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by dbcurtis 5y ago
What state are you in? What Amazon can enforce will vary widely from state to state. Ask a lawyer. I had all my non-compete questions about a particular situation covered in one phone call of 45 billable minutes. This does not have to be ex
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
To you down-voters: this was a serious question. I have heard that NFTs are used to provide provenance for collectables and artwork. So based on cursory knowledge, this would seem to be a use case. What am I missing? A little more education
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Doesn’t NFT proof-of-provenance solve this?
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Ding, ding, ding! Winner, winner! Chicken dinner! It's about the drivers. Getting traction with a new OS is all about driver support. Which is what makes launching a new OS hard, assuming your goal is to be popular. You have to insp
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
The philosophy behind MKL is that each CPU vendor provides an MKL for their CPU. If you expect to mix and match MKLs and CPUs, you don’t understand the goals of MKL.
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
> It is not uncommon for an ejection to end a pilot’s tactical jet flying days for medical reasons. This exact thing happened to a friend of mine. Combat-rated Harrier pilot in the RAF. Had to punch out after a bird strike. Came out o
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Or, maybe you don’t spend a lot of time hanging around marshalling yards. You won’t see this go by very often while you wait at a crossing.
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
That's a really interesting story that resonates with one I heard from a friend. Years ago when we were both at Intel, my friend transferred into the corporate demo group. He related a story about the time he had to prep Andy Grove fo
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Where does one go to get a part fabricated, though? It isn't quite as easy as getting a PCB made.
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Somewhere between useless and a godsend. It depends upon your application. There are many choices in materials and printer set-up options that greatly change the results that you get. Depending on how demanding your application is, you m
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Yeah, his channel is a hoot! I’ve never tried replicating a recipe of his, though.
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
The "path loss equation" goes something like: At the receiver, you have "minimum detectable signal", MDS, measured in dBm. At the transmitter, you have power out, measured in dBm. Add transmitting antenna gain, in dB, su
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
> What do gut bacteria do again? ... > Well, I’m here to tell you that they do nothing. Utter tripe. After getting a cardiac stent placed last April, I did a deep dive on cardiovascular disease. I landed on work from the Cleveland C
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Kodachrome is a very different process from other color films. (going from memory from years ago when I dabbled in color wet-chemistry darkroom work) Most color transparency films have color-couplers linking the silver salts to dyes that a
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Have you heard of https://www.davidsongifted.org/ ? They will help lobby the school system, or help you find other resources. And also get your kid connected with other kids that are intellectual peers as well as age peer
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
At risk of displaying my ignorance of English history, were they not at one time the currencies of three different kingdoms?
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Of you go back far enough, I think it is true that at one time they were three currencies that floated against each other.
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
I have a theory about why it is so difficult for great IC's to make the jump to being a great manager. As an individual contributor, you need two things most of all: 1. quiet uninterrupted time to focus your mind and get into flow, an
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
That was interesting. Scored 14. About 6 weeks ago I got a lens implant to replace a cataract-ravaged lens in my dominant eye. One of the first things I noticed after surgery was that the color temperature of that eye cooled noticeabley. My
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
“More accurate than the internet.” I want that on a tee shirt.
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Recently released (days ago) US census data disagrees. Only New York had higher outmigration in absolute numbers than California.
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Interesting. There is a chip that was once one of my friend's favorites for his consulting work... it was essentially a 6502 with huge mask-programmable ROM and a tiny (like 128 byte) RAM -- it was designed for greeting cards, where i
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Gotta admit though, there has never been a better time to be a mouse.
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Its a multi-focal lens. My optometrist and another friend both have them. It splits the incoming light and you need to focus with your attention, not mechanically, which is interesting. The downside my friend reports is that reading require
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Totally feasible in microcontroller for small ones and modest update rates, yes. I have worked with robots that had them implemented in slow 8-bit microcontrollers. (I did not do the KF, though).
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
Another vote for cumputer-distance prescription. Also, I have two monitors so naturally switch my gaze between the two through the day as I work, which helps. One monitor is very large, and I set the resolution low so fonts and such are unc
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
The wheel hubs are probably available on Brinklink. Apologies in advance for enabling your Lego addiction.
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by dbcurtis 5y ago
The people copying code off the air were mainly trained that a particular sound required that you type a particular key. The traffic was all encrypted. The cypher text was passed off to others for decryption. The US Navy trained Filipina
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My speculation is that being surrounded by ubiquitous wireless technologies, some people are going to be curious about the nuts and bolts of it all and want to understand how it works. A second factor is that things like RTL-SDR that allow
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I believe those regulations have changed.

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