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by repiret 4y ago
For reference, what I said is based on my experience in California and Oregon. Where are you that you see lead soldered copper in 50s homes?
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by repiret 4y ago
Lead soldered copper didn't become popular until the 1960's or 70's. Before that it would have been galvanized pipes threaded together.
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by repiret 4y ago
I don't think access to SoC documentation would have solved very many of the problems described in the article. The author still would have had to fiddle with device trees, secure firmware, u-boot, pxeboot, and getting a kernel with t
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by repiret 4y ago
Help me understand how RISC-V solves these problems? It doesn’t offer a standard way to enumerate hardware in the SoC, so you still need device trees; it’d not a GPU, so you still need to deal with proprietary GPU drivers; it doesn’t stand
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by repiret 4y ago
So I looked this up [1] and it turns out we're both wrong - you need to have had a valid medical at some time after 2016-07-14. That date is exactly 10 years before congress passed the Basic Med law, so when basic med was new, it was &
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by repiret 4y ago
Except that’s exactly how it works in many states. If you want to keep your personalized plate, you have to jump through hoops, but it defaults to go with the car in the two states I’ve lived in.
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by repiret 4y ago
BasicMed came from Congress, not the FAA. And true to congressional style, it disproportionately benefits the elderly - it requires you had a valid medical within the past 10 years, which helps if age related health issues stop you from ren
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by repiret 4y ago
I spend most of my time writing C for embedded systems. You should focus first on making life easy for the people reading your code. Use `% 2` and `* 4` when those are the things you mean, rather than `& 1` and `<< 2`. Compiler
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by repiret 4y ago
I live in a region of the US that has more cattle than people, and cattle rustling is a thing here too. I think there is no type of property that people won’t try to steal, so wherever there are cattle, there is cattle theft.
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by repiret 4y ago
What I like most about TCL is that a TCL REPL feels a lot more like a normal command prompt than Lua or Python or whatever. If I’m going to write a complex program, TCL wouldn’t be my first choice, but if a program I’m using has a command
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by repiret 5y ago
Oh component costs have gone up for sure the last year or so. But I'm saying the per-unit component costs wouldn't be that different between making 1,000 per year or 10,000 per month. [1] [1]: Except that in the current supply ch
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by repiret 5y ago
I’m part of a team that makes low volume high priced electronics. Component costs don’t contribute that much: the price difference between qty 1 and qty 1k is usually much larger than between qty 1k and anything more. The things I see contr
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by repiret 5y ago
I really prefer the Hipmunk interface to anything else, but being able to select multiple airports is a killer feature of Google Flights for me, and Flight Penguin won't be able to get my business without it. Being able to select a me
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by repiret 5y ago
I'm in the US and prefer manual transmissions, but I have to admit that the 6-8 speed automatic transmissions that have become popular in the last 5-10 years pretty much solves the "always in the wrong gear" problem that the
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by repiret 5y ago
In what situations (and jurisdictions) would an employee be legally prevented from requiring a CS degree?
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by repiret 5y ago
This. Humans aren't a panacea for getting problems solved. I would much rather open a ticket than wait on hold for hours to speak with a human in a call center in a low wage country half way around the world, with whom I can't ea
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by repiret 5y ago
As microcontrollers go, Cortex-M is especially pleasant to program in C.
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by repiret 5y ago
For GnuCash it’s easy to parse it’s XML files or Sqllite database, so you don’t have to mess with scheme.
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by repiret 5y ago
You can fudge 1/8” in some things, but lots of woodworking has to be way more precise. Just about any joinery, parts of cabinetry, parts of finish carpentry.
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by repiret 5y ago
Well there is this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involv...
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by repiret 5y ago
I don't think copyright infringement is a big problem either, but many software publishers do, and that fear leads them to make the software worse for all of us.
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by repiret 5y ago
You know where else I can side-load apps? Desktop PCs. You know what my in-law's desktop PCs are full of? Spy-ware and search bars and other crap they got tricked into side-loading. Here's how I think this will go down: 1. Some
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by repiret 5y ago
He didn’t give a current rating. “mAh” measures energy storage, and 3100mAh is enough to jump a car a couple times. Jumping a car doesn’t take a lot of energy. But it does take a lot of power (and therefore current). Small Li-ion car jumpe
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by repiret 5y ago
A cheater bar or breaker bar.
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by repiret 5y ago
I agree that energy lost to turning the engine must come from the airstream, don't underestimate how much energy can be lost just to creating turbulence in the airstream - after all, that's why you drop like a rock if you do a sli
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by repiret 5y ago
Fly. Find. Fix. 1. Fly: Trim the airplane for best glide speed (that is the speed that will let you travel the farthest before hitting the ground), which is a value you should have memorized. And don't forget to keep minding the stick
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by repiret 5y ago
That's a fixed-pitch prop, which will generate more drag stopped than windmilling.
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by repiret 5y ago
That’s not entirely true. Most (all?) states have exemptions that let you drive a motor home with a class C license. But you still can’t drive a bus or tractor trailer, even non-commercially.
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by repiret 5y ago
That's amusing, in the US, its the other way around: Class C is for regular autos while Class A is for tractor trailers. (Class B is for heavy vehicles not towing, like buses or large delivery trucks)
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by repiret 5y ago
Depends on the inspector and the contractor. More than once I’ve had contractors successfully win arguments with building inspectors in the wrong.

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