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by planteen 10y ago
Yeah I could see getting used to that. Especially if you plan it around having dinner. Just curious, do you ever run into having to wait for a spot at the super charger? I see lots of them are 4 spots deep. Another problem is that, dependin
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by planteen 10y ago
That's only 5 hours of driving at 80 mph. I sometimes drive that distance on a Friday night. Get off work, eat a quick dinner, and hit the road. I stop to gas up once and go to the bathroom at the same time. In and out in less than 10
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by planteen 10y ago
For static analysis and linting in C information gets held in comments as well. Unfortunatley, about the only thing everyone can agree on is: /* fallthrough */ For when you intentionally don't put a break in a case sta
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by planteen 10y ago
Out-of-order execution always has the same answer that would occur from a single threaded perspective. There's no "thinks the result would be the same" about it - the result is the same. You get into trouble when you: 1) assu
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by planteen 10y ago
CubeSats and small satellites are changing the game for spacecraft. Now scientists can get experiments launched for a few million dollars instead of campaigning much of their career for a mission costing hundreds of millions.
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by planteen 10y ago
Depending on what you mean by "faster", there are applications when high power output is required at high frequency where tubes still win. Klystron tubes are an example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klystro
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by planteen 10y ago
Why the government let Boeing and Lockheed form the ULA is beyond me. The US used to have 3 solid launch providers and went to 1. I'm glad we're back to 2 with SpaceX. We were handing lots of business to Arianespace.
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by planteen 10y ago
> incredulous that a private enterprise can put things in orbit What's with this commonly repeated narrative that SpaceX is the only private company in space? I think the formation of ULA between Boeing and Lockheed was garbage as m
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by planteen 10y ago
One of the best things about no longer working in space is not worrying about ITAR anymore.
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by planteen 10y ago
In the bar & restaurant industry, it's pretty common for workers to drink and get high on the job.
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by planteen 10y ago
If bidi control characters are allowed (not sure if they are), it's even worse. Then you could have something like *elgoog display as google
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by planteen 10y ago
Yep. "Unicode is too complex to ever be secure" - Bruce Schneier
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by planteen 10y ago
Please report to us the steps of a "routine instalation of a user level application" breaking glibc on any modern Linux distro so it can be fixed. Otherwise I'm calling FUD.
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by planteen 10y ago
People joke that BLM land is the leftover land that nobody wanted. But I completely disagree that it should either become a National Park or get privatized. There are other classes of public land you are leaving out and that is National For
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by planteen 10y ago
Yeah exactly I've had Linux drivers cause kernel panics a number of times.
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by planteen 10y ago
I used to have to work with transistors backed with BeO (beryllium oxide) ceramic. A very scary material, inhaling the dust once can cause a lung condition for life. It is second behind diamond in terms of electrical insulator, thermal cond
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by planteen 10y ago
I didn't know about this. Googled and found the Wikipedia about light echoes. Very neat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_echo
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by planteen 10y ago
Yeah exactly. To make something 9 9s reliable, there is lots of fault tolerance in the system and hardware architecture.
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by planteen 10y ago
Most planes does have the ability to land themselves. This is called autoland.
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by planteen 10y ago
What part of the hardware design process is this for? Is the idea to kick the netlist over the wall and let someone else do the schematic capture and layout? Is there a way to visualize the netlist as a schematic? I'd say one of the mo
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by planteen 10y ago
You see yields like that in the US west of the 100th meridian. It's a stark divide. On the east side, farmers put seeds in the ground, rain does the rest, and you get amazing yields. West is substantially more dry. There, you see iriga
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by planteen 10y ago
Whoops, forgot to multiply by 56 lbs in that
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by planteen 10y ago
I don't know what the maximum number of people you could sustain on an acre is, but my guess is way less than 1000. Like an order of magnitude less, perhaps closer to two orders less. The world record corn yield is 500 bu/ac. 1 bu
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by planteen 10y ago
Gillette, WY is never going to be a ski resort town. There are no mountains near there to develop. Most of the state is flat and dry.
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by planteen 10y ago
Yeah exactly. That's why I hate articles like this.
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by planteen 10y ago
Looks like archive.org has a copy: https://archive.org/details/KodakReferenceHandbook
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by planteen 10y ago
RoHS does not apply to spacecraft. In fact, companies specialize in things like replacing RoHS solder balls on BGA parts with lead solder ones.
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by planteen 10y ago
It could be a design issue too. Like are they accidentally over-voltaging the clock with a transient or some sort of power sequencing issue? Or does some component have tin somewhere? Really hard to say at this point.
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by planteen 10y ago
Having used several different EDA tools, I completely believe this. I don't know how they can be so poor across the board. It is part of the reason I switched from doing software & hardware to just hardware. Life is too short to de
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by planteen 10y ago
Best advice on that is probably not to talk about fronted development when you first meet someone you are interested in dating!

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