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by mmmBacon 7y ago
The comment you point out reminds me of something Margaret Hamilton said: Also, what became apparent with Apollo – though it is not how it worked – is that it is better to define your system up front to minimise errors, rather than produci
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by mmmBacon 7y ago
There was a fairly ridiculous promotional video going around YouTube circa 2014 about a couple who “invented” solar roadways. I’ve placed a link here for your amusement. https://youtu.be/qlTA3rnpgzU
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by mmmBacon 7y ago
Agreed. Would you go to war over your phone? I think the analogy to faith kind of breaks down when you ask that question. I seriously doubt that anyone would be rioting in the streets over loss of access to Facebook. However I do think
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by mmmBacon 7y ago
Of course the media present doom and gloom. But many of these companies have diversified their business. Most companies mentioned in this article have diversified their customer base and while there is some short term pain, most will move
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
This is the world we live in now. Doesn’t matter if you actually harmed someone. What matters now is whether someone feels you as doing harm. The word of the person who perceives harm is taken as fact and the accused has little to no
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
Light by light scattering was first observed at SLAC in the mid 90s by experiment E-144. https://physicsworld.com/a/light-is-seen-to-scatter-off-ligh... Link to paper from 1997: Positron Production in Multiphoton Light
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
I’ve had tinnitus since my 20’s from playing in bands and going to rock shows. 25+ years later, I still have it. It’s quiet enough in here right now that I can hear it as I type this.
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
Judging by your comment I'm guessing maybe the GP's comment hits a little too close to home.
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
I briefly worked on an experiment at Fermilab (FNAL) that was trying to measure the birefringence of the vacuum (QED theory states the vacuum is birefringent in presence of magnetic field). Key to the experiment were the final 2 remaining
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
My god, I feel for these people. When you read stuff like this, you have to wonder why anyone is a public defender and grateful that people sign up. It seems soul crushing even for the most idealistic of people. The caseload results in
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
This is false. I’ve been at 4 different startups and the ones I made myself key to market success were way better than working in these soul crushing meat grinders like Goog or FB. There’s more to life than TC.
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
Wireline EE here. ML in the context of wireline communications has been widely studied (grant money works that way). However, at least in wireline communications there isn’t a lot of gain to be had. This is because we have good physical m
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
Was this 10G DWDM gear? Any idea who’s equipment and what root cause was? I’m just curious because I used to work for a vendor that supplied DWDM gear to Centurylink and wonder if this is equipment I designed. 10G DWDM is pretty robus
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
I worked for such a firm. Basically almost nobody gets to a Phase III which is the commercialization stage. If anyone does get to that stage, they are not usually set up to make a commercial product and generally require some kind of lice
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
Depends on what you consider low frequency. Radio waves can be used to excite vibrational modes. The resultant thermal energy can be used to break chemical bonds.
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
From the article : The threshold at which tax becomes payable was raised from 3,500 yuan ($503) to 5,000 yuan a month on October 1st. The finance ministry says the number of people liable for income tax should fall to 64m as a result. Is
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
I’m sorry but I fundamentally disagree. GP said vacuum is a perfect insulator. Comment was in response to that demonstrating that it is not.
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
@twtw was not arguing that one can induce a current in the vacuum. However, I did say that a surface can arc in vacuum. This is because a surface can emit charges either thermally or in presence of a large electric field. This is correct
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
The vacuum has a finite impedance of ~375ohms so it is not a perfect insulator. This comes from the fundamental magnetic permeability constant mu naught divided by the speed of light. Also interesting is the fact that the vacuum impedance
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
I think you mean traveling wave tubes for high power RF amplifiers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling-wave_tube There are also klystrons, which are oscillators, used for high power radar generation, particle acc
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
I don’t think 850nm is a good choice for LIDAR for several reasons. Firstly, the article talks about absorption but that’s not the only phenomenon that they need to be concerned about. The other is scattering and 850nm will scatter from p
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
The Art Institute has always been very forward looking when it comes to technology. In the mid 90s I was offered a job there creating a new collection tool for curators that would allow them to view ALL of the Art Institute’s collection an
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
It’s usually cemeteries that require vaults and caskets not the government.
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
The US Constitution also codifies freedom of association so you can have free speech but you can’t force me to associate with you. In the US companies have freedom of association as long as they don’t violate a protected class ( race, reli
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
You’re right to point out that many nations have better standards of living than the US. But I do think that standard of living has been mostly due to the relatively peaceful period of human history that we find ourselves in. It really wa
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
Sometimes I pay cash to avoid the awkwardness of the whole tipping thing with the iPad. This allows me to choose to tip what I want rather than default to 20%.
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
I’d say the biggest obstacle is that a requisition for someone at your level is just really hard to get. It’s hard to convince people that we need an expensive gray beard. Without a requisition at your level some companies have a policy t
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
My mother died this year. I certainly won't be forgetting May 1st, 9:26AM.
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
I’ve been a contributor to GNPY as part of the Telecom Infrastructure Project. It’s essentially a route planning tool for planning optical networks. https://github.com/Telecominfraproject/oopt-gnpy
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by mmmBacon 8y ago
The big jump there was from 2D to FinFETs.

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