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by dbcurtis 2y ago
But.... outlawing flatted 7th means no more mixolydian mode, so Appalachian and Cajun fiddlers will want to have words with you...
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Prediction: Clear will now be free for state legislators, and the bill will be killed in committee.
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
No more adagios!! My kid would have loved that during violin lesson days. Kid, talking about a Handel sonata: "This is my favorite adagio movement." Teacher: "Why?" Kid: "It's only 5 measures long."
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Eh.... any impact will play out over a long period of time. Everything interesting happens on the margin, so I do agree with you that CA's laws around non-competes has had a beneficial impact on new business formation, and contributed
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
I tend to agree. Having done a bunch of DSL's over the years, and becoming extremely fluent with Bison+FLEX, I have to say that a hand-written LL parser with a couple of mutually recursive table-driving functions to parse expressions
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Nor reentrant. In machines where the JSR that stores the return address at the jump target, usually interrupts are locked for 1 following instruction so that you have a chance to load the return address into the accumulator. Back in the day
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
For sure. I remember thinking.... "But where are the instructions to load and store X registers?" -- Psych! There aren't any! Just jam an address into a A register. Take that you RISC fan-boys, can you get to less than
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
If you were an instruction pairing whiz, you could get pretty close to 2 IPC on the Pentium I for certain kernels. The thing that Seymour had going for him at CDC is that he didn't bother with synchronous exceptions. On x86 (I worked
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the 6600 could issue multiple instructions per clock. A 60 bit word could hold 4 15 bit instructions, or for instructions that required an 18 bit immediate address, those took two 15 bit parcels. If there were no conf
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Like many write-ups of the 6x00, it totally ignores the peripheral processor (PP) subsystem, which was both simple and innovative. The PP's were 10 independent processors, 12 bits wide, but with an 18 bit accumulator so that they coul
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Yeah, I worked on that beastie. It was huge. Getting around it to probe things took planning.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
I wonder how much of that is basic economics? In a hot market, juniors get hired to fill a role with the idea that OJT will bring them up to speed soon enough to be better than an empty chair. When there are plenty of applicants, companies
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
OH wow, had something similar, but from around 1968. Good humor. Pretty quickly moved on to vacuum tube based Morse code transmitters. Wonderful stuff.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Didn’t I read once that FEMA has an official “Waffle house indicator” where they track WH closures to estimate the impact of hurricanes and such?
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
You raise an interesting question, but note that this article is about KPH, a radio telegraph station, not land-line telegraphy. I don't know much about your actual question though.... I know that there were "repeaters" in th
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
It is no longer a license requirement. It is still used for casual contacts by people that enjoy it. It is used for various things that fall under the banner of "radiosport" -- for my part I enjoy Morse-code-only radio contests.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Don't forget that supply and demand also apply. There have been times in the recent past where we had a shortage of good candidates in the hiring pipeline. Right now, largely because a couple major players in our area have cut back,
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
I would put a slightly different twist on that. A team with diverse skills and a lot of mutual trust and respect will work wonders. My current group is what you might call "debug fire jumpers" (not 100% of the role, but a signif
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
You would probably benefit from re-asking more specific forms of this question. Physically: strength training. low impact aerobic (walking lots and lots) Mentally: Something to engage the think-melon. The bridge club gang seems to stay shar
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Can you name a language pair where that works? I can’t think of one.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Language development starts earlier than most people think. Babies babble with all the sounds the human vocal tract can make, but by 6 months they are only babbling with the sounds of the language in their household. Up to age 12 or so you
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
I've been to trade shows where the jar of small mint candies at the show booth was very welcome to deal with dry mouth or bad-breath-insecurities. My main reaction is to be thankful for the courtesy.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Thanks for that clarifying question... I was having strange images until you pointed out the possibility of a typo
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Ha ha, yeah. I remember years ago getting a cookie at a conference that had been frosted by the equivalent of a "frosting jet printer" -- the cookie was great, but I ate the URL before leaving the show booth. I tucked that lesso
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Not entirely true. My wife has O2 respiratory efficiency problems, and uses both an Apple watch and an Oura ring for sleep monitoring and charts O2 patterns daily. So at least some people care intensely. As to sentence two, it was exactl
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Maybe not for the media piece here, in the best HN tradition, I didn't read it. I am talking from personal experience. I met the installers and visited the shop where the granite counter tops for my kitchen were cut. Hard working gu
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Installers and the folks back in the shops that cut the slabs for a particular job. Many are young, hardworking trades with limited English trying to give their young families a better life. Very sad. They didn’t know how bad it is, and
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Yes, exactly this. Although, fire codes do create a requirement here. You have to be sure not to create places where fire can propagate. And please use plenum-rated cables (fire retardant sheath). If you have punched holes in your old
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
People notice flicker below about 50Hz. So two 1/2-frames at 60 Hz gives flicker-free viewing of 30 fps video. The “light chaser phenomenon” kicks in at 15 Hz, so that is the minimum full-frame rate for the illusion of smooth motion.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Have you ever gotten counterfeit Amazon Basics products? I thought not. Amazon could shut this down of they actually cared.

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