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by dbcurtis 7y ago
At least in the US, I believe so long as you do not sell or transfer items, you can make them for your own use without licensing the patent. To win a law suit, the company would have to "show harm". They can't. They lost e
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> A tall profile is pretty much inevitable for vehicles that carry cargo. But a tall profile does not mean that headlights need to be mounted higher above the road surface. This is a simple problem in geometry.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Well, that is kind of stale news. The sending of a few dots worked for a few weeks. I even participated. But a pack of angry hams sending dots was worse than the woodpecker. But anyway, after moving off the ham bands for a while, the woodpe
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Is that available in models other than a hearse?
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> How should we be preparing for that? Step 1: Chill. We home-schooled from preschool through high-school. Today I am trying to figure out how to help (from the opposite coast) my MIT senior deal with getting kicked out of their dorm in
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Bad luck. Ski season? All it takes is one person coming home from 6 weeks trying to ramp manufacturing in China taking a week's break to ski and unwind. Boom. Total speculation on my part, but you can imagine a dozen similar scenario
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
I thought it was more about kicking automated trading bots to the curb for a while. Stop an algorithm-driven flash-crash.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Did you ever notice that as you drive through farm country, you will see long stretches where everyone is using one brand, and then a long stretch where everyone is using another? Dollars-to-donuts it is driven by proximity to a regional p
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
LF CR was always wrong. On a real TTY, it often takes longer than one character time for the CR to execute. CR has to accelerate and decelerate an actual physical mass. LF CR did surface briefly in the early days of PC’s, I can’t remember w
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Amazon is simply the worlds largest fence for counterfeit goods, and should be treated as such. If your local pawn shop did what Amazon does, the owners would take a ride in a black-and-white cab.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Well, be careful. I love trackballs, and have used them exclusively for 25+ years. But... “trackball thumb” is a thing. I had a physical therapist show me how to work out issues when I get them, but ultimately the healthiest thing for me to
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> Ark Yes, thanks! I knew arc didn’t look quite correct, but my spelling is sketchy enough without being under-caffeinated.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> If the situation becomes severe enough for this to become a problem, this will be organised by authorities. Ummm... FEMA’s track record handling extremely localized emergencies doesn’t fill me with confidence at their ability to handle
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
All the telephone sanitizers left on the B arc.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Yes. Precisely. As ex-Intel, I confirm all of your points. The “mess”, though, is just a natural artifact of longevity. Many years of decisions that made sense in the moment accumulated to appear to be a “what WERE they thinking?” situation
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
In those days, leather was very much a part of many manufactured goods. Not to mention, the primary mode of transportation was the horse, which required a saddle.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Sorry, I don't have time right now to read your link but I will get back to it after my event this evening. My citation for hogs... my father was a breeder of fine, pedigreed Duroc-Jersey swine. He literally lived through (and helped
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
It is interesting how that has changed over time. In the 1830's, the most valuable part of the beef animal was the hide, followed by the tallow. The meat was the cheap byproduct. Same for pork. In the 1940's, lard was highly va
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
On the other side, the company can create a nice "market" by tuning it correctly. When I was at Intel, it was relatively easy to get an internal hiring req, and relatively difficult to get an external one. And... the total numbe
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Or in enterprise sales, someone who has 6 months tenure. Why? Because an angry customer call can always be handled with: "I will put you straight through to the Vice President."
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Yes, this. I have early-stage cateracs, which by-and-latge is not an issue on my 40 inch monitor. But it does mean that my astigmatism drifts around monthly. My prescription changes faster than I can get new lenses cut. The BIGGEST ergonomi
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
I would live HDMI input also, but for different reasons. I want to process video from HDMI streams.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
From a manager's perspective, what I think is a great 1:1 is two things: 1. Delegate up. If you have blockers that we haven't talked about already out of 1:1 cycle, bring that first so that we can figure out how to knock it down.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
CPython is mot the only Python. Portability is an issue also.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
In the mean time, you could learn your chops by volunteering to work on one of the Amateur Radio satellites.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Interesting thought, but some problems that come to mind are: 1) Is the density of fiberglass near or lower than that of water? If so, then they are very "sinky". 2) What toxins will leach out of the fiberglass resins after prolon
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Not after the dust has settled and been removed. Aerosol dust, yes nasty. But inless there is enough of it it and also aerosolized, it won’t explode.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> made python so wildly I think you meant "widely", but wildly works as well.....
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
AWS Robomaker gives you simulated Gazebo environments to play with. It aims to be an industrial-strength CI/CD environment for PR testing in simulation before deploying to hardware (where bugs can have kinetic consequences) so it is r
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
The problem with LALR parser generators is that you end up with an LALR parser. Which is fine as long as the input is error-free, but trying to get a reasonable error message out of any LALR parser is about as much fun as repeatedly poki

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