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by marshray 9y ago
Here's a really nice entry-level soldering station that's not hundreds of dollars: https://www.amazon.com/Hakko-FX888D-23BY-Digital-Soldering-S... Also, get a Soldapullt. This is a plenty good enough multimeter:
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by marshray 9y ago
We can also blame Nashville for taking the 'Western' out of 'Country & Western'.
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by marshray 9y ago
Most compilers used by app developers don't use this, but... link /dump /exports c:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll Dump of file c:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll Section contains the following exports for msvcrt.dll
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by marshray 9y ago
In a public restroom, if there's a place to set a drink, trash cups will accumulate there. Then someone will have to be paid to clean them up.
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by marshray 9y ago
Physics taught me that all pulleys are frictionless. Mechanical Engineering may find some issues with it though...
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by marshray 9y ago
I love this idea, but the speed of separation is just a couple of cm per year. Unless the cable had absolutely no temperature expansion, weather changes would probably have a far greater effect on cable length than the imperceptible drift o
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by marshray 9y ago
> What if your disk layer could already preselect your data so the database wouldn't have to read and discard so many rows for each query? My impression is that that the process of filtering DB rows is sufficiently complex to need a
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by marshray 9y ago
One can call anything "an insane bit of added plumbing" if it's truly not needed, but that doesn't add much to a discussion of distributed applications.
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by marshray 9y ago
> there is no need to use SSL; instead, you can distribute the server's public RSA key (or its hash) along with the client code Imagine the following scenario: All the hard negotiations are done and you're about to sign your bi
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by marshray 9y ago
Having at least your interfaces defined in something resembling DCE IDL can give a useful amount of confidence that the system could plausibly interop with something else. (RPC, COM, etc.)
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by marshray 9y ago
Node.js adds that input/output.
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by marshray 9y ago
Kids under 18 used to be valued as factory workers. Our society decided humans become more valuable when they are given the opportunity of a childhood filled with education instead of manual labor.
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by marshray 9y ago
Very strange to see the core primitives of functional programming being sold as 'Pythonic'. I suppose we all look at the world from the perspective of our own experience.
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by marshray 9y ago
It's fundamentally the responsibility of the FDA to regulate "definitive claims that a compound is safe", whereas the standard for approval for use in a clinical trial is a bit different.
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by marshray 9y ago
Go on, tell me again about how C++ compile-time metaprogramming is so horrible ...
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by marshray 9y ago
Sounds like Android at least can be told via DHCP it's on a metered connection: https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/4wk4rw/dhcp_opt...
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by marshray 9y ago
He probably logged into other services with his real name from that IP.
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by marshray 9y ago
Have I been to your house?!
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by marshray 9y ago
Entry level workstations were readily available and all over universities.
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by marshray 9y ago
> Why does it matter what enthusiasts use? A. Many of the people who today specify datacenter hardware came into that career as enthusiasts (aka "early adopters") and are more comfortable recommending what they have experience
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by marshray 9y ago
But it is worse. Over 12 million Ras Pis have been sold, I see them just lying around on developer's desks all the time. I don't think I've ever even seen a bootable Power system.
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by marshray 9y ago
Sales-commission driven product development.
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by marshray 9y ago
IBM will never understand this but few, if any, architectures have made it into the datacenter that were not first affordable for experimenters and enthusiasts. The burden of proof is on those claiming the pricing does not present a barrier
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by marshray 9y ago
That's all true for AC as well though.
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by marshray 9y ago
There's a difference between being negligent (leaving the stove on) and performing unlicensed DIY electrical modifications that were not approved by code inspectors and involve storing huge amounts of energy.
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by marshray 9y ago
What makes water especially dirty for this purpose? It seems like more of the bad particles would be washed back out to sea than if they'd been dispersed as fallout dust.
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by marshray 9y ago
> there's not a damn thing vim can do that an IDE can't # Edit text without having to constantly move hands off of the keyboard home row to move the mouse or hit keys like PgUp/PgDn. # Change all the 'X's to &#x2
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by marshray 9y ago
This is something you posted 15 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16625687 > No Klik & Play?! It was the reason I can say I was building and distributing my own games back in 5th grade! > No Lego Min
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by marshray 9y ago
My guess is he's been cognizant of the magnitude of this disaster all along. This is why he had been getting his picture taken driving tractors. It was an act of image management, not because he planned to run for office.
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by marshray 9y ago
How would one use integers as jewelry?

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