madengr

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   by madengr 6y ago

   We are, thats what the military and intelligence agencies do, and why we have a retaliatory nuclear arsenal.
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   by madengr 6y ago

   You the guy with the YouTube channel?
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   by madengr 6y ago

   Flour isn’t the problem now, it’s yeast. Fortunately my mother in law traded us a few packs for an old iMac, so my daughter can now make pizza dough. Joking aside, we did give her an iMac, but you can’t find yeast anywhere.
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   by madengr 6y ago

   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
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   by madengr 6y ago

   You had me there until Facebook was mentioned. Though I’m typing this in bed at 5:26 AM as I can’t sleep.
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   by madengr 6y ago

   No, and only 64 GB max of non-ECC at that. I typically don’t run simulation of more than 1 hour though, and I’ll know when the results are wrong. My use case is CAD/real-time design for RF and EM; multiple smaller simulations of para
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   by madengr 6y ago

   Some engineering software I use, uses Intel MPI libraries, and I suspect the math kernel also. The software runs 30% faster on an i7 versus a Ryzen 7, both with equivalent clock rate and number of cores. Given the forthcoming i9 will hit 5
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   by madengr 6y ago

   Unless you pay with cash at the grocery store, they are already harvesting it. I’m surprised they are not selling it to the health insurance companies to monitor your habits.
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   by madengr 6y ago

   I have been watching his channel nightly; it’s really good. How are his safety standards higher? I think the only think he expounds is wearing a mask.
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    by madengr 6y ago

    I remember the olympics in the 80’s. Pretty sure those 14 YO female, Romanian gymnasts had facial hair.
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    by madengr 6y ago

    Funny, that’s how I presently program microcontrollers.
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    by madengr 6y ago

    We just bought the latest vacuum and mop robots, and they work fairly well. We had bought one 17 years ago and it didn’t work well at all. They have made good progress in the control algorithms since.
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    by madengr 7y ago

    I’m looking forward to picking up some test equipment. The problem is hardware is no longer built here. Back in the 2000 dot-com bust, there was plenty of RF and optical equipment going for cheap. As another poster mentioned though, thes
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    by madengr 7y ago

    Peregrine makes several digitally tunable capacitors (switched capacitor banks) that work to S-band and can handle moderate power. I have used them for antenna tuning. https://www.psemi.com/products/digitally-tunable-c
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    by madengr 7y ago

    Don’t know. I just read that 10 series is 64 GB max. I do know that Ryzen supports ECC and > 64 GB. Intel must want you to buy Xeon, when that is a poor choice for my application. I need clock speed, not massive cores.
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    by madengr 7y ago

    See my other reply. Ryzen is 30% slower due to Intel compiler optimizations, and I need higher clock speed rather than cores. The new i9 with 5.1 GHz boost should work best.
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    by madengr 7y ago

    That’s the problem. They are not massively parallel. In fact, don’t use more than two cores efficiently. Therefore the i9 will perform better than Xeon due to higher clock speed with lower cores. Also, this software uses Intel MPI librar
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    by madengr 7y ago

    I’m running the same PC since 2011, and doing done hefty EM simulations in it. I did expand it to 32 GB RAM recently just cause I was running out, and 32 is still insufficient. I’m holding out until the new i9-10 are out. Unfortunately th
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    by madengr 7y ago

    I use CST often, and used it for helical resonators, specifically the Eigenmode solver. The latest version should do an eigenmode analysis with open boundaries, which you’d need for coils. My resonator was in a cavity.
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    by madengr 7y ago

    Nonetheless it looks very appealing. I’m not sure exactly why, other than I fence and like beer.
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    by madengr 7y ago

    With enough complaints, the grocers will ban the bots, just like Southwest banned the check-in bots years ago.
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    by madengr 7y ago

    The base cost of a Keysight Field Fox spectrum analyzer is $6k. You then enable $60k worth of licenses on it, but all the hardware is already in there. Pretty crazy.
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    by madengr 7y ago

    How is traffic on 66 and 495? That should be a decent indicator.
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    by madengr 7y ago

    I know my employer stiffs paying bills, well past net 30, so I can see others doing it. The worst you have to do is pay back-rent. Nothing to lose. In fact, better to delay it and take advantage of the bailout money that can be used for
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    by madengr 7y ago

    The brick and mortar may be helped by the fact that Amazon can’t deliver on time. The curbside service of brick and mortar has been awesome.
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    by madengr 7y ago

    I know my state has barred evictions until May. I assume that pertains to commercial property too.
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    by madengr 7y ago

    Thank you! That’s it at 32:20. He and Feynman look similar, and it was 30+ years ago.
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    by madengr 7y ago

    As a side question: I remember seeing a TV science series in the 80’s that had Richard Feynman explaining how a 30k calorie pyramid of jelly donuts on a barbecue grill was the equivalent energy a Tour de France cyclist expends in a day. Wha
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    by madengr 7y ago

    Thank you! Was just about to point that out too. Drives me nuts when the standard SSB bandwidth is used. People transmitting 100W on HF with WJSTX modes is another pet peeve.
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    by madengr 7y ago

    In local news, Eddie the Extortionist lays off his henchmen due to the downturn in the protection business.