dbcurtis

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by dbcurtis 7y ago
No, there has to be roughage mixed in. (Hay, etc) Cattle will founder in pure grain.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. That goes twice if your significant other also has a similar career trajectory.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Those two crops are not compatible to co-plant.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> Forking is extremely aggressive, Is it really, though? It is more of an "agree to disagree" situation. Just like the maintainer doesn't owe you anything, you don't owe the maintainer blind loyalty, either.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Cats understand work/life balance, and dogs don’t. For a dog, the highlight of the day is running with the pack, regardless of how much effort that is. Thus, the success of the dogsled. The cat’s highlights are the daily private hunt,
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Everything that you mention except the self-steering is a function of the attached implement, not the tractor. That makes incremental upgrades of that sort much easier.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> In my experience, the quality of doctor was incredibly low, Hmmm... never would have guessed that. In my experience, the One Medical doctor that my wife and child see is excellent. I've met him and think he is great. A colleag
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> Without MCAS the MAX loses the 737 type rating and becomes a commercial failure. Does it fail? I will grant you this: 1) A significant number of people would refuse to fly it. 2) Pilots would need to be trained to the new type. 3) Th
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Openscad is a completely different paradigm. It is a graphics scripting engine, not a parametric modeler. Openscad is good for what it does, but is a hugely different beast from a parametric modeling system. In solidworks (to pick on the
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Well, in a pure sense, you are correct. But for practical reasons, it can sometimes be easier to define a parsing grammar that is a little loose, and pick up the stragglers by analyzing the AST. Sometimes the “correct” grammar is needlessl
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
In the early days, farm tractors were pretty simple, and many farmers did a lot of their own work. As machines got bigger, most used local repair shops that could always order from parts depots. But as electronics has invaded tractors (for
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Those years are intense. It gets better after age 6 or so. I remember when I moved into this house and the neighbors across the street had one age 8 and triplets age 5. When I saw Rick across the street in his front yard, that man just alwa
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Indeed. When I was a young CPU designer (working on walk-in, refrigerated, mainframes implemented in 100K-series ECL) several of the old bulls I worked with had been CPU designers in the days of vacuum tubes. I loved hearing the stories of
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> (My Ph.D. advisor, perhaps the greatest and most passionate educator I have ever known, received the excellence in teaching award and was then promptly denied tenure.) Wow. How to make your university Hell on Earth reduced to a single,
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Yup. One of my old coworkers from years ago, an OS programmer, used to joke that his mother was a computer. She had been a computer for the University economics department. When electronic computers came in, she became a keypunch operator.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> > Flight search interfaces don’t seem to filter on equipment. > I suspect this is going to change as booking web sites can use that feature as a selling point. I hope you are right. Google flights might add a filter. But will Sou
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
I have been thinking about how to implement that after the MAX starts flying again. Flight search interfaces don’t seem to filter on equipment. And of course, equipment gets changed at times, so you may book one aircraft and have a differe
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
My favorite PL/I trick from the punch card days. It takes two cards: DEBUG = 0; /*/ ;1 = GUBED */ Reverse the card to turn on the debug switch. Not invented by me, I forget who showed me that. A professor I h
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Motors and appliances get hot because inefficiencies eventually become waste heat. That is the source of the heat. It propagates from tbe heat source to a surface you can feel through conduction and other mechanisms.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> which basically states that good conductors of electricity will also be proportionally good conductors of heat, which is why things like motors and appliances get so hot when you use them regularly. NOOOOO!!!!!...... How can science re
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Some early Amateur Radio satellites (Project OSCAR) literally did use silver-plated steel tape measures. http://www.rfcafe.com/references/popular-electronics/oscar-3...
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Fair question. In the category of still stuck in the 1980's: Handling of bus rippers, and hierarchical nets as they expand through topological hierarchy. Especially in regard to the flexibility of naming ripped sub-nets. Restrictive to
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
2019 is nearly identical to 2009 when compared to the gap between 1967 and 1970. 1968 was a watershed year, 1969 not far behind.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> It beats almost all other (commercial or non-commercial) software in PCB design, hands down. You need to get out more often. Look, I am a KiCAD supporter, too. But KiCAD is repeating the mistakes of commercial ECAD systems of the 1980
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Interesting. Can’t wait for my Librem 5 to arrive because it enables experiments like this. I can imagine a 3-way (or more) switch. Give Lyft my GPS for right now so my driver can find me. Always block GPS on some apps, and provide fake ran
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
SoDak has no state income tax, so perhaps there is some other benefit to the state.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Why yes, yes indeed they were asked, and yes indeed they did vote. Look up the voting procedures around the ratification of the US constitution. They are rather interesting. The vote was put directly to the people, intentionally bypassin
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> One of the worst mistakes in modern government is pretending that the people 'serving' have more rights and privileges then everybody else. The correct term to use here is "powers". The people have "rights&quo
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Agreed. Covert radio ops requires non-trivial op-sec.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
So 'round about 100 years ago, amateur radio was starting to ramp up after the WW I shut down. It actually meets your definition. Of course, every node requires some infrastructure, and the ionosphere as a long-haul back-bone has its

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