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by tezzer 7y ago
I picked up this half keyboard for $30 at an embedded conference in Boston probably 15 years ago. It's amazing how quickly your brain 'gets' it and your typing speed ramps up: https://matias.ca/halfkeyboard&#
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by tezzer 7y ago
Yes, and a couple of other things- the water acts as an RF ground plane, so different sea states experience this differently; the humidity in the first few inches off the surface is enough to affect signal performance; and mist and spray fr
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by tezzer 7y ago
The ocean's a big place, and really hard to operate in. I'm looking forward to seeing how low power the terminals end up consuming!
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by tezzer 7y ago
I'm reminded of an old mentor's saying: One is an anomaly, two is a coincidence, three is a pattern. I'd be interested to know the causes and the effects of the temperature rise that makes you think this one is no big deal.
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by tezzer 7y ago
Characterizing the effect of near-surface humidity and wave action on Ka/Ku band satellite transmissions from a surfboard-sized autonomous swimming vessel. I have a little sensor platform, and customers that want it to do a whole lot
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by tezzer 7y ago
"not unusual" is a little facetious, don't you think? Vinther was studying a drastic loss of polar ice in reaction to a historical (unexplained?) sudden rise in temperature, and raising an alarm in light of our current warmin
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by tezzer 7y ago
From NOAA: "In the 200-plus years since the industrial revolution began, the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has increased due to humans burning fossil fuels (such as car emissions) and changing the way land is
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by tezzer 7y ago
This was 14.04 as well, on a Tegra (armhf) system. eta: looked up the ticket, customer reported "when trying to delete any files, even as root, btrfs says "cannot remove"", field engineering observed the same.
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by tezzer 7y ago
Good trick, I'll save that one. Thanks!
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by tezzer 7y ago
I've had one issue with btrfs that took it off my radar completely. A customer had a runaway issue that filled a btrfs device with unimportant things. We found the errant process and killed it, but apparently if a btrfs device is com
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by tezzer 7y ago
That makes sense, good luck with it!
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by tezzer 7y ago
Interesting idea! The name is a little hard to take seriously with the misspelling. Some of the reviews are very detailed with expected salary ranges and career progressions, and others are really sparse- the Sales Engineer for example, or
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by tezzer 7y ago
Liquid Robotics | Sr. Software, Sr. Systems, Systems, Manufacturing | Onsite | Full Time | U.S. only Liquid Robotics builds autonomous, wave- and solar- powered maritime sensor vehicles that return real-time data from the open ocean to cust
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by tezzer 7y ago
I work around RF sources professionally. I'm intensely interested in any biological effect of the radiation I work around. I have access to journals through work and my old university, and I read primary sources with great interest (a
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by tezzer 7y ago
Only a third of Americans -have- a 401k, and only 13% have pensions.
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by tezzer 7y ago
Liquid Robotics | Sunnyvale | US Only | ONSITE entry level electrical | entry level firmware (linux,arm) | senior mechanical | senior software (Java, C++) | senior QA Liquid Robotics creates autonomous wave-powered ocean vehicles- remote se
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by tezzer 8y ago
If you're in Las Vegas, the National Atomic Testing Museum is very worth a visit. The last time I was there they had a traveling exhibit of Soviet nuclear propaganda that was fascinating, and there's a lot of info on Trinity and o
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by tezzer 8y ago
I liked it for the perspective of someone who grew up here, went to Silicon Valley elementary and high schools, saw the toll the culture took on her peers. Then left for college and came back for work. I think that perspective: "I s
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by tezzer 8y ago
Do you have any examples of such negative consequences, regulations for problems that went away (that became inconvenient after the fact), or dangerous and abusive regulations? Your objection sounds dogmatic, but if it's founded I&#x2
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by tezzer 8y ago
I think educational standards are saying this: To be a functional member of our society, you need to be well grounded in certain subjects. Reading, arithmetic, basic chemistry, basic physics, basic biology, history (local, your country, a
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by tezzer 8y ago
The "Paper Feed" section has 2 articles from 2018 and 2 from 2017. The most recent, "20 Years of Escaping the Java Sandbox" [1] is exactly what 16 year old me loved about phrack back in the day. [1] http://ww
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by tezzer 8y ago
400k doesn't sound so rare. The entire population of Tulsa OK, Wichita KS, or New Orleans, LA just drops dead every year?
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by tezzer 8y ago
I do. It's a good way to set expectations, see if they've gotten any interesting recommendations from coworkers, and see if we know anyone in common.
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by tezzer 8y ago
The concern, as expressed by the FCC, is that the satellites are so small they are hard for U.S. Space Command to track them. Which means we could approve a rocket launch where one of these rapid little beasties knocks out a window or caus
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by tezzer 9y ago
46 here, well employed and not worried. There are a lot of positions in Silicon Valley for older engineers. On the bias- most of the engineers who are my peers are men. The female engineers I've worked with in my 15 years in Califor
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by tezzer 9y ago
Where do you live? I've never had a bad experience with Kaiser in northern CA. Both of my children cost me $250 total for their entire pre-natal care and birth, all preventative care is free of co-pays, any time I call for an appoint
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by tezzer 9y ago
The first few are. If you can't pass them, you don't get to waste anybody else's time.
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by tezzer 9y ago
Unfortunately the CS trivia is necessary. In a previous job I interviewed people who snuck past the phone screen and would have wasted a ton of interviewer time if some CS-101 questions hadn't exposed near total ignorance of the highl
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by tezzer 9y ago
Same story here. I never would have known about my company if their internal recruiter hadn't reached out to me on LinkedIn. I blew him off the first time he reached out, saying 'not now, check back next year' and when he c
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by tezzer 9y ago
So I still won't be able to see my kids awake because of a 1.5 hour commute each way, but I'll be able to read the newspaper on the way to work? No thanks.

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