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by planteen 9y ago
I don't think Google Voice will work for that nor will a Trello number. I saw someone complaining on HN that their landline didn't even work.
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by planteen 9y ago
You need a phone number to register a new Facebook account...
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by planteen 9y ago
Sadly, those low counties in South Dakota line up with reservations.
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by planteen 9y ago
Nobody lives forever. Assassination isn't the only possibility for untimely death when you are around rockets. If Elon passes away, is it possible the successor will "milk the cow" without funding R&D? Yes. Putting all eg
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by planteen 9y ago
I've implemented a Reed-Solomon encoder for telemetry blocks over a RF channel. There, I was using a (255, 223) code on GF(2^8). There were interleaving parameters for a telemetry "packet" but each encoding took constant O(1)
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by planteen 9y ago
Current satellites don't do anything special over the National Radio Quiet zone. Why should the SpaceX ones?
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by planteen 10y ago
I spent a couple very stressed weeks (nights, weekends) debugging a crash that would only happen every 30 minutes or so. It looked like stack corruption, so I was trying all avenues to debug it. Nothing seemed to make sense. We finally figu
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by planteen 10y ago
Sounds like you do some embedded graphics work. On multiple occasions, I've kicked off BitBake to run overnight. I come in to find it failing from running out of disk space. And I'm usually perplexed - does this really need over 2
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by planteen 10y ago
I doubt is is going to act like a jammer. It is probably narrow in bandwidth. Your microwave also leaks a healthy amount of 2.4 GHz. That's why most wireless specs that use 2.4 GHz (e.g., Bluetooth) have the concept of channels and hop
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by planteen 10y ago
What? So he an actual employee and wasn't phishing or committing fraud? And asked the company to buy him an airplane?
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by planteen 10y ago
Take it a step further and put a USB killer inside the phone! https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/12/usb-killer-fries-dev...
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by planteen 10y ago
You are going to get in situations where the "answer" brings up a topic like the "halting problem". The asker might not be satisfied with that. Or what if the asker has a misunderstanding of computer architecture? "
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by planteen 10y ago
I agree with the superior client. I have a personal paid Dropbox account. The reason I chose Dropbox was their Linux client. Nobody else is close.
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by planteen 10y ago
Have you not had a computer do something unexpected in the last 17 years? A bit flip might look like a kernel or application crash. Have you ever saved a file that couldn't later be opened by an application? You probably blamed the app
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by planteen 10y ago
Here are some in Colorado. Most ski resorts (open and closed) in Colorado are on public land. http://www.coloradoskihistory.com/lostresorts.html
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by planteen 10y ago
I got quite a few as a nerdy middle school kid who frequented RadioShack. I always thought I'd come up with something interesting you do with them too. Never did...
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by planteen 10y ago
And then the biblical TempleOS which is an even more unusual suspect. "According to Davis, God said to create the operating system with 640x480, 16 colors display and a single audio voice. The operating system was coded in a programmin
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by planteen 10y ago
Was this Georgia Tech by chance? When I was there, the "full" intro to CS for CS, EE, CmpE was in Scheme. But for all other engineers, it was MATLAB with no C.
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by planteen 10y ago
Ah gotcha. My memory is getting hazy. I had a floppy disk copier many years ago and remember using Mario Kart to play other games. I thought it was SuperFX but I was wrong.
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by planteen 10y ago
I missed what point your anecdote was making. I think the adjective 'new' would have made it a lot clearer. And there was no verb in your original "sentence". I guess your point was that the US was like a developing coun
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by planteen 10y ago
We can test your 30 year old cars feeling with numbers. Less than 10% of vehicles on the road in the US are 21 or more years old: https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-3/pdf/americans-aging-au...
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by planteen 10y ago
Interesting. Do you know of a detailed article about this?
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by planteen 10y ago
But most cartridges used the same design. So if you had one SuperFX cartridge, you could put it in your copiers cartridge slot and then play all the others.
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by planteen 10y ago
I just got the joke after you said that - legend is to glEnd. Wow!
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by planteen 10y ago
Eclipse
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by planteen 10y ago
I used that 6 years ago and it felt ancient then! I feel your pain. I hate those templates some people use. Surely most companies are transitioning away from it?
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by planteen 10y ago
Ironically "normal" Skype application is usually flawless. I work from home and use it as my primary communication tool (prefer it to the phone).
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by planteen 10y ago
Agreed. I have worked with FPGAs at multiple companies, both on the logic side and on the software side interfacing with them. Verilog and VHDL are not the problem. The problems I have seen, over and over are: 1. Improper clock domain cross
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by planteen 10y ago
My gut feel is that the 30% number is about right. I was offered a remote work position a year ago. I asked two software engineer friends who worked from home how much value they would assign to it. Both of them gave the same number, $30k,
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by planteen 10y ago
> Range and airspace issues notwithstanding Those are precisely the reasons satellites will remain relevant. Satellites are the reason the SR-71 fell out of service. Russia can and will shoot down US aircraft or drones in their airspace.

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