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by rm445 7y ago
It can be extremely useful when starting a project, and is part of accepted project management techniques (APM body of knowledge and similar). It genuinely helps to consider important people's level of interest, level of influence, and
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by rm445 7y ago
Given that multi-layer PCBs are effectively laminations of individual boards, hobbyists have already made their own multilayer boards [1]. I don't see anything particular about milling as a means of copper removal that would stop you l
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by rm445 7y ago
Discussions of the Fermi paradox get swamped with people's individual hypotheses. It's nice to see an article that tries to develop a whole different kind of answer. The known possibilities seem to be: 1. We're alone (or ve
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by rm445 7y ago
Did they actually redo everything, or does it just look that way from starting from the Plan9 toolchain? Which could also be said to be re-doing everything, but from a much earlier starting point. IIRC Go started out shipping with a port of
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by rm445 7y ago
Designing the layout of the PCB. Populating it with surface-mount components using home-made solder paste stencils and an oven. Selecting the MCU. Figuring out what kernel drivers are needed and what can be stripped out. Searching the web f
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by rm445 7y ago
Oh yeah, I see what you mean. I think the models in the article are deliberately simplified. At least some of those plots demonstrate a constant force, rather than a gravitational-type force. And the well-known weights-on-a-rubber-sheet ana
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by rm445 7y ago
They do! Gravity is an r-squared law. (If you're confused about constant acceleration due to gravity, Galileo's experiment and all that, well different masses fall to earth with the same acceleration from the same height, but g
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by rm445 7y ago
Headline writers using 'dated' to mean a release date (of say a film or game) has been announced, I can't help reading as judgement that the unreleased item is already passé. Even further from being an auto-antonym, but posit
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by rm445 7y ago
I feel like 90% of this advice to authors comes down to: your advance is just that, an advance on sales royalties. Non-recoupable, but if you're 'lucky' enough to win a bigger advance than your eventual sales, it's not a
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by rm445 7y ago
In the somewhat-related space of fitness trackers, there are alternatives to watches: keyfobs, ankle bracelets, rings. You get heart rate, sleep tracking, alarm clocks; I don't know if any do notification buzzes as well. I think compan
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by rm445 7y ago
Nicely put, but then why need your example even be a pair of fancy glasses? It could be an energy generating device, or a transportation method, or a cure-all pharmaceutical or something. I think the answer is partly that you're right
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by rm445 7y ago
Yeah, the number of words in the language doesn't prove the author's point at all. That said, the difference in lexicon size isn't a trick about authorities or dictionaries, it's a real obvious thing. In English one can
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by rm445 7y ago
Using 'so', as in, 'I do so!' seems to carry almost the identical meaning to me, but it's hardly as universal and idiomatic as the French 'si'.
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by rm445 7y ago
Robert Zubrin is a visionary, who I'm sure wouldn't compromise his credibility to churn out some paid-propaganda. I guess your objections are otherwise pretty reasonable, except the metal hydrides part is unfair for a 2007 article
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by rm445 7y ago
That's the same confusion the article rails against. Methanol and ethanol are no more a source of energy than (terrestrial) hydrogen is. They just might be more convenient fuels, energy carriers.
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by rm445 7y ago
But the article is partly about a film documentary. Presumably the difference is the time for editing and release and he was/claimed to be 119 when it was filmed.
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by rm445 7y ago
Parent poster's claim seems to be that Boeing is incentivised to make safe planes, and is likely to have better aeronautical engineers than the regulator. In that scenario, it wouldn't matter if the regulators were corrupt or Boei
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by rm445 7y ago
Yes, if you measure inflation as a basket of consumer goods, you can pat yourself on the back doubly for having an asset bubble at the same time as "low" inflation. Nice that the population can still afford bread and eggs, not so
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by rm445 7y ago
It's how people count things. If you want to know how many sheep or apples are in front of you, you start counting at one, and the number you get up to is the number that there are. If there are i elements of a set, the first element i
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by rm445 7y ago
The "No (regular) internet" thing is tough - the global public Internet is kinda the only game in town. But otherwise, there are so many cheap laptops that can run Linux. We're in a golden age.
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by rm445 7y ago
I wondered about that as well - but there's a reasonable chance it's just a sticker on a generic tablet-keyboard combo.
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by rm445 7y ago
It's a link to people I know from real life, by their real names. Family and friends. People I have some level of emotional connection to such that I have some level of interest in seeing pictures of what they do in their leisure time,
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by rm445 8y ago
'Engineer of mathematics' and the like make sense given that academia has been fairly effective in making society believe 'science' means scientific research, rather than all of the scientific pursuits including engineer
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by rm445 8y ago
In the historic world of high-stakes rubber bridge, you're right - players would cut for partners after each 'rubber' game so your partner in crime might soon be your opponent. I'm sure there were occasional big-money sc
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by rm445 8y ago
It's a decentralized, federated, network. So choosing an instance I guess is more like choosing an IRC server. Or picking between Gmail and Hotmail, or any other e-mail service. Livejournal or Blogger. It's no coincidence the exam
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by rm445 8y ago
It's a nice thought, but I recall reading elsewhere that integration was developed separately to differentiation (to find areas and volumes) until they were found to be related.
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by rm445 8y ago
I think that did happen. Banks and utility companies started to offer chat-like interfaces (without a human responder) for services and help. The number of end-users could probably have been graphed as a steeply rising curve for a while. It
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by rm445 9y ago
Ribbon UI is very discoverable. I bet most people would have a better chance of picking up a feature-rich program such as AutoCAD nowadays than back in the time of menus and toolbars. CAD packages are a good example, really. They tend to ha
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by rm445 9y ago
Do you think such a private individual's behaviour holds for all society? First example: if lots of people had that free hot water, there would pretty soon be companies offering them money for the use of it. A bitcoin miner hooked up t
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by rm445 9y ago
Cal Newport writes like this. His stories read like, "Joe Bloggs was a loner, a drifter. When he pulled up his beat-up truck, moving back to his parent's swamp ranch in the summer of 2006, he had no idea what to do with his life.

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