jeroen94704

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by jeroen94704 8y ago
As an addition to this, if the bad news will have a big impact on whoever you are delivering it to, just tell them the bad news and then sit back and wait for them to start talking. Reason: If you tell someone they are being let go, whateve
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by jeroen94704 9y ago
Check http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ for a treasure trove of similar helpdesk oddities.
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by jeroen94704 9y ago
It may be worth adding that EMC compatibility is only one step in getting your product ready for market introduction. Depending on the category of the product (consumer, medical, automotive, industrial, high-power, wireless etc etc) there m
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by jeroen94704 9y ago
Yes, you do need to take it into account, but even so, there are no guarantees you _are_ going to pass the first time around. EMC is as much dark art as it is engineering, and some things you simply cannot predict up front. We always tell o
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by jeroen94704 9y ago
It's interesting then what makes Gilstrap so energetic in his efforts to keep those patent-cases coming. Assuming there are no direct monetary payments from patent trolls coming his way, what is is incentive? Does he get "favors&q
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by jeroen94704 9y ago
Yes, there are some (there are 4 in the Netherlands, for example: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_slavernijmonumenten_... ), but I think people in Europe are generally less aware of their countries' role in
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by jeroen94704 9y ago
This is part of the standard FDA procedure. It starts with a formal warning letter (they send out many of those each year, for varying degrees of severity), and give the company a chance to address the non-conformities and violations. If a
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by jeroen94704 9y ago
> Watching two radios frequency hop, and negotiate to avoid a > congested wifi channel was unreal. Exactly. As I said in another comment, we did a test in a very busy office space and didn't loose a single bit of data @ several
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by jeroen94704 9y ago
I am currently in the process of developing a BT based embedded system, and in my experience Bluetooth is extremely resilient to the crowded 2.4 GHz space. It has very good and fast frequency hopping, so it maintains a connection even in th
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by jeroen94704 9y ago
How big a job is customizing all this to work on a different board? At work we use iMX6-based SoM's on custom baseboards, and so far have stuck to Linux. But we'd like to experiment with Android, just to see if that is a viable&#x
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by jeroen94704 9y ago
There is a fairly well known Dutch pilot whose last name literally translates to "brick". I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to decide whether that is an example of nominative determinism or not.
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by jeroen94704 9y ago
The locale and language are system settings. My point is that applications and websites have no business second guessing those system settings based on location. For the system-level settings, those are always part of the OS install process
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by jeroen94704 9y ago
Apart from travellers, there's people who don't want to deal with the often atrocious and incomplete translations provided by sites and applications.
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by jeroen94704 9y ago
"it's irritating when apps don't use my location to pick sane defaults" No, no, a thousand times NO. Location should NOT EVER be used as a basis for things like units, currency, date format etc. _every_ computer these da
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by jeroen94704 10y ago
Fascinating: 71% say they trust climate scientists regarding climate change, yet only 49% say they think "most scientists think global warming is happening". This would imply it is not necessary to convince people anthropogenic cl
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PAL-V flying car company accepting orders(newatlas.com)
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by jeroen94704 10y ago
This article seems to assume you're single and not in a hurry to start a family. I'd be interested to read an article "Does it make sense for a programmer with a wife and kids to move to the bay area". I secretly suspect
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by jeroen94704 10y ago
Excellent point. Getting rid of timezones would mean most people would have to switch to a different _date_ at some random point (determined by their longitude) during the day. Very impractical.
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by jeroen94704 10y ago
It's not that bad. ASML ships several tens of units (costing $millions to $tens of millions each) each quarter, but they also have an order backlog of several thousand units. This includes not just the super-high-end EUV machines they
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by jeroen94704 10y ago
Indeed, the difficulty getting a reliable EUV source with enough power is arguably the reason why this technology has been delayed so much. Cymer, the company who was in the process of developing this source, was having so much trouble gett
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by jeroen94704 10y ago
No, it's not. Maybe where you're at, but not where I'm at.
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by jeroen94704 11y ago
FTA: "He highlighted how complicated history has woven the borders in the area close to where Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany touch, leaving enclaves and strangely twisted borders" Hah, that's one way to describe it. The
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by jeroen94704 11y ago
They do have an Android app, but I must admit I haven't used it on an Android tablet, so maybe it is only for phones?
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by jeroen94704 11y ago
As I understand it, this does not mean you can power your laptop forever with a single charge, only that it can be recharged an indefinite number of times.
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by jeroen94704 11y ago
> you are forgetting that Greece made a lot of tough decisions for its people when asked by its creditors to "reform" yet it is just not sustainable, it's like asking the greeks to commit suicide. No, I am not forgetting t
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by jeroen94704 11y ago
While I am certainly sympathetic to the Greeks for the hardships they have faced and will undoubtedly face in the years to come, it is incredibly unfair to deny the Greeks' own responsibility in all this. This entire mess started with
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by jeroen94704 11y ago
I visited Tuol Sleng in 2007. It was very disquieting to walk past row after row and room after room filled with boards holding thousands upon thousands of pictures, and realize that every single one of those people was murdered right there
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by jeroen94704 12y ago
I don't really understand the fascination with nominal GDP, be it in US$ or PPP. Those numbers are heavily influenced by the size of a country's population, which according to wikipedia ranges from something like 100,000 all the w
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by jeroen94704 12y ago
I am somewhat skeptical about this. It sounds like they tried to apply thin-film optics for this material, given their talk of layers that are both extremely thin and precisely defined. Thin-film optics relies on interference effects betwee
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by jeroen94704 12y ago
I'm not sure what you expect of scifi; the same can be said of Heinlein and Clarke (maybe Heinlein a bit more than Clarke). Night's Dawn (Hamilton's second trilogy) was pretty well done in that respect if you ask me. Sure, th

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