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by niccl 7y ago
A different view: I'm a contract dev at a very small company (20 all up, 2.5 devs, all contractors). The bosses are owners, and work _crazy_ hours. Occasionally they'll give out $100 supermarket vouchers, with a hand-written Thank
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by niccl 7y ago
At least one of the D's in the acronym usually means Disk, and there isn't a disk in many of these. Will that ever go, do you think?
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by niccl 8y ago
I can't recall where I got this, but I find the generated noise really good at reducing the distraction from co-workers' conversations, and it's not as boring as straight noise play -n synth brownnoise synth pinknoise mi
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U.S. National Academies Reports on the Prospects for Quantum Computing(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by niccl 8y ago|0 comments
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The Case Against Quantum Computing(spectrum.ieee.org)
138 points by niccl 8y ago|85 comments
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by niccl 8y ago
Fix the problem you can see then deal with what's left I was working for a company that made lighting equipment for touring bands. One band had decided they wanted the biggest lighting desk in the world (this was in the early 80's
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by niccl 9y ago
Couldn't resist the opportunity to share this: http://tymar.com/requiem_for_cih.html
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by niccl 9y ago
lighting for bands
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by niccl 10y ago
IS a beaglebone black sufficiently close to a raspberry pi3 that I can use the RPI3 environment for beaglebone black dev? If not, what's required to implement on a new platform?
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President Trump Needs an Engineering Adviser(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by niccl 10y ago|0 comments
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by niccl 10y ago
Does anyone else get awestruck that we can look at photos of what's going on on a comet with the same detail as one of the photos of the Kaikuora earthquake (or some other earthbound geological event)?
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Corporate Titans to Build an Enterprise Version of the Ethereum Blockchain(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by niccl 10y ago|0 comments
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by niccl 10y ago
usually wake around 8:00. breakfast in bed with partner. shower, stagger in to office. Take morning ritalin. check morning cartoons (xkcd smbc, frazz), read HN (18 minutes noprocrast). Check sites for jobs (_still_ no Python contracts. It&#
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by niccl 10y ago
maybe to balance these we should have some pictures of terrifying kittens...
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by niccl 10y ago
my first python thought was s = ' hello world \n' s = ''.join(s.split()) again probably not fast, but simple
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by niccl 10y ago
I think finding a doctor that will let you manage your own doses is _really_ important.
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by niccl 10y ago
An unspoken concommitant of this: we don't actually know what things sound like any more. For most people, horses sound like they do in movies. But what we hear in the movies is what the foley artists and the sound designers think hors
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by niccl 10y ago
A lighting desk for lighting live bands. The other desks on the market don't support the busking that this is designed for. The aim is 'no friction between the music and your lights'. 36 motorised faders, 2 DMX universes buil
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by niccl 10y ago
If you had to choose one person - a real person, or an imaginary one - to watch you through your whole life, and know everything you do and why you do it; not judging or disciplining you, but just being aware of your inner self ... who woul
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by niccl 10y ago
Implementation is everything. Many years ago I was first to market with what are now called Intelligent Lights (moving stage lights). We were incredibly naive and under-funded and got blown out of the water by Vari*lite (funded by the band
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by niccl 10y ago
I'm not American, but thankyou ACLU. I appreciate your efforts and promise of vigilance. I fear it will be necessary in the coming years
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Casting a vote online can be secure and convenient(spectrum.ieee.org)
26 points by niccl 10y ago|53 comments
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by niccl 10y ago
gnome Ann's best friend perhaps? https://xkcd.com/1704/
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by niccl 10y ago
time signature: Golden Brown by the Stranglers. It's got a bit that's arguably 13/4 (actually 3 * 3/4 plus 1 * 4/4) but it's delightfully quirky And then there's Take Five by Dave Brubeck that I think even
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by niccl 10y ago
My partner has (she says) treasured my comment to her once that the second derivative of her emotional plane is very low. I meant that she is very stable and doesn't suddenly fly into some weird emotional state. I couldn't think o
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by niccl 10y ago
> Porritt’s unit has its own software but this has been responsible for only one of the 2,010 identifications made since May 2015. DCI Mick Neville reckons that it will be ten to 20 years before software is advanced enough to be a usef
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by niccl 10y ago
Like they said: You can't play the blues in an air-conditioned room https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR8qG2ErTRI
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by niccl 10y ago
Because they wouldn't be turtles if they hadn't evolved shells. Teleology in a (nut) shell...
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by niccl 11y ago
And then if you want to get seriously weird, you could try the PRU on a Beaglebone Black. Two internal processors (almost) entirely separate from the main processor. They have a 200 MHz clock speed and can generate extremely accurate and de
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by niccl 11y ago
horses for courses. If you want a small microcontroller that has a very simple IO model then avr is great, and if you use something like an attiny they're cheap as ... chips.

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