sigstoat

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by sigstoat 8y ago
> It would be much better if there were some kind of equally popular open source platform that focused on actual microcontrollers, with the associated focus on efficiency and performance. arduino is certainly a popular open source platfo
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> It's probably pict3d's fault, but there's no indication of this module being of "pre-alpha" stability. Or maybe it's an interaction with Racket-on-chez and C library interfacing. Racket-on-Chez is what&#x2
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by sigstoat 8y ago
as you note with your edit, most usages aren't going to be dropping from >24V. > Also that's peak current from the radio, which for IOT things is generally very short. this is the interesting bit, though. if you're rele
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> Passenger rail will otherwise always take a back seat to freight. moving all the freight to something less efficient would 1) have significant environmental impacts and 2) raise the cost of all consumer goods, disproportionally harming
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by sigstoat 8y ago
an informed choice about what? the news is full of things you can't have an impact on. focus on things you can impact, like your own life and the people around you.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> nor to be forced to participate in a court or anything like that as a witness. indeed. lay witnesses are treated rather poorly.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> I understand that normally patents cover processes... > since apparently the researchers have read the patents in question and designed their software to produce drugs that avoid those patents, have they willfully infringed? the pat
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> Practically speaking, FAANG companies do hire such individuals, they just do it through acqui-hires. there's a huge pool of employees that are in companies which aren't potential acquisition targets. > Well... how do we fi
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by sigstoat 8y ago
so complain that the nytimes journalists can't math. it isn't microsoft's job to explain their charitable giving in the least charitable possible terms. it isn't as though you go on dates and enumerate your moral failing
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> corporations ... would never ... make mistakes in production it is reasonable to assume you're sarcastically suggesting that corporations make mistakes during production? if so, what method of organizing human labor ensures that m
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by sigstoat 8y ago
there's oxygen atoms, and there's O_2, which is a gas also called oxygen. the atoms came from stars (hand wave). those atoms have probably been recently recombined to form the diatomic gas, by plants.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> I'm not sure how you got that ... sigh. bad at arithmetic today. sorry. > I wouldn't trust almost any company to still exist in 41 years, including Backblaze as i mention in the reply to the sibling comment, the backblaze
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by sigstoat 8y ago
(my arithmetic was wrong, so 41 years was garbage, but addressing the more general point: ) the corporate entity that is currently doing business as backblaze doesn't need to last 41 years, or even 41 more days. the stored data is all
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by sigstoat 8y ago
edit: i cannot arithmetic today, or sanity check my arithmetic. sorry. sigh.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
zim? http://zim-wiki.org/ with the "source view" plugin?
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> SSL demands CloudFront to function i don't think that's the case for apigw/lambda unless you're picky about your API gateway URL. (which seems unnecessary, as that can be all hidden away inside the javascript?) >
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by sigstoat 8y ago
probably so. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#IfInterpreterIs... also seems relevant. stallman's portion of https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/11/msg00217.html t
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by sigstoat 8y ago
"working, but not up to spec" can mean "works today, stops working tomorrow when subjected to a bit more nearby electrical noise". 10GbaseT links frequently can't negotiate down, so your link can just stop working w
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by sigstoat 8y ago
whatever it was, he was using a lot of it back for the 1.3 series, which made it up to 1.3.100 at least.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> In reality, the current administration is actively working to reduce legal immigration as well. the chart in that second link shows the family based, diversity and asylee immigration being cut, but all of the employment/skill-base
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> “give all prospective students a single-page disclosure with information including job placement rates, anticipated costs and the average earnings of graduates.” do that every semester when they return to the financial aid trough, incl
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> they can't take the robot and move to a different caffe taking on the risk of owning an expensive bit of capital equipment that moves, requires maintenance and is put into use at an employer's facility doesn't sound like
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by sigstoat 8y ago
defense grid 1 and 2
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> I convinced her to contact ComEd about it... the power companies accurately assume that most people calling them don't know anything about electricity. have a trustworthy electrician inspect the situation, and then they can figure
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> unfortunately there's no way to test that somebody smoked in the last day or two, only that they've smoked in the last X weeks/months, depending on their habits. no non-invasive ones, anyways. :( blood test does fine for
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by sigstoat 8y ago
how do you turn a P/E of 21 into needing somewhere between 20% annual growth (your current claim?) and 200% annual growth (your original claim? 20% quarter over quarter.)
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> I just wonder how our ancestors did it. Not only did they survive without plastic bottles, but they even survived the last 99.99% of biological history without plumbing! the species survived without those things. plenty of individuals
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by sigstoat 8y ago
i got a location of the building out of the person i was talking to, and it wasn't where google is. i also know the name of the contractor, and it didn't match any of the signage i saw last time i walked past the google constructi
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by sigstoat 8y ago
omitted from the title, but included in the article, is that they're also expanding in boulder colorado. i know that location has been under construction for at least 6 months now. my business was having some construction done, and we
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> They don't, for instance, collect data on what games I play on my iPhone, because that information is not available to them. they would like to reconstruct that information from what they've got, if they could, and they'

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