dbcurtis

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by dbcurtis 4y ago
I have written elevator interface code to allow robots to call elevators for themselves. So, yeah, I had an ap for that. I used my phone for testing.
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
As a hobby machinist I love watching Clickspring. I am awestruck by his skills and his great film work as well.
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Depends on the podcast. Well-produced ones are tightly edited, and the moderator keeps the conversation tight. That takes some work (and budget) to do. I find I mainly listen to big-budget podcasts, not on purpose, but because I won’t put u
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Well, I do radiosport contests, and most stations are sending around 30 WPM, the hot shots are faster of course. But anyway... I look at radiosport the same way that I look at sail boat racing. There is great fun in keeping the old skills a
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Well, I do think it is more challenging to reach the highest individual contributor pay grades as a generalist. On the other hand, being the one person in the org that understands how all the pieces play together and can debug all up and d
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
And that differs from today because.... why?
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Imagine a world where the biggest search engine made its money from advertising. In that kind of a world, wouldn’t the search engine primarily be incentivized to show you the results pages with the most advertising, regardless of the qualit
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
With valved brass instruments you are trying to approximate a logarithmic relationship with a linear sum of components. Trumpets have a high resonant Q, so not using the valve slides is going to produce out of tune notes. I played horn onc
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Memory bandwidth can be managed by all manner of microarchitectural methods. The issue in the modern world is that doing any kind of register renaming that would allow issuing 4 or more instructions at a time gets convoluted very quickly. I
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
But in the end, they only get a fixed number of preemptory challenges. (Over their unlimited number of “excused for cause” because even the judge agrees. ) I served on a jury once because the prosecutor rolled the dice on his last preemptor
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
One of my profs had worked on CPUs with Williams tube storage, then mercury delay line memory. He later did research on core, and one of his PhD students from that era was my first boss. When I knew him he was chair of computer engineering
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
My data is pretty old, old enough that the person on call carried a pager (remember those?), but very similar comp structure. I remember, because the on-call costs hit my budget directly. 1. Time on-call was paid at 25% of normal hourly ra
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Is that a stealth James Bond reference?
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Applied for what? The web site looks mostly like "Yo, politicians, you really should build a pipeline here to my empty town." What is there to actually apply for ?
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
The part that is challenging to fabricate at home is the primer.
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
a.k.a. reality distortion field
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Oh for heaven’s sake. You can find a whole bunch of talented mech e’s and ag e’s all over the corn belt that already live there and like it. John Deere in Waterloo is just one name of many. My nephew works at Ag Leader (he’s an EE). There
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Yes, that is my take. It only works economically if the soil nutrients come back to the field, and it costs no more (net) than adding a stalk chopper to the combine. Extra trips over the field burn fuel, and something needs to pay for the d
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
How is this an overall improvement over leaving the corn stalks in the field to decompose and return nutrients to the soil? This process moves soil nutrients away from point of origin. (Serious question from former Iowa farm boy who still o
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Interesting. I have used Quart in the past for “Flask with asyncio support” and it was a great experience. Everything even played well with an asyncio MODBUS library that was part of the same project.
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Actually, autonomous driving stacks can get better doing millions of miles in simulation. The teen, not so much.
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
The further along in your career, the more network matters. My wife and I both find that to be true.
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
From my perspective as what you might call a super-senior, I find this process itself a giant red flag. It is aimed towards recruiting juniors. I have done enough contracting that before you have finished the sentence, I have already worke
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Add Zoox to the list of companies with “returnship” programs.
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Up or out is right. But the most common “out” path is to a corp legal department. Better hours, and now the partner that used to work your ass off buys you lunch to court your business.
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Trying to be selective. I don’t want to screw up my entire gut microbiome.
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Another link for you https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25198208/
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There is general research that shows that after about two weeks of limited inputs, bacteria colonies will go dormant, retreating into the structural matrix ("slime") that bacteria produce for themselves. If fed, they will come ro
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It varies widely by state.
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For those that don’t understand the above comment: It is a rare non-compete that can be enforced in California in any meaningful way.

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