mal10c

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by mal10c 1mo ago
The author and I think very much alike. I felt like I was reading a journal from myself. I work for a larger engineering company and often times feel misaligned. This read helped put into words exactly how I approach problems and helps me b
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by mal10c 5mo ago
I have an almost identical story. I wrote a few games: snake and a choose your own adventure fantasy thing. And likely others that I can't remember, but yeah, I had a teacher tell me basically the same thing. I was pretty sad because t
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by mal10c 7mo ago
I totally agree with this! I've spent a career learning and making software of all types. I started with DOS 4, worked through VB6, and so on. Now I think more broadly and my mind is always thinking of new ideas, but with a family, it&
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by mal10c 8mo ago
reticulating splines
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by mal10c 9mo ago
I agree with your thought process. Factoring in antenna type and reflections also causes difficulties when explaining concepts like super position. The sinusoid is a good illustration of what a given receiver might detect at some location (
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by mal10c 10mo ago
I really enjoy posts like this one because I always learn something. Sure the whole program can be written using bitwise comparison or modulus, but that's not the point. The thing I learned is how to map that into address space! That&#
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by mal10c 10mo ago
I don't understand how to use this, but it does touch on an interesting topic. I want to create interactive and animated diagrams. I normally use either Draw.io or plantuml. My goal is to better teach folks about the systems I'm b
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by mal10c 10mo ago
Honestly, if it ran Affinity photo and SilverFast, I'd be happy to pay that. Same goes for Linux, whatever can run those!
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by mal10c 1y ago
This brought back a lot of memories!
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by mal10c 2y ago
YES! This project, this is what the internet is for!
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by mal10c 3y ago
I agree with the comments, that's a pretty lame excuse. But I've gotta understand where others are coming from here. I just don't see why Apple is in such hot water here - they created a gadget (well multiple) that people lik
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by mal10c 3y ago
This is awesome! About a year ago, I switched to a Moonlander keyboard. At that time, I figured why not try a different layout while I'm at it, how hard could it be? I compared a bunch of layouts and finally went with Colemak-DHm. I&#x
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by mal10c 3y ago
For ham operators, there's Winlink, which is an email system that uses ham frequencies to exchange messages. And yep, there are rules where you need to say your call sign periodically, and Winlink does that on your behalf.
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by mal10c 3y ago
Neat, but I wish there were more information. I'm an active ham but curious about how much space I get, are my emails encrypted or readable on the server, etc.
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by mal10c 3y ago
Baud rate and symbol rate often refer to the same thing, especially in the context of digital communications. However, they don't necessarily equate to the bit rate. In the digital realm, we're familiar with the concept of 1'
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by mal10c 3y ago
Really interesting reading both sides of this argument, but I do see something missing from the entire conversation (unless someone snuck it in and I missed it): Independent from the side you take on this, this decision was made by the judi
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by mal10c 3y ago
There's always Gitea [1]. I've been using that for personal projects and it's perfect. [1]: https://docs.gitea.com/next/installation/comparison
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by mal10c 3y ago
"That's right! Every file you've ever created, or anyone else has created or will create! Copyright infringement? It's just a few digits of π! They were always there!" I didn't think that was actually mathemati
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by mal10c 4y ago
My personal setup is: /home/eric/repos/ All git repos end up in that folder - it's basically my project folder. Before explaining more, I should specify that this setup works well for me, but I could see how others
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by mal10c 4y ago
This took me down memory lane but in a weird way. One of the first languages I really took to was vb6. I was absolutely convinced I could write an OS with that language... I tried and tried - really not knowing what I was doing and finall
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by mal10c 5y ago
I don't think companies are black and white like that. Even the big ones. Sure management focuses on profit and loss and they keep an eye on legal hurdles. When I hire someone, I want their skillset (otherwise I wouldn't be off
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by mal10c 5y ago
I agree with that. When I've interviewed in the past I approached it from two ways. First, I asked them to throw out a number - normally that didn't work and they threw it back to me b/c the person I was talking to was real
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by mal10c 5y ago
No. I really think that people aren't taught to do this, or they feel that they're not allowed to. If someone brought this concern to me, I'd tell say: it's your life, define your goals and determine how you're go
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by mal10c 5y ago
Yeah that's a good question and like most things in life, things aren't black and white. In terms of unconscious bias, I'm not sure how to answer that. I look for talent, professionalism, and attitude. That's it. In t
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by mal10c 5y ago
Think what you will, but like I said, it's served me and my company well over the years. We're still in business, employees are happy, morale is high, I give bonuses/raises when possible, and customers keep coming back. Am
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by mal10c 5y ago
I actually disagree with this on the premise that all aspects of hiring are a two-way street. I've worked at quite a few different companies in different roles, and now I'm in a senior management position. I feel that these type
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by mal10c 5y ago
This project reminded me of something I've been looking for for a while - although it's not exactly what I'm looking for... I use SolidWorks PDM at work to control drawings, BOMs, test procedures, etc. In all honesty, PDM do
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by mal10c 5y ago
Good for signal but if I were going to play devil's advocate, I would put myself in the shoes of folks in the government that want this information... I would contact Google or Apple and ask them to throw in some non-advertised APIs th
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by mal10c 5y ago
I love Plantuml. This and xmind are my two favorite tools. Has anyone ever heard of a vscode plugin that will render the plantuml scripts into images and embed them into code? I'm thinking of a program (c, c++, java, python... whate
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by mal10c 6y ago
"I wish there were a lot of small/medium companies..." I hear this from a lot of different circles, and I'm not trying to target you, just more or less generically voicing my frustrations. If people wish there were mor

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