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"network equipment vendor Juniper Networks argued that it might cost a large ISP "many millions of dollars" to fully deploy the BGPsec upgrade." And what will it cost to have your network go down? It is astounding that
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The same thing is happening with the climate crisis. Insurers are likely to charge a lot more for that beach front property insurance, or for living in the middle of a very flammable forest, if they'll cover it at all. Reality assert
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I noted the same thing 15 years ago and asked around about it. A prof at the college I worked at said tools like this (PCB design tools are similarly awful) don't have a big market, so there is not a lot of competition or funds for de
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You can also add only enough water so the pasta consumes it all, though you have to watch out for sticking and all the starch that would go into the water stays with the pasta. That could affect flavor. You could also turn off the heat ea
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Some electronotes material is still on the web: https://electronotes.netfirms.com/ The "Start Here" loads a PDF and in there you can find URL's to access the actual content (very strange way to build a web si
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If you are interested in analog synthesizers then a lot of the schematics and explanations of the circuits were published in magazines in the 1970's. I think ElectroNotes was one of the premier ones, but Radio Electronics, Polyphony,
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Note that this can make employment in your 50's and 60's more difficult though, even if it shouldn't. Also, I once worked for a military contractor and one of the lead engineers told me the company valued people who wanted to
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Start with security in the MCU chip design and work your way up from there. If we can't secure computers they are very soon going to become useless. They are already starting to feel like they are more trouble than they are worth (ra
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Use your imagination. Think up keywords for weird stuff, type them in on search engines, eBay, Etsy, everywhere and see what turns up. Be somewhat vague, like "wireless LED". Also try searches on things you already know of and
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Seems that if there are no hurricanes the heat stays in the ocean: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/6223/passing-of-hur... Possibly this means the hurricane season might shift to be later than normal since
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by rapjr9 4y ago
I got a job programming for a research group at a college when I was 40 and worked there for 20 years. The work was an education in itself. I built a Beowulf cluster, electronically herded cows, designed wireless sensor systems, built opp
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This feature seems to have a few limitations: You have to point the phone, perhaps for a minute or two, which means you have to be able enough to point the phone at a particular part of the sky dictated by the phone. If you are injured th
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by rapjr9 4y ago
If you want to get started in electronic medical records here are some of the most popular open source EMR systems: https://www.goodfirms.co/electronic-medical-records-software... OpenMRS or OpenEMR would be a good generic
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The medical industry is huge and has thousands of areas where programmers are employed. This page is good overview (though probably incomplete) from the point of view of the API's involved: https://www.softermii.com/bl
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In the beginning of your career I think you just have to choose problems and persist on them until you've solved them no matter how long it takes (within reason). You learn from people and web research but also by doing and rememberin
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They are selling a fun less expensive analog computer also: https://the-analog-thing.org/ Looks like a great toy to integrate with a Eurorack modular music system. Analog computing can cost less energy than digital computi
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I agree. There needs to be a new mode of work that pays for people to solve all the really difficult problems in the world instead of building widgets. Everyone in the world getting a college degree and working on it would probably still
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Water is a deciding factor. If you can turn off and drain the hot and cold water system, and drain the hot water heating system (if that's the type you have) then the house can go below freezing without the pipes bursting. If you nee
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Biomanufactured materials have been here for decades. Beer is a biomanufactured material. Quorn is vat grown mycelium. Some drugs are made from modified yeast. Sauerkraut, kefir, yogurt, kimchi. Lots of foods come from animals and plant
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You might try buying two CPU coolers with fans and connect them together via their heat sinks with the fans pointing in opposite directions. Then build a housing for it to match your window. That should transfer some of the heat/cool
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The original "La Femme Nikita" TV series had quite a few episodes with realistic hacking in them, although they didn't show all the difficult work behind the hacks that made them available on-demand. Sometimes they stepped o
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For the first question, putting the documentation into the source code has a major problem, there is no good place to put an overview of the whole system. Block diagrams are difficult to draw with just ASCII, images can't be included,
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I wonder if iterated function systems used for fractal image compression could be combined with AI to make a similar image compression method that actually works: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/918789 https:&#x2
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I watched my manager fall into the "I'm so busy" trap over a few decades. At first he planned things carefully, allowed extra time, adjusted schedules based on feedback. Then his friends started filling him full of business
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I get that young male PhD students find spying on people fascinating. I used to be fascinated by it also, until I became a sys admin and learned that people are immeasurably boring. But why is this research being encouraged? Do we really
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Doesn't salt corrode aluminum? Maybe not these specific salts?
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I talked to the owner of a local waste management company about plasma gasification. He was aware of the technology and said it cost too much for him to use. He'd have to be taking in trash from five New England states to have enough
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Establish a ritual that acts as a border between work activity and home/play activity. It can be simple or complex, depending on how much it takes to convince your brain you've made the transition. Practice the ritual religiousl
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The grounding on cheap DSO's and USB scopes can be risky (though the grounding on line powered scopes can be a problem also unless it is a differential scope, sometimes it is a bad idea to clip an earth ground onto a circuit ground).
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ANT+ is easier to develop for and has far fewer issues and was available at the same time as Bluetooth, so we had something better: https://www.thisisant.com/consumer/ant-101/what-is-ant/ But phone manufactur

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