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by pjbk 2y ago
Like most human endeavors where a technology is coming of age, there was a full aviation industry of hobbyists and nascent entrepreneurs. Most of them were little known by outsiders and on occasion some of them were put in the public spotli
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by pjbk 2y ago
And us poor C folks had to be grateful for Ron Cain's small C compiler that was published in Dr Dobbs, along all its derivatives.
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by pjbk 2y ago
Unless this was not a Honeywell 1750 but a variant from another vendor (pretty common), the 1750 had only 2 hardware timers with just dedicated interrupts and no true watchdog functionality like a kicking key or handshake. The CPU has a &qu
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by pjbk 2y ago
Algebraically, and also in group theory, it's exactly that. A complex plane is re-interpreted as a half-way mirror operation on an orthogonal axis or quadrature plane (eg the imaginary axis in the case of the 2D Argand plane). Which is
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by pjbk 2y ago
You can certainly use quaternions (as Hamilton demonstrated) or a Clifford algebra to recover the spherical trigonometry laws, but plain vectors work too in a short derivation. It is actually one of the simple exercises introducing reciproc
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by pjbk 2y ago
When you are close to a low frequency radio station anything is possible I guess. I used to live less than one mile away from an AM radio station antenna. That doesn't mix up well if you want to become an electronic engineer or compose
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by pjbk 2y ago
Mike Oldfield has stated that the conditions at the Manor were so precarious at the time, he had to learn to use the tape recorder and mixer almost by himself because the engineer was never there. Since there were so many instruments on the
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by pjbk 2y ago
I said "tried" because in fact 3M filed lawsuit in China against Huawei (which manufactured the 3N products). Surprisingly, the Chinese court found them guilty of infringement and even awarded damages to 3M.
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by pjbk 2y ago
When I visited China some years ago "3N" was also popular. Same logo font and color, but at least they tried to avoid blatantly infringing the genuine brand.
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by pjbk 2y ago
https://archive.is/ewwb1
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by pjbk 2y ago
This was pure gold. I've certainly met many Julii trough my career. The universe spawns and churns them abundantly. It must be fond of them.
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by pjbk 2y ago
https://archive.is/0Ldfn
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by pjbk 2y ago
MQTTv5 now has RPC. You can specify a response topic in the request message, and also add 'correlation' data to track the context of the call.
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by pjbk 2y ago
https://archive.is/GkBGi
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by pjbk 2y ago
Yes! Enjoyable and I have learned a lot about how car engines work and are built watching it. And how some companies (cough - Audi - cough) intentionally overengineer their designs so much to boost service and repair cash flows.
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by pjbk 2y ago
I think those of us who use the REAPER DAW and its customizable themes are the main beneficiaries of that functionality.
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by pjbk 3y ago
Interesting. I really enjoyed the books by Penrose and Cohen. A human certainly cannot solve a non-computable problem by "playing" computer. However the insight that is created by trying to solve (or invent, in Post's case) s
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by pjbk 3y ago
Unless the author is attempting to redefine GOFAI, ML and NN were very much techniques of "old" AI. The perceptron was invented in 1949 and there was already plenty of prior art. Large scale models prove computers are very good in
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by pjbk 3y ago
My personal opinion: overengineering. Most of the original BT stack design lifted the framework from the infrared (IrDA) protocols. IrDA's original intention was a "simplified" OSI model, but as design by committee goes, it d
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by pjbk 3y ago
I honestly thought this was a joke since the key icon seemed like a female menstruation pad to me. Oh, how times have changed.
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by pjbk 3y ago
I like what traditional Japanese homes have been doing for centuries. If possible they have a sunny garden on one side of the house and a shaded garden at the opposite side. Besides being aesthetically pleasant, controlling the opening of w
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by pjbk 4y ago
And Port had said: "Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't
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by pjbk 4y ago
This. It is impressive to realize how distant the lifestyle of people living in cities and rural towns has become. I was raised in a rural area (30+ years ago, not in the US) and was direct witness of kids my age or younger doing things tha
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by pjbk 4y ago
Not a silly question. One of the things I always miss from these studies is comparison with more classical inference models. In particular, back in the days we had to train against outputs for PCA models (linear and non-linear) in order to
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by pjbk 4y ago
Yes, better models and more refinement, and yet they still lack common sense. Computers (computational statistical models, ML included) are very good interpolators, even moreso in higher dimensions which are difficult or impossible to grasp
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by pjbk 4y ago
Whenever I need to use JSON in my projects I always check if I can use JSON5 instead. It really makes a difference to have a more user friendly format. My only gripe is when I use Python, the official JSON5 module is much, much slower than
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by pjbk 4y ago
The main problem I see with (occidental) "music theory" is its historical baggage. Most of it is useful, beautiful by its own merits but, specially if you have a scientific/logic way of looking things, much of its structure a
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by pjbk 4y ago
Yes. SmartTubeNext: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext . I use it with a FireTV stick since it's much easier than hacking my Samsung TV. It supports SponsorBlock too. It lacks some YT features but if you jus
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Cynthia Solomon: Origins of Logo (VCF 2022)(youtube.com)
1 points by pjbk 4y ago|0 comments
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by pjbk 4y ago
Precisely, sorry if it was not clear enough. Pointing vulnerabilities and betting on the side to effectively become a stakeholder raises some concerns on your true intentions, even if it could be legal to do so.

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