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by kirrent 10y ago
The proportion of technical degrees in members of every university mountaineering club I've ever been in/met has always been ridiculously high. The same seems to be also true for climbers/cavers/ski-mo people I've m
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by kirrent 10y ago
For an article that decries the lack of scientific research in this area it sure is eager to pull conclusions from anecdotes rather than remaining unsure. I mean, the article uncritically quotes someone as saying they stopped digesting thei
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by kirrent 10y ago
Real programmers don't use PASCAL never fails to crack me up. A bit closer to the grandparent comment is the famous story of Mel. http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers https://www.cs.
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by kirrent 10y ago
The parts that always strike me the most about this is that in 1974 Feynman lamented a lack of scientific rigour in deciding how we teach and how we manage crime and the criminal justice system. In both cases, despite 40 years having passed
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by kirrent 10y ago
For those interested in the teaching philosophy behind contextual electronics you might be interested in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_9Q4DoUlT8 He favours diving into a teaching example where the student h
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by kirrent 10y ago
Numerical recipes: the art of scientific computing is a go to reference for most people I know doing physics simulations. I think they've got a copy up on their website. Not sure if it covers all you want but the range is pretty good.
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by kirrent 10y ago
For those wondering, this isn't a simple repeat of CRS8 which landed on a drone ship about a month ago. CRS8 was a mission to low earth orbit which left the first stage with plenty of fuel to effect a landing. The landing was made as s
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by kirrent 10y ago
Like I said, I understand the pain of interfacing with legacy hardware but I thought his solution demonstrated perfectly why we don't need a parallel port any more. I didn't mean to imply that OP was complaining about the lack of
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by kirrent 10y ago
USB to serial worked because he could do larger transfers of data to the AVR which would then do low latency byte by byte writes to the device when polled.
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by kirrent 10y ago
I think this article explains pretty well why we don't need a parallel port anymore. Rather than outfitting every computer with a complicated and slow port we can have faster, smaller, and more flexible solutions using extra processors
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by kirrent 10y ago
This parallels a lot of my experience. I moved into physics because I realised that I loved coding only when the problems and technologies interested me. While I found CS problem sets boring, being able to use my coding in physics was endle
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by kirrent 10y ago
Exactly, by all means force your students to use different libraries and program in modern paradigms which may be centred around different libraries but I wouldn't do a CS or SE degree where that was the focus. I didn't go to uni
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by kirrent 10y ago
I seem to remember reading that the powerwall is specced to use the batteries removed from Tesla cars once they've reached something like 70% of original capacity. Reuse is cheaper than recycling.
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by kirrent 10y ago
FPGA programming? Surely not. If you've got a nicely supported dev board then it's simply a case of loading up a board support package, selecting some pins, and your first program can be three lines long. I will admit the toolchai
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by kirrent 10y ago
If it ain't broke don't fix it. Especially when the computers are relatively cheap compared to the bespoke hardware. My favourite example of this was the school district which used an Amiga to control the district's HVAC syst
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by kirrent 10y ago
The outer space treaty says you can't stake a claim but your property rights are still respected under the treaty. That is, if you have a habitat on the surface of Mars, for all intents and purposes that land is yours though there is a
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by kirrent 10y ago
A group which SpaceX is a member of raised concerns that launches by ISRO are allegedly subsidised by the Indian government and therefore the pricing is anticompetitive but have also acknowledged that the market served by the PSLV is badly
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by kirrent 10y ago
Exactly, people seem to forget how many oil sources are out there which become profitable at about $100 a barrel.
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by kirrent 10y ago
Absolutely it's nothing new, it's just a case of the scale of the problem being larger than ever. IO speed increases haven't kept up with floating operation performance of processors. If you're performing operations on a
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by kirrent 10y ago
The same is certainly true in Australia. Smokers cost the healthcare system far less because they die sooner and faster. Of course, the value and efficiency of a healthcare system isn't measured in how little you can spend per a person
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by kirrent 11y ago
I still remember watching WW2 films and seeing scenes of phone exchanges where people were switching manually ussing the quarter inch jack. It was surprisingly thrilling. I was working during the day at a place where I sold the same type of
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by kirrent 11y ago
Of course they can criticize you for selling illegal drugs in the same way you can criticize Norway for getting rich off oil. He's saying that praising that person for doing something like giving money to charity or anti-drug efforts i
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by kirrent 11y ago
I've always been impressed by the Nintendo dev kits I've read through and sometimes used. http://n64devkit.square7.ch/ http://www.chrisantonellis.com/files/gameboy/gb-programming-...
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by kirrent 11y ago
Huh, I didn't know that. I never really had a look at any SDK earlier than that. I just had a false memory that the DK2 came out before the fb acquisition. I do remember Oculus intimating that they couldn't open up the tracking co
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by kirrent 11y ago
The SDK has always been relatively closed even before the Facebook acquisition. They've always touted it as being important for guaranteeing the quality of an experience which I don't necessarily disagree with but its also importa
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by kirrent 11y ago
The 1600 people who died in the evacuation were being evacuated during a natural disaster that was far more devastating. Not mentioning increased rates of thyroid cancer could be attributed to journalistic integrity. There is no evidence of
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by kirrent 11y ago
The article is certainly generic business speak I think he's probably referring to the practice of using different brands in different countries. In Australia general motors is known as Holden. Ford is Ford.
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by kirrent 11y ago
He said that he was doing bare metal work on the AVR so I assume he wasn't referring to Arduino. Arduino aside, the default toolchain for 8 bit AVRs is really simple to get running. Just install AVR-studio with its built in GCC compile
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by kirrent 11y ago
Yeah, I had a look back and it's been around longer than I thought. I was so used to symlinking I didn't realise the feature has existed since 2011 or 2012.
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by kirrent 11y ago
The only double fine game I ever regretted buying was brutal legend and even then I got a few laughs out of it and appreciated it for what it was. Psychonauts, happy action theater, the cave, and broken age were all wonderful.

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