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by pge 3y ago
Edited: Here’s link to an article that includes a first person account of why RM BASIC (developed by HP) was used by the fleet. http://hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=367
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by pge 3y ago
I had the cool experience of taking that class from Prof. Horowitz himself. Not only was the class great, but there were lots of stories around the department of him solving electronics problems for other professors’ experiments (my favorit
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by pge 3y ago
Definitely not just a language for kids - When I worked for the Navy in the early 90s, they were still using software written in Rocky Mountain BASIC on all the submarines in the fleet.
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by pge 3y ago
Because the overall financing market is tighter, they are holding back money for their portfolio companies (that may not be able to raise money from new investors), rather than invest in new companies.
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by pge 3y ago
Since English is a Germanic language, it seems more likely to me that the possessive ‘s’ is a carryover from the German genitive case. Pure speculation, but perhaps the apostrophe was added as case endings disappeared from English (except f
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by pge 3y ago
One of the successful applications of stirling engines I find interesting is on diesel submarines where stirling engines are used to extend submerged running time substantially. An example is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by pge 3y ago
Can anyone verify the accuracy of this statement? A random post on a message board doesn’t merit a response without a little more evidence…
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by pge 3y ago
Airtable is the closest I have found for ease of use - users that don’t know SQL can put together basic queries and views quickly.
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by pge 3y ago
As a graduate of an all-male school, I think the issue you raise is the right one. Our education was second to none, but many years later we openly joke about the social adjustment we went through in college (and later) to compensate for ha
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by pge 3y ago
I’m not sure datacenters have a great incentive to reduce energy costs (a lesson I learned the hard way after investing in a DC energy optimization software company). People costs are much greater than energy costs. Electricity just doesn’t
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by pge 3y ago
Tenure prevents you from being fired individually but does not protect you if your whole department is axed. That may be why the cuts are structured the way they are (entire departments) rather than culling specific faculty in departments t
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by pge 3y ago
For mitigating climate change, reducing GHGs (in this case CO2) is the most important factor. If you are looking instead at air pollution, ie particulate matter, then tires are a larger contributor than exhaust, and EVs due to weight are of
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by pge 3y ago
I had a similar reaction at first, but the title is accurate. The tool only works on Windows. From the site: >Tested on : >Windows 10 pro x64 >Linux bypass is still under development.
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Stanford president will step down after questions about research(washingtonpost.com)
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by pge 3y ago
Interesting - has the usage of 'mit' with 'kämpfen' changed over time? I haven't lived in Germany for over 25 years, but when I first learned German, we were told very directly not to use 'mit' in that way
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by pge 3y ago
Interesting that the Oppositional use of WID is shown as going to zero (presumably in favor of 'against' that filled that semantic space), yet that is still a reasonably common usage in modern English. "David fought with Goli
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by pge 3y ago
Reminds me of the wonderful passage about clouds from Herman Hesse's novel Peter Camenzind: "...zeigt mit das Ding in der Welt, das schöner ist als Wolken sind! Sie sind Spiel und Augentrost, sie sind Segen und Gottesgabe, sie sin
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by pge 3y ago
From the linked article: "OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush says the company had been evaluating the potential of using a carbon fiber composite hull since 2010, primarily because it permits creation of a pressure vessel that is naturally bu
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by pge 3y ago
The CBS news article referenced in another reply says the body of the sub is 5-inch thick carbon fiber with titanium used in the rounded ends. I am surprised it’s just carbon fiber in the body.
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by pge 3y ago
It was also during the attack on Baltimore that Francis Scott Key wrote the words to the Star Spangled Banner, a point of pride for Maryland
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by pge 3y ago
Agreed, and that is exactly how we used it with the Navy - the CFD simulations narrowed the universe of options so we could be more efficient with the wind tunnels and water tanks. In this case, however, he has a specific shape that he want
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by pge 3y ago
+1 to this - Though it has been many years, at one point I helped write CFD code for the US Navy. The disconnect between real-world measurements and simulations was vast for any structure remotely complicated (ie anything but an axially sym
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by pge 3y ago
These guys were well known in the DC paddling community. Back then the Potomac also froze over regularly, so they couldn't commute year round by canoe (now you could). Security restrictions eventually stopped the practice.
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by pge 3y ago
There are definitely racial overtones with the expression "Anglo-Saxon" as used in the US, at least in the last decade or so. This article is an example of some of the discourse around the term - https://www.theatlantic
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by pge 3y ago
Harriot is quite an interesting character. He spent time in the Virginia colony and taught himself the Native American Algonquin language. He had extensive journals of the natural world in the Americas, but they were jettisoned when he was
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by pge 4y ago
This is an accurate description to me (also color blind) - white (with a slight green tint), yellow, and orange. Apparently, walk signs (with the lit figure of a walking person) are in many areas white rather than green, but I see them as t
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by pge 4y ago
still does - I use it daily
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by pge 4y ago
This has not been my experience - I have known a number of people that were in engineering and were asked to try sales and really enjoyed it. I've known fewer (only one that I can think of) that went the other direction. The best CEO I
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by pge 4y ago
what library did you end up using instead?
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by pge 4y ago
The flaw with this statement is that the Ivies absolutely do recruit athletes and allow coaches to prioritize students for acceptance, just like other D1 schools. The only difference is that instead of putting scholarship money in front of

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