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by sbf501 4y ago
> For example, Lagrangian mechanics and Hamiltonian mechanics are equivalent to Newtonian mechanics, but they can give much better intuition for certain problems. Feynman diagrams are equivalent to grinding out the QFT algebra by hand à
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by sbf501 4y ago
50+ no beard, starting to gray, here. Been coding professionally since the mid-80's. I still sit in front of 3 computers (win10, mac, linux) every day writing code for various projects. Mostly embedded on NXP/Renesas for ODMs (lot
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by sbf501 4y ago
Yes, he sold his seven or so mansions in California when he moved to Texas last year, and claimed to go possession free living in a $50k tiny house. First off, one would have to assume he suddenly swore of luxury after seven mansions. Perha
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by sbf501 4y ago
I'll bite: what is your argument?
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by sbf501 4y ago
This is implicit when understanding market cap. Market cap means yes, a certain number of people willing to buy Tesla believe it is worth the combined cap of the next 10 auto makers. It doesn't matter if that is right or wrong, all tha
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by sbf501 4y ago
FTA: "The revamped bus network, which required just a 4 percent budget increase, launched in August 2015. The results so far are encouraging: Weekday ridership has stabilized after declining for years, and is up about 10 percent on Sat
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by sbf501 4y ago
Surprised that about 15% of the sites don't/didn't work.
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by sbf501 4y ago
When a problem like this has equally bad solutions between Windows or Linux (or macos) it means the problem really isn't solved yet. This is kind of exciting, actually. It is one of those spaces where the XKCD "standards" jok
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by sbf501 4y ago
> Next up: Little Red Riding Hood was actually a time-traveling deep cover Mossad agent gone rogue. Tell me you wouldn't pay to see this.
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by sbf501 4y ago
The reason why non-US cities manufacture so many semiconductors is that there is simply no profit. Capitalism has pushed manufacturing overseas. There are roughly 100-1000 more ARM chips than Intel chips in the world, but the profit margins
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by sbf501 4y ago
That's exactly what they do. That is why Intel has a Fab in Ireland.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Well, if you don't sell a recurring subscription (or a consumable), once someone buys something, they don't buy it again. So how do you meet payroll? You have to constantly sell to make money and pay your employees. That's ca
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by sbf501 4y ago
I should have just said "WD40 is bad for your chain." This was back in the 80's, so we didn't have the internets then. Funny how many myths I promoted, albeit harmlessly.
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by sbf501 4y ago
This is crazy. Talk about supply chain hacks, now even mobos aren't safe out-of-the-box. Although it guess it doesn't even need to be a supply-chain hack if the mobo comes from a dubious country.
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by sbf501 4y ago
3-in-1 is nice. So many people don't realize WD-40 isn't a lubricant. I worked at a bike store and had to explain to hundreds of DIY'ers every year after they completely ruined their bike's chains and washed out the cass
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by sbf501 4y ago
Every CDROM I've received after an MRI comes with a windows viewer on it. IN 2010 it was E Film Light, then DCSView, then DrayViewer, and today it is Radiant.
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by sbf501 4y ago
I read that as sarcasm.
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by sbf501 4y ago
I didn't understand marketing until I started running a company. It's great when your first product launches and you're riding on the first few years of success. Then you need to grow. And you know what that requires? Marketi
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by sbf501 4y ago
Impressive. This would be great for drone flight controller software, as almost 100% of the racing controller market is STM32 processors.
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by sbf501 4y ago
How about just not compressing things for archival? A few bit errors in uncompressed files would end up as just a few bad characters. Whereas a few errors in an uncorrectable compression format might render the entire content useless. Sure
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by sbf501 4y ago
It wasn't dating, it was just for hooking up. No money exchanged.
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by sbf501 4y ago
I've heard similar things from some female friends of mine who use Craigslist for anon hookups. They've had to move to other websites, of which there are plenty. I don't think 'killed' is the right word, it just was
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by sbf501 4y ago
It doesn't do lots of important things!
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by sbf501 4y ago
Putting aside locale, and other important things universal code should have in the first 75% of the new version: What is your argument that it is silly? Have you done a survey of usage, or researched its history. Don't be so quick to c
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by sbf501 4y ago
Comparing the 1979 version with the current version deserves its own whitepaper. Writing portable, robust code is nontrivial. This is a great example. For those who didn't RTFM: 1979 version: main(argc, argv) char **argv;
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by sbf501 4y ago
Why didn't you have an alarm set? If you are going to use ANY cloud provider, learn about alarms, or you will get screwed.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Unrelated to the website discussion, the last link showing it is still negative profits after spectacular revenue increases is scary. This looks like a great product at a great price point, with solid sales, how are you not in the black yet
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by sbf501 4y ago
UX is very much rooted in both industrial design and psychology. I would highly recommend taking design courses in college, it will help hone your eye for how to perceive a task through a given experience. Contrary to popular belief, UX has
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by sbf501 4y ago
It's insane, right? GPS antenna tech evolved crazy fast after high-res GPS was made available to the public in the mid-90's. Not to mention all the 3G/LTS/4G/5G investment. Things could still be made smaller if ther
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by sbf501 4y ago
This is a false dichotomy. You are telling us how awful streetcars were, as if there was no other choice but to tear them up and convert to a car-based society. Instead of fixing the problems: fix the track, better cars, more cars, more acc

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