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721.
by planteen 10y ago
Yep it seems anything by Elon is sacrosanct with much of the HN crew.
722.
by planteen 10y ago
Your threat can't be parsed due to depreciation of the old rhetoric API. Please upgrade your rhetoric to 2.3.x.
723.
by planteen 10y ago
Seriously, just like the 8.8.8.8 name server. I used to work at a place where the firewall blocked accessing pages by IP though.
724.
by planteen 10y ago
Yep same issue in Denver
725.
by planteen 10y ago
Do you have more details on JS in microcontrollers? I'm curious about real-time systems, etc. I found the Tessel ( https://tessel.io/ ), but its hardly a microcontroller - its a MIPS SoC. It looks like the Espurino is mo
726.
by planteen 10y ago
When I looked into the Solar City after the announcement of the Tesla buying them, these "Solar Bonds" did make me a bit uneasy. Their interest rate implies junk... https://solarbonds.solarcity.com/
727.
by planteen 10y ago
I agree this attitude is common on HN. But is it really a recent development? Engineers are skeptical by nature. I feel like engineers are especially skeptical of marketing and "idea" people.
728.
by planteen 10y ago
I think you are right based on Wikipedia: The term sol is used by planetary astronomers to refer to the duration of a solar day on Mars.[8] A mean Martian solar day, or "sol", is 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35.244 seconds.[6] When a
729.
by planteen 10y ago
Ex Machina Primer Her Upstream Color
730.
by planteen 10y ago
Yep. I just roll my eyes whenever I hear it from either side. I'd like to think that the American public would never let such a thing happen.
731.
by planteen 10y ago
"Multilevel standards are like onions. They're smelly and make you cry a lot" - Ron Natalie I found this quote when working with the CCSDS standards and it made life slightly more bearable.
732.
by planteen 10y ago
B&M banks are nice for safe deposit boxes too. My backup strategy for my home PCs is rotating hard drives through a safe deposit box.
733.
by planteen 10y ago
You can still get milk delivered in the Denver metro area in Colorado from Royal Crest dairy.
734.
by planteen 10y ago
Can we please bring back lectors for open office floor plans? And you can still get premium milk delivered in the Denver area from Royal Crest dairy.
735.
by planteen 10y ago
I think OP meant calibrating out noise that leads to a bias (non-zero mean) that changes with temperature. Such things are common in many sensors.
736.
by planteen 10y ago
What makes you say that blue and green are eliminated? The stars are still white. The California nebula itself is mostly red. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Nebula
737.
by planteen 10y ago
> An octane running irix is another expression of this problem I dreamed of having a SGI after watching Jurassic Park as a child. I also remember my dad bringing me home a VHS of SIGGRAPH circa 1995 and dreaming about time on a SGI. Time
738.
by planteen 10y ago
> The article says "focusing", but they were probably used to get more precise orbital elements for satellites. This was pre-GPS, and calibration across geography on a planetary scale was tough. My guess is that they served a f
739.
by planteen 10y ago
You are right. Not sure how I missed that
740.
by planteen 10y ago
> That's true of all large institutions; how is NASA different? Is it worse that other large institutions? Nobody can hire and motivate brilliant, excited people on that scale. I agree, it is difficult. But I'd say it is differ
741.
by planteen 10y ago
I worked with NASA for a few years. It made me a cynic about a lot of things. You have some people there who are brilliant and very excited about space. You also have people there who are completely incompetent but will be able to retire in
742.
by planteen 10y ago
Two countries close to Antarctica, Chile and Argentina, are not signatories to the Antarctic Treaty and have territorial claims. Both of these countries already have a decent amount of natural resource extraction (especially Chile), so one
743.
by planteen 10y ago
Take a DC motor, attach a load resistor, and spin it at constant speed. Look at the output voltage on a voltmeter. You will get DC output.
744.
by planteen 10y ago
The first robot is not able to pass the big, bad wolf's third test case just yet. The three little pigs have not yet given their stamp of approval for this reason
745.
by planteen 10y ago
The Jeannete expedition of 1878 was the last expecting an open polar sea, at least according to Hampton Sides's book In the Kingdom of Ice. The expedition's captain met with world-renowned cartographer and open polar sea advocate
746.
by planteen 10y ago
Mr Musk spoke earlier this year about the fact that he believes that the chance that we are not living in a computer simulation is "one in billions". He said that he had come to that conclusion after a chat in a hot tub, where it
747.
by planteen 10y ago
The Xilinx Zynq has one time programmable eFuse registers for this sort of thing
748.
by planteen 10y ago
With prints and a backtrace function, you can make up for a most debugger usage. But for tracking down heap corruption, a debugger with memory breakpoints is the bees knees.
749.
by planteen 10y ago
Fortunately, most new design starts in the embedded world these days are ARM SoCs. Most (not all) ARM chips use a standard 20 pin JTAG connector. The Segger J-Link supports a large number of parts for debugging. The BSPs are still as scary
750.
by planteen 10y ago
Kind of off topic, but are there any low-end/hobbyist Tilera boards? The Linux kernel has support for it. I've always thought you could stress multi-threaded code in interesting ways by running it on tons of cores.

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