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by buescher 1y ago
There's always a market for a better free lunch.
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by buescher 1y ago
I wish I'd had a copy of the book referenced much earlier in my career too. As far as the twisted-paperclip antennas go, just imagine trying to verify each of those 3D bends was to spec. Or conversely, running a monte carlo on all the
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by buescher 1y ago
These designs fascinate people who haven't designed antennas. I don't doubt that throwing enough computational power at optimizing antennas will produce antennas optimized for something at the expense of something else but if you
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by buescher 1y ago
Milwaukee was a US company but has been a brand of Techtronic Industries, which is based in Hong Kong, for about 20 years now.
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by buescher 1y ago
I made a self-bow in a class and will need to make another one. If you think you'd like to make a bow and you have the opportunity to learn from someone, jump on it.
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by buescher 2y ago
In that world, Netscape might have also acquired Naviserver instead of AOL. Wasn't the plan at Netscape to make money on their server software?
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by buescher 2y ago
Someone did a nice job of porting your revision control data. It would be fascinating to know what the previous systems were - probably svn or cvs, maybe both in chronological order, but before that?
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by buescher 2y ago
That’s what excellence looks like. I think chik-fil-a has similar net margins. QSR is more typical for their industry. I think Starbucks is down around 10-12% net margins too.
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by buescher 2y ago
You’re not supposed to take that use of that expression literally, but if someone gets hurt for any reason, the lawyers will.
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by buescher 2y ago
The de facto standard external autorouter workflow is through specctra files.
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by buescher 2y ago
Years ago the long-gone and unlamented OrCAD Layout had a spreadsheet view of your nets that was a slightly better than good-enough interface for setting constraints for autorouting. Once you got your footprints, placement, constraints, an
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by buescher 2y ago
Ironically, the shift in usage is happening at the same time that embedded security is getting good enough that it's possible to brick something hard enough that you can't reflash it without replacing chips, if you lose keys or th
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by buescher 2y ago
The Atari ST and Amiga versions of Flight Simulator II (still II, there must be a story there) were such a huge step up at the time, when the CGA version was still current on the PC.
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by buescher 2y ago
Without reading either article - yet - I can tell you "crackpot" can mean a lot of things, and one of them that is relevant to this context is "an academic that's more interested in ideas than in being a good research bu
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by buescher 2y ago
Fiber. People used to go to the doctor a lot for digestive issues. "An apple a day" and all that.
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by buescher 2y ago
That stuff is pretty much just egg white and food coloring. Nowadays they sell undyed egg white in cartons alongside it because the trend has shifted to high protein diets.
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by buescher 2y ago
It was about health. You know, trying not to grow old and get sick and eventually die. Between the seventies and about 15 years ago, educated people in the US, the sort of people who got their toehold in the middle class by doing what the
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by buescher 2y ago
Yeah, the alternative to a double-blind review that isn't a double-blind review is a double blind review. The alternative to not enforcing existing rules against plagiarism is to enforce them. The alternative to ignoring integrity issu
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by buescher 2y ago
William Kahan worked on both IEEE 754 and HP calculators. The speed gap between something like an 8087 and a calculator was not that big back then, either.
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by buescher 2y ago
It means you have taken graduate level courses and have completed an apprenticeship in doing publishable academic research. Now that a master's is the new bachelor's there's something of a trend to think of a PhD as the new
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by buescher 2y ago
For Greek I like this: https://www.covingtoninnovations.com/pens/GreekChartLarge.jp... There’s an old joke about “mathematical maturity” meaning being able to write a lowercase zeta, but I took enough classes from prof
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by buescher 2y ago
It's telling I think that the discussion becomes about standards, which software people like, rather than say, clear communication to technical stakeholders beyond the original programmer. I have a list somewhere I made of everyone th
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by buescher 2y ago
Before even!
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by buescher 2y ago
>What numbers are you looking at that makes it seem like it's "hilariously common"? Devo wrote a funny song about it in the seventies, so it is kind of funny and it wasn't invented last week.
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by buescher 2y ago
Heh. I caught that too, and was going to say "I totally remember running Docker on Slackware on my 386DX40. I had to upgrade to 8MB of RAM. Good times."
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by buescher 2y ago
Right, and I think your language was careful to imply that, but others reading this should understand solder mask does that but it's not what it's for , if that makes sense. The bit of mechanical and environmental protection it
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by buescher 2y ago
The rumor had it they thought the movie tie-in would be such a hit that they produced more ET cartridges than there were 2600 consoles in existence. Supply chain whiplash sounds credible too though. My vague recollection is that coin-op was
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by buescher 2y ago
> to prevent ... accidental electrical shorts It frequently does that, so you are not wrong, but it is not a reliable insulator. If you need insulation or spacing for engineering or compliance reasons, you cannot rely on solder mask to
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by buescher 2y ago
This is a great explanation for the uninitiated. Kudos. You can get the green stuff in any color, of course. Hence red or blue circuit boards. There is lore about why green but whether it was chosen deliberately, copper traces appear da
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by buescher 2y ago
You get a field strength the same way the pros do - from the antenna factors for your antenna and the cable loss. Look at a public FCC test report for an exposition of the method. DIY dipoles and even horns are not going to be very much di

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