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by jbay808 5y ago
I tried signing up for FindChips Pro, but their sign-up page now just redirects me to Supplyframe's confusing landing page with no indication of where to go from there to get FindChips Pro. I contacted their sales agents and got no rep
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by jbay808 5y ago
Sounds like your grandmother would be getting letters from a social worker if she were a parent today. https://www.citynews1130.com/2020/07/06/vancouver-bus-dad-ki...
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by jbay808 5y ago
Humans wouldn't care so much about semicolons, but I do want the compiler to understand my code, too.
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by jbay808 5y ago
If you have really good test coverage that might be okay, but otherwise, how do you know if the code is doing what it's intended to do? If I see a line that looks like it might be a bug, or an unnecessary duplication, how do I know i
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by jbay808 5y ago
What would be your opinion of this comment, though? // Reset the counter for the next run total_count = 0;
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by jbay808 5y ago
Sometimes closed source software gets open sourced for business reasons, and backed by a big consortium, rather than being written from the ground up by hobbyists. I wonder if big aerospace and defense companies like Boeing, and automakers,
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by jbay808 5y ago
Hmm, my PRS e-reader is still going strong and I remember choosing it over a kindle, specifically because it had fewer restrictions on how I use it. It could read PDFs and ePubs, DRM-free, which I believe kindle couldn't at the time.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Mine too. It's quite a surprise to see him show up on HN. Such a simple deed with such huge significance. It reminds me to think about what I might be able to do that could end up being life-changing for others someday. It's a sha
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by jbay808 5y ago
Outlying suburbs should see an increase in the sorts of things that make them "places". Cafes, bakeries, bars, restaurants, offices, markets, schools, plazas, bookstores, and so on. Then they can further densify without automatica
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by jbay808 5y ago
I think you "well actually"'d a bunch of things I specifically didn't say. I use "Johnson limit" synonymously with "thermal noise limit" because they are the same, and it's the limit of how l
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by jbay808 5y ago
> In fact, a remarkably common response to a diagnosis of resistor noise is to seek a source of "good" resistors, with "good" being defined as without thermal noise. This is impossible. It's impossible to make a
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by jbay808 5y ago
I can't think of a way to scam it, as long as they only allow this method of payment for taxes assessed on the asset itself, rather than as a substitute method of payment for other taxes owed. It would be an interesting idea to explore
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by jbay808 5y ago
The government is taxing you anyway. I'm not proposing a new tax, I'm proposing more flexibility on how they accept payment. Right now, they only accept the taxes to be remitted in dollars. For simple income tax, where you're
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by jbay808 5y ago
They'd want to liquidate as soon as possible, but they might have to wait for a liquidity event like an IPO to do so.
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by jbay808 5y ago
It would be OK with me as long as I could buy back the government's stake in my house from the government by paying the tax in dollars.
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by jbay808 5y ago
I'd be happy if I could give a percentage of the shares themselves to the government as a tax payment (paying tax on the shares specifically), so I don't have to worry about the risk that they're overvalued by the tax agency.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Sounds like you agree that Bing is an unreliable product. Understandable that Notepad++ would drop support.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Yeah, I'm still embarrassed about it. Fortunately, we were all so excited about how well his crazy idea worked that he never held it against me. I was careful not to accept any credit whatsoever for how it all turned out, though.
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by jbay808 5y ago
I just have to be honest and mention, I once flatly told one of my reports "that won't work". He said, "give me a month". I said, "don't waste your time". He said, "give me a week?" I said,
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by jbay808 5y ago
That's really not true. Taiwan, for example, has widespread pro-Japanese sentiment. Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam also have warm relations with Japan. On the other hand, Mainland China and both North and South Korea
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by jbay808 5y ago
Well, it's not so recent but have you heard of the Vega missions? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_program#Balloon
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by jbay808 5y ago
Don't worry, I'm sure the NSA has acquired lots of fresh new exploits since then!
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by jbay808 5y ago
Sounds like a good rubber ducky for explaining my startup idea to. It might even talk me out of it.
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by jbay808 5y ago
This is going to sound ridiculous, but thinking about time as a 4th dimension helped me. The past never disappears from our universe, it's just the previous page of the book we're reading, and always there just a short distance aw
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by jbay808 5y ago
My point is about how "binary" signals are controlled via modulation to emulate an analog variable for use with a continuous controller, not a recommendation to run your gas furnace this way. (That might have been lost because of
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by jbay808 5y ago
The term they use, which should also resolve this absurd definitional argument completely, is "cultural genocide".
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by jbay808 5y ago
Although overkill for a heater, you can often pulse-modulate a binary output to simulate a continuous output variable. This can be used together with a PID controller.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Yeah, hysteresis control aka "bang bang" control can also be unreasonably effective. It's a natural choice when your furnace can't throttle, or can but operates most efficiently at one output level anyway. Since the syst
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by jbay808 5y ago
> What's interesting is that a lot of controllers leave out the derivative term This is because a PD controller controlling system X is equivalent to a PI controller for the system (dX/dt). For example, a PI controller adjustin
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by jbay808 5y ago
Unfortunately, the majority of the population hasn't been born yet.

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