mtreis86

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   by mtreis86 6y ago

   Don't tell marketing
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   by mtreis86 6y ago

   Politics, regulations, and lobbying by telecom companies are all wolves at the door of the hobby.
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   by mtreis86 6y ago

   I don't understand this, can't we just grow more trees? Reading emails is a huge waste of time and I don't see how we can produce much more of that, let alone produce more Donald Knuths.
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   by mtreis86 6y ago

   Thanks for writing all of this
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   by mtreis86 6y ago

   So its like a giant automotive coil, storing up magnetic energy until it can't be held then dumping it in a wide bandwidth electromagnetic emission?
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   by mtreis86 6y ago

   I bought The Art of Electronics after I got my Amateur Extra, but I wish I had read it before.
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   by mtreis86 6y ago

   Around the same time they covered the wood floor with carpet and linoleum.
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   by mtreis86 6y ago

   I would really like to see an updated history that takes up where this left off. Highlights of the past 40 years: the formation of the Common Lisp specification, the role of Lisps in AI, Symbolics vs Lisp Machines Inc, their eventual demise
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   by mtreis86 6y ago

   That's not the type of BS the author means, what you're referring to is called "falseness" by the author, eg. deliberate misleading statement. BS is more like sitting around with people telling stories and embellishing w
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    by mtreis86 6y ago

    The stacked graphs are probably the most valuable for me, this isn't a competition between countries and I think the stacked graph better represents that.
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    by mtreis86 6y ago

    Turing's paper in 1939 describes a machine whose operation is recursive.
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    by mtreis86 7y ago

    The definitely set the bar for developers interacting with players. They change things back when people don't like it. They fix problems quickly. They keep everyone updated on what they have worked on recently, and what will be worked
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    by mtreis86 7y ago

    I like it too. Find a local maximum that gives you some space to see around you. Climb a tree, or walk uphill for a good while - maybe a path will be more obvious from up there. In the metaphor, go spend some time learning some hobby for a
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    by mtreis86 7y ago

    I am well convinced this is just a cover for them to release the information they already are collecting without admitting they track everyone everywhere.
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    by mtreis86 7y ago

    Yeah, to someone who is wheelchair bound, that the room above them which is only accessible by stairs, is not even close to the same as the room next door.
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    by mtreis86 7y ago

    I am reading Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98610.Colossus
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    by mtreis86 7y ago

    https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu... "These twenty video lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman are a complete presentation of the course, given in July 1986 for Hewlett-Packard
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    by mtreis86 7y ago

    Computer History Museum also has a series of oral histories https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory/videos
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    by mtreis86 7y ago

    Your link is missing the f from .pdf, https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/awards/college.m...
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    by mtreis86 7y ago

    I am trying to wrap my head around NP Completeness, so I have been watching some open course lectures, reading Garey and Johnson, and going on many walks.
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    by mtreis86 7y ago

    Thanks for making it - the more correct information people can get their hands on, the better.
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    by mtreis86 7y ago

    The font in that excerpt is quite large and contains a third of the pages in the book. Why publish this rather than make a blog post with the full text and a place to donate?
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    by mtreis86 7y ago

    In summary; don't move so fast that you stumble, and be wary of what you break. I think a better one would be "don't run your company based on aphorisms".
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    by mtreis86 7y ago

    Avoiding spreading from yourself to others is half the battle though.
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    by mtreis86 7y ago

    The latter, "We built a python script to read a joystick and used a panda to send the CAN messages to the FPGA, which overrides the appropriate bits on the FlexRay bus to control the EPS. By combining the results from the previous step
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    by mtreis86 7y ago

    > no other commercial language has a REPL as powerful as Clojure Except for other Lisps like CL
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    by mtreis86 7y ago

    We all lived through it. Though we had different experiences of those events, and processed them all in our own way, they still shaped us as a society.
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    by mtreis86 7y ago

    While there may not be much value in stereotypes like that, with generations at least we are all somewhat interconnected by historical events. WWII defined one generation, and their kids. 911 defined another. Those things that change us as
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    by mtreis86 7y ago

    Why are developers continually attributing new meaning to old terms? This has nothing to do with Lambda Calculus, anonymous functions, or Lisp. Why call it Lambda Architecture?
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    by mtreis86 7y ago

    Shutting turbine engines down and starting them up is when most of the routine wear happens, it may actually be cheaper and greener to use the fuel.