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by dbcurtis 3y ago
I assume they mean “flight engineer” , the 3rd flight deck crew member on planes that require 3 person crew. Although those are rare these days.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
> Often the wait for your output was long and excruciating. I solved that problem by getting a 10 hour per week job at a remote batch submittal station. It was in a quiet corner of campus, so I mostly had a card reader and line printer
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Thor, God of Thunder, would like to have a word with you.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Hmmm... I would have thought the WWV 10 MHz signal would be pretty good in Ontario much of the time. It's only 10KW AM, but still, from Colorado to Ontario 10 MHz is a pretty usable frequency. WWVH, now that would be hit-or-miss. Wha
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
The key part here is that they observe it being selective to cancer cells. That could be huge. But I imagine this on the bench, not a animal trial, so not much exploration of side effects yet
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
It does have context -- it's on Steve Blank's blog. Now, if you have never heard of Blank, I suppose it is context-free in that sense. But I was expecting an essay riffing on the idea of "profound beliefs", and I got e
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Just a note, it may not apply in your situation but for anyone else reading the thread that may not be aware -- there is now an injection for at least some forms of Macular Degeration. My brother has been getting these injections and it ha
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
> They propose using really high power which could cause interference but interference is illegal. Let me be a little bit pedantic here. High power itself does not cause interference, assuming that the unwanted sidebands are sufficientl
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Same, but for me it is any story about agriculture or food production. I don’t even open those comment threads any more, it isn’t worth the aggravation.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
For me, the Star Trek movie with the giant, desert, canyon in the middle of Iowa was a real “WTF?” I can’t believe that only Iowans were bothered by that. If you have ever driven across Iowa, I am certain your view of corn fields was wholly
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Sounds to me like “LLaMa 2 classified as a munition and subject to ITAR” is what is going on.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
A section 1983 suit seems reasonable, but I don’t think that happens much outside of voting rights, and outside of the feds bringing the case. But I am no expert.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Yes, well-known. Likely an “ear teaming” issue. Good binaural hearing is very important to filtering speech.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
I suspect it played out multiple times at different companies.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Ah yes, pop count. Back in my days as a CPU logic designer on refrigerated, walk-in, scientific mainframes, I was working on a vector processor that was intended to be a competitor to Cray-1, but sank due to poor marketing and a collapse i
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
which is what mailinator is for
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
yes, I was simplifying. also 32 bot mode.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
My take away from this a lesson about validation strategy. First, I will point out that exhaustive testing for 2^64 * 2^64 operand pairs is impractical, for scale recall that there are around 2^75 (I maybe off a bit here) atoms in the univ
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Yes. Off-by-one error in a bash script that generated them.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Embedded robotics firmware version: Show me that you can deploy an update to BlinkyLED, via the cloud manager, over LTE, to the robot with rock-solid reliability every damn time. Step two: update the bootloader over the wire without brickin
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
> Turns out to my surprise I like going into the office, but definitely not every day. Bingo. There is relationship building and other interactions that are simply not possible in any other way that I have found. I go in 3 days most week
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
I think you make a good point. Although I have seen patents for reinventing something in an expired patent :)
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
And Bob Barton deserves mention for being extremely far-sighted.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Oh yeah, in a past life I was a CPU logic designer for walk-in, refrigerated mainframes. I was always amused by youngsters thinking they had invented things like pipelines and branch prediction. Seymour Cray and Gene Amdahl were prolific i
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
The code exam would be for a commercial telegrah licence though, isn’t it? Did the license become combined somehow?
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
True enough. I have Pythonista installed on my iPhone, but to be honest I don’t play with it a lot.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Certainly true for K6KPH on amateur radio frequencies. I wonder if the same is true for commercial circuits on KPH and KFS? Your comment on licensing got me wondering... I wonder what license the operators for KPH and KFS have these days?
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
What is your back end? Do you want to create 3D art for games? I think Rhino owns that space. Want to 3D print with parametric dimensions? A lot of CAD packages can give you a file that you can feed to your favorite slicer. Have a CNC milli
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Well, whenever I’ve trialed FreeCAD I was hoping to love it, so certainly not intentionally being a jerk to it, but also certainly being a complete and utter n00b to it. Never have gotten to the point of doing something I could use.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Awesome. When I saw it was from Cliff Biffle I got really excited. This is why I visit HN.

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