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by madengr 7y ago
Kudos to the GR team. Now I have some stuff to move to 3.8.
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by madengr 7y ago
We can fit a hard-cased cello in it, with one seat folded down, but that reduced rear seat to one person. But yeah, hatchback would have been better.
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by madengr 7y ago
It’s not just infrastructure, or cost. After watching Apollo 11 the other night, I can’t fathom how that was done in 8 years. Also, in the movie, one of the mission controllers looked to be about 70. To think that when we he was born, fli
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by madengr 7y ago
I read recently that Honda has stopped all Clarity sales except for CA, especially since the Volt is no longer available. That is a shame because it is a really nice car and fills in the gap between pure EV and a hybrid. 40 miles on full
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by madengr 7y ago
The burden of proof ought to be the opposite.
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by madengr 7y ago
The second amendment was a compromise to allow a federal, standing army. Requiring enlistment in such is absurd, and goes against the reason it was written.
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by madengr 7y ago
Yes, just as you describe, but the addition of a transformer allows you to reference the neutral to ground, therefore the hot swings above and below ground. It’s a little more complicated than what I described, as your breaker box is 240V
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by madengr 7y ago
You need 8 figures to retire. $30k/year (poverty level) over 30 years is only $1M.
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by madengr 7y ago
This is pretty important for modulation in digital communications. Interesting to see others than 2^N, and that 2^N are not square constellations, except for QPSK. Sometimes minimizing amplitude (envelope) variations is more important, or
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by madengr 7y ago
We’ll if you are stuck with a giant bill, you can always move back. I don’t see how they would collect on it.
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by madengr 7y ago
You can pre-board on Southwest if you are over 6’3”. I used to do it a lot, but they changed it so you can’t sit in an exit row. Though the bulkhead seats are better anyway, and I can usually get those.
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by madengr 7y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Lander-Developed-Smithsonian-Spa...
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by madengr 7y ago
Glass scales for DRO are relatively inexpensive. The Bridgeport EZ-Trak I bought at work uses them in the servo system. So getting static accuracy is probably not too difficult, but the dynamic accuracy is a whole different can of worms.
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by madengr 7y ago
2 um accuracy; tools so fine that tool change air flow will break them; amazing. I could use this for machining mmWave components.
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by madengr 7y ago
I’m pretty sure I have seen a cosmic ray flash a couple of times over the past 20 years, lying in bed with eyes closed. It’s a sudden, bright flash caused by a cosmic ray hitting the optic nerve. I read that Astronauts get them frequently,
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by madengr 7y ago
This is a decent documentary on Rolls Royce that discusses the single crystal blade. I think each one has 18 tons of centrifugal force, and uses a few micron layer of air to cool it, so running an engine too slow will melt them. Fascinati
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by madengr 7y ago
In the DC area in the 80’s, there was a system called Super TV that broadcast adult entertainment at ~900 MHz. I believe they removed the vertical sync, in addition to requiring a UHF dish and tuner. Anyway, as a kid, I found you could tak
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by madengr 7y ago
I recently read a book about the design of the LIM. It amazes me how young many of the people were. The guy in charge of the LIM design, IIRC, was late 20’s. Just a little older than the guy in this article.
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by madengr 7y ago
Regarding the photo in the article, it doesn’t help when you force woman to wear full body coverings in sweltering heat.
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by madengr 7y ago
I actually like the cosmosphere better than the Smithsonian or the rocket center in Hunstville. They have a good collection of Russian stuff, and it’s the most adult oriented, with good annotations on the displays.
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by madengr 7y ago
Kelvin bandwidth model only accounted for the RC dispersion of the undersea cable, hence it had horrible dispersion and a sub-Hz bandwidth. It was Heaviside that introduced the loading coil via his solution of telegrapher equation and coaxi
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by madengr 7y ago
Ha ha, but having a RGB gaming rig isn’t going to get you laid. Usually the opposite.
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by madengr 7y ago
When I was a kid, I stuck a 9V battery across my braces (top to bottom teeth). Just about knocked me out.
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by madengr 7y ago
36 gauge wire, and twisting them into pairs would help, or parallel and flat against the PCB.
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by madengr 7y ago
He talked about a conspiracy by the Republicans to ruin his daughters wedding. I thought he was crazy at the time, but now I believe him. I remember his hour long presentations with the flip charts of how things were screwed up. Too bad he
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by madengr 7y ago
Are these actually on sale yet? I don’t seem them listed an Amazon. I’ll be using this soon to build a MAME arcade cabinet, probably along with the new GPU. One thing Intel has the advantage is in the engineering desktop. I use a couple o
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by madengr 7y ago
It’s a true static IP; been paying $12 extra each month since 2003. It’s Consolidated Communications here in Kansas City, and never had an issue running servers. They actually still provide Usenet too. I keep it static as I have some SDR
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by madengr 7y ago
I wonder how (3) is going to affect Altera, given TSCM (thus Xilinx) is already at 7 nm?
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by madengr 7y ago
Sheesh, 20 years ago I had a static IP, along with my own server running web, mail, and DNS servers, in my apartment. Either things are more complicated these days, or I just got tired of running it. Probably the latter. Then again, doing
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by madengr 7y ago
I assume the $12.80/hr engineers were actually working in the US?

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