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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Two tones together are not illegal in general. However... think about 1950's cold-war era technology, and how much you could do with it. One of the conditions of license of being a broadcaster was/is to listen to an upstream sta
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Magnesium metal will burn very violently once it gets going. Among the biggest trouble I got into in high school was when my chem lab partner and I decided it would be entertaining to burn a small piece of magnesium metal. It was rather
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Notably divergent, and notably hard to get correct. (I have some experience validating the correctness of 754 arithmetic. I suspect nobody gets it perfect.)
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Lovely!! Very well done. I’d love an inversion switch… not sure how to do that without cluttering the UI. Overall beautiful and super functional.
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So hilariously true. Personal anecdote: Many years ago, I recall a solar flare hitting during the annual Field Day competition -- I was operating 14MHz phone in the afternoon, great conditions from my mid-west corn-belt location to both Ea
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Call panel not in the cab -- so you must be talking about a "destination dispatch" system. With DD, you go to a call kiosk, and enter your desired destination floor, and the kiosk tells you which car to take. DD systems are done
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I have heard it said that most people that have a life-long love of playing music can either play by ear, or sight read. We started our sprout on Suzuki-method violin at an early age, and I learned a whooooole lot about how to teach skills
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
There are endless things to do, depending on your interests. Whether you enjoy ham radio or not probably depends more on what sub-community that you get involved with, rather than "ham radio" generically. I have been licensed fo
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hiring requisition. Basically approved headcount to hire against. And a job description for the recruiters to post and also use as guidance for matching people to openings.
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
The hiring _can_ be selective. My group is hard to hire for (we are looking for a rare combination of skills). We had unlimited reqs before the crash. We are lucky enough to have unlimited reqs now. But we can be choosier now.
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
I will agree with parent comment and add a personal anecdote that perhaps provides some models for you to consider. I am a farm boy. There was one night many decades ago where I said to myself: "You can either wrap your head around Di
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
That sentiment resonates with me. I first got my ham license back in the days of vacuum tubes. There is nothing like the smell of a warm, dusty vacuum tube. I can’t describe the emotions that evokes.
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Well, Halted had a tube tester in the corner until the day they closed a couple years ago. There are NOS audio tubes still available. But if the random stuff showing up in my Youtube feed is any indication, the cool kids these days are lear
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Well, he uses a '181 ALU chip -- which is very nice but you have to scour the universe to find vintage logic parts like that any more. Amusingly, it is easier to find vintage vacuum tubes than vintage TTL logic. For that matter... yo
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> is roughly as offensive as the conversations at every job site that constructed all your houses, every field that grew your vegetables, and every rig that pumped the oil for your car. .... Those people are out there... I'm trying
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can’t tell if meta or whoosh
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Compliance Weak might be a good name for the El Reg version
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“Linus and Lucy” Vince Geraldi
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Please write more IETF RFCs. The world needs more of this.
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Isn’t Fidelity FDIC insured?
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But you do have insurance. For some of the amount. You just didn’t pick the vendor. Or have to think about it. You are, in a way, making my point.
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Main stream adoption will only happen if those that want it can have the security blanket of fraud coverage to cuddle in. The answer here is still a non-regulatory, market solution: Crypto Insurance. Non-transparent, un-auditable coins an
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Well, this is a good reminder that it is time for me to dig out my light-therapy panel that I bathe in over breakfast during the dark months. Also go for walks over lunch break on sunny days. My SAD is mild, you may need more aggressive the
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> I find that I simply don't care anymore. Root cause established. Do something you care about. Find that thing. I know it sounds trite, but when you care, you will find the energy. Don’t be afraid to be selfish at this point. The t
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Indeed. Saying: “Obeying the law doesn’t scale.” is an admission of guilt with pre-meditated intent to break the law. I keep hoping the courts will drive that point home at some point.
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One of the architects of the Pentium Pro, Intel’s first out-of-order execution engine, told of walking up to a Coke machine with an “out of order” sign on it — “Oh, out-of-order has other meanings.”
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Pardon me on advance for continuing to yell at clouds.
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> it's also the thing standing in the way of progress. The luddite attitude is orthogonal. Does it happen? Sure. But I also have the expectation that senior staff should be identifying the New, Better Way all the time. And are well-
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Stop calling things that are not robots, robots. Does this framework stream sensor data? No. Does this framework control actuators? No. Does this framework represent an actuated device’s configuration space? No. Does this framework perform
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Paying for equal performance on the measurable aspects of the job is easier to do than putting a value on institutional knowledge. As an old bird that has had time to internalize the tech stack, I can make one comment along the line of “Don

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