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by dkbrk 5y ago
I think it was in one of Rick Hartley's videos that he talked about designing for analog vs digital. There are a bunch of points I remember, in no particular order: - the frequency of your circuit, that you need to design for, is deter
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by dkbrk 5y ago
> Is there really an epidemic of EE's who know how to use a field solver, but don't know to consider coupling between signal lines? Now, I'm not an EE myself, just someone who took undergraduate electrodynamics, decided to
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by dkbrk 5y ago
> He claims that the way EE is taught is a "lie" The thing is: this is sort of true. Now, all electrical engineers are very familiar with transmission line theory, that's pretty much their bread and butter. And all EEs kno
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by dkbrk 5y ago
Those are some impressive ramparts. Looking at them though, I wonder if they also had parapets and some sort of ladders or stairs to reach the top of them from the inside. It wouldn't at all be surprising, I think, for the archaeologic
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by dkbrk 5y ago
Does anyone have a list of SSD manufacturers that don't do this? Are SK Hynix and Intel still reliable?
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by dkbrk 5y ago
Maybe I'm being a curmudgeon, but I miss bitmapped fonts. I use terminus wherever I can. It's exactly 12 pixels high (there are larger sizes, but they're not really useful). It's crisp, and clear, and easy to read, and l
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by dkbrk 5y ago
I'm not trying to detract from the monumental achievement SpaceX's engineers have made with the development of the Raptor, but that development work didn't take place in a vacuum. Unfortunately, I don't have a credible s
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by dkbrk 5y ago
The short answer to your question is that larger engines have very few advantages and many disadvantages. Specific impulse is the most obvious parameter of a rocket engine, but it's relatively less important for a first stage where thr
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by dkbrk 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Powerhead_Demonstra...
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by dkbrk 5y ago
I really can't agree. Rimworld might be more accessible, but it lacks DF's depth of simulation. Even if you ignore details in DF that are generally unimportant (e.g. all the intricate details of a dwarf's personality and the
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by dkbrk 5y ago
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon has hit me hard. I read an excellent blog post yesterday on this exact subject. Well worth a read, even if Rust isn't your thing: https://kyren.github.io/2018/09/14/rustconf-
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by dkbrk 5y ago
> According to SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell, the company has “made great progress on reducing the cost.” Initially, Each dish would cost SpaceX $3,000 USD to manufacture, Shotwell said they reduced the manufacturing cost to around $1
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by dkbrk 5y ago
Existing phased-array antennas cost, at a minimum, tens of thousands of dollars. Getting Starlink Dishy to around $2,000, and I understand it's closer to $1,000 by now, is an incredible engineering achievement. SpaceX didn't accom
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by dkbrk 5y ago
This obviously varies, but my experience was very different. I very distinctly recall being told in an introductory programming course: "Code is written for people, not computers." That really stuck with me. What that lecturer mea
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by dkbrk 6y ago
This is unsurprising. I doubt there was anyone with a modicum of understanding of the physics (even the teams doing the testing) who expected it to work. That doesn't, however, mean that testing it was a waste of time. There was an ano
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by dkbrk 6y ago
> bits are indivisible No, they're not. Sure, in more familiar scenarios where you're measuring the size of some amount of data it's an integer, but there's nothing mathematically wrong with having a not-integer numbe
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by dkbrk 6y ago
Maximum discharge rates for batteries are generally called "C" with units of hour^-1, though the units are often left off for some reason. For the purposes of an installation such as this, C is essentially a constant, depending on
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by dkbrk 6y ago
Exactly, then unscrupulous people adulterate it with melamine to artificially boost measured protein.
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by dkbrk 7y ago
It's kWh not Kwh SI prefixes and units are case sensitive. "k" is the prefix for kilo; "K" is Kelvin. Similarly, "W" is Watt. "w", as far as I'm aware, doesn't mean anything. "h&qu
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by dkbrk 7y ago
There's a classic (and very funny) scene in Yes Prime Minister with this exact argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB-WCX6ndow&feature=youtu.be...
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by dkbrk 7y ago
> IP is not some basic, natural law. It's a relatively recent invention, ostensibly invented to promote certain economic incentives. Why is china morally obligated to respect it? > At any given point in time, the biggest effect o
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by dkbrk 7y ago
Perhaps I don't fully understand the reasoning that went into these things when they were decided, but I think the following would be more sane: - Hardware clocks track Terrestrial Time, and TT is used for timestamps and all timekeepin
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by dkbrk 8y ago
That may be the case when the short volume is increasing, but at this point, with the stock price rising, traders should be looking to exit their short position. If anything, with such a large volume short, a short squeeze is a serious like
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by dkbrk 9y ago
I don't think this is really accurate. In my experience, the primary factor limiting my typing speed is the rate of errors. It's generally around 1-2%, but the time noticing and fixing those errors takes a disproportionate amount
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by dkbrk 9y ago
Why do you find that funny? Natural uranium is pretty unremarkable. The greatest danger from it is heavy metal poisoning. It's also common enough that restricting its availability would be rather difficult. Strictly speaking, if you go
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by dkbrk 9y ago
Microbursts ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microburst ) can be very dangerous. I'm not sure if these would be correctly classified as "turbulence", though.
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by dkbrk 9y ago
No, it would only need to be primitive recursive [0] because you can bound its runtime. There's actually a lot you can do without Turing completeness. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_recursive_function
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by dkbrk 9y ago
Tesla appears to be working on improving the speed of repairs: https://electrek.co/2017/03/10/tesla-body-shops-network/ I understand that quality control, including fit and finish, has been steadily impr
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by dkbrk 9y ago
That's a great article. Scott Alexander is always worth a read. I especially love this bit: > Two experimenters in the same laboratory, using the same apparatus, having no contact with the subjects except to introduce themselves and
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by dkbrk 9y ago
It's not precisely analogous, but I am somewhat reminded of the Ern Malley affair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ern_Malley > In the decades that followed, the hoax proved to be a significant setback for modern

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