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811.
by planteen 10y ago
I had no idea Google Takeout existed. Thanks. I backed up my Gmail over IMAP in the past but this looks far easier.
812.
by planteen 10y ago
I spent weeks trying to stamp out a bug that turned out to be a signal integrity issue between the processor and DRAM. It was horrible. The bug would only happen after about 30 minutes and looked like memory corruption. I spent tons of time
813.
by planteen 10y ago
You are right. Should have fact checked that before posting.
814.
by planteen 10y ago
Should have clarified with permanent object and I'm wrong anyway... Triangulum is visible to the naked eye and further away.
815.
by planteen 10y ago
It is visible to the naked eye. It looks more like a cloud and doesn't have as large of an apparent diameter though.
816.
by planteen 10y ago
Fun fact: Andromeda is the only object outside of the local Milky Way group that can be seen with the naked eye.
817.
by planteen 10y ago
I think maybe the op meant the entire Andromeda galaxy is estimated to have 200-400 billion stars (source Wikipedia)
818.
by planteen 10y ago
Just curious - are you worried about getting too coupled to the industry you work in? I try not to invest in tech since I work in tech. So a big downturn in tech would not only be bad for my job but also investments. Or would you possibly b
819.
by planteen 10y ago
> I'd estimate a century ago "everyone" in my family and maybe in the country worked for a stock market financed industrial company, or indirectly in that all their revenue came from stock market financed industrial compan
820.
by planteen 10y ago
Boulder seems like this, too.
821.
by planteen 10y ago
I know a popular thermal modeling program requires you to buy the Intel Fortran compiler to run as well.
822.
by planteen 10y ago
This is very impressive. Nice work.
823.
by planteen 10y ago
I see what you did there
824.
by planteen 10y ago
Sure, but isn't your assembley code going to look a lot like C code with atomics anyway as you use barrier or in order execution instructions (e.g., dmb on ARM or eieio on PPC)?
825.
by planteen 10y ago
Baaken crude oil wells are currently flaring all of their gas.
826.
by planteen 10y ago
Older Subaru vehicles were notorious for blowing their head gaskets. I think the new ones are much better.
827.
by planteen 10y ago
Yep, so true. The Toyota Tacoma is a great pickup but my head nearly hits the roof when I'm sitting in it.
828.
by planteen 10y ago
Yes a Faraday cage blocks both directions. What walrus is saying I think is that if you are a good citizen, you should do any radiating GPS jammer testing inside a Faraday cage. Doing it outside a cage is probably illegal and could create a
829.
by planteen 10y ago
I disagree that a Raspberry Pi is "definitely not embedded". What if I had an ARM SoC (like in the RPi) running VxWorks or RTEMS controlling a missile? Few would argue that is not an embedded system. What if the RPi is running rea
830.
by planteen 10y ago
I like that definition. I used to maintain a system most people would call true "embedded" - it was a PowerPC based VME system running VxWorks. The job of the system was to monitor some analog voltages, detect an unsafe condition,
831.
by planteen 10y ago
It's also sometimes used in the US for 1/1000 of a dollar for property taxes (mill levy).
832.
by planteen 11y ago
"If you do have the misfortune to have to work with SPARC" So true... I work with the LEON (GPL implementation of SPARC) and have the occasional very bad day of SPARC asm code.
833.
by planteen 11y ago
Testing a big spacecraft is hard. With a cube sat, you can put it on an air beating and make sure something isn't catastrophically wrong, like the reaction wheels are backwards. You can't do that on a big spacecraft. So instead, t
834.
by planteen 11y ago
Is Haskell suitable for real-time software?
835.
by planteen 11y ago
And in space (as in spacecraft). To get GMT, I set my city to Reykjavik.
836.
by planteen 11y ago
I don't get example 3. What's wrong with a negative percent?
837.
by planteen 11y ago
"Build your own computer, 3D Printer control panel, video game console, 4K streaming media player, robotics project, connected home device, and more" I agree it is funny wording. An idea for a device is a 4k streamer, from the abo
838.
by planteen 11y ago
Good for you. It's vacation, there should be no expectation for support or work while you are gone.
839.
by planteen 11y ago
Kalman filtering is very interesting. You are able to combine a bunch of inputs, of varying levels of uncertainty, along with a model of the system to arrive at an optimal estimation of the state.
840.
by planteen 11y ago
USA They could easily threaten or guilt trip you when asking for a month off... If they would actually follow through is another question

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