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by buescher 4y ago
That's exactly how I would "modernize" the system. Maybe add a modern DSP equalizer for room correction, too - his receiver has two monitor loops.
542.
by buescher 4y ago
You can do it in excel. I don’t have a particularly good example.
543.
by buescher 4y ago
In a similar vein, Calendrical Calculations by Reingold and Dershowitz.
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by buescher 4y ago
It's a book. He's writing in character.
545.
by buescher 4y ago
Funny that. The point of the review was not to catalogue technical inaccuracies in the novel, either.
546.
by buescher 4y ago
"Later on this Pirsig writes for ten pages about how to remove a broken screw from the block but not once does he tell you about the simple easy way which is the old Ezi-Out screw remover. In fact as far as I could figure out, man, I d
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by buescher 4y ago
If only that were true. A day? Try: in one sitting. Convienence stores in the USA have sold 64 oz cups of soda for decades. https://www.delish.com/food/news/a39120/super-sized-beverage...
548.
by buescher 4y ago
I think this has come up before. I'd love to know what a real elevator programmer thinks about it. I suspect real-world approaches to the problems the game presents are relatively simple, and you spend most of your time on corner cas
549.
by buescher 4y ago
Inx looks sort of like what I was thinking of. Thanks!
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by buescher 4y ago
I mean small and really opinionated - the goal would be a look and feel more like a bells-and-whistles DOS setup than like Unix. Inspired in part by https://prog21.dadgum.com/74.html
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by buescher 4y ago
Every time I fire up fpc to fool around and think about whether I would actually do something non-trivial in Pascal (the answer is 'no') I also fantasize about a very opinionated, very non-standard, text-mode Linux distribution lo
552.
by buescher 4y ago
Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks is "what happened when the upper middle class became class X". You could argue whether it's worthy or not, but it's what we've got.
553.
by buescher 4y ago
Just what you need for a 44x46 character display on a VIC-20 with sufficient memory.
554.
by buescher 4y ago
Harel statecharts date to the 80s.
555.
by buescher 4y ago
Yes - to be clear, the limitation is the notion in the methodologies (not necessarily the underlying language) that any time something has to happen, an object does it. Should it be this object? No, it should be a different object. Wha
556.
by buescher 4y ago
UML was bound to OO design methodologies that really didn't work that well (any time you have a vaguely specified component with "manager" in its name it is likely someone was following one of them and, usually, an example of
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by buescher 4y ago
Travelogues in general are a good source of new perspectives and are not usually heavy reading.
558.
by buescher 4y ago
Read some biographies. If your idea of philosophy is Pirsig, try one of Plato's Socratic dialogs as a palate-cleanser. It shouldn't be toil.
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by buescher 4y ago
"Privately-run" is not "privately-owned", and it might be a bit misleading. The DOE hires government contractors to run its laboratories.
560.
by buescher 4y ago
The trick is to just guess - with enough steps your errors will cancel each other out, unless you're grossly wrong, in which case you can go back and fix it. Back when these were common interview questions, because Microsoft did it,
561.
by buescher 4y ago
How recently would that still have been a prank? "Just cough into your phone..."
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by buescher 4y ago
You didn't look anything up. You're just wrong, so you came up with a story instead, and tried to move the goalposts to something like the FTC's "Made in the USA" qualifications - which I wasn't arguing. What
563.
by buescher 4y ago
One would hope.
564.
by buescher 4y ago
I haven't heard it in a long time - I think it was mostly confined to people born before 1930, and there aren't many of them around anymore, but "what if I press the wrong button?" used to be a major concern people had a
565.
by buescher 4y ago
You're just wrong. US manufacturing is a lot more than final assembly of airplanes and automobiles. Aerospace and automotive aren't the top manufacturing sectors either. You're just wrong about that. You can look up that y
566.
by buescher 4y ago
Sure, the whole supply chain is not in the US, and less of it is in the US than in past decades. That is not the point. You probably don't know anyone who works in manufacturing because you're in the demographic that reads hacker
567.
by buescher 4y ago
You're just wrong. Yes, US manufacturing is mostly high-value-add stuff. Because wages are high. Don't go into hock to start a toothpick factory in the USA. But go look up how many people are employed in manufacturing. 67,000
568.
by buescher 4y ago
There are some really cool surface mount IDC things too, and push-in terminators for solid wire. Solid wire through holes is OK if the wire is never going to flex. Otherwise the stranded wire lapped to surface mount pads, or soldered into
569.
by buescher 4y ago
I have never bothered, personally, even when I built more of my own prototypes myself. Hobbyists should consider their personal risk and go in increments. If you are not in a situation where setting up monitoring for exposure to flux per
570.
by buescher 4y ago
Agreed on the flux, agreed on the metcal. And oh yes, silver bearing solder is really nice. I only use it for repairs of solder joints that have failed mechanically. If you use it for everything, that solves that problem... but a little

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