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by dbcurtis 8y ago
I'm pretty sure the 6600 was done in 10K ECL, which was a bipolar technology, not FET. In ECL, the transistors are biased such that they never saturate, which decreases switching time at the expense of power consumption. Also, the inpu
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Well, congress has only granted them the power to collect fines. The FCC has not been empowered to dispense compensation. However, now the victims have a pretty good piece of evidence for a small claims court filing. Andnof course, the just
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
I was a manager at Intel during the Grove era. The ranking & rating process of those days forced a team of 8 or so peer managers to look at the performance of all of their reports together. Having 7 other managers point out an issue wit
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Interesting. I will have to check out the link.
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
No, let me copy and paste the first hit from Google: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/08/02/parsing-expressions...
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
1. Web site is just a blank white page on mobile Safari. 2. LR parsing is elegant in the mathematical sense of the word, but use in production leads to regret. The problem with bottom-up parsers of any flavor, LR included, is that when you
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
> However, automation generally results in higher quality items with fewer defects. So, hand crafted is more likely a selling point without any actual benefit for the product. Ummm.... no. Every piece of wood is different. CNC gets you a
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Have you tried Kivy in production? Looks interesting but I haven't dug in.
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by dbcurtis 8y ago
Lawsuit with Wag hotel for pets in 3... 2... 1...
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by dbcurtis 9y ago
I can see that. There are various vectors to performance. I hear you saying transactions per second would be unimpressive. A couple of less time sensitive applications are: 1. distrubuting information the entire fleet should eventually know
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by dbcurtis 9y ago
Question for the FoundationDB gurus that are hanging out on this thread: How well does it deal with spotty connectivity? I'm asking because I work on mobile robots, and WiFi and/or LTE connections are always coming and going in un
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by dbcurtis 9y ago
An age-old question. If you look at Larry Ellison or Bill Gates, they would not be where their are without holding a whole lot of stock when the could have sold. Personally, in the case of your first liquidity event, it is a great time to
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by dbcurtis 9y ago
Define "ambient". Here in semi-arid California, they might work just fine. OTOH I once spent two weeks in Borneo.... my Palm Pilot (yes, it was a long time ago....) crapped out within 24 hours. Electronics really suffered there
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by dbcurtis 9y ago
Agree with the sentiment, but amateur radio isn't the only game in town. I think the key is to pick something that appeals. These days robotics is a good way to get going. Also audio gear is a good choice for the serious listener, o
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by dbcurtis 9y ago
Exactly what the Neato 2nd gen does. Coils for power and IrDA for data.
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by dbcurtis 9y ago
Well, do you want an eye-safe laser? And want to operate outdoors? The Neato is about 5m indoors, 2m outdoors with a sun shade. That reflects a lot of effort fighting the "sun blindness" problem that having a powerful IR source s
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by dbcurtis 9y ago
The Neato sensor does anlittle better, about 2cm at 5m
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by dbcurtis 9y ago
This approach based on triganometry is called "structured light"
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by dbcurtis 9y ago
I talked to the other hams in high school using Morse code and a vacuum tube transmitter. And get off my lawn. :) I've actually joked about building a Bluetooth telegraph key to make texting more concenient.
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by dbcurtis 9y ago
I'll show my age here, but back when I took AI, I wrote a (toy, homework-size) expert system as a Hypercard stack. There is actually a lot to be said for Hypercard as a framework for quick UIs.
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by dbcurtis 9y ago
Yes, takes good design to make it work, though. 8 feet wide is sort of restrictive when you start laying things out. My experience is this: Up at my weekend mountain cabin, I have a 40 foot container that is my "tool shed". Weat
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by dbcurtis 9y ago
Blank screen on mobile Safari
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by dbcurtis 9y ago
I read once where a 70-90 pound kit has been normal since Napoleon's army. Cramming more functionality into fewer cubic centimeters and fewer kilograms doesn't lighten the load, and never has. It hopefully gives the soldier a more
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by dbcurtis 9y ago
Eh... maybe. But that is only an initial hire effect. Once you get into a big company, there is a salary band for each pay grade, so things even out if there is meritocracy. Years ago, when I lived in the upper Midwest, I had fellow manag
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by dbcurtis 9y ago
Some observations from a startup that I was involved in prior to the turn of the millennium: The company had achieved some small success with a tiny number of customers, but not enough to pay the bills on an on-going basis. Scale required
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by dbcurtis 9y ago
I struggled a long time trying to get past all the matrix math that the usual Kalman filter tutorial starts out with. KF's make a lot more sense if you start from an example. By the end of the example, you realize that matrix math sim
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by dbcurtis 9y ago
Indeed. With our current system, rural voices are at least marginally relevant. With a purely proportional system, rural voices would not even be heard.
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by dbcurtis 9y ago
and don't forget about gEDA. gEDA was around long before KiCAD, so I have a signifcant investment in libraries, etc. I haven't used KiCAD so can't compare them. Just Pointing out that there are two open source alternatives.
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by dbcurtis 9y ago
Sure. grep could take the file. I knew that when I wrote the above line. We could have a nice debate about readability and maintainability, compositional design over compact expression, etc. But that's kind of over-kill for a joke,
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by dbcurtis 9y ago
cat contract.txt | grep -i "indemnify" | wc There's your MVP right there. Seriously, over time I've come to the conclusion that a lot of the most egregious things put in contracts are around open-ended liabilities and in

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