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by kbob 10y ago
Have you looked into visiting a hackerspace for the DIY projects? Most have some kind of short-term membership for people in your situation.
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by kbob 10y ago
> For the major carmakers, [car sharing] could mean catastrophe. I don't see this. A car currently lasts for 100,000-150,000 miles. Typically, several different owners use it for 10-15 years before it's worn out. If a car is
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by kbob 10y ago
I think deepsun means the person who died was not at fault.
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by kbob 10y ago
At least 20% of the poll respondents were unaware of the cognitive dissonance between their two answers. Or else they believe Britons should have more rights than other EU citizens. (Or maybe the poll was badly worded.)
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by kbob 10y ago
But Scotland doesn't have its own legacy currency. There's no need/excuse for a phase out period.
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by kbob 10y ago
I am thinking that N Queens would make a great hobby FPGA learning project. Not the automatic math->HDL translation of the paper, but writing a solver directly in VHDL that would blink the solutions on an LED matrix. It seems to me, at
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by kbob 10y ago
Sure. It's a great thermal conductor.
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by kbob 10y ago
A four-stroke engine fires every other crankshaft revolution. Each cylinder creates its own pulses. The exhaust manifold tries, with varying success, to blend those into a single higher-frequency pulse train. The Liquid rotary fires thric
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by kbob 10y ago
Chainsaws and weed-whackers might be good applications.
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by kbob 10y ago
How about using the energy to heat/boil water?
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by kbob 10y ago
How do you generate your rhythms? Is there structure or just randomness?
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by kbob 10y ago
> “It will take chip designers about 500 man-years to bring out a mid-range 7nm SoC to production,” Gartner’s Wang said. Therefore, a team of 50 engineers will need 10 years to complete the chip design to tape-out. In comparison, it coul
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by kbob 10y ago
The author repeatedly mentions $XXX RSUs. It's been a while since I've worked for a pre-IPO company. Is it common for companies to give RSUs a dollar value instead of a number of shares and "heck if I know the valuation&quot
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by kbob 10y ago
I test drove a Model S with the base wheels and suspension on damp roads. It was fine. A little soft and a little understeery, exactly what you'd expect for a large, non-performance car. The AWD was unobtrusive. I have previously ow
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by kbob 11y ago
I test drove a Model S last month too, on mundane roads. I was also mightily impressed. But not enough to place an order -- the car still felt too big to be comfortable, especially in parking lots. I did reserve a Model 3.
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by kbob 11y ago
>I didn't realize how much cars suck, even luxury cars, till I spent a day driving an S up and down the PCH. No comment on how much other roads suck, after a day driving up and down the PCH? More seriously, do you think spending th
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by kbob 11y ago
Pretty much. A smart person can pick up a tool. A person already holding the tool may or may not be able to use it well. The converse, that smaller teams need existing knowledge, is true too. I remember two specific instances where my te
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by kbob 11y ago
What do the authors mean by "senior engineers"? I think I'd been out of school for two years when I got that title. In retrospect, that was at least 10 years too early.
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by kbob 11y ago
Microsoft and (apparently) Intel think the killer app is in accelerating datacenter apps. I think it's more likely to be something nobody is doing yet.
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by kbob 11y ago
GPUs and FPGAs are accelerators. CPUs are not.
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by kbob 11y ago
Critiquing the usability of ancient Unix was like shooting fish in a barrel. Fortunately, Norman went on to better things.
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by kbob 11y ago
I started on that journey about 18 months ago. It took me five months to have a useful software instrument, and I've spent the remaining time learning how to fab a suitable hardware controller. Within the software, the hardest parts w
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by kbob 11y ago
So if you ever park in a dead zone, your car will have to be towed back to coverage?
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by kbob 11y ago
What do you mean by #3?
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by kbob 11y ago
> One of the greatest innovations of our time may ultimately undermine a key engine of innovation, the patent system. If the author had led with that sentence instead of closing with it, we could have immediately identified the article
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by kbob 11y ago
I don't think you appreciate the zeitgeist. People were building complex systems: compilers, operating systems, databases, numerical simulations, and worse in machines with less memory than an Arduino. Adding a byte to every string w
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by kbob 11y ago
If you never cook, you never wash pots.
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by kbob 11y ago
From the comments here, it looks like 3D printing has hit the trough of the hype cycle. Nonetheless, I'm a fan. I've designed and printed about a dozen objects in the last week. None of them are world changing, all of them could
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by kbob 11y ago
Large Scale C++ Software Development John Lakos The book explains how to design large systems to contain compile times.
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by kbob 11y ago
I looked, and sure enough, this is already on Thingiverse. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:12200 Thing number 12200. That's very early - Thingiverse has somewhere around 1.2 million things now.

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