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by kbob 4y ago
This. Every one of the 50 states has a flagship university, and some of them are doing very good research in a variety of fields. You won't get rich there, but you can have a lot of fun and do cutting-edge work. College towns usually
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by kbob 5y ago
Different people are different heights. Amazing but true.
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by kbob 5y ago
Different code bases. MAE was developed in parallel with, and started a little earlier than the PowerPC Macs. I thought MAE emulated a 68030, specifically a Mac IIci. But I could be wrong -- it's been a while. I am 99% certain we us
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by kbob 5y ago
N.B., I didn't learn the term, "Duff's Device" until several years later.
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by kbob 5y ago
I was part of the MAE engineering team from 1992-94. The original plan was to machine-translate the Mac ROM from 68K machine code to SPARC/PA-RISC/POWER machine code. It would have brought MAE much closer to RISC-like speeds. Un
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by kbob 5y ago
Rust may allow 100 engineers to work on the same codebase without spending all their time debugging memory corruption errors. I say "may" because I don't have firsthand experience in a team that big.
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by kbob 5y ago
> I compare it to the dot com bubble. I don't see the similarity. Yes, the stocks were overpriced, and people who didn't understand venture capital were effectively providing venture capital. But the dot com era produced some
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by kbob 5y ago
Computer science is less than a century old. There's no reason to think we know enough to design perfect languages yet. But with an additional 30 years of hindsight, we can make somewhat better languages now, and we should.
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by kbob 5y ago
I wouldn't choose C++ if I wanted to have fun. Practically any language (maybe not XML) is more fun to get things done in. If using C++ is the right business decision, I'll use it, but I won't expect to enjoy it.
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by kbob 5y ago
I found my father-in-law, and I found a guy I went to school with. The former worked in Columbus, Ohio, and the latter was also from Ohio. I wouldn't be surprised if all of Department 375 was in Columbus.
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by kbob 5y ago
Or walk right on past the gym. Once you're outside and walking, going inside to walk on the gym's machine isn't an improvement. Running might be different, depending on your local streets.
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by kbob 5y ago
How does WLED compare to PixelBlaze? https://www.bhencke.com/pixelblaze
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by kbob 5y ago
Go look at some of the programming languages from many years ago, when most of the good stuff we like hadn't been thought of. A good starting point is the video, 50 in 50, by Guy Steele and Richard Gabriel. It reviews 50 programming l
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by kbob 5y ago
I found SNOBOL a lot harder to work with than Icon. Icon is an Algol-like language in that it has the usual flow control mechanisms, enhanced with Icon's backtracking. SNOBOL is a lot more like assembly. So it's harder (for me)
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by kbob 5y ago
Neodymium magnets and brushless DC motors. The brushes and commutator have been replaced by a micro controller and set of power MOSFETs.
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by kbob 5y ago
Are there resources for delta encoding transcendental functions in general? A fast, compact tanh() function would be great for making ladder filters in an FPGA.
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by kbob 5y ago
Satoshi Nakamoto will be revealed to be an extraterrestrial info-warrior sent to destroy humanity by tricking us into turning all our carbon fuels into random numbers. This will happen sometime in April.
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by kbob 5y ago
> [Shops'] only options will be to join Apple’s onerous IRP network—not an option for shops that value their customers’ privacy... Is this code for shops that repair stolen phones?
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by kbob 5y ago
A BMC with a soft CPU will create a whole new class of security vulnerabilities. Now you can hide malware within the BMC's gateware as well as its firmware.
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by kbob 5y ago
We've had fictional characters in movies for decades, in literature for centuries, and in myths and legends for millennia. And people have made their living (and occasionally made fortunes) telling those stories. How is this different
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by kbob 5y ago
Are you in a crowded office with lots of Bluetooth devices? At my house, Bluetooth is rock solid up to 10 meters. But there are only a handful of devices in the house, and the neighbors are far away.
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by kbob 5y ago
Here are the parts they're selling. (A lot of them are "coming soon", though.) https://frame.work/marketplace I'm not familiar with current ThinkPads.
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by kbob 5y ago
It might be a popular action for people to take just before they move out. Instead of selling one house for $3M, build the duplices, sell them for a combined $5-6M, and leave instead of living with the consequences. That might happen in
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by kbob 5y ago
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml... Many, many rules. That ones that stood out to me are: * Do not demolish more than 25% of existing house's exterior walls. * Each sub-lot must be at
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by kbob 5y ago
3.0? Don't forget the 1991 war.
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by kbob 5y ago
> "We advertised locally for 70 fruit-pickers and we had nine applications. On follow-up, only one was still available... in terms of recruiting locally, we failed completely," says Ali Capper, the owner of Stocks Farm in Suckl
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by kbob 5y ago
> "We advertised locally for 70 fruit-pickers and we had nine applications. On follow-up, only one was still available... in terms of recruiting locally, we failed completely," says Ali Capper, the owner of Stocks Farm in Suckl
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by kbob 5y ago
Worse, it can take several hours to thoroughly study a research paper. That's hundreds of cheap articles whose ads you didn't see.
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by kbob 5y ago
This is from 2016. Did Charlie end up writing the space opera he was mulling?
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by kbob 5y ago
IIRC, Dan Connolly, when he was at Convex, wrote an SGML viewer that used blue hyperlinks. He did this work in 1990-92. At the same time, he was collaborating with Tim Berners-Lee in his spare time. So blue was in the air by then.

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