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by dschuler 8y ago
That reminds me of CERN discovering they didn't find a particle moving faster than the speed of light after all - a connector was loose somewhere [0]. [0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news&
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by dschuler 8y ago
The FAA publishes a couple of books, including the Airplane Flying Handbook [0], that has a good intro chapter to multi-engine flying [1] that goes into some of the issues that come up. [0] https://www.faa.gov/regulations_po
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by dschuler 8y ago
Multi-engine planes are more complex to fly and require a different license. If an engine quits during takeoff, the plane is going to yaw toward the failed engine side, among many other issues. The plane doesn't just fall out of the sk
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by dschuler 8y ago
Your comments are hard to read because they parse ambiguously. It could be "No, they are not real. Polymaths are...", or it could begin "No, they are not real polymaths...". This makes me wonder how Latin could do withou
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by dschuler 9y ago
The article mentions the thrusters used are the Aerojet Rocketdyne MR-103 [0]. They look pretty delicate, but only need to provide about 1N of thrust. Visually I was expecting something like the MR-107S in the same datasheet. I ended up get
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by dschuler 9y ago
The first link is very interesting - for example the UK was able to reduce pedestrian fatalities from ~1500 per year (absolute numbers) in 1991 to ~500 in 2014.
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by dschuler 9y ago
I've noticed that pedestrians in the US tend not to look at cars coming their way when they cross intersections - I'm not sure if it's an attitude of "you're supposed to stop for me" and and they're willin
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by dschuler 9y ago
There's a lot of debate about what kind of activity software development is. The camp that doesn't see it as engineering argues that programming is a craft, or that code is "grown". I think one of the key differentiators
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by dschuler 9y ago
Paraphrasing the article, it would be for the server to use undefined behavior in the _authentic_ clients to determine that they were in fact authentic. In this case, a buffer overflow doesn't appear to crash the client, but lets the s
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by dschuler 9y ago
I guess the point I was trying to make is that there is plenty of room for budget trimming - you could go straight to the budget for fighter jets or soldiers or whatever the big ticket items are, but you're going to get a lot more resi
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by dschuler 9y ago
You could cut a number of non-essential items, even if they're not the largest - the US Army is the largest employer of musicians in the country [0], and the entire military spent at least $437M in one year on musicians in 2015 [1].
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by dschuler 9y ago
I think it was a footnote in The Intelligent Investor (Graham) that mentioned inflation could be seen as a benefit for government, by reducing the value of the national debt. Now official inflation figures are still quite low (around 2.5% f
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by dschuler 9y ago
Totally agree! I've run into this problem quite a bit, and I think storing the timezone or offset along with a UTC timestamp is the solution. In particular, I want to be able to: 1. Know when a globally ordered even happens. Using UTC
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by dschuler 9y ago
To quote Joel Spolsky (being more succinct than I would be): "Anything you do on your own time, with your own equipment, that is not related to your employer’s line of work is yours, even if the contract you signed says otherwise.&quot
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by dschuler 9y ago
The repatriation tax holiday actually encourages corporations to hoard profits overseas until the next "one time" tax break. There was a repatriation tax holiday in 2004 also.
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by dschuler 9y ago
That's a long explanation of how nobody at a large corporation should be expected to make anything work properly. I just recently was forced to use Windows again for some piece of software that requires it. Windows immediately proceeds
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by dschuler 9y ago
For general circuit design, I would recommend The Art of Electronics, 3rd Ed. by Horowitz and Hill. Of course it’s a book and not a web tutorial, but the content matters more than the format I would think.
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by dschuler 9y ago
It's hard enough to know how to approach a tragedy of the commons problem like climate change if everyone could agree that it is a problem, but it's difficult for me to understand why some people will argue that it is in fact happ
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by dschuler 9y ago
This is fantastic! The Nik Collection can do some amazing things (and is worth spending some time with if you haven't already). Their contrast and polarizer tools are particularly good, as well as their B/W workflow. From what I w
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by dschuler 9y ago
I like Weather Underground. It does have ads, but for $2 you can get rid of them for a year I think. I remember Yahoo Weather had a good UI, but used 200MB+/month of background data even when not in use... Edit: This is a bit off-topic
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by dschuler 9y ago
Vitalacy | Embeddded Developer | Los Angeles | Full-time, ONSITE, Salary: 100-120k We're hiring an embedded systems developer, preferably with experience with Bluetooth LE, working with Nordic nRF51/nRF52 processors, building firm
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by dschuler 10y ago
You mean the battery life is less than for the previous generation, or that it takes longer to charge? While Apple seems to improve idle power efficiency, not much is or can be done about high CPU workloads, but decreasing battery capacity
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by dschuler 10y ago
Where are they higher, in the US? It's hard to imagine paying more than that and still not getting free healthcare and 4 weeks min. vacation, as you would in Germany, for example.
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by dschuler 10y ago
If your cylinder is an airship, and you put that on a scale, you'll find that it has negative weight :) I would think measuring the correct weight would be: (weight of empty cylinder) + (weight of air volume that the cylinder could con
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by dschuler 12y ago
I didn't even know that existed. Agreed.
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by dschuler 12y ago
What don't you like about the BSD license? GPL proponents generally argue that since code must be contributed back if a program is distributed, it will cause the original source base to grow. On the other hand, from what I gather Apple
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by dschuler 12y ago
The clock on a CPU is actually an external crystal, but usually runs at about 100MHz. Inside the CPU, this clock is multiplied by some constant to produce a signal in the GHz range (using a phase-locked or delay-locked loop). Then the clock
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by dschuler 13y ago
I wasn't aware of iBeacon, thanks for the tip!
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by dschuler 13y ago
I just got into Bluetooth LE as an Android developer. My school background is in embedded devices, so I wanted to see what's out there that I can program on the device side, and then connect to the phone. There are two comparable offer
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by dschuler 13y ago
Unless he lives in a manor, then it works actually. But my witty jokes aside, that reminds me of Little Snitch for Mac OS, which keeps installed programs from opening unauthorized connections to the outside. Is there a firewall setup that w

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