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by madengr 7y ago
Well when I was a kid, I had to program my own games on the C64. Walked uphill to school both ways, too.
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by madengr 7y ago
There is a big difference between being denied entry (to the USA) and being held for interrogation (in Iran).
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by madengr 7y ago
The FCC is screwing hams, as usual, for 5G. http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-formally-adopts-proposals-to-re...
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by madengr 7y ago
I grew up in rural VA in the 70s-80s. One bathroom in a house that was built in 1890. I was lucky, as the kid down the (dirt) road did not have a bathroom, rather an out-house. That house had a single cold water faucet in the kitchen. Se
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by madengr 7y ago
There is a salt mine in Kansas that has a good tour. https://www.underkansas.org/
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by madengr 7y ago
That’s why I have home built speakers and tube amplifiers hooked to an streaming device. The speakers and amp will be good 50 years from now. The streaming device will have long been in the dumpster.
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by madengr 7y ago
(which is a reason why I'm going to be so upset when the MAX is put back in service and I won't be able to fly Southwest anymore) It that on principle, or fear of safety?
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by madengr 7y ago
You actually can separate out the forward and reverse waves on a coax, but it requires good impedance match on both ends, and some transformer based magic-Ts. So you can do full duplex on a single coax, sharing the same bandwidth. It’s ju
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by madengr 7y ago
Is that in MO? There is a similar one near Belton. I believe it is C band radar. The FCC database should have it.
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by madengr 7y ago
How in the hell did they charge $19k a month for fentanyl? The stuff is made on the industrial scale in China.
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by madengr 7y ago
I don’t know anyone in tech who has a liberal arts degree, and I graduated 25 years ago. The authors wife probably doesn’t actually develop the tech, rather management.
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by madengr 7y ago
No, that reactor had an inherent instability that could not be fixed. The MCAS has an issue with redundant AOA sensors; that specifically needs to be fixed. The MCAS caused problems on other flights, but the pilots knew to disable it by fl
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by madengr 7y ago
This will probably be the safest plane to fly on, considering the amount of scrutiny the FAA is now applying.
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by madengr 7y ago
I had the protein folding project running in my computer for a few years. Can these deep learning models be distributed like that, or do they require tightly coupled processors? Seems the latter as there was a recent IEEE article on a waf
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by madengr 7y ago
Your answer is in your question: “global economy”. That lawyer is licensed in his state. Software can be written in a 3rd world country. Why is it that these high $ software jobs in CA have not been outsourced to India?
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by madengr 7y ago
25 years in RF hardware design. I think I’ll now just go shoot myself.
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by madengr 7y ago
For my MSEE, my RA position paid (not a lot, but enough for food and rent), and gave in-state tuition. I also TA’d one class which gave me free tuition. So essentially I was paid to go to grad school.
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by madengr 7y ago
The article mentions a theme park at the telescope. I’d think there is a radio quiet zone around it.
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by madengr 7y ago
Yep, same here. Had some pull-out posters from MD magazine of him hanging on my wall as a teenager.
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by madengr 7y ago
More than just GUIs, rather SPICE compatible simulators. LTSpice has macro models for most LT parts, that would not be compatible with MC. Likewise MC probably has models that are not compatible with LTSpice. Now I wish LTSpice would take
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by madengr 7y ago
It doesn’t. Those are not professional level simulators. MC is a modern simulator, and professional level. I assume the guy is retiring. You are not going to be simulating large ICs, but it’s still plenty good for other stuff.
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by madengr 7y ago
I used this in 1991 as an EE undergrad. I initially used it on my 8086, 4.77 MHz XT. It took several minutes to simulate a simple common emitter amp. I don’t remember if I had an 8087 FPU. I then bought a 486DX, 50 MHz and the same simul
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by madengr 7y ago
I could see Israel using them if overrun (which is easy given it is a small country surrounded by adversaries).
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by madengr 7y ago
Just lookup the item on your phone when shopping at Microcenter, then show the price to a sales person. They even have a sign saying they will price match Amazon and Walmart.
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by madengr 7y ago
Micro Center seems to be going fine. Fully stocked (with the exception of CPU) and always busy. No issues price matching online either.
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by madengr 7y ago
Unlike that article, the old internet didn’t have inline video ads, mandatory cookies, and social media bars at the bottom. Not to mention dynamic pages that can load 100 ads if you scroll long enough. I swear my reading comprehension has
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by madengr 7y ago
What I hated was having to memorize orbitals in freshman chemistry, then after taking modern physics as a junior, the orbitals were deduced easily. Anyway, I hated chemistry, as it seemed all rote memorization. Physics was so much better.
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by madengr 7y ago
Well one solution is to start using more differential circuitry on-chip, which is normally reserved for RF/Analog and off-chip busses. There isn’t a well defined ground in silicon processes.
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by madengr 7y ago
The clock frequency isn’t the issue, rather the rise time of the signal edges. You can have a 1 kHz clock with GHz of bandwidth. Case in point are switching power supply ICs, specifically ones with integrated switches. A 200 kHz switcher
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by madengr 7y ago
I have read that, if you do the computation correctly, averaging 3 mechanical watches can give the accuracy of a quartz based watch.

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