is simply no excuse for this. The fault is here: > my parents were not a love match. at 27 and 26, they were embarrassingly old by the standards of their small chinese port town. all four of my grandparents exerted enormous pr
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by bsder 11mo ago
Sure, but then you've already thrown away the possibility of using "simpler" APIs that everybody is whining that DX12/Vulkan is more complicated than. Programmers should absolutely not be using DX12/Vulkan unless th
530.
by bsder 11mo ago
> I realize that I’m probably going to get dogpiled for saying it, but I think that the response to COVID (ie lockdowns) did far more damage than the disease itself. You're going to blame Covid and/or Covid response for the fac
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by bsder 11mo ago
You can keep the pitchforks out, but you sadly need to assume Arduino is dead. Of course, if you weren't already making that assumption when Qualcomm bought them, I don't know what to tell you ...
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by bsder 11mo ago
You don't have a tiny brain--programming Vulkan/DX12 sucks. The question you need to ask is: "Do I need my graphics to be multithreaded?" If the answer is "No"--don't use Vulkan/DX12! You wind up wit
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by bsder 11mo ago
> It makes sense that dining out is expensive, but it's weird that premade meals in grocery stores are so expensive, and that there's not a super cheap middle ground where they use economies of scale to have 1 person cook cafet
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by bsder 11mo ago
> But if the regulations aren't super stringent, others will undercut you by skimping on safety/emissions and selling a similar product for way less. Yup. For example: this is why the US automakers have shoved all the Brodozer
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by bsder 11mo ago
> Going to require quite the sales pitch to move. Mutability would be one such pitch I would like to see ...
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by bsder 11mo ago
> Python only just barely survived the jump from 2 to 3. In the timeframe we're talking here (late 1990s), that transition was Python1 to Python2! A couple Linux distributions were on Python 1.5.2 for a very, very long time. All
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by bsder 11mo ago
Was there a particular reason why "Think real hard on the symmetry and write a Python script." wouldn't do the job? Or was it simply "It would be cool to abuse some GPUs"? Either option is cool, though.
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by bsder 11mo ago
I was referring to Cubit. Phooey on the fact that it's ACIS.
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by bsder 11mo ago
> Do mechanics prefer to work with their own tools, or is this like a restaurant getting away with paying a tipped employee less than minimum wage because they can? Part from Column A and part from Column B. It's also part of the ac
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by bsder 11mo ago
Except they don't actually pay $120K per year. If the auto mechanics were paid a salary of $120K per year for 40 hours per week, they'd be flooded with applicants. Instead, that $120K number is if you can work the requisite nu

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