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by buescher 5y ago
Yes, with a rpi you are going back 15-20 years in performance. I don't know that I would call that unusable. People used Mathematica on the G5 PowerPC, which was in the same ballpark in the benchmarks you cite. So I guess... for hobb
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by buescher 5y ago
There's a free tier of Wolfram Cloud. Mathematica is also bundled with the Raspberry Pi Raspbian distribution.
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by buescher 5y ago
If you trust your test setup for 17.4 GHz to be within a few dB of what you'd get at a certified test lab, sure. Yeah leaving the stub is bad practice because it could cause you trouble in FCC certification, not because it always wil
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by buescher 5y ago
They regulate effective radiated power (except for the AM broadcast band), which is a function of both conducted power output and antenna design. Any part 15 stuff like WiFi that has replaceable antennas will typically be certified for use
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by buescher 5y ago
They use it in their part 15 compliance testing. Conducted power output is a standard test. The alternative is bodging a connector onto the board.
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by buescher 5y ago
It can, but I’d be a little surprised if the zero w makes enough power to destroy its output without an antenna.
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by buescher 5y ago
Have at it: http://x3270.bgp.nu/x026.html
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by buescher 5y ago
The thinking has been that the efficiency of steam reforming of methane to hydrogen (up to 75%) times the efficiency of fuel cells (claimed to be up to ~60% today) gives you system efficiency that is substantially better than conventional e
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Thomas Edison's pre-employment test(interestingengineering.com)
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by buescher 5y ago
You just sent me down a rabbit hole of "what was that athena-widget or athena-ish drawing program that wasn't xfig, xcircuit, or xpaint?" I'm pretty sure what I'm remembering is tgif: http://bourbon.usc.e
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by buescher 5y ago
It was old already in 1998 - there's a 1998 post of it in comp.lang.c++ and the first response was "Hoah, not again....when will this thing die...." https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c++/c/r
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by buescher 5y ago
Slice fresh morels into rings (they're hollow tubes), dust them with flour and a little salt and pepper, and fry them in a little oil until crisp on the outside.
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by buescher 5y ago
Also, virtually all of them had primarily worked in enterprise software. What works for consultants on internally developed software, with a captive user base and key stakeholders who write all the checks, is not necessarily what's go
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by buescher 5y ago
A high proportion of the booze consumed worldwide is what the bureaucrats call "unrecorded", and poisonings are exceptional.
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by buescher 5y ago
There's an underground market in cigarettes in high-tax states of the US also! https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129934...
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by buescher 5y ago
Yeah it was Clinton and his administration that was pushing the Clipper chip with the backdoored Skipjack cypher. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
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by buescher 5y ago
It's a controversy that predates Alexander. It won't get settled on HN.
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by buescher 5y ago
It applies to hand assembling electronics with through-hole resistors, also. Install them so the color code reads left-to-right in the most usual orientation of the board. Yes, it does not matter electrically which way you install them, b
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by buescher 5y ago
Also the birthplace of the Singapore sling cocktail. It's famous.
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by buescher 5y ago
Funny. I was fascinated in the same way by the crystal (germanium diode) radio kit I built as a kid but I wish now I'd built one of the "oatmeal box" more-or-less-from-scratch radios. It's probably easier than ever to d
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by buescher 5y ago
Radio was invented after we had Maxwell's equations - a theory that predicts electromagnetic waves. They probably could have built a radio, but they wouldn't have had the idea that one was possible without a couple hundred years
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by buescher 5y ago
Before that, De Re Atari.
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by buescher 5y ago
Also the designer of the Atari SIO, Joe Decuir, also worked on the USB standards and calls the SIO the direct ancestor of USB. Too bad it's so slow. The Commodore VIC-20 and 64 (which had a similarly crippled serial interface) and At
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by buescher 5y ago
Maybe they want people to read what they have to say! In which case, communicating more effectively is worth time, effort, and money.
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by buescher 5y ago
The Jeffries thing could only be better if he had tackled each rule of Sudoku one at a time in two-week sprints, simulating a stakeholder revealing the "implicit spec".
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by buescher 5y ago
Also from the Fowler piece: "C3's cancellation, however, also proves that XP is no guarantee of success." It's fair to examine the at best mixed success of the "birth project" of XP (which formed a lot of AGIL
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by buescher 5y ago
But, but, my paperwork was in order!!!
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by buescher 5y ago
Used to come with Slackware, didn't it?
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by buescher 5y ago
You are playing the "yes, but" game. Learn to avoid that.
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by buescher 5y ago
Even before the WWW, I remember being taught that the next best thing to remembering something was knowing how/where to look it up.

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