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by kd5bjo 3y ago
There are plenty of projects for which solderless breadboards are unsuitable, but there are also lots for which they're perfectly fine. Lots of hobbyists and most professionals will outgrow solderless breadboards sooner or later, but
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by kd5bjo 3y ago
My general approach is to start with a small-to-moderate assortment kit, and after each project restock the bins that are running low/empty with individual-value orders of 100 components or so-- Those are the values you're using a
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by kd5bjo 3y ago
No sarcasm here; you asked for some text-based resources and so I listed some that I know to be quality-- Paper copies of these books and some parts/breadboards to tinker with are how I learned the basics of electronics a couple of dec
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by kd5bjo 3y ago
https://archive.org/details/gettingstartedin00mims/ https://archive.org/details/engineersmininot00mims/ https://archive.org/details/555-designs https://a
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by kd5bjo 3y ago
Iceland has some PSAs running right now about e-scooter safety that have a similar vibe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSUNZ3quITA&list=PL3prAqz9YE...
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by kd5bjo 3y ago
> The typical range of a fully charged electric car these days is sufficient to get out of the way of almost any predictable natural disaster. Maybe, and maybe not. The one time I had to do this myself, I started with a full gas tank an
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by kd5bjo 3y ago
My primary concern with the charging infrastructure is how well it will handle a large number of people taking emergency trips at the same time. How do you evacuate south Florida with an incoming hurricane, for example, when most people ha
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by kd5bjo 3y ago
> Now, you're arguing that `sum(evaluate(impact) for each IC)` is absurdly bad. No, I’m not. I’m arguing that it’s unwise to trust someone to do an evaluation who has a personal stake in the result of that evaluation. Looking at ho
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by kd5bjo 3y ago
> Why would you need to decouple that to evaluate managers? If a manager’s performance evaluation is based primarily on their reports’ evaluations, then there’s a conflict of interest: The manager is incentivized to inflate their reports
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by kd5bjo 3y ago
> If we as an industry are going to move away from headcount as a professional growth metric, we need to have some other, more direct way of measuring the business impact a manager delivers so we can reward that. A manager’s job, fundame
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by kd5bjo 3y ago
The item doesn't matter so much as the memories that get attached to it. If you want to do this through conscious effort, make sure to use the item frequently in activities that you do with whomever you intend to pass it on to. Anecdo
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by kd5bjo 3y ago
There’s a presumption of innocence to consider, though: Until a court has entered a judgment for copyright infringement against someone, they are only an alleged infringer.
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by kd5bjo 3y ago
If anything, a PhD program teaches you how to write faster while maintaining an acceptable quality: Journal papers, conference presentations, and funding agency reports are all long-form writing projects that come up quite frequently an
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by kd5bjo 3y ago
> Net neutrality is not law. There are valid arguments to be made against it - like with your cell plan, everyone can or perhaps should, pay for the bytes they use, and how much infrastructure (CPU) those bytes use to get delivered fast.
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by kd5bjo 3y ago
If you’re talking about actual paper money, that’s the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, not the Fed.
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by kd5bjo 4y ago
You could also require the per-mile payments to match what the electronic logs show, so that driving off the clock means that they’re driving for free.
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by kd5bjo 4y ago
> But you can disable it for a particular sum type with the '#[non_exhaustive]' attribute. I’m not sure this is the best description of what `#[non_exhaustive]` does in Rust. It doesn’t so much disable exhaustiveness checking
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by kd5bjo 4y ago
The difference is that the person who knows the answer (you!) is also writing the prompts. The game is to get the chatbot to say the target word without using the most obviously helpful phrases.
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by kd5bjo 4y ago
There’s some anglo-centric bias in his commentary on the international examples. The Reykjavík elevator, for example, is clearly labelled in the local language; his confusion is entirely caused by being unfamiliar with that language. There
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by kd5bjo 4y ago
When applying for a senior role, yes. Part of a senior developer’s job is to push back against “requirements” that don’t further business needs; in this case, an accurate, maintainable, and useful model of a deck of cards.
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by kd5bjo 4y ago
If the acting is any good, you can pick up a surprising amount of the plot without understanding any of the dialogue.
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by kd5bjo 4y ago
This approach allows for 2^256 different things, one for each possible yes/no bitstring.
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by kd5bjo 4y ago
As a native speaker, I interpret it the same way as you. The most common usage of this form is probably the idiom “It’s all over but the shouting,” meaning a foregone conclusion that still has some steps to go through before it becomes offi
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by kd5bjo 4y ago
There's also a potential issue of the "help" being a net-negative, even when provided. If someone has strong ideas about how the work should be done that differ from yours, for instance, accepting their help can make things
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by kd5bjo 4y ago
> Once you move beyond trivial cases you really need to spend time understanding the principles behind the ORM you're using. They are always a very leaky abstraction, there is not really a way around that. This is why I avoid ORMs i
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by kd5bjo 4y ago
> How can it be legal to work overtime without extra pay? I’m once again shocked by the sorry state of working laws in the USA. In this particular case, the overtime is paid: 1.5x the normal rates for nights an 2x for weekends and holid
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by kd5bjo 4y ago
I expect that it’s fairly normal: If the union is actively striking, or threatening to strike, an agreement that doesn’t guarantee a return to work won’t be acceptable to management. Once the agreement expires and it’s time to hammer out a
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by kd5bjo 4y ago
The article helpfully links to the agreement currently in force between the company and the union. The relevant clause is: > Overtime shall be voluntary except that where there are insufficient volunteers to perform the required work, t
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by kd5bjo 4y ago
In that case, their test suite doesn’t cover all relevant cases. Consider nums = [1,1,1,1,4]: There are 5 elements, so n=4, and all elements are within the range [1,4]; only the 1 is duplicated. This fulfills all of the listed requirement
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by kd5bjo 4y ago
This algorithm fails in the case that the duplicated number appears more than twice in the list, which is explicitly allowed by the problem statement.

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