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by elipsitz 4y ago
Awesome! I really like the idea of scanning an RFID card to identify players.
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by elipsitz 4y ago
Nope, I actually hadn't even heard of Open Pinball before. Looks cool though! It'd be nice if there were an open standard for pinball machines talking to score servers. For this project I had to do everything custom. If people sta
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by elipsitz 4y ago
KiCad is excellent and open source. There's a recent post about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34769574
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by elipsitz 4y ago
Yeah, definitely if people are interested. Let me clean up the repo a little bit first :) It's probably hard to directly apply this to other machines, but the interposer board idea would make it easy to take the same hardware and use i
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Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet(eli.lipsitz.net)
137 points by elipsitz 4y ago|50 comments
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by elipsitz 4y ago
Grading was actually pretty fun. I kind of miss it! Exams are scanned and then graded electronically, which makes it less of a hassle. It’s still a lot of work, but you have an army of TAs to do it.
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by elipsitz 4y ago
Ah yeah, I believe the student health plan is part of it, but I can’t remember the cost. For tuition remission, it’s only the in-state amount, even if you’re out of state.
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by elipsitz 4y ago
Some are, almost all in the introductory classes (including me) and many in the upper division classes are undergrads. (u)GSIs at Berkeley are paid particularly well compared to other schools, I think in large part due to the TA union (UAW
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by elipsitz 4y ago
The largest classes (CS 61A and CS 61B) have roughly 1800 and 1600 students respectively during peak semesters. A 20 hour TA is paid ~$2250/mo for approximately 4.5 months per semester, plus ~$7000/semester in tuition remission (s
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by elipsitz 4y ago
Correction— the author of the op-ed, Nicholas Weaver, is a former lecturer in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. And a personal insight, as a former uGSI (TA) in the department, the problem isn’t paying TAs enough. The pay is actually quit
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by elipsitz 5y ago
Yeah -- although Louisiana calls it a "Personal Driver's License", and New Jersey calls it an "Auto Driver License".
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by elipsitz 5y ago
I was curious, so I looked at list of pictures of each state's licenses. Based on https://www.insider.com/what-drivers-license-looks-like-in-e... : 17 states say "Driver's License". Arkansas, Georgia, Ida
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by elipsitz 5y ago
In many cases, with tail call optimization, turning specific types of recursion into iteration (which doesn’t use more than a constant amount of stack space).