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by sponaugle 5y ago
Excellent. Your videos on the various Pi clusters have been fantastic. I'm looking forward to your review of this new updated board.
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by sponaugle 5y ago
A few different things drove up the circuit count: (1) It is a large house ( over 10,000 sq ft ). (2) There are two power paths throughout the entire house - generator and non generator, and most panel locations have two panels for that rea
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by sponaugle 5y ago
I agree with your sentiment. It is interesting to look at total power usage and power usage by device. I'm using IotaWatts to monitor every individual circuit in my house (over 200 of them), and it is easy to miss things that add up. W
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by sponaugle 5y ago
Indeed every case is unique. My home lab runs about ~4kw all the time, which end up being about 2.8mWh/month. Here in Oregon that ends up costing $340/month. This is a brand new house, and as soon as I get permits approved I&#x2
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by sponaugle 5y ago
This is an interesting approach to take. I have taken the opposite approach by using my real name in almost all cases, and my name in unique enough that a google search will directly lead to me. The benefit of using my real name is how wha
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by sponaugle 6y ago
True.. and hopefully more people make that transition if only because they can help mature those other toolchains. Anyone that works with OEM toolchains knows the pains that go with it sometimes!
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by sponaugle 6y ago
The authors comments are interesting, but perhaps underplay the fantastic effect that Arduino has had on the microcontroller and maker world. He is correct about the code size, and certainly about the abstraction hiding details, but those t
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by sponaugle 6y ago
Very interesting. I find myself in the other camp, where learning the underpinnings is by far the fastest way for me to use something. This is a good demonstration that there isn't a single best way to teach. Very cool.
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by sponaugle 6y ago
In my mind, a good interview should be able to allow you to have google open, books, etc, if that is a tool you use. Knowing what you memorized hasn't been a good indicator for performance in my experience. I have done almost 1000 in
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by sponaugle 6y ago
Indeed there are cases where that fundamental understanding is critical, and others where it isn't. I started my career at Intel, and I can say without hesitation that a significant amount of direct foundational material from my EE&#x2
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by sponaugle 6y ago
Any time you attempt to divide a group like this into two categories, you pretty quickly find that each of the sub categories have pretty obvious subdivisions, and each of those subdivisions have some obvious divisions that span all of the
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by sponaugle 6y ago
Oh yea, it does run pretty hot! I made a case for it from an electronics project case I had laying around, and even with that it is toasty. If I was building something that was going to be running of for a long time a 3d printed case with
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by sponaugle 6y ago
I have a limesdr and a hackrf. Both work really well, but it does seem like there are more people/projects for the hackrf. Once you learn the ins and outs of GNUradio, it is pretty amazing what you can do.
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by sponaugle 6y ago
The biggest accelerator, at least for me, was having a child. As anyone who has children know, the first few years are a long sequence of tasks interspersed with small breaks. If you want to get anything done, you have to be able to do it
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by sponaugle 6y ago
"I don't think I've ever met a CTO who wouldn't benefit from a list like this - or who would deny that it would be useful." The most valuable thing for me, and I am a CTO, is exactly the reminder of the breadth of t
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by sponaugle 6y ago
That is interesting. I'm a CTO, originally a CTO of a startup, now CTO of the much larger acquiring company. It is fascinating to see how different the CTO job can be across industries. I find my time is spent in almost the opposit
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by sponaugle 6y ago
Agreed - in fact I did run Cat6 to all of those locations with the assumption of needing a direct connection. The IotaWatt doesn't have an ethernet interface, so wireless is the only way to connect. I have APs in most of the rooms (U
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by sponaugle 6y ago
It really is a pretty good device - I have 14 of them in my install: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=409988&... (post 737 has the iotawatt details) I have been running this setup since October
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by sponaugle 6y ago
Yea, my MacBook Pro, 2018 Percentage Used: 2% Data Units Read: 84,461,830 [43.2 TB] Data Units Written: 69,369,816 [35.5 TB] Host Read Commands: 2,125,724,765
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by sponaugle 6y ago
I had a similar success with taking magnesium to control restless leg syndrome. As some people no doubt remember there are a few speciality drugs ( which you see TV commercials about) that are designed to treat RLS, but I have found that r
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by sponaugle 6y ago
Thanks, and it sounds like you have a pretty good setup started at your place. The Ubiquity gear is a great way to have an ecosystem that is straightforward to manage. Those Lutron switches are great as well. I'm just now getting ar
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by sponaugle 6y ago
I'm running an APC Symmetra LX in my house to power both my server room and my office. They are pretty easy to find on the used market, and I replaced all of the batteries in mine. Picture of the UPS: https://sponaugle.com
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by sponaugle 7y ago
As it is written now, yes you would need 2 CPU licenses. I suspect over time this will be refined to something more core count based. I think most people in the VMWare universe have been expecting a change like this.
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by sponaugle 7y ago
Ha.. Thanks Zaroth. Funny enough it actually ended up being about 21 miles of cable and fiber. I suspect we are about 8 weeks away from completion.. and I need to update that thread as I am a month behind!
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by sponaugle 7y ago
Yea, the HTD 'receiver' is seperate from the amps, and it can route one of I think 12 sources to any of the channels (and any mix of them). For control, there are two options - You can use the app/web page/iphone/ta
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by sponaugle 7y ago
For the wiring path, I did exactly that. In each room the speakers in the wall/ceiling route first to a junction box in the wall, then from there to a central location. That allows central control, or if needed local to room control
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by sponaugle 7y ago
I really considered that approach.. using a port for each zone or speaker set. The only downside is cost if you have a lot of speakers or zones. I did 38 speakers, so if I did 19 ports that would be $8500, and take up a lot of room. I do
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by sponaugle 7y ago
Indeed I thought a lot about that while working on the zoning. The HTD system by default can do 12 zones (with as many speakers as you want). I suspect it would be rare to have more than 2 or 3 different sources across all of those zones
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by sponaugle 7y ago
I am just finishing up building a new house, and so many people suggested the same thing (use sonos). Since it was new construction I put in 38 dedicated room speakers all wired to a central distribution system with good old speaker wire.