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by greyhair 4y ago
The catalytic converters reduce unburned hydrocarbons and reduce oxides of nitrogen. No amount of 'tuning' will every achieve that. So your statement on reducing emissions by removing the catalyst is provably false. People under 6
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by greyhair 4y ago
Oh there you go, spouting facts and information again.
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by greyhair 4y ago
Python3 yes, but Python2 will have faded away. Perl! Oh, poor Perl. Python 3, or its children, will be around a long time. As will some version of /bin/sh
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by greyhair 4y ago
The content is about what I expect from content on 'Medium' today. Which is why I generally avoid reading post hosted on Medium.
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by greyhair 4y ago
> sanity-check intermediary calculations I am very far from being an Excel guru, very far, but one thing I have found useful is having everything come out to an intermediate result, and calculate against those intermediate results. If yo
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by greyhair 4y ago
The RF side of WiFi is hell. The modem side is work, yes, but getting the air interface to work, and then dealing with all the interference management side is a nightmare. I am not certain, but I think part of the 'blob' thing on
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by greyhair 4y ago
So I understand some of the comments streaming down on CloudFlare, but I would like to get to another point entirely. So people writing apps using crappy coding are cratering Easylist basically through unintentional DDoS. It is the apps tha
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by greyhair 4y ago
"Work to live." not "Live to work."
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by greyhair 4y ago
This ^^^^. I am in my thirty ninth year in embedded development, started the year I turned 27. (yeah, do the math) I have strictly limited myself to 40 hour weeks following a severe burnout in the late 1990s. I could retire now, if I had to
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by greyhair 4y ago
About 14 years into my career I got stuck on one project, out of control, working sixty to seventy hours a week. Salaried, no overtime. That went on for about seven months, I was miserable. I had a one year old child, she was miserable, my
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by greyhair 4y ago
What if you show up to the games without a phone?
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by greyhair 4y ago
Does anyone know what the altitude scaling is on this?
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by greyhair 4y ago
If I could get $115M for a sex tape, I'd be making one every week.
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by greyhair 4y ago
After fighting with Ford over a recall issue for over a year, I opened a claim with the BBB. Two months later they closed it with a note that Ford explained that my car had been determined to be outside the claim (even though it experienced
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by greyhair 4y ago
Exactly. Maybe needs to be cross posted to r/confidentlyincorrect
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by greyhair 4y ago
Funny how people without actual first hand experience with the issue defiantly ignore then attempt to refute every point you made. A lot of people are ignorant of spectrum allocation, and sideband interference. Twenty years ago I had an old
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by greyhair 4y ago
I noted in long form above. I met my wife in a bar. I had a primary care physician in the late 1990s that had been polling his patients on that his whole career, and said that a little more than 80% of his patients met at a bar. So there yo
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by greyhair 4y ago
I had a primary care physician ask me where I met my wife. He was old, early 80s (since retired and passed on) and said he had been asking his patients that his whole career, and had been keeping track. I met my wife at a bar. Now, this was
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by greyhair 4y ago
It helps immensely to have common goals and wants. My wife and I were very aligned, right from early on, concerning financial disposition and family goals. We got that right out in the open early. We completely merged our financial lives an
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by greyhair 4y ago
My now wife picked me up in a bar in 1992. After we met, it was clear that we had been frequenting the same bars for about three years, and had attended many shows together/apart, but neither of us had any recollection of recognizing e
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by greyhair 4y ago
> Most code written in C is horribly unsafe. I think that is untrue. I worked at the Network Systems arm of Bell Labs for sixteen years, and we could demonstrate five-nines of uptime on complex systems written entirely in C. C is a rough
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by greyhair 4y ago
I have had to interview for jobs, but the four jobs I have interviewed for since 2000 were all in response to requests to join companies, either from friends, or (once) from an internal HR employee (and to this day, I have never found out w
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by greyhair 4y ago
This. Completely. I have 38 yoe but I still encounter young people with fresh ideas. Keep that open mind. I have met some old engineers that turned into grumps (don't be one of them) but most of the older technical people I work with r
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by greyhair 4y ago
I started in this field at 27, which was 38 years ago this past Summer. Do the math. I still enjoy it most days, like always, there are days where nothing clicks, or as happens in the embedded field, the hardware just won't cooperate.
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by greyhair 4y ago
Russia, as in Russia? Or Russia as in Putin?
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by greyhair 4y ago
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/27/1125401980/nord-stream-leaks-... ""leaks""
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by greyhair 4y ago
I have been asked exactly one contrived coding question over the forty years of my career. It happened during an interview with a startup in late 2003. I was able to answer the question. Many did not, but the process was more about how you
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by greyhair 4y ago
I have a couple camera apps from the mid 'aughts that were written for Windows XP that still function fine under Windows 10. Same thing with an old photo scanner, that just only recently failed. My last SCSI dependent peripheral. Ran f
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by greyhair 4y ago
PWA Oh, that's right, Apple doesn't fully support PWA, because it breaks their rent model.
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by greyhair 4y ago
Almost a year old and still fresh

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