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by chaboud 7y ago
In general, I kind of agree. It's not possible to separately compress constituent stems in a mix. Once they're mixed, the impact that you can have on "loudness" is restricted to the whole, frequency-separated bands (m
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by chaboud 7y ago
The problem with this way of thinking is that those budgets can lead to pathological behaviors. Start time is a great example. Let's say you have 1 second to start, but everything you need to do takes 1.2 seconds. Okay... We'll
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by chaboud 7y ago
That depends on your definition of "works". In a team environment something that is stupid and is barely coughing blood is a tar pit of wasted effort that will ensnare team member after team member, like a repeating land mine. O
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by chaboud 7y ago
This seems like it's for a trade-up/upgrade program, which would traditionally be: 1) Customer boxes up device. 2) Customer mails device to manufacturer. 3) Manufacturer hits it with a hammer, ensuring that they don't have to
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by chaboud 7y ago
Jr./Sr./PE is just a strawman for illustrative purposes. No ranking aspersions intended... In order I've been SDE, Sr. SDE, Senior PE, Sr. SDE, PE... It's pretty meaningless outside of the scope of one company's
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by chaboud 7y ago
If it's a completely closed-loop process, efficiency doesn't matter nearly as much as scalability. Let's say the solar cells are 20% efficient, and electrolysis is 50% efficient... So 10% of the solar energy makes it into th
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by chaboud 7y ago
If you want your reports to learn on the job: 1. Make it part of their annual goals (e.g. attend a conference, get a certification, compete in a competition). 2. Throw them in the deep end, a little beyond their edge, and be okay if they fu
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by chaboud 7y ago
Solution from the article: Don't fiddle with thread priorities. Solution that works well in real life: Use lock-free (or, better still, wait-free) data structures. The trick is that, for those of us in the devices and media world, and
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by chaboud 7y ago
That's a bit of an appeal to extremes. Visually rendering static HTML per the spec is a situation where a browser "just followed developer's whims", and it's why protocols and standards exist. That a browser could
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by chaboud 7y ago
What standards should those sites adhere to? Are those standards sufficiently complete as to be referenced by regulatory agencies? If so, what's keeping us from adopting standards or at least recommendations for legal compliance? I thi
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by chaboud 7y ago
I know some at Staff SWE, Amazon PE, etc who came from outside. In specialist groups it feels pretty common. Once you're at level at one of the heavies, it feels like people move at level, too.
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by chaboud 7y ago
I think it's very unlikely that older Android tablets are supported by their manufacturers. Of the 9 tablets and 8 phones in my sock drawer purchased since 2012, only the iPad Pro 10.5", Kindle Fire HDs, and Galaxy S8 are subject
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by chaboud 7y ago
I noticed that my iPad mini 2 finally falls off the list, but that thing is somewhat ancient. However, my Thinkpad X220 (maybe circa 2011?) still runs Windows 10 and Ubuntu, allowing it to stay up to date on security patches. In a way, App
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by chaboud 7y ago
Huh... I read the CSAIL email thread, and it seems like RMS was discussing distinctions between forcible acts, statutory acts, and coercion by a third party (e.g. Epstein being, in essence, a human-trafficking pimp...). RMS seemed to be arg
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by chaboud 7y ago
Not necessarily. My first yellow pages as a kid were all one color. (Small city)
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by chaboud 7y ago
This is what came to mind when I read this. Far too many professional programmers are unaware of perfect hash functions. A disturbing number are unaware of pathological collision cases. For a complete set of methods known at compile time,
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by chaboud 7y ago
Yeah... I don't think you got my point at all (which may be down to how I made it). The author started with "I amaze people with how well I can learn", bridged with "here's my method", which could be reduced to
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by chaboud 7y ago
Ha! I wouldn’t be surprised if you found it altogether too condescending... I generally find myself being a little more brutal with people who sound/read like me 18-20 years ago, partly because I think that being hit over the head c
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by chaboud 7y ago
Subject-matter expert. One critical way to become a better learner on a team (that is, a far less annoying learner) is to recognize when to ask a question of someone else and when to just Google/Portal/XPlore/etc it. Interac
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by chaboud 7y ago
“I left an important part out of the process above - how do you actually find the best resource. I don’t know. That said, I’ve gotten “lucky” enough times that I think I know how to optimize for finding it.” Pro tip: No, you don’t. I’m game
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by chaboud 7y ago
“De-risking is the art of reducing risk with the code that you deploy. What all steps can you take to reduce the risk of disaster?” Honestly, I talk about derisking most in two contexts in our projects: schedule, invention. Normally this me
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by chaboud 7y ago
Dude. You’d break crypto for payment in.... crypto? Why not just create transfers quietly from others and bleed out wallets from around the world, then convert to cash, then publish? You’d be rich, crypto would crash, and you’d be able to
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by chaboud 7y ago
I think the argument is that a product that is hard to repair is less likely to be repaired, and, thus, more likely to become waste and be more quickly replaced with an altogether new product when confronted with a minor, and otherwise repa
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by chaboud 7y ago
If JPL is using a Pi off of Earth, they're doing it wrong. Stability in space requires a little more care (it's hot, cold, particle-y, etc).
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by chaboud 7y ago
I think you may mean below. Basically, low temperature superconductors (e.g. niobium titanium) are liquid helium cooled. High temperature superconductors (e.g. YBCO, BSCCO) are everything else, but generally liquid nitrogen cooled.
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by chaboud 7y ago
That's how it seems. 1. Both stab trim cut switches now cut electronic horizontal stabilizer trim control and automated control together. 2. And manual control does not function at high airspeeds. 3. So... A planeload of people is scre
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by chaboud 7y ago
The airframe is listed at purchase. I won't be suing. I just won't be buying.
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by chaboud 7y ago
For a year after it is reinstated, my answer will be "yes, I'm changing my flight". Doubly so if my wife and child are on the plane. Why? Because I'd be so unbelievably pissed at myself if the plane nosed itself into t
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by chaboud 7y ago
Physics. Battery life, operating temperature, limited bandwidth, limited storage... The big thing stopping these from turning into persistent capture and transmit devices is duty cycle optimization for product performance. A device that br
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by chaboud 7y ago
I'm not sure what you're responding to, but AoA indicators have very little to do with weight and balance . Fuel loads, critical airspeeds, and maneuvering characteristics are indeed governed by weight and balance. That has noth

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