dbcurtis

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by dbcurtis 8mo ago
I have a wallet with a pocket for an airtag.
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by dbcurtis 9mo ago
Well, if your manager can see your employee file (which they can.... certainly in Worlday) they will know your birthday. Oddly, at my employer, celebration of individual birthdays is discouraged, I have heard it is because it might make so
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by dbcurtis 9mo ago
Mostly agree, but we don’t have to give up the benefits of direct digital tabulation for quick results. I would like a paper audit trail. Print my ballot-as-cast for on a paper roll that scrolls by under a window. I can verify it before lea
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by dbcurtis 9mo ago
Well, these days it seems Linux drivers get enough eye-balls on them that anything meaningful is going to get looked at. Sure, I expect there are some low usage drivers in the repo that just haven't had enough mileage. At least with
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by dbcurtis 9mo ago
> If there is one thing about Windows that is really good, it is its kernel and driver architecture, Woah, back up a bit. In the article, it looks like the blue screen is a 0x0 (iopr) exception, likely a wild jump into the weeds. But b
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by dbcurtis 9mo ago
Legal would probably tell you to purge anything older than 180 days, unless there is active discovery for a lawsuit, in which case retain until end of law suit. Retention is a legal policy issue, which may vary from company to company, and
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by dbcurtis 9mo ago
Or… someone seeing a bunch of commercial flights over the Caribbean getting cancelled. Could be anyone from airline ops to frustrated travelers stranded in Boston.
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by dbcurtis 11mo ago
The way I've heard it is: Being a microwave engineer is the easiest job in world. You basically only do two things, design oscillators and design amplifiers. What's the worst thing that can happen to an amplifier? It oscillates!
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by dbcurtis 11mo ago
It is important to remember that IEEE 754 is, in practice, aspirational. It is very complex and nobody gets it 100% correct. There are so many end cases around the sticky bit, quiet vs. signaling NaNs, etc, that a processor that gets it 1
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by dbcurtis 11mo ago
At those power levels they would have to use some kind of highly error-corrected modulation and coding scheme to provide enough coding gain to overcome the path loss. I agree they are pretty optimistic, but until they detail their modulati
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by dbcurtis 11mo ago
Isn't there a moon bounce mode in WSJT (or one of those digital modes) that provides enough coding gain that 100W and a single large Yagi is enough? I seem to recall hearing something like that... but, yeah, on CW a monster antenna an
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by dbcurtis 11mo ago
It’s been quite some time since I’ve been in the business of writing lots of unit tests, but back in the day, I found hypothesis to be a big force multiplier and it uncovered many subtle/embarrassing bugs for me. Recommend. Also easy
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
That is an immature view on how real products and real standards work. The standard document may say one thing, but what people do in the real world is the real standard. For context: I spent 11 years at Intel managing pre-silicon and post
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Pffft.... that's what ham radio is for. (Note: humorous, not ill intent here. An old office mate of mine once kidded me that he thought ham radio was a conspiracy on the part of the world's geography teachers to get people to ta
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Yes, this is certainly true for ICE vehicles. The measurement methodology is spelled out in exacting detail, and yields highly repeatable results. Realistic? Nope, not at all. Nobody could claim that. But, it is repeatable and comparab
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
In my experience as a parent, you can provide the resource but don’t need to push. Love of math will happen if it has the right environment. For a 7yo I might suggest looking onto Epsilon camp, and Art of Problem Solving (which is on line).
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Ha ha, yeah, for sure. It is easy to tell the Python code coming from an experienced C programmer. The thing about Python is, you can just give C a semi-colon-ectomy and it pretty much works. But it isn't Python... it took me a whil
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Sure. A ROS system, being a collection of independent nodes coupled with a publish/subscribe messaging system, allows you to mix and match nodes for whatever. So as a researcher, it is great. It gives you a "good enough" r
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Pretty much. A strongly predicted branch is as fast as straight-line code, for most practical purposes (in modern processors). It is the mis-predicted branch that causes a pipeline flush and a re-fetch and so forth. The whole point of ins
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
My own conclusion about burnout is that it fundamentally comes down to who controls the agenda, and how much you invest in that agenda. I've been burned out. Many years ago, early in my career. My cure: I was in the lucky position t
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
It is going to be the relative amplitudes of the overtones. Pure tone (like flute) is bright, many overtones present with the appropriate mix can sound dark (french horn). Next, you are going to ask me for the coefficients, but I don’t know
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Google some tsumani simulations of the west coast. Prepare to be surprised.
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
> Also, I'm curious - did you find yourself having to constrain your use of C in order to make sure that the compiler could compile itself? Or does it implement everything you would use naturally anyways? That would be the "boo
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Try a rules-based synthesis problem. Prolog style (put simplisticly) is to write down what is true about a solution, and turn the search engine loose. Prolog is still procedural, unfortunately, so practical Prolog requires understanding the
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
As an F150 owner, I can largely agree. It certainly is crazy expensive. But if you look at the missions people have for trucks, hauling, towing, road trips with significant cargo, the charging factor just gets ugly. How is that battery life
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Another Morse code learning resource, for those the seriously want to learn and build Morse code skills, is the CW Academy run by CW Ops. https://cwops.org/ Basically a friendly crew of skilled CW operators that want to in
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Pretty cool, I will be using this. But.... the letters are spaced out more than they should be. I got the word in two tries at 40WPM... and I assure you that I can not take code conversationally at 40WPM.. or even contest exchanges at 40W
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Ha ha, yes, that does happen. Usually with poor results. But... I have seen the opposite case, a person who had great organizational and people skills, and bench skills that were an utter disaster -- but was self-aware enough to realize t
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Not so much nearest dealer, but nearest large repair-parts warehouse, even if you drive a few more miles to the dealer.
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
JD has a good reputation for reliability, and at least in the area where my family farms, green tractors retain their resale value better than most. Also a well built-out dealer network for support. A key factor for my brother's oper

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