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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Myofascial Therapy Center on Hamilton in Campbell has a lot of great therapists. I also know a great therapist in Fremont if that is more convenient but I’d have to look up the contact info.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> It's also pretty well established that the document was complete by July 2nd (so the mention about Jefferson going shopping on the 4th is sort of weird) and most of the Congress had signed it then, but not all...so it went into ef
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Sorry, you have it backwards. The people have rights, and the rights are presumed to pre-exist the US constitution. The government has powers delegated to it by the people via the constitution. The Federalists argued that the Bill of Righ
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> But again, don't jump into it and don't expect it to be easy. My experience was positive in the end, but it's a total dog along the way. If you have the money, find a trainer who understands injuries and recovery. So I w
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Unlikely. Most interesting problems in ECAD are non-linear.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Agree, but to add to that, I buy ebooks that date quickly. If it is a software reference or investment analysys or something that is dated and irrelevant in 2 or 3 years, I don’t really care if it evaporates. Which I guess is feeding he bea
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
I love that story. I vaguely recall from some psych class long ago something about the psychology of "task completion". Your take-away is spot on.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Consider spending more time deciding what not to do. Say "no". Delegate, both up , and down. Try the "rocking chair test", which is asking yourself, "When I am sitting on the porch of the old-folks home in my r
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
I don't see it that way. I have been severely burned-out, and will never let that happen again. I have also been visited by the Black Dog. They are different. Perhaps both present in some people, so maybe hard to tease apart. The
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> > The Algol, Smalltalk, Pascal, and early Scheme languages were prized for being small and beautiful. > But they did not achieve widespread adoption. > Widely used languages need to apply to a wide range of use cases. A long t
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
CMOV replaces branches. So no branch, no speculation. Typically, though, only branches that the compiler identifies as not reliably predictable would be replaced. Because with a well predicted branch you do not waste resources. CMOV execute
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Yes, having a manager just be there showing appreciation is huge. My story is trying to crack a hot, high-impact bug that got reported days before product launch. Daily 8:00AM and 5:00PM status meetings on Saturday and Sunday reporting to
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Please tell me you have not been coding in Python for the last five years.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Personally, I don't find them that interesting. AND, OR, NAND, and NOR are all non-linear. However, you can implement any logic function with XOR and AND, which is essentially modulo-2 addition and multiply. So the whole world of GF
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
A fair amount of good recent robotics papers are also published in German. My daughter was at an internship and found a good robotics paper in German relevant to her project and actually found it reasonably easy going with high-school AP-G
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Ha ha, yes. I had a similar experience on Grand Cayman. My host seemed like a totally native english speaker -- until a few days in when a friend came by and they started a little good-natured ribbing over a recent fishing expedition -- t
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
I believe I have seen a body-mounted E-stop button on the Spot Mini, but I may not be recalling correctly. In any case, there are OTS wireless-remote E-Stops that are easy to buy and integrate into a robot like this, and fail-safe. It isn
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
This should not be downvoted. Privacy considerations are very important for a robot with cameras. I worked for a while at a company that makes delivery robots that operate in hotels. Camera placement was a huge consideration. Not to
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
i believe 1 hour run time. not sure about charge time.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Who HR gets to count in various categories for EEOC reporting, for instance.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Well you are talking about control of the product road map, which isn't really something that the license can do much about. GPL is just as forkable as MIT or BSD. And as to being "stuck" maintaining code that you don'
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> It's their software and their right to determine which reasons they care about most. We are pretty much in agreement here. All I ask is that people think for themselves, rather than farming out that decision to that persuasive sl
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
No, that substitution completely misses my point. One can have deep and well thought out principles and morals and apply that to the strategic selection of a license, and also in choosing which projects are worthy of contribution. Ideolog
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
People should chose a software license the way they choose a screwdriver, not the way they chose a religion. Choose the tool that accomplishes the job. Do you want to avoid commercial exploitation without repayment-in-kind in the form of c
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> What in the world is a crypto-Jew? LMGTFY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-Judaism Staying out of sight to stay alive, basically.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
At one Large Org where I worked, the Pager Bearer was paid 25% time for all the time they were on the pager, and standard overtime rates (including weekend/holiday multipliers) from the time the pager went off until they cleared the pr
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
I once saw an antenna design produced by GA that was very interesting. Met all the performance parameters in a very compact and easy to fabricate design. Extremely counter-intuitive design -- it looked like a mangled paper clip -- but it
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
I will disagree with your disagree. Edwards demolished a barrier for me in learning to see and draw. YMMV but it was profound for me. Edwards does focus entirely on drawing from observation, but I see that as a necessary step on the way to
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
I think the way to control running bamboo is with a deep solid fence/wall dug into a trench. I am led to understand that there is a depth that a particular specie will not run below. I may be wrong. The previous owner of my neighbor&#
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Yes, yes. Very true, optimizers can break in interesting ways. And yet, 99.9% of the time when some whiner says: “The optimzer broke my software!” it is an uninitialized variable. The other 0.1% of failures kept my team busy enough. But I

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