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   by jes 5y ago

   Hello - I think this news may be of interest to anyone who enjoyed building Heathkit electronic kits many years ago. I downloaded the sample PDF that Chuck provides. It's a great source of detailed and historical information on Heathki
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   Penson's 3rd Edition of “Heathkit: A Guide to the Amateur Radio Products” Is Out(wa7zze.com)

   3 points by jes 5y ago|1 comments
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   by jes 5y ago

   I am not.
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   by jes 5y ago

   Facebook was a really unhealthy place for me. In part because of my own insecurities. I gave it up a year or so ago. Lots of pictures from the last ten years of my life were lost. Which is fine. The last decade has been a huge shitstorm for
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   by jes 5y ago

   What’s happening with respect to any class-action lawsuits against Intel for the performance-damaging Spectre / Meltdown mitigations? I had expected these lawsuits to be significant, yet I haven’t heard much about them.
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   by jes 5y ago

   Same. I’ve been loving my M1 Mac Mini for almost a year. Cool, silent, fast and compact.
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   by jes 5y ago

   I used to respect the ACLU. I took them at face value and assumed that they took principled positions in support of human rights. When I really looked into infant circumcision in my mid 50’s, I was horrified by what I found. It’s a deep rab
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   by jes 5y ago

   I would also appreciate some examples of large emergent system effects, if you are willing to provide some.
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   by jes 5y ago

   In threads like this one, I sometimes mention the parable of the Chinese Farmer as told by Alan Watts.[1] It's easily found on YouTube. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX0OARBqBp0
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    by jes 5y ago

    Eli Goldratt used to sometimes say "If you're looking at a problem and see no solution, it means one thing: You're looking at the problem too narrowly."
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    by jes 5y ago

    Since I learned of this so-called Junk DNA, I assumed that one function of it might be to dilute the density of critical DNA sequences. In other words, if every base pair matters, then DNA damage from, say, ionizing radiation is more likely
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    by jes 5y ago

    Same. I declined to try to read their presentation because of the UX around it.
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    by jes 5y ago

    I was having a discussion with a friend yesterday and we got onto the topic of vaccinations. To my knowledge, while we can develop a statistical assessment of a vaccine's safety, we can never know how the vaccine will affect a specific
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    by jes 5y ago

    I used ClearCase for many years. It was a good version control system. It had a certain amount of complexity associated with it, but I thought it was fine and worked well. I assume it’s still sold and supported, but I haven’t checked on it
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    by jes 5y ago

    The legal system will, over time, also have to accept and adapt to the idea that free will is an illusion. (See “neuro-law” for more information on this.)
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    by jes 5y ago

    Infant circumcision in America is a good candidate here, sadly.
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    by jes 5y ago

    I don’t write in C very often anymore. But when I last did, I found myself establishing local scopes inside functions so that variables I introduced went out of scope when I was done with them. I’m also an oddball, so there’s that.
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    by jes 5y ago

    I always stumble a little over the concept of a root cause. It feels subjective to me. What makes a cause a root cause?
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    by jes 5y ago

    I agree. I do have AAPL and will liquidate it. I have also been an Apple loyalist for 25 years. They burned their bridges with me.
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    by jes 5y ago

    I had an anger problem as well. It did great damage in my life and to the lives of people I loved and still love. For me it was helpful to get therapy for a few years from a “No More Mr. Nice Guy” therapist. You can search for information o
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    by jes 5y ago

    I’m 61 and have been working in high tech since 1983 or so, writing embedded software, doing system administration, and managing people. The article strikes me as good advice. I didn’t find anything to disagree with in it. Ageism is a thing
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    by jes 5y ago

    I worked with the Intel i960CA parts and the i960MX parts, while working for Applied Microsystems Corporation (now defunct.) Applied made high-end in-circuit emulators. My team worked on software for execution trace disassemblers. We had wi
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    by jes 5y ago

    I view the engineers who work at Facebook as partly responsible for the damage it does in the world.
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    by jes 5y ago

    I fully agree with you on the value of Robert Sapolsky’s video series on HBB.
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    by jes 5y ago

    How much do you make?
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    by jes 5y ago

    Priceless!
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    by jes 5y ago

    Link to a slide deck on Frama-C: https://cse.msu.edu/~cse814/Lectures/frama-c.pdf
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    by jes 5y ago

    A few decades ago, I was rewriting the standard sendmail.cf that we used in the company where I worked as a sysad. I think we had about one hundred or so Sun 3/60s and 3/80s that were using it. Well, in one of my test emails, I tr
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    by jes 5y ago

    This was a pleasant surprise for me to read. My father installed one in our home in Ohio in the late 60’s and it worked great . My dad was ahead of his time. He installed a geothermal heat pump to heat the house with heat from our 200’ wel
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    by jes 5y ago

    For much of my life, I engaged in "Nice Guy" behavior. A common Nice Guy pattern is helping someone else with the (unstated) expectation that they will reciprocate. Glover calls it a "covert contract." I had to learn tha