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by digikata 5y ago
And this would have logistical parallels with the just-in-time inventory strategy. which imho has been a maligned in that it does trade off other risks, but it also makes for better supply chain responsiveness (if the buffers are selected c
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by digikata 5y ago
Manufacturers could alleviate that by planning for battery pack upgrades. Offer customers an upgrade path, transition the old batteries to utility storage until the end of their life and then recycle them.
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by digikata 5y ago
Yes, but once you have a group picked out, it would be nice if a lot of the other content was hidden and the labels were shown. To do it automatically, is an exercise in space and visual clutter tradeoffs, I'd be as happy to see hidin
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by digikata 5y ago
The favorite schematics I've worked with on complex embedded parts were where the EE would do breakout pages where the common reference pins were collected together by chip and/or by major subsystem (interface pin blocks, power, b
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by digikata 5y ago
Because of the use of UDP, I wonder the variation could end up being wider. There are some large outliers on the chart (though that could be an implementation maturity issue). Also I wonder if the routing environment will continue to be t
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by digikata 5y ago
While there are other techniques, one thing to think about is how often the analysis/review group is that particular group. In large organizations, if they particular issue being analyzed is with a group that hasn't gotten togeth
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by digikata 5y ago
And if it’s critical enough, that isn’t just left to chance after the initial design validation. There are continuous supply chain and acceptance testing checks that have to keep being run and managed. This is one reason the costs are highe
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by digikata 5y ago
I think the api that allows for more flexibility of implementation underneath is a hierarchical multi tag system with one root of the tag reserved for the existing filesystem, eg. "fs". Paths on /fs/dir/dir/fi
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by digikata 5y ago
That brings back memories of Infocom’s Planetfall where you were a janitor on a space station. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetfall
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by digikata 5y ago
One could interpret the phrase of great resignation a little more loosely, not as one of people leaving their jobs, but not returning as fast as what is obviously expected. But I agree that the data backed research is lacking in this articl
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by digikata 5y ago
If you look at a chart of the labor force participation rate, it did drop to a low, and has only partially recovered to a rate last seen in the mid-late 1970s. That is significant. Certainly very different from the rate just previous in 201
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by digikata 5y ago
I know little about ship operations - but what is ballasting them when they’re sailing away now without empty containers?
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by digikata 5y ago
Why isn't the solution to put empty containers back on unloaded ships to be sent away? BTW for fun reading on operations logistics and identifying and attacking bottlenecks see "The Goal" by Eli Goldratt. https://e
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by digikata 5y ago
I tend to avoid using stash in that fine grained way because branches are cheap in git, and you get a rich set of operations using a local branch to stack up unorganized code changes. Rely on stash on only very quick setting aside of work t
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by digikata 5y ago
That's why I mentioned powering the float if needed ... I suppose it's more of a tethered drone at that point.
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by digikata 5y ago
Add some steering and if needed power - if you’re lucky you only need to steer to the path with the energy of the vertical ascent.
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by digikata 5y ago
A small tethered float with accelerometers that ascends along the path of the surfacing submarine.
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by digikata 5y ago
It’s a matter of some pragmatism. At least their sovereign wealth fund is trying. As much as I wish all nations would take more serious action on the issue, it would seem self defeating for a small nation to step out too early ahead of larg
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by digikata 5y ago
One way to avoid the resource curse is to use the bounty of the resource to develop diversified dependencies/capabilities for a future when that resource runs out or is devalued.
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by digikata 5y ago
There is a reason project management calls scope-cost-time the iron triangle. It's extremely to bind all three sides tightly unless the estimates are very good, and/or there is significant added buffer to the project (and that re
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by digikata 5y ago
This was a while ago, but I recall it as one million.
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by digikata 5y ago
It really depends on who the targeted customers are. I remember inquiring on some TI lines and being told by the rep that unless you’re a customer anticipating 1M+ units, that chip really isn’t available.
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by digikata 5y ago
Yes, it worked because there as a direct controller to fall back to. But worryingly because two things, it wasn’t a triple failure of the redundant flight computers, is seems to point to a singular failure of the monitoring logic. The other
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by digikata 5y ago
The article is long on speculation, but really doesn't have even basic data such as inventory or shipped component levels to do the the most basic verification of the theories. Are we shipping more chips than even, only demand is alloc
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by digikata 5y ago
For non power sensitive embedded parts it makes a lot of sense - at least to the point that the pricing could be worked out with customers that want long term high volume commitments.
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by digikata 5y ago
Sometimes they're well established and provide very useful characterizations that tie into physical behavior. For examples Reynolds numbers and Mach numbers in aerodynamics are quantities that can tell you immediately what kind of fli
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by digikata 5y ago
I always wished that the acoustic refrigeration tech ended up working out better with wider adoption.
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by digikata 5y ago
I’ve worked on multiple projects where, at the early prototype stage, we limped along with off the shelf generic heatsinks, or even no heatsinks, for a phase or two because for some reason, it was long lead or high expense or low priority t
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by digikata 5y ago
The thought occurred to me that the language development process for Rust and Python (and I’m sure others) encourage a variation of this document first process. Many high level engineers that I’ve been impressed working with are very good a
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by digikata 5y ago
I’ve seen this claimed for multiple job pre-vetting sites and am not convinced it does anything than add an extra layer of test interviews.

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