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>Amazon FreeRTOS is based on the FreeRTOS kernel, a popular open source operating system for microcontrollers, and extends it with software libraries that make it easy to securely connect your small, low-power devices to AWS cloud servic
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Another guess: More time with parents might correlate to less time with other family members. Grandparents and other immediate family are working and living longer which means parents don't have free childcare and do it themselves.
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AutoCAD has always had a command line that shows commands even as you're using the UI. It's neat to pull it up and see the command history, and also makes text commands more discoverable.
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There's a really great mobile game called euclidea. It's basically Euclid's Elements - The Game.
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I've thought about this as well. My idea was to bury a 10k gallon tank in the yard along with a compressed air tank. Run sprinklers around the perimeter of your house and drip lines across the eves of your roof. When a fire is near you
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Wiring each key to an input would get rid of scanning, not debouncing.
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I bought this book last year and found it really interesting with respect to how children interact with math as their brain develops: Math from Three to Seven [1]. There are a lot of little experiments and games that teach kids basic concep
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>Point me to solid data showing tests and quizzes are a better predictor than accomplishments and I'll have a look. Not specifically tailored to programmers, but I find this paper relevant with respect to hiring practices: The Valid
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That paper is referenced in the paper cited in this article. Number 52: http://longrange.cs.washington.edu/files/loRaBackscatter.pdf
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The word print has meant many things throughout history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_printing The most broad definition: To make an impression or set a mark upon a surface. You could easily call this print
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This is specifically addressed in the link under the section titled "When does 24 bit matter?"
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Guaiacol is present in wood smoke. It's maybe being leached out of the charred barrels into the whiskey during the aging process.
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We've known, at least since the 80s, the aproximate amount of space people need to work effectively. Chapter 9 of Peopleware [1] talks specifically about this: An excerpt: >Before drawing the plans for its new Santa Teresa facility,
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I suspect it's much simpler than that. Open floor plans give less square footage per person so you get more people per building. It's just cheaper to build open floor plans.
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Yeah, after I got it working I came to the same conclusion. I started to create a new spec for an easier-to-understand format but never got around to implementing it. https://github.com/jotux/fangle/wiki/Forma
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It's a bit weird to see this on the front page again. I did this ~4 years ago just as a proof-of-concept. I thought it would be a neat idea to have a plain-text way of writing forum posts that had calculations embedded. I'm an emb
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Introducing Amazon Chest™ -- A specialty smart container that allows letters and packages to be delivered right to the front of your home. Carriers simply place packages in the receptacle and an app on your phone notifies you that a package
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You are correct. That is such an odd way to represent data like this.
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>"Based on the national estimate, the majority of concussions resulted from participation in football (40.5%, n = 55 007), followed by girls' soccer (21.5%, n = 29 167), boys' soccer (15.4%, n = 20 929),..." >So 40
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Running any sufficiently advanced static analyzer on any large codebase will generate a ton of false positives.
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> GS-14 slots and above are reserved for management and spend much less time doing the real work. This is normally true but there are organizations that have technical roles up to GS-15.
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We actually thought it was a problem with TI's parts, which is why we sent it to TI (we had a dedicated TI rep that came by every 2-3 weeks). When it came back that the package was empty it was actually a little embarrassing for us, si
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I worked for a huge company with their own manufacturing in China. We did a beta run of a product and they used some black market components for a TI regulator. When we got the boards the output was dead on the regulator so we sent it to
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And "Alice v. CLS Bank" is linked to an article that explains exactly what it is: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/bad-day-bad-patents-su...
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I don't have ears good enough to hear the difference and I don't mind lossy compression but I really care about comfort and durability.
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The title is talking about the fact that the diagrams themselves are beautiful, not the application itself.
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For a couple of reasons: 1. You may find yourself doing work you enjoy and have a great boss but realize the pay is no longer competitive (and has no potential to ever become competitive). There's risk in leaving and landing in a place
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I'm on job #3 since graduating from college 10 years ago. The average raise amount I've gotten each year staying at a job has been 3.7%. The average bump in pay I've gotten changing jobs has been 15%. This is despite receivin
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Seems like python became popular as a teaching language in the last few years [1] and now we're seeing the results of that. [1] https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/176450-python-is-now-th...
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If apple, and others, provided on-site day care it would take some of the pressure off daycare in the region and the wait times likely wouldn't be so long for everyone else (including people who get fired). Also, if they're arguin

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