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Exactly right! As somebody who’s spent a great deal of time with the discrete Fourier transform, I thought, “this article reads like it was written specifically for me.” I/Q modulation is new to me though.
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> Do NOT use Moleskine notebooks with fountain pens. They are not designed for fountain pens Or for hard use in general. Well over priced for the quality of the paper and bindings.
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Platinum Carbon Black is a wonderful ink. It seems to work very well in cheap fountain pens with flow issues. It’s highly resistant to coffee spills and looks ok on mediocre paper. Only drawback is cleaning it up; it cleans up like used mot
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At the top of my list is taking unstructured workbooks and adding a sheet to tabulate inputs and outputs. A lot of spreadsheet models are not set up for bulk evaluation or retaining old results, and the peculiar arrangement of cells constit
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I just discovered the formulas Excel library for Python, and I have about two dozen ideas for things that you could do with it. It turns out they already implemented the first dozen in the library itself, but the possibilities that come f
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Buy the Mac. If you’re using Arch and Linux feels like “trouble” instead of a breath of fresh air, it may not be for you. That being said, if you really want to be persuaded, give Linux a little more time, and accept some friendly advice. F
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I’ve worked with a bunch of Nuke Es. Smart, interesting people with strong technical skills. They’re not working in the field though. If you really want to be around nuclear reactors, you’re much more likely to get there if you join the nav
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How does a cell like this work? Is it directly turning the flux of electrons from beta decay into usable current?
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It’s really not hard; the person you’re replying to put a lot of details in. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve built a Python interpreter. Virtual envs used to work badly with some tools and dependencies, so I had to do it a lot. It’s
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Agreed! Old laptops are more than powerful enough for Linux, and I like having purpose-oriented computers. The hobby programming computer doesn’t have games on it and is at any rate too weak to run them. The music laptop has every flac I ev
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The link is appreciated! I like the selection of ruggedized laptops.
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All that you touch, you change All that you change, changes you The only lasting truth is change God is change One of my favorites, and much as I love Gibson, I think Butler gets far too little attention and he gets to
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If only we'd known! This was decades ago, before the internet, and perhaps the word had not yet got around. I loved that Microbus.
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Thanks! That helps clarify the engineering challenges. There’s never a free lunch!
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One of the more memorable experiences of my youth was watching a VW microbus burn. It had been stored over the winter and evidently the fuel line had either deteriorated or been chewed on by an animal. After idling for a few minutes it went
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Can you comment more on the complexity? Like, is it running wire harnesses everywhere, is it the power electronics, cooling, mechanical mounting, something else, all of the above?
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I think in Asimov, the real protagonist is always an idea, not a character. You can see this play out in the Foundation books; it’s especially clear in the Mule stories. The Foundation is one idea, the Mule is another, and they stand in opp
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That is a great notebook; I agree that it’s too fine to leave pages unwritten. The only time I do that is when I change jobs. I’ll have to search up those sticky notes; I didn’t know they existed!
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I have a single system that I use for both digital and paper notes. Start writing, put new stuff at the end. Date every entry. Use topic headings that stand out clearly from the text. When it gets too full, slap a date on the file / no
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As I say every time Gibson comes up, cyber is just a setting. Punk is the whole point. While you can certainly read Neuromancer in isolation, it’s worth reading the bridge trilogy and even Zero History to see how this plays out in different
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As I’m sure you know, Gibson himself briefly worked as a fashion model. Unlike most male authors and most sci-fi authors, and especially unlike most male sci-fi authors, he describes what people are wearing with great precision and creativi
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> io.async expresses asynchronicity (the possibility for operations to happen out of order and still be correct) and it does not request concurrency, which in this case is necessary for the code to work correctly. This is the key point
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I think of the two camps like this: one group sees a lot of value in llms. They post about how they use them, what their techniques and workflows look like, the vast array of new technologies springing up around them. And then there’s the o
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Very well put. So many things about the process are set up to favor the continuity of privilege in plausibly deniable ways. Athletics, service, alumni interviews, letters of reference; everything is easier if you’re wealthy and well connect
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What I’m learning from this thread is that there are at least as many ways of speaking English in India as there are in the UK. I’d noticed this with pronunciation (one colleague propels P and T sounds with explosive force, but none of the
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Python is definitely slower for programs that do the same thing. What I see is that the users of fast languages often write programs that do the wrong thing, 30x faster than Python. No free lunch either way
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Cool, but I’m not clear on why you have to upload and then download your cast file to make this work.
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Were the critics wrong? It’s a lot harder than it used to be to start a conversation with a stranger. It’s not far off from picking up a hitchhiker. Maybe it’s impossible to separate cause from consequence, but it’s hard not to see persona
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> The reason some parts increase in heat faster is that they have higher concentrations of water; Composition is part of it, but it isn’t the whole story. A microwave oven is a resonant cavity. There are standing electromagnetic waves in
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Perhaps I was unclear. The argument is that being educated by a groundbreaking researcher is better than being educated by someone who merely knows things, and so it’s worth a tuition premium. Like I said, I think that position is full of h

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