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by vibrolax 7y ago
I had 7 years of C# experience in 2015 when I had to make an unanticipated job change. With some trepidation, I took a position with another company in the same industry whose codebase was all vb.net. I used Telerik's code converter a
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by vibrolax 7y ago
Livermore CA fire station
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by vibrolax 7y ago
Cloning exists across every segment of the music making industry: guitars, amps, studio gear, mics, etc. Making a sustainable living as a creator of boutique instruments or equipment is a rare feat. My own take is that cheap clones allow p
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by vibrolax 7y ago
Having attended a high school with a poor math program, I had a similar struggle with math in university. My understanding would catch up maybe too late for a grade, but I kept progressing. Seven years into my career I got a job working f
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by vibrolax 7y ago
A therapist can confront you as a human being in way that no book, friend, or family member ever can. There are often truths about being human that one has difficulty accepting on the basis of logic. A trained human being can find a way t
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by vibrolax 7y ago
Over the course of 35 years developing software, I completed several circuits of pioneer/settler/planner loop. Learning to function well in all three domains was as important to increasing my professional value as learning differe
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by vibrolax 7y ago
Absolutely. I must have fused Saturn V with Falcon 9 in my brain. It's F9.
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by vibrolax 7y ago
They armed the FTS, as they would need that if the range safety officer needed to do that. But it was not needed or used by the RSO.
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by vibrolax 7y ago
1) the Dragon initiated the F5 booster shutdown when its sensors detected that it had reached the pre-programmed abort velocity 2) the Dragon initiated the escape according to the abort sequence, not by ground command 3) the fireball was in
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by vibrolax 7y ago
To be a professional developer of embedded software, of course you need to be capable of dealing with things starting from the bare metal. Arduino is a recognition that many embedded software problems can be usefully solved above the regis
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by vibrolax 7y ago
Most of Arduino's value proposition is easy programmability by non-professionals, with a vast library of examples. Cheap and powerful STM32 boards have been around for years about as long as arduino, supported by a number of free tool
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by vibrolax 7y ago
The civil air transport airframe business environment was brutal long before Carter and Reagan. Look at the history of Lockheed, Convair, Dehavilland, etc. in the development of passenger jets during the 50's, 60's, and early 70&#
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by vibrolax 7y ago
Exactly. Many years before everyone started buying computer controlled home audio playback devices, hobbyists and pros built or bought their digital audio workstations whose buss interfaces and device drivers made them subject to rapid for
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by vibrolax 7y ago
I tried 3 times to read Gravity's Rainbow in proper order, but couldn't get engaged. Finally, I just started skipping forward reading portions of pages until I found something I found interesting. Eventually made it to the end, s
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by vibrolax 7y ago
Most of the distance racers I have known (including myself) will simply keep increasing training intensity and/ or duration until they suffer an injury that interrupts that. Proper equipment, running mechanics, and training practice a
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by vibrolax 7y ago
In sympathy with labor, my wife refuses to use self checkout systems. She says they're not paying her to do that job. When store managers or employees attempt to direct her to the automat, she refuses and lets them know why. They&#x
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by vibrolax 7y ago
Canadian Tire stocks a larger selection of kitchen utensils, cookware, small electrics, glassware, etc. than Walmart. It's a big chunk of the store.
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by vibrolax 7y ago
As others have said, the hydrazine / nitrogen tetroxide propellant for the reaction control system is highly toxic. The retired space shuttle used the same type of propellants in its RCS, auxiliary power unit (APU) and orbital maneuve
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by vibrolax 7y ago
Yes, with deep learning model of Woodie Guthrie style and intention.
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by vibrolax 7y ago
I was fortunate to be able to spend about 7 hours a week on physical exercise when I was racing. My family was very accommodating for this, but my modest physical talents did not justify any more investment. I never felt the pull for Ultra
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by vibrolax 7y ago
I agree that longer runs are better predictors than 5k's. I was limited to about 45 miles over 4 days per week to avoid injury, so you may be in a better position. The marathon is a multidimensional challenge, so there are lots of le
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by vibrolax 7y ago
Congratulations on qualifying for Boston. I found "Jack Daniel's Running Formula" an invaluable resource in learning how to obtain the best performance from your body. His V-Dot fitness estimator can predict your marathon t
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by vibrolax 7y ago
Did you want to make hifi amps, or guitar amps? The electronics knowledge and construction techniques are nearly 100% transferrable, but the design lore diverges, and the online DIY communities can be very diverse. I've built a dozen
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by vibrolax 7y ago
Saved/invested money is stored freedom, i.e. ability to choose how to live. The social safety net provided (or not) by others can be changed or withdrawn by the perfidy of government. It can be great when it works, but when it doesn&
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by vibrolax 7y ago
His role in the Spanish civil war sounds like a model for the protagonist of Hemingway's "For whom the Bell tolls".
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by vibrolax 7y ago
Aside from the privacy issue, all these cloud-connected devices become bricks when the manufacturer goes bust, discontinues the "service", or decides you need to buy a new one because they've deemed yours obsolete.
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by vibrolax 7y ago
I'm 60+. I've just finished 8 months of French integration for adult immigrants in Québec in Gatineau (across the river from Ottawa). Five days per week, 6 hours per day for 40 weeks. My wife (francophone) loves to hear me make
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by vibrolax 7y ago
Formerly, I couldn't finish any of my side projects or fitness goals. I deduced that I needed to learn how to finish things. So I reset my goals to be things I could finish well without much probability of encountering big demotivato
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by vibrolax 7y ago
Agree that the book is timeless on its own. But every time I re-read it, Malcom McDowell provides Alex's voice. One of my Russian speaking colleagues was highly amused when I spoke to him in Nadsat. Because Nadsat is uses standard Eng
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by vibrolax 7y ago
The dream of starting fresh is perhaps one of the defining pillars of modernism. Software architecture and development contends with the same forces.

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