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by dbcurtis 6y ago
It could mean either. Rad-hard parts are used in satellites. I am not familiar with the current crop of rad-hard parts. I did work as a CPU logic desiger at Amdahl. We had full parity through-checking, so an ALU intermittent logic error wou
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Personally, the anxiety of whiteboard “coding as performance art” makes my brain freeze. I see it as a broken process. It certainly selects against me. I think you can learn more useful stuff about a programmer by showing them a function pr
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
absolutely. Physical therapists often prescribe gymnastics for kids after they “graduate” from more intense PT.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Interestingly, in the area of Iowa and Minnesota where I grew up, where a lot of the towns were founded just after the Civil War, the shops on main street were mostly brick storefront on the ground level, with residence above. Very few sho
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
This idea is more than 30 years old. It has been done, and one upon a time companies were built around this idea. First off, mapping an entire CPU to an FPGA cluster is a design challenge itself. Assuming you can build an FPGA cluster lar
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
> There were certainly no senior managers willing or able to sacrifice the golden goose of film to pursue something entirely different. Bingo. Innovator’s Dilemma. You have to be willing to eat your own lunch because otherwise a competit
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Not so much allotted as at many airlines it is a “bid” process. You put in for a route, and it goes to the most senior bidders. The perq of being senior is more likelihood of getting choice routes.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Look at the Baofeng data collected by ARRL: http://www.nf9k.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ARRL-Lab-HT-T... And others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjEl6dciLS0
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Please don’t get a Baofeng. Those things put out incredibly dirty signals. They are RF polution you can carry in your pocket.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
No, the filter is heated to 200C, not the air. They don’t say what the temperature delta of the air is after passing through.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
CAN is great for real time control, and a huge number of embedded components support it. I don’t see it going away any time soon. That said, it does not have a lot of bandwidth. There will need to be something higher bandwidth to support mo
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
You know what? When I was a kid growing up back in the northern reaches of fly-over land, I got to experience a vehicle UI that has never been bettered for the environment that it was designed for. It's the 1970's era Chevy Silv
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Is Joy getting any active development? The only resources I could find with a quick search seem to be almost 20 years old.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
> This could be the end of cruel factory farms and the resurgence of smaller, healthier and more humane farming. Yes, well, you're going to have to show me the math. We eat incredibly well, with decent nutrition (could be better, y
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Solidworks users do for certain. But then again, they are running Windows.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
A friend of mine that years ago (pre-F-18) was a carrier-rated Navy fighter pilot had, after he got out, flown a Mooney for a couple decades. His wife also a pilot. He always went down the checklist verbally, every time. One time on approac
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
1970's. The limit on what you could leave to a spouse was low enough that during a period of rapid inflation it got badly out of whack with farm land values. It caught main-street businesses, too.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Wow. My heart-felt anecdote offended somebody. Down-votes don't contribute to the debate.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
My guess would be minimum-wage plus employment taxes. Nobody can afford the labor to keep up those kinds of estates.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
High inheritance taxes tend to single out individual proprietorship businesses for punishment. I remember when I was young, watching newly-widowed farm wives lose everything to inheritance taxes. It was heartbreaking. The tax code change
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
DATV is a thing on 430. The problem is equipment. MDARC runs DVB-S, I believe. For DVB-S, you can re-purpose satellite equipment. KH6ATV is a proponent of DVB-T (which in theory should be better than DVB-S for terrestrial paths). There i
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
> I'm not sure how to turn geography into a problem you have An old office mate once quipped that: "Ham radio is just a conspiracy on the part of the world's geography teachers to make their subject interesting."
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Many people have already said, more-or-less, "embrace the suck". Learning new things will always have an initial period of less-than-ideal results. So I won't repeat that. Let me add: Break down the trouble spots into simpl
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
For how far out? A village near where I grew up had a low railroad overpass. The road underneath had been lowered to create clearance, but not very far on either side. The “low clearance” sign had the height at the overpass marked on it. Wh
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Well, not quite. Certain phrases have been tested in court. That is why arcane word-strings appear on contracts. Courts have established meaning and precedent for that word string. Going rogue with more readable language is asking for a rid
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
There is a European company with a similar robot (sorry, can't remember the name, but I have seen the robot up close). They actually have a business model! (BD's business model seems to be asking the DOD for more research funds.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Well, as far as digital transformation— you sre seeing the result of twenty years of experiments and false starts, with the occasional winner. I think The Lego Group recognizes the importance, and is likely frustrated by how little tractio
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
The design grammar is different. But I find it easier, because you don’t have to deal with the 4-4-5 assymetrc geometry. That said, finding the connector that re-orients holes the way you need can ne a challenge. I have a collection of all
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
I like those. I have also heard: "Nobody has ever died of being seasick, but many have wished they could."
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Just a warning about trackballs: I love them and have used them almost exclusively for probably 25 years. A few years ago I started getting “trackball thumb”. So I advise switching up among various different trackball geometries. (I also u

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