mech422

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by mech422 6y ago
Luckily, I think the autonomy part is on the rise...At least for tech workers. I basically no longer entertain positions that aren't 90+% WFH (so companies do quarterly or yearly get togethers, which aren't so bad), and there see
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by mech422 6y ago
I'm another one with 20 years WFH... Its amazing how much controversy it engenders. I think a good part of it, might be having consciously made the decision vs. having to 'fall into' it during the pandemic.
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by mech422 6y ago
>> As an older engineer with bad hearing Heh.. I can sympathize. I find voice chat with a decent head set makes it SOO much easier to hear/understand people. And it basically eliminates multiple people speaking at once - the &#
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by mech422 6y ago
Personally, I'm over 20 years WFH now and love it. The last 5 years have been working with people on other continents, and I actually had the choice of time zones to work (I usually work nights for this, as I'm a night owl and it
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by mech422 6y ago
I actually think the 'no natural disasters' thing is good for IT... Why put a DR site someplace an earthquake or tornado could take it out?
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by mech422 6y ago
Don't forget our biggest crop: Golf courses!
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by mech422 6y ago
Fair enough. I just see the pressure mentioned often in a context that makes it seem its a problem for 'life'.
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by mech422 6y ago
Why is everyone so caught up on the atmospheric pressure of Venus being 90 atmospheres? That's only 3K feet of water, and plenty of stuff lives deeper then that in the oceans - so obviously things can survive the pressure ?
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by mech422 6y ago
"They found smoking couldn’t explain the decline. Obesity could help explain the increase in metabolic syndrome, but not the increases seen in chronic inflammation." Interesting - those would have been my first 2 guesses.
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by mech422 6y ago
I like Yed(1)for charts and graphs. It works in Linux/Win/Mac and is freely available, but not open source. 1) https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
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by mech422 6y ago
You mean mono(1)? From Miguel de Icaza & Ximian - started around 2001? 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)
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by mech422 6y ago
Compute! magazine had a similar system for Commodore machines..
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by mech422 6y ago
Compute! magazine had really cool stuff (really nice monitor/debug program for instance) in hexdump format with checksum bytes on the end. They had a custom program that let you enter the hex, then calculated the checksum and compared
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by mech422 6y ago
And they decided not to use 'hacker' as shorthand for 'criminal'... and I like that :-)
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by mech422 6y ago
I just wish there was a good octolapse-alike for the Duet. I'm gonna try https://github.com/kriechi/DuetRRF-timelapse but really wish the was a more 'native' solution...
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by mech422 6y ago
I've got 2 printers - an artillery sidewinder and a big duet driven beast...both have an octoprint. Octolapse is soo much better then anything I've found for the Duet. The SideWinder was a breeze to setup. I need to sit down and
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by mech422 6y ago
So umm...when swatch tried this...it bombed pretty hard :-P 'beat time' got beat :-P
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by mech422 6y ago
>>Most of us have far more ideas than we can execute on Hmm - not sure about the 'most of us' bit... Coming up with a viable business idea is a lot harder then coding it for me.
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by mech422 6y ago
Nice visual timeline showing just how far game graphics have come.
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by mech422 6y ago
Interesting.. I thought Julia was on the rise ?
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by mech422 6y ago
Cool!
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by mech422 6y ago
Yeah - though I think this was meant to be an 'intro to Kind' article rather then a 'debugging' article. I really like KIND - it's bit disappointing he didn't go into more detail.
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by mech422 6y ago
I'm the same - editing remote code is required - full stop. Of course, VS goes further.. But all I really needed was remote projects with intellisense. Remote debugging, git, and everything else are just bonus. I run my editor on my d
924.
by mech422 6y ago
Always interesting to hear how companies handle problems of scale. For me, this is one of the most interesting areas to work in.
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by mech422 6y ago
The moto 68K was used in this fashion in the Stratus Super Mini's.
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by mech422 6y ago
>>Typically you make the memory redundant too, and just ensure that input and outputs are common and all code is deterministic. e.g. There's Tandem / HP NonStop which use these techniques. Tandem was software fault tolerant
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by mech422 6y ago
This is rather like how the old Stratus super mini's worked.. 12(?) Motorola 68K chips were wired into multiple 'logical' cpu's, and programs executed in parallel on each. If a discrepancy arose, majority won and '
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by mech422 6y ago
>the current increase points to an affection for the mechanical amid a digital age. >the device once considered the essential business machine was reborn as a creative tool far removed from the drudgery of work. The typewriter has ac
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by mech422 6y ago
there are 'trackdyl's out there with the trackball.. if you look in the photo gallery 'oddball' and 'beast' are probably the best known...
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by mech422 6y ago
This is sweet! I'm trying to find time to work on my 'trackdyl' (like the 'oddball' or 'beast' in the photos) I wouldn't mind a split with a thumb cluster mounted 'electric eraser' either..

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