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by jonsen 11y ago
An Electrical Engineering View of a Mechanical Watch : http://video.mit.edu/watch/an-electrical-engineering-view-of...
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by jonsen 11y ago
https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Dijkstra.html
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by jonsen 11y ago
What is it about this quantumness It appears to be so quantumless On the scale of a human being Cybernetic math Of a separate class Will enable us in seeing
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by jonsen 11y ago
The whole idea of a standard work time is ridiculous. We only have it because for many jobs it is hard to measure actual productivity. This also leads to the destructive phenomenon of secrecy in compensation where some are heavily over comp
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by jonsen 11y ago
50 m might definitly lead to problems in other settings. "Because both ends of the RS-232 circuit depend on the ground pin being zero volts, problems will occur when connecting machinery and computers where the voltage between the grou
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by jonsen 11y ago
What do you mean by 'bandwith'? I would suggest you rather used maybe 'data throughput'? "Channel bandwidth may be confused with useful data throughput...": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by jonsen 11y ago
It's 'baud', not BAUD/S. Your signal timing is 20 microseconds which equals a signal rate of 50000 baud, or 50 kBd. There are 12 signals in each frame holding one byte. So the byte rate is 50000/12 = 4.2kB/s.
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by jonsen 11y ago
"A ground loop is the result of careless or inappropriate design or interconnection of electrical equipment that results in there being multiple paths to ground where this is not required, so a complete loop is formed.": https:&#
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by jonsen 11y ago
It describes an if not very exiting then at least somewhat interesting hack. Besides that the writeup is actually a fine piece of art for which, as usual, the beauty in in the eye of the beholder.
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by jonsen 11y ago
Or a white board pen. Just paint over it with an erasable pen, and it will all go when wiped.
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by jonsen 11y ago
http://blogs.embarcadero.com/davidi/2008/11/02/38933
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by jonsen 11y ago
Excuse me, but I read each new number is the sum of the last two numbers as a description of iteration. You have the two last numbers from which you can then make a new. Isn't it the recursive version which is hard to explain? The n&
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by jonsen 11y ago
Free will is an obvious idea for a self aware consciousness to adhere to. The purpose of consciousness is to keep its organism viable. It does that by collecting an essence of past and from that predict an essence of the future. This expect
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by jonsen 11y ago
I practically learned OOP making an application in Turbo Pascal using the Turbo Vision library. I even bought the Pascal source code for Turbo Vision ($200 IIRC) Primarily to find a bug where when you pressed a pull down menu item, and ther
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by jonsen 11y ago
Elemental mercury is not very dangerous: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning
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by jonsen 11y ago
(Avometer(tm). Ampere, Volt, Ohm meter.)
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by jonsen 11y ago
Quality. Examples of great quality. Completeness, consistency, correctness, attention to detail, readability, typography, pedagogy ... you name it. Sometimes you find it all in old manuals. And you may wonder how they managed to get away wi
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by jonsen 11y ago
That kind of comment is a point dancer. 4 points at this moment. My guess is 11 up, and 8 down till now.
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by jonsen 11y ago
No, will never take off.
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by jonsen 11y ago
Prefix (with fixed number of arguments) need no parentheses * + 1 2 - * + 3 4 + 5 6 / 7 8 Postfix can be indented similarly 1 2 + 3 4 + 5 6 + * 7 8 / - * Or parentheses less infix
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by jonsen 11y ago
Yes, we agree a long way. I'm sure the video works well in its intended greater context, as you describe here. My points are about taking the video at face value out of context, which is probably what lead to clear-as-muds comment.
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by jonsen 11y ago
My point was, that the way notation is just thrown at you in the video can only add to the phobia for the uninitiated. The video is clearly aiming at basic pedagogic explanation, and it is all destroyed in the end. The math versed who easil
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by jonsen 11y ago
Well said and all, but notation is a destroyer of understanding, if you are not well versed in reading math. There is a very abrupt jump in the video from the pleasant down to earth demonstration using picture language when the "co
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by jonsen 11y ago
I did not say it was recommendable. I just said that that was the structured counterpart. Your counterpart is not. Also I believe most structured programming advocates have no problem considering leaving a loop in the middle as a valid pr
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by jonsen 11y ago
It is a part of the structured programming idea to make modules callable by a "shorthand". It is not in the spirit of structured programming to make use of flow control flag variables.
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by jonsen 11y ago
And here's its fully structured counterpart: do_stuff1(); while (!condition()) { do_stuff2(); do_stuff1(); }
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by jonsen 11y ago
Norwegian company doing high temperature Stirling heatpumps: http://www.sppower.no/velkommen
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by jonsen 11y ago
Right. I just found this comment: "It only took some minor additions and extensions to turn Pascal into something that was found useful for industrial strength programming. Witness Turbo Pascal and VAX Pascal, for example. Kernighan&#x
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by jonsen 11y ago
That byte will be needed elsewhere to make it multitasking safe.
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by jonsen 11y ago
And at the interview they could fly any spacecraft on a whiteboard.

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