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This virus shouldn't exist (giant viruses)(youtube.com)
1 points by pjbk 5y ago|0 comments
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by pjbk 5y ago
Depends on what you want to do and how you interpret your data. IIRC we only needed to normalize one parameter in the host using percentages instead in the UI. For the rest everything translated without modification since the F16 covered th
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by pjbk 5y ago
Some years ago I used them to transfer real-time waveforms from a medical device via USB and BLE links since they provided more than enough precision for the clinical application. The 2x bandwidth increase without resorting to compression (
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by pjbk 5y ago
Nor productivity: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/b2774f97-en/1/2/1/index....
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by pjbk 5y ago
My humble recommendation: If the company has a valuation or is close to one, ask them to add the necessary money for early exercising to your signing bonus, which is usually pennies on the dollar for them. Then do it the moment you get your
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by pjbk 5y ago
That's trial and error knowledge gathered through billions of years and quintillions of individuals from multitude species. Hard to compete with that.
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by pjbk 5y ago
I know that some guitarists hate them, but I enjoyed playing my stereo Marshall ValveState (a newer one with an ECC83 instead of the classic 12AX7). I think it was the right balance between both worlds. You could barely tell it was mostly t
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by pjbk 5y ago
Oh, I thought the lines blurred quite a while ago and they are the same bunch now?
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The Pedal Movie(reverb.com)
80 points by pjbk 5y ago|34 comments
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by pjbk 5y ago
Same for guitars in those money brackets.
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by pjbk 5y ago
I think that, more often than not, they are part of the problem? Like favoring policies that promote spending and debt instead of long term investment and savings, in particular in those areas where it is really necessary.
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by pjbk 5y ago
Granted, but you can do the same and much more with different methods, and avoid fighting the frustrating, unreliable and time-consuming UML tools altogether.
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by pjbk 5y ago
Reminded me a bit to the classical NY Fed paper before the subprime crisis [0]. Each bubble is different as much as each bubble is the same. I guess the main invariant is that what goes up must come down at some point, because of "reas
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by pjbk 5y ago
Crazy. Now that you say that, I honestly thought it was a parody even showing up here in HN. Took me a few seconds to realize it was not when reading the article, and had to watch part of the video to convince myself. But then again, most n
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by pjbk 5y ago
For me it was a slow progress. Takes a while to grab the paradigm shift and unwind some mental schemes if you are used to imperative languages and you want to start thinking in declarative terms in a way that you can be productive as a Prol
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by pjbk 6y ago
We lost a bunch of excellent scientists, teachers and human beings overall, known and less known. Besides Barrow, it was personally painful to learn that Malcolm J. Skove also passed away last June. He co-authored one of the best introducto
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by pjbk 6y ago
Some of my acquaintances still use Bars'n'Pipes in the Amiga as their main to-go music composing MIDI software, since it's reliable, has a well-designed wide set of tools, and the minimalistic, clutter-free interface helps th
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by pjbk 6y ago
Based on my experience, many, many, many headaches would be saved if this advice was followed more closely. IMHO defensive techniques including recovery should be placed in runtime monitors and supervisors, not in underpinning code which sh
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by pjbk 6y ago
Unfortunately that is mainly the case these days. In theory it would make more financial sense that most companies at the startup stage would be fully employee-owned, considering the equity and tax scenarios. But what founders are open to t
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by pjbk 6y ago
I've had to program some Android apps in the past, mostly internal or technical tools for scientific applications. Last time it was last year, and after struggling for a week to get old code run reliably using the latest SDK, I gave up
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by pjbk 6y ago
It's incredible that with the increases in processing power and storage technology, and the continuous performance enhancements of postgres in particular the last years, any "scalable by design" solution of 10 or even 5 years
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by pjbk 6y ago
I have been involved in embedded systems for more than 25 years now, and I barely do "pure" embedded development these days. That is projects that comprise only designing a specific PCB hardware, or writing the firmware drivers an
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by pjbk 6y ago
In my humble experience, slightly less ≈ 30% to 40% less.
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by pjbk 6y ago
Quaternions are left handed, which is annoying but not a big deal by itself, but most importantly collapse the scalar with the pseudoscalar. For regular applications of unit quaternions in 3D euclidean space such as rotations, screw displac
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by pjbk 6y ago
> There are no interesting formulas in a tensor algebra, because the whole idea of it being “most general” (every other algebra is a quotient) is that it has no relations. It is only when passing to more specific algebras (symmetric, ext
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by pjbk 6y ago
The answer depends on the kind of Clifford/Geometric Algebra being used, the structure for the vector bases and the selected result of the quadratic forms. Those choices are mostly driven by the end application where the algebra will b
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by pjbk 6y ago
Perhaps that is happening already, and some of the events we have seen in the last months are not by our own making but fabricated?
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by pjbk 6y ago
I just uploaded a plaintext diff between Pinochet's original 1980 edition and the latest ratified Lagos version (updated August 2020 for the plebiscite). Quite interesting to follow the changes. The git tracking also has the 2005 versi
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by pjbk 6y ago
If you like Monkey Island and Ron Gilbert's work, there is an online event with Ron talking about the details of the game and its development this Friday: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-secrets-of-monkey-island-3
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by pjbk 6y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. Last time I had to use YAML I used StrictYAML instead which gave me more peace of mind. I knew that there were schema tools around, however I just put more checks in the validator to avoid adding extra dependencie

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