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by pjbk 4y ago
Unfortunately it's more common than you think... I remember this case in particular from some years ago: https://www.legalreader.com/st-jude-medical-files-lawsuit-ag...
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by pjbk 4y ago
That is the reason Mansfield bars were introduced, after Jayne Mansfield's accident that killed her and everyone else on the first row seat: https://www.curbsideclassic.com/uncategorized/vintage-review... . Incredi
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by pjbk 4y ago
What a wonderful album. Like "Direct", it features many explorations using new digital synths from the late 80s. Fun fact: the voice-overs were done by Polanski and his wife Emmanuelle Seigner (she acts in the "The Ninth Gate
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by pjbk 4y ago
CS80 indeed. There is an almost identical patch for the Arturia CS-80v if interested: https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2017/10/19/free-arturia-c...
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by pjbk 4y ago
Ugh. Risky Business, Thief, The Keep, Firestarter, Sorcerer, Legend, Near Dark, Miracle Mile... Perhaps not as major as Chariots of Fire, but nonetheless.
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by pjbk 4y ago
I was delighted to discover "Bars and Pipes" which was a very well designed software for comping and far superior than using trackers. Even the earlier versions of Cakewalk on the PC were still missing some of the interesting feat
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by pjbk 4y ago
My experience exactly. Kicad 6 feels a bit like a modernized version of Protel 99, with far less bugs too. So it is like Altium going back in time and choosing the correct development path instead of all the nonsense and disrespect for its
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by pjbk 5y ago
That is why, even in systems where it seems straightforward how to choose the system variables, it is important to do a system identification analysis before committing to any form of Kalman processing. It provides performance and stability
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1:10 Scale IBM PC 5150 Miniature Is Superb(youtube.com)
3 points by pjbk 5y ago|0 comments
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The utopian Oneida community, forerunner of the silverware company(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pjbk 5y ago|0 comments
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by pjbk 5y ago
It's a bit taller than the usual PT Mono I regularly use. I find that "boxier" mono fonts are a bit more readable than elongated ones.
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by pjbk 5y ago
Interesting to see how sacrificing some freedoms to give more freedom to others in the short term, eventually enhances your same former freedoms in the medium or long term.
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by pjbk 5y ago
I wouldn't generalize. Every country is different and also countries and conditions change in time. Although Chile was also cheering back in 1970 and we all know how that turned out.
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by pjbk 5y ago
Norway is a small, educated, oil-lucky, well managed "socialist" country whose welfare backbone is a fiercely protected sovereign fund that relies on diversified investments in the capitalisms of the world and thus their correct o
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by pjbk 5y ago
Having several Cuban and Venezuelan friends and acquaintances (I'm a Chilean living in Florida), it's interesting to become aware of the real dynamics that happen under sanctions in these countries. The sanctions are mostly politi
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by pjbk 5y ago
My dad was diagnosed with CD around 20 years ago. Besides going through the usual cortisone treatments to control his flares and monoclonal antibodies starting with Remicade, then a couple of other ones that were less effective and now Humi
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by pjbk 5y ago
Huh? Clifford and Cayley-Dickson Algebras?
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by pjbk 5y ago
With complex numbers in polar form the tangent is easy. In the unitary circle, if you derive e^(i*t) you get i*e^(i*t), which maps the cos(t) real component to i*cos(t) imaginary, and the i*sin(t) imaginary component to -sin(t) real. This i
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by pjbk 5y ago
If you realize where e comes from, which is compounding and what we call an exponential process, being that "the current rate of change is proportional to the present value", then the exponential of a complex number is no differen
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by pjbk 5y ago
> in addition to real and complex numbers there are higher dimensional numbers namely hypercomplex numbers i.e quaternion and octanion numbers, and no other valid numbering systems beyond that. To be precise, no other multi-dimensional n
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by pjbk 5y ago
That is correct. In the Clifford formulation that is equivalent (and in general a superset) of complex numbers you can choose the dimension or behavior to be whatever you want it to be in the resulting algebra. You can even assign it a part
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by pjbk 5y ago
"You can’t just send random bullshit and expect meaningful results" Huh, isn't that the way nature works? My thoughts precisely.
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by pjbk 5y ago
I think you should appreciate the fact that the guy opens up bluntly and sincerely in his books, acknowledging he is a human being with opinions, fears and struggles like everyone else. If you are into technology for the purpose of creating
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by pjbk 5y ago
Oh, what a loss. I think I first heard of his work in Lyall Watson's book Neophilia in the late 80s. I was so mesmerized by the concept of flow that was always looking for anything new Csikszentmihalyi had published, or any psycholog
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Plane-Based Geometric Algebra Tutorial (Sibgrapi 2021)(youtube.com)
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by pjbk 5y ago
Seriously, I think one of the biggest misconceptions people with opinions like yours might have is that we are somehow unified in these decisions or occurrences – we are not – and the healthy dissent is what, over time, hopefully bends us
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by pjbk 5y ago
Through the years starting from around 1998 I deployed Lua into several embedded systems: hardware debugging tools, scientific instruments, medical devices, home automation and finally robotics. Back then you couldn't beat the small fo
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by pjbk 5y ago
My astronomical 6502 assembly routines (ca 1987) compile and run fine in embedded simulators. Through the years it has always been in my todo list to port them to C, then Lisp, then C++, then Java, then Python, then Rust... But alas they do
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by pjbk 5y ago
This one was a blast to watch from Melbourne (Florida), about 50 miles south from Kennedy Space Center. It lit up half of the evening sky, weather accommodating. Sorry for the shaky video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHJ
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When Vimeo realizes your channel is using too much bandwidth(youtube.com)
39 points by pjbk 5y ago|12 comments

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