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by setq 9y ago
Incidentally you can demonstrate this by wiring up the relay so it oscillates i.e. use the NC contacts in series with the coil. Then stick your fingers across the coil. It'll give you a nice shock. Not enough to hurt you but enough to
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by setq 9y ago
It's fantastic. When it fails miserably I am usually in hysterics at the sheer carnage my creation unleashed. So much to learn. I'm slightly tempted to do a 4th attempt now inspired by the original poster :)
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by setq 9y ago
I love these projects. They are always destined to fail from experience but are great fun anyway. I've tried a few times to do similar things. I'll catalog my disasters quickly: 1. Seedlings need blowing around a bit when they pop
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by setq 9y ago
That only works if you have some level of determinism.
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by setq 9y ago
Windows is a rat's nest from hell when it comes to privilege separation. That was probably the only privilege level that allows it to communicate with what it needs to. Even worse, despite this patch, it's still sitting here runni
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by setq 9y ago
You can even start a fire with a bottle of water in this fashion. I've done it!
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by setq 9y ago
Doesn't mean the security or the quality is up to spec however. Most of the defence sector people I've worked with pretty much run on procedural knowledge developed independently rather than using their nut or consulting the rest
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by setq 9y ago
Indeed. The TI SN7400N is still in production and can still be bought today: http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/standard-logic-gates/0305490/ That's only 53 years in production now!
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by setq 9y ago
Apparently this isn't actually the case entirely. You can do a restore purchases on the old version now. I haven't tried it myself though. Edit: remove unrelated edit!
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by setq 9y ago
I still remember doing a make world on FreeBSD on a 75MHz Pentium. Went out for the night and it was still going when the hangover wore off the following afternoon. This was mainly because it spent most of it's time swapping.
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by setq 9y ago
Because everything has no ownership, no standard place to put things and no logical consistency.
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by setq 9y ago
Standard job board type sites. I don't use LinkedIn.
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by setq 9y ago
openstack swift supposedly but this is a slightly incompatible S3 implementation that nothing else talks. The filesystem works pretty well though ;)
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by setq 9y ago
I've been working for 16 years in the IT sector in software dev (senior/architecture/devops cack) and then 3 years engineering before that. You don't get cold calls. You plonk your CV somewhere, take a position and then
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by setq 9y ago
If there's anything I've learned about object storage over the last year, it is: don't use object storage unless you need it for a particularly narrow use case of silly data volumes or CDN storage for a massively distributed
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by setq 9y ago
I will share it in a couple of weeks if I get some time to finish it. It aggregates a lot of info from climate, financial market status, things of cultural interest, native languages, recruitment etc.
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by setq 9y ago
Not sure I like this. The reason I tend to use external job sites is that they don't know who I am so I don't have to spend three weeks beating off recruiters with a shitty stick. Google knows who I am.
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by setq 9y ago
Thanks for posting. That was fascinating.
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by setq 9y ago
I have a spreadsheet going - there are a few serious options available still. I will publish it on here at some point.
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by setq 9y ago
This is actually my exit plan at the moment.
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by setq 9y ago
I have tried to explain this to many people and I agree. People are entirely ignorant. I have actually given up now. I will have to vote with my feet at some point.
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by setq 9y ago
Not necessarily as on at least two times in the past, it didn't work properly without frigging around with timings.
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by setq 9y ago
This is why I'd rather lose 25% of the performance these days and take a canned pre-built PC. I just can't afford the time to find this out. It was bad enough trying to find a working set of drivers for my T440 and that only took
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by setq 9y ago
I shall have a try next week and see if I can cope with it :)
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by setq 9y ago
I can't get over the 1 based indexes in Lua, unless that has changed in recent years.
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by setq 9y ago
I have actually tried that and you're right. The whole experience made me consider going back to electrical engineering when I realised that the status quo hadn't improved in 20 years :)
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by setq 9y ago
Back in 1999 I managed a similar thing written in C with flat file storage. The whole tool chain chucked out a static binary and a directory full of templates and you just cp'ed it to the target and restarted the process. When I look b
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by setq 9y ago
I wasn't aware that borrowing things wasn't a thing these days. I'm forever borrowing and lending things. Just yesterday I borrowed a hammer drill from a friend because it's ridiculous buying one to drill some holes for
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by setq 9y ago
Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse? by Max Brallier is the only one I've gone through and it was quite good.
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by setq 9y ago
Inspired by this type of book, I used to write BBC BASIC adventure games in the late 1980's at school. It was great fun planning the structure of them on paper and coming up with the graphs first.

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