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by taffronaut 4y ago
A bassoon. I'm not a pro, I'm not even that good although I did all the exam grades ... some time ago. I haven't always stuck at it but I keep going back to it. I didn't need to keep it but I'm glad I did.
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by taffronaut 4y ago
I wonder how they do the unique 64 bit ID in a 10c part.
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by taffronaut 4y ago
Hay does have a lot of secondhand bookshops and their existence has elevated a small backwater of a town into a successful tourist destination. However, in recent years a lot of bookshops have closed - becoming antique/curio shops inst
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by taffronaut 4y ago
Margins in the auto industry are tight and manufacturers are seeing software as their saviour. Hence we see software features allowing you to 'subscribe' to e.g. heated seats. There's hope in auto manufacturers for the "
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by taffronaut 4y ago
How should we rank stupidity versus corruption? My point is that we are outraged at this guy's transparently stupid act, but I opine that we would be less outraged (or not even notice) if he was corrupt to the same extent that he is st
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by taffronaut 4y ago
If he had invested in a corrupt opaque investment that by design lost $50M into the pocket of a wealthy supporter, everyone would've shrugged and said "business as usual".
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by taffronaut 4y ago
That's a real contrast. The current site is a shadow of its former self. The new stuff doesn't even seem to be paid-for placement - just lame outsourced copy.
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by taffronaut 4y ago
Often Kafakaesque is used as hyperbole, but this description is pretty apt: "What's Kafkaesque ... is when you enter a surreal world in which all your control patterns, all your plans, the whole way in which you have configured yo
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by taffronaut 4y ago
Every time I take a can of soda from the fridge, I replace it with two. I exhort my colleagues to do the same. However we have yet to reach my goal of 2^64 cans which makes me suspect there are some bad apples.
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by taffronaut 4y ago
I was once asked to fill out a detailed questionnaire at work for a personality type test administered by a 3rd party (Taibi Kahler model). We were told the result would be confidential. Then my boss asked to see my report - telling me that
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by taffronaut 4y ago
> Senozhatsky posted a pointer to a repository containing a CAM implementation, but that code is only enlightening in the vaguest terms. There is no documentation and no drivers actually implementing this API. It is highly abstracted; as
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by taffronaut 4y ago
I respectfully disagree. Brokers are a subset of middlemen. In many industries the role of a broker is well-defined and often regulated. A middleman can be a broker, an agent, a facilitator, price comparison site, wholesaler or any other in
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by taffronaut 4y ago
It would be useful to know what the attraction is, since if you try to create an alternative, it might not be satisfying enough in the key aspect. Bath faucets are quite large, maybe the water output is quite chaotic, there's a signifi
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by taffronaut 4y ago
From BBC Engineering in the 1970s: NTSC - "Never Twice the Same Colour" (US) SECAM - "System Exactly Contrary to the American Method" (France) PAL - "Perfection At Last" (UK - BBC of course)
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by taffronaut 4y ago
Non-exhaustive list of places I will happily drink bad/instant coffee: - community centres where the coffee is made by volunteers and typically costs 50 pence - anywhere that I'm invited into a social group that includes drinking
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by taffronaut 4y ago
I worked on an industrial process monitoring system using CP/M in the 80s. It wasn't on CPC. It ran on a professional Z80-based S100 bus system with lots of I/O cards.
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by taffronaut 4y ago
I borrowed this book from a library at age 10 or so - 50 years ago. As a kid, when we went on holiday as a family the first thing we would do would be to visit the library at our destination and get 'visitor tickets'. I was an onl
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by taffronaut 4y ago
Absolutely this. It was my misfortune to lay off teams of 20+ 3 times. You are the instrument. In that moment, they will want to hate you and you shouldn't try to deflect it. Do everything you can constructively behind the scenes to im
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by taffronaut 4y ago
> Their revenue growth and revenues in general are tiny what $2.8 billion, and mostly restricted to licensing/royalties. Their business IS licensing and royalties > The landscape is shifting by adopting the Big Little structure,
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by taffronaut 4y ago
I guess if you'd choose a mobile phone over soap, then you're exclusively into virtual socialising rather real socialising.
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by taffronaut 4y ago
Trusted Firmware is an open governance project[1] and you build it from source. It's not 'required' by Arm. It's perfectly possible to boot without it, as demonstrated by most if not all Qualcomm CPUs. [1] www.trustedfir
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by taffronaut 4y ago
I suggest that the reason that the item is staying in Texas on display at the San Antonio Museum of Art for about a year is that it's going to take that long to complete the paperwork to export it to Germany. It has to pass through a b
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by taffronaut 4y ago
I started out programming on the fx-502p (the numeric only ancestor of the 602) and I had the cassette/music interface. IIRC the 502 had only 1 branch instruction - BNE.
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by taffronaut 4y ago
Why not find the person who makes those "arbitrary and weird decisions to make the boss and customers happy"? (i) tell them that the decisions look arbitrary and weird from where you are standing, (ii) ask them why they make them.
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by taffronaut 4y ago
Could you add some power-saving features to emulate a 7555?
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by taffronaut 5y ago
Collective action on a small scale (like the Florida Panther) or on a larger scale like the worldwide ban on the ivory trade has been effective. We have to pick our battles. 'Deserves' may not be the best word, but it signifies th
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by taffronaut 5y ago
Forget the recruiter pipeline unless he can find a recruiter (also an older person) who will take the challenge. He might be able to network with older coders in order to find companies that value older workers. Look for local tech greyhair
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by taffronaut 5y ago
I expect to stay connected periodically on FB to hear about deaths and funerals. For the generation that embraced it, communicating the fact of death seems mostly done over FB.
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by taffronaut 5y ago
It's installed into a cabinet, so there's no quick access for a visiting technician to get to the back panel, let alone the internals, in case they need to access a debug port to reflash it.
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by taffronaut 5y ago
Books or writing on negotiation generally and appreciating that when it comes to management, negotiation is everywhere.

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