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by scrumper 4y ago
My daughter, 10, was really pushing for some way to access her own music back in the summer. At her age I got a walkman and was already making my own mixtapes off the radio using the big system in the living room. We swapped tapes at school
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by scrumper 4y ago
This corporate bulimia, these binge-and-purge cycles, are a remarkably unpleasant feature of 21st century employee life. I hope those affected are able to find work before their severance runs out. One positive aspect is that the Salesforce
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by scrumper 4y ago
Not necessarily. Cowardice is a viable individual survival strategy.
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by scrumper 4y ago
M-x mansplain-pedant-mode It's "figuratively" or, more... literally, "metaphorically."
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by scrumper 4y ago
Parts and service very widely available too. I think they also get used as drilling motors.
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by scrumper 4y ago
These are diesel electric, with 4 traction motors: https://www.up.com/heritage/fleet/streamliners/index.htm Edit: what do you mean by "retroencabulator"? That's a fake/joke thing. Which (a
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by scrumper 4y ago
And if you liked that, this: https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=1859 is just wonderful. And huge. Constitutional and criminal law, in a graphic novel.
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by scrumper 4y ago
Now to suck the joy out of it for her by giving her a code review and a lecture about I18N :) I like that the code itself is almost poetic, and is in itself a statement about the problem domain. Knuth would be proud.
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by scrumper 4y ago
> Optical wrist heart rate sensors can't read through an exposure suit. I didn't think of that! Dense of me. But heart rate monitoring isn't a primary reason to buy this anyway.
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by scrumper 4y ago
Yeah. While the instantaneous power draw is absolutely colossal, the actual energy drained from a battery starting a (healthy!) engine is fairly minimal, and its replaced very quickly by the alternator once it's up and running. Stop&#x
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by scrumper 4y ago
Oh that's interesting. Made me go digging. It turns out those air integration wireless tank sensors use very low frequencies, 38kHz. MH8A is the relevant FCC ID.
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by scrumper 4y ago
Yes exactly, it's for tagging dives. Times and locations only, nothing about what happens underwater. Edit: actually my computer does that too, well, the app does sort of: the app I have for capturing data from it takes the GPS locatio
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by scrumper 4y ago
Not my only, but if I was starting out again I'd consider an apple watch ultra over a dedicated computer. Consequences of computer failure on a well-planned open water rec dive are fairly minimal. This doodad, plus a backup basic watch
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by scrumper 4y ago
Haptics you can feel through a 7mm wetsuit? I'm impressed by that, although I'd not want them turned up that high on my bare wrist! This seems like a winner for vacation diving. For those divers that manage a couple dives a year o
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by scrumper 4y ago
I do enjoy that there's a big overlap between people who complain that all the dynamic range has gone out of music (the "loudness wars") and people who complain that there's too much dynamic range in TV and movie audio :
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by scrumper 4y ago
It's a Siri feature, press the mic button and say "What did [he/she] say" and it'll rewind a bit, turn subtitles on, and then turn them off right around the point where you asked. I've found it to be a very wel
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by scrumper 4y ago
> But I think eventually shifted to using ghc as a frontend library? That's right. It happened fairly quickly, part of the efforts to formally verify the language. I think when you were poking at it was around the time it was changi
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by scrumper 4y ago
And a very patient and curious evaluator you were too (I was one of your counterparts at DA). > The way daml is setup makes it more of a weird sibling of GRPC for stateful resource protocols. Yes, well said. I think that's quite fai
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by scrumper 4y ago
Grumpy old man mode: we had this! It’s called Usenet.
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by scrumper 4y ago
Parent isn’t wrong. Chandler was a very interesting distributed PIM in (I think) the very early 2000s. It collapsed under the weight of its own ambition but it’s a significant piece of software history, one of those alternative paths. And y
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by scrumper 4y ago
Very interesting! Confused by the text about the alkaline scan (the first one). The +ve side is called the anode isn’t it, not the cathode? And electrons originate at the cathode not the anode. Or is the usual terminology inverted because i
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by scrumper 4y ago
> It provides isolation vs ground and prevents the circuit from being completed through your feet and the floor: Ah I think I see what you're getting at. Are you saying if your feet are at the same potential as the chassis then ther
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by scrumper 4y ago
> It's not true to say that it does nothing for safety, though. I didn't, I said it did nothing for safety concerning DC :) In the prior bullet I explained an iso transformer's contribution to safety regarding AC. (Feet&#x
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by scrumper 4y ago
Great share. I bought this exact radio from a car boot sale for 5GBP back in the mid '90s and it's served me well ever since - until last year when my wife's cat knocked it off the shelf. A refurb article on the exact same mo
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by scrumper 4y ago
Just to be pedantic (I think it's ok given the venue...) - All an isolation transformer (which is an external component you have to supply; it's never part of the radio) does is make the mains AC voltage inside the radio "flo
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by scrumper 4y ago
It'd be weird for an ERP system to go through an upgrade without consultants from the vendor (Epicor) or a 3rd party systems integrator to handle the hands-on-keyboard part of the work. In a normal situation I'd expect your role t
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by scrumper 4y ago
Amazing video. I’d guess not mechanical? Look at the dashboard top, lower left over the first minute or so: There’s a screw head that keeps popping in and out of existence which suggests some kind of heavy software correction to me.
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by scrumper 4y ago
Yeah. When I was learning to fly (early 2000s) I heard “fork-tailed doctor killer” a lot in reference to the Beechcraft Bonanza. Never dentists though, but maybe that was just my flying club’s biases.
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by scrumper 4y ago
Don't forget shipping too - a huge, huge contributor. Itself dwarfed by agriculture... Humans go for symbolism though and hate hypocrites. Banning private jets has a delicious reveng-y feeling against the sanctimonious super-rich lectu
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by scrumper 4y ago
Location: Westchester, NY Remote: Yes, required Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Objective C & Cocoa (some Swift), MacOS, Rust, Java, audio DSP Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tikemp/ Email: t

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