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by stevesimmons 2y ago
Thrilled to see this because I did my PhD in radar imaging, specifically autofocusing ISAR images. My thesis describes how the math of this all works, in chapters 3 and 4 of the PDF here: https://github.com/stevesimmons&#x2F
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> Is it still used in common English? pumpkin Though now I think about it, it's very odd diminutive. Pumpkins are large rather than small.
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
In which countries? 3G networks in many European countries were shut off in 2022-2024. The few remaining ones will go too over the next couple of years. VoLTE is 5G, common throughout Europe. However the handset manufacturer may need to qua
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
Bear in mind that's a measure of how backwards US banking is, not how advanced. In the UK, I can't remember the last time I wrote or received a cheque. Maybe twice in the 17 years I've been living here, and certainly not in t
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
Just plug in the Garmin watch to your computer, and its storage opens revealing sensibly named folders. You can open the folder named Activity and copy your sport files in FIT format. Everything else is JSON. No cloud account needed!
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
Portion sizes in the US are ridiculous... often 2-3x larger than here in Europe. When I regularly visited New York for work, and we'd get takeaway sandwiches, I'd have to open them and remove half the filling. I just couldn't
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
If you're Dutch, "ij" is a technically a single letter, and may sometimes be written as "y". (Traditionally, Dutch words are sorted alphabetically with "ij" treated as if it were "y". On my first
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
For backing up Android contacts, go to https://contacts.google.com/ on your phone or laptop. You can export everything as csv. Takes less than a minute It's well worth doing from time to time.
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
I've just started exploring analysing runs from my Garmin watch. In summary: - Attach watch to laptop via USB-C -> opens like a USB drive, showing all the config and activity data files. You aren't locked into Garmin Connect or
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
The Singapore Airlines clip says that one took 750 hours and had 3000 parts.
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
London City Airport (LCY) has a very short runway with an approach right next to houses and apartment buildings. If the weather is very windy, especially with cross-winds, they are quick to cancel or divert flights. I was once in a plane th
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
Conversely, it can be amazingly rare to break out of these local maxima. For instance, it took 60 million years from the first trees until the appearance of the right fungi able to decompose the lignin in wood. (Coal deposits arose because
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
Though even in this case, it is enormously more efficient to simply sum the first billion integers rather than find an analytic solution via a 405b parameter LLM...
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
It would have been nice if the authors quantified the key dimensions they were solving for... How many production sites, how many products able to be produced per site, how many orders to be computed per day.... Without those, it's har
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
What's wrong with their use of "tariff"? Looks fine to me!
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
As someone who knows only that QNX is a RTOS and that "real time" is good in some vague hand-wavy way, I found this 2015 comment a very succinct, concrete and illuminating description of one aspect of QNX's architecture that
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
This is a fascinating article about arithmetic calculations during the transition from Roman to Arabic numerals in 1500-1600 England. Well worth reading. Full of historical surprises. "Without nomberynge a man can do almost nothynge. W
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
It's called alcohol
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
Or they buy the phone with a credit contract, as happens in the rest of the world. If the major telcos only offer exorbitant interest rates, some other player will step in and offer the credit at better rates that fairly price the risk.
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
And presumably the size of cells is partly determined by constraining enough of the right things close enough together, so they will bump into each other quickly enough with probability approaching 1.
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
What's really wrong with try/except here other than it's not to your personal taste? Brett Cannon, one of the Python core devs, wrote a blog post using exactly this dict KeyError example in 2016 [1]. It concludes: "The k
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
And Azure Functions still doesn't support Python 3.12, released more than a year ago!
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
Linked from that page is this very nice description of how the Apple 2 disk operating system was written. In 7 weeks, on punch cards and paper tape! https://computerhistory.org/blog/apple-ii-dos-source-code/
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
Thank you for that description. It brought back very fond memories of my teenage years. I had friends with TRS-80s and visited Radio Shack monthly for their free batteries. I had a VIC-20 though, and a few years later the Apple //
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
So FCA regulation of CPAP machines just gets in the way of people getting what they need? How about Philips Respironics have to recall something like 15 million CPAP devices in 2021 because they contained foam liable to disintegrate and whi
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
It does happen. My sister lost two dogs from poisoned meat someone put in their local park. They ran into the bushes, must have eaten something, started frothing at the mouth, and 15 minutes later both were dead. Apparently a number of othe
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
For anyone wanting some more explanation, ChainMap can be used to build nested namespaces from a series of dicts without having to explicitly merge the names in each level. Updates to the whole ChainMap go into the top-level dict. The docs
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
For those who haven't seen Knuth's own analysis of his errors while writing TeX, it's well worth reading his 1989 article "The Errors of TeX" [1] and glancing through the full chronological list of errors [2]. [1]
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by stevesimmons 2y ago
When you have a potentially life-threatening allergy, everything involves calculations about potential risks and tradeoffs, all the way back up the supply chain to the farm. Otherwise you're condemned to staying home with no social lif
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Is there a Python eqivalent?

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