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by jdblair 8y ago
But there's no use of miles at all in the article. It uses kilometers for distance and meters for elevation.
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The Intellectual Dark Web(nytimes.com)
2 points by jdblair 8y ago|0 comments
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by jdblair 8y ago
I love this: HP typically priced their equipment at the cost of the material list × π (or in an especially competitive market, list × e)...
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NeTV2 Project: Bunny Huang's Open Video Dev Board(crowdsupply.com)
2 points by jdblair 8y ago|0 comments
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by jdblair 8y ago
Using goto for managing cleanup after an error condition results in cleaner, easier to understand and maintain code. This is a specific idiom that is easy to recognize. On the other hand, using goto to jump back in the program flow, or mult
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by jdblair 8y ago
It's worth pointing out that CR-LF is the original ascii standard behavior, from electro-mechanical teletype. It took two characters worth of time to return the print carriage to the left of the paper. Rather than implement buffering (
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by jdblair 8y ago
I haven't killed a neighbor's pet. Is that a common infraction?
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by jdblair 9y ago
Loans cost more. The interest rate on my first mortgage (in the 90's) was 7%.
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by jdblair 9y ago
I second this. From experience, walking out of my house and driving off immedately with a fully-charged car is less trouble than going to a gas station. Still, we're a two-car family and our second car is ICE (a Subaru). Gasoline is wa
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by jdblair 9y ago
Simultaneously, BART construction had a similar detrimental effect in downtown Oakland. Arguably, it is only now recovering.
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by jdblair 9y ago
You can program 8051 in c using tinycc. It functions great as an assembler as well. You can structure the parts that must be in assembly as c functions using inline assembly. Very convenient! Using c does come at the cost of some code compa
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by jdblair 9y ago
Arrived.
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On Roman roads and the sources of persistence and non-persistence in development(voxeu.org)
3 points by jdblair 9y ago|0 comments
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by jdblair 9y ago
I knew I was an old silly valley engineer after I saw hardware I worked on at weird stuff. Then later I saw other hardware I worked on a Halted.
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by jdblair 9y ago
Here's the picture of the two authors in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/11/business/chip-makers-comp...
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by jdblair 9y ago
More friction than printing out a receipt and asking me to sign it? BTW, if you want to see just how efficient chip-and-pin can be, go to a bar in a nordic country. In Helsinki I can pay with chip-and-pin as quickly as cash (assuming change
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Can We Fix Daylight-Saving Time for Good?(newyorker.com)
1 points by jdblair 9y ago|1 comments
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by jdblair 9y ago
It's said that practical fusion energy is always 10 years in the future. I see this project innovates and projects instead 15 years in the future! In all seriousness, I'm happy to see new projects using current superconducting tec
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Curiosity’s five-year journey across Mars – in one stunning photo(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by jdblair 9y ago|0 comments
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by jdblair 9y ago
The embedded world has accepted c++ for all but the smallest microcontrollers. I was using c++ for embedded development 6 years ago and I was late to the party. All that prevented adoption be me before that was the cost of RAM.
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by jdblair 9y ago
Correction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiration_(physiology)
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Semiconductor Design Tools Vulnerable to Ken Thompson Attack(community.cadence.com)
2 points by jdblair 9y ago|0 comments
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by jdblair 9y ago
The problem with requiring a plaintext password is that it may slow down attacks when a device is simply connected to the open internet, but it is trivial to defeat in all other cases. Modbus RTU is broadcast, so you would just listen for t
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by jdblair 9y ago
Yes. In the 60s the United States Department of Defense bought most of the output of all semiconductor manufacture. I found a reference [1] that claims the DoD purchased 70% of the industry output in 1965. [1] https://books.googl
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by jdblair 9y ago
I'm going to offer a counter-argument to your characterization of the dash button as the "ultimate consumption tool." Dash doesn't work that way. Its like a to-do list. You press Dash, and the item is queued up to ship.
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by jdblair 9y ago
Can you be specific about what you mean about the business climate being better? Is it taxation? The cost of land and workers? It seems that if talent is unavailable that is not just "the only problem" but an actual blocker.
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by jdblair 9y ago
Classic Silicon Valley, meaning Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, and Mountain View, is lame. Its mile after mile of drab, functional single and 2 story buildings.
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by jdblair 9y ago
This morning its all fixed and the balance is correct. The double transactions were all in "pending" when I went to sleep (including overdraft transfers). I bet this isn't the first time something like this has happened due t
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How robo-callers wrecked the Do Not Call list(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by jdblair 9y ago|0 comments
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by jdblair 9y ago
What if I want to play recreational soccer or attend church services in fellowship with a few hundred fellow believers? This proposal completely discounts a whole range of non-work mass activities.

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