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by dbcurtis 8y ago
> but the knowledge in this case has been readily available for literally decades but not applied appropriately. This isn’t a kinematics homework where you can draw the links and joints and get full marks. You have to actuate them. For
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Let me add a couple thoughts: 1. You typically won't get very far without also implementing register renaming, such that the reorder buffer is actually much larger than the register file. 2. You need to distinguish between instructions
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Somewhere in the shuttle design is a lesson about not cramming too much into the MVP. Many years ago, in some high school engineering camp, I remember a university professor who had been involved in the STS design talking about feature cre
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
If you take money from VC’s and compensate employees with stock options then you need to show VC returns. If the company can’t provide VC returns, don’t take VC money, find another source of funding.
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
The dreaded "zombie". Profitable enough that the investors can't pull the plug by force. Not growing enough that anyone will make any money out of it. It is my observation that because of "natural attrition" ofte
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
1. Have clear goals. 2. Communicate your goals clearly. 3. Ask what people need to achieve the goal, and actually LISTEN deeply. Negotiate deadlines/resource allocation until the crew can honestly commit. 4. Dedicate your efforts to
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
> Ever seen a non-technical user move the mouse with the same dexterity as you or I? I haven't. The mouse always roams around for a month of Sundays before it eventually arrives in the right place. Not just non-technical. I hate hav
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Wow, bold statements. Show me the math. As in, show me the before and after P&L for a large-scale mono-culture grain farmer that transitions his enterprise to your vision.
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
No, at the time the regulations were written, people were think terrestrial and Earth-to-space links, and the high absorption of 2.4G by atmospheric moisture and moisture in foliage makes it a poor choice for these kinds of paths.
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
In fact, one of the ways we got here to a world with gigantic animal feedlots is that people keep zoning away the locations where modest scale and more safely manageable feedlots can be built. A manure lagoon for 200 animals is much easier
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Realise that Thanksgiving as we have mythologized it today is entirely synthetic. There are only one or two sentences about it on the Pilgrim history, and those are sparse on facts. The traditional menu is one that happened to be served one
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Absolutely. I was involved in volunteer emergency response for one of my past employers. I learned that for earthquake prep we kept a container full of cheap bicycles in the parking lot.
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
KONE's test tower is 300m, but it goes down an old mine shaft, so technically not the "tallest" :) First link I google'd up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGRMY-9a-tw
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Well, I used a Yagi optimizer at one point. With that system, the antenna was parameterized. I specified certain fixed values, like overall boom length and nominal element diameter, and total number of elements. The element lengths and s
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Well..... for some definition of accurate. For large antennas with thin structures, the typical solver is "Method of Moments". NEC2 was developed by the government and is public domain. It is quite popular, and does some things
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
"Better" when the goal is a very narrow beam pattern and minimal side- and back-lobes. That isn't always the goal. For instance, putting your entire FCC city-of-license within your grade A signal contour from X miles away at
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Interesting to see this antenna here. I heard the creator speak at a local IEEE event a few years ago. Quite remarkable. Nobody would intuit an antenna design like that. Great demonstration of the power of GA. Antenna optimization softwa
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Yes, true. Slate is not common in the west. Tile is, although I think faux-tile is getting common.
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
> Your comment is like saying no one should bother building basements in tornado country because a strong F5 will kill you anyway. The vast majority of tornadoes aren’t strong F5s so taking some precautions absolutely will save lives and
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
> UK is 400v phase-phase and 230v phase-neutral. The distribution transformers are three-phase out and the LV main serving a street is 3 phase wires and a neutral, each house is fed from one of the phases and connected to the neutral. Go
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
You do realize the areas of California mountains we are talking about (Paradise area) the mountains are granite? “bury” is, as we say, “non-trival”.
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
> Transformer explosions are inherently harder to isolate from flammable material in the American distribution system design than they would be in a European 240v system, that's because the US system has to keep LV (110v) runs short
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
> A house can be thirty feet from an entire forest on fire and never burn down. In zero wind. The fires in Santa Rosa were driven by 60 mph (100 kph) winds. Even 30 mph winds will pick up the top 15 meters of a burning Ponderosa Pine and
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Yes, well, now that Rust is aiming for first class support for embedded by the end of 2018, I expect there to be more pressure to find a good solution for bitfields. For that target audience, many will consider the current situation a show
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
I switch it up now. I have about every trackball available. Just my way of taking the R out of RSI.
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
I had a case of “trackball thumb” that pained me for years. I went to myofascial therapy to deal with a shoulder that also pained me for years — enough to drive me to therapy. Shoulder took 3 treatments. At one session, I asked to have the
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
In fact, that could be a feature. Instead of “smart reply”, how about “smarter not to reply”: “The reply you have entered is not actionable. Do you still want to send it?” Nip vacuous e-mail in the bud.
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
You make a good point. Shackleton’s quirks are diminished in most histories. He could be a bit capricious in decision making. Scott was an utter fool, his reputation propped up after his disastrous expedition by the Admiralty and his widdow
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
For some value of never watched. Usually the way orchestral segments of film scores are recorded is the orchestra is set up in a gigantic sound stage, and the film is projected above and behind the orchestra so that the conductor can see th
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Ha ha, very similar story. I was working with one of the guys that I managed, and he showed me a book relevant to our project that I decided I needed to buy. “Darn, can’t get away at lunch today to hit the bookstore.” He says: “Order it fro

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