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by dbcurtis 2y ago
That "knowingly" part is more subtle than it sounds. A friend of mine managed a restaurant in Sili Valley for many years. He was required by law to accept workers' documentation at face value. He could get in trouble for a
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
In the USA the Great Northern continued to run its own commissaries even after most other railroads turned dining car operations over to the Pullman company. During the 1930’s, the Empire Builder famously would slow going over a particular
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
I will definitely check this out. I love that syncing can be self-hosted, that it supports LaTeX for math, and even music notation. The one additional thing I would love in a text-based note-taking app is some kind of mind-mapping softwar
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Oh how fun! I have a copy of the modern paperback reprint of the Lyons book. But my kid is into book-binding, and I’ve always wanted a scruffy, Nth-generation photo-copy so that I could give it the full medieval-monk leather-bound treatmen
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Well, my data is over 10 years old, but I know this policy because I had to pay for it out of my budget at a former employer: 1) Off-hours pager duty rotated among the team. 2) If you were on the pager, you needed to be able to get to the
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Yes and no. SS still has an energy signature, which you can recognize if you go looking for SS. And the transmitting antenna can be RDF’ed.
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
It isn’t fully AOT, but support for AOT modules is excellent.
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Back in my days as a CPU logic designer, I actually worked on a scientific mainframe where the MIB came by and said "We'll buy some if you add a vector pop count." Anyway.... if you have cipher text that has been scrambled by
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
You forgot: 3. vibration testing drive electronics and payloads. But yeah, #2 is the primary benefit.
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
I can see where you are coming from, and I've thought about similar ideas. But ultimately, I think this fails for separation-of-concern reasons. Describing the part is different from describing how to make the part. The same part mi
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Yeah. I have tried and quit a number times. Poor stability has always made it unusable for me. Hopefully this time is better. Still, once I can successfully make a drawing, then what? What exists for CAM posts?
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Ah, so my dream of a compact beam for the 1.8MHz band still eludes me... :)
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Plot twist: when did the British pound, the Scottish shilling and the Welsh penny stop floating against each other and become a single currency? Was that before 1750?
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
I think the reality is that regulations will become more “sticky”. There will be a motivation to get it “right” the first time. Overall, I am happy to see an end to capricious reinterpretation with every change of administration. I don’t ex
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Ummm… I assume you are complaining about the Loper Bright decision that ended “Chevron deferrence”, correct? You do realize that the Chevron decision was to give Dick Cheney his way on environmental questions, yes? Loper Bright says that r
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
If you will allow me to riff off of your jest... I literally thought that to myself a little over 3 years ago. Yes, literally thought about the marshmallow experiment in the context of my life. You see, I came within a gnat's eyelash
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Please do us all a favor and write a Very Stern Letter to the mayor of Philadelphia.
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Does anyone know if the Ethernet controller supports EtherCAT?
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Wow, too bad. I guess one can look at Bricklink to see what is available.
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Well, I was where you were 15 years go, said kid now is a robotics engineer. First off, are they interested in the mechanical engineering and fabrication challenges? Or more interested in the behavior and controls challenges? Because you
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
I must admit that I don't know all the nuance of campaign finance laws, but the donors gave their money to a particular campaign. It isn't completely clear to me under what circumstances those funds can be pledged to another cand
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
New Phenomenon? Meh.... I lived through 1968
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
The reality is that the campaign donations accumulated by the Biden/Harris ticket are only available to Harris. Anybody else is funding-challenged even more than Harris at this point. From the standpoint of campaign finance laws and
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
> but probably just happens by simple association "blue screen of death = Windows problem" This certainly happens. Before driver signing, an extremely common cause of BSODs was a page fault in the kernel caused by a driver bug
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
> The Space Shuttle was also ruined by military requirements I’ll mostly agree there > that never materialized. I would not say that. There were classified shuttle missions. I would bet that they used all the throw weight and payload
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Another fun trick: Shakespeare rhymes much better if you read it aloud in your broadest "talk like a pirate" accent.
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
The story that I recall about the origins of stderr is that without it, pipes are a mess. Keeping stdout to just the text that you want to pipe between tools and diverting all “noise” elsewhere is what makes pipes useable.
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
In the small rural county where I grew up, the 1/2-time job of county prosecuting attorney was named Lynch. I am not making this up.
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Exactly. I came here to say that. The amazing thing is Lancaster wrote that book before there was a pc of any kind to hook up to. But he showed very clearly how to generate NTSC monochrome video with a bucket of TTL chips. Such good times
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
That, too.

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