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by philpem 7y ago
User-agent: * Allow: /humans.txt Disallow: / Nice!
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by philpem 7y ago
Amen to that. Took a job on the basis of "it'll look great on your CV". Most stressful job I've ever endured. Went back to working for less-well-known, smaller places... night and day difference. And I'm nowhere nea
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by philpem 7y ago
You could say similar about Dave Jones (EEVBlog) to be fair. His forum very much reflects his audience...
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by philpem 7y ago
Take the DFMEA angle. Score of three or four for likelihood of a natural disaster screwing the plant over, score of 10 because the result could be a Fukushima-style outcome. Multiply the two to get a risk score, and you're into "w
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by philpem 7y ago
Good points. How do some of the other alternatives like Pebble Bed fit into this? I imagine PBRs would be more challenging to recycle fuel as it's combined with the moderator(?), but are there other issues which make it unrealistic com
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by philpem 7y ago
Secondary minor note: carbon neutral power sources (e.g. wind or solar) also have a carbon cost. It comes from building the damn thing and continuing to maintain it (e.g. new parts, setting up crane access...)
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by philpem 7y ago
Human factors. It's easier to secure a massive plant than a thousand small ones. Imagine the outcome of some underpaid and overworked cable runner digging into a buried mini-reactor with a JCB digger. Or a trucker falls asleep at the w
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by philpem 7y ago
> Knowing that taking the legal route would have been way more costly than the amount of the transaction That reads like a "no" to me.
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by philpem 7y ago
Well they certainly won't be able to perform a task (in this case critical thinking) if they weren't taught how to do it... Could you make a cup of tea if you didn't know? Probably, but you'd ruin a lot of tea bags...
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by philpem 7y ago
I remember, back in my university days, being somewhat loosely involved with the "POPsource" (Prince of Persia source code recovery). The team drove down to Jordan Mechner's place with a DiscFerret and a bunch of other magnet
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by philpem 7y ago
It's not just the fundamental frequency that matters -- a square wave with fast edges will have harmonics which lead off to a surprisingly high frequency. Even on fairly slow signals they can be into the tens or hundreds of MHz.
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by philpem 7y ago
Acid trap was the one I kept hearing, and proved true on my home-etched PCBs. The 90-degree traces would get undercut but the 45-degree ones were fine. To be fair it's less likely to be an issue with more advanced etching processes, bu
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by philpem 7y ago
I help run meetups for, well, furries. Helped out with conventions too. At least for that societal segment the prevalence of mental health is obvious, though I wonder if the rise is more that people are slowly becoming less keen to ostracis
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by philpem 7y ago
Even if "life" is just bacteria and amoebae...
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by philpem 7y ago
I thought we were always at war with Eastasia?
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by philpem 7y ago
Looking at the MTD commands it runs (assuming the ones in the article weren't faked) -- on some hardware it'll clobber the bootloader. You'd need a JTAG cable and a fresh firmware image to fix that. Hardly something within th
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by philpem 7y ago
I prefer "Move cautiously and make things". As in, spend your time making something you'd be proud to sign your name to.
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by philpem 7y ago
More likely bean-counters unwilling to pay for experienced IT staff.
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by philpem 7y ago
What you're describing there is a somewhat perverted version of "Lean" manufacturing. Example - there's a production line that's been running 20 years on a 1980s computer. For continuity reasons, there are two spare
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by philpem 7y ago
That'd cost a lot of hams their operating licences... Though there is precedent for it -- from back in the days of the "Russian woodpecker", an OTH RADAR system. Some used to key up and play various sounds at it...
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by philpem 7y ago
Not always. Sometimes you just need a breakout board for a really fine-pitch IC or connector.
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by philpem 7y ago
One-offs with short lead times. If I need double-sided boards I'll usually farm them out because it's an absolute faff. But if I need an really thin adapter to go from Wide SOP to Thin SOP (typically for replacing blown Flash chip
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by philpem 7y ago
> "reCAPTCHA v3 will never interrupt your users, so you can run it whenever you like without affecting conversion. reCAPTCHA works best when it has the most context about interactions with your site, which comes from seeing both leg
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by philpem 7y ago
There's a wide variety in the quality of responses to bug reports too. Last year I stumbled across a bug which could result in a leak of personal data (specifically, private messages). So I did the good-samaritan thing and reported it,
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by philpem 7y ago
I saw the title and thought "oh heck this isn't right at all"... Set VM Overcommit to zero on an embedded system with no swap (a Raspberry Pi will do nicely). Write a C program that malloc()'s all the RAM. Watch malloc s
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by philpem 7y ago
As someone who worked in this industry -- it's peanuts, but they'll tell you its gold. I walked out of my IA job with the boss screeching about how I was "making the biggest mistake of my life", how "nobody can matc
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by philpem 7y ago
Yeah I wouldn't expect a kid to know "sod's law" -- that whenever it's a nice day and you start washing the car, it'll start raining soon after...
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by philpem 7y ago
"I was only following orders"...
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by philpem 7y ago
I have one which picks a bunch of random single-digit numbers and a math operator, then asks you to type the result. I spent days trying it out with screen readers and tweaking it to work with as many as possible.
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by philpem 7y ago
While I agree with you -- I'd also like to point out that >90% of malicious traffic to the websites I administer comes through the Tor network. It shouldn't be the case, and I don't want to block people who have a legitima

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