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by vvanders 7y ago
I run cable with WISP as fallback, their ping times in pfSense gateway monitoring for 1.1.1.1 are within ~5ms of each other. Point to point can be faster than cable due to fiber/copper running at a fraction of the speed of light. That&
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by vvanders 7y ago
Not really, the 85D weighs nearly the same as our Ram 1500 EcoDiesel(taken both to the dump scales at one point or another). It really does come down to the fact that you brake in the 5-10mph range on the EV(or not at all in stop/go tr
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by vvanders 7y ago
My anecdotal evidence of ~90k miles on our EV says yes. A coolant flush, tires and windshield wiper fluid are the only things I've done in that time. Compare that with Brakes, Oil changes, Transmission service, DPF + DEF and the host o
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by vvanders 7y ago
Yup, similar thing in model rocketry circles for similar reasons.
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by vvanders 7y ago
It's covered a little in the TAL episode on NUMMI[1]. There's also a bit of it involved with TWI[2][3]. I'd read some other interesting things about skill transfer post-WW2 with the Marshall Plan but having trouble finding th
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by vvanders 7y ago
W. Deming also played a pretty large role too[1]. The whole history around Lean/Kaizen/etc is pretty fascinating. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
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by vvanders 7y ago
The big difference for FPGAs from GPUs is that you pay a power cost for that flexibility(both in SRAM, and LUTs). Heck, even most modern FPGAs include a fixed function for multiply operations and the like. Unless your doing something with
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by vvanders 7y ago
They're completely different use cases. When you have a dedicated frequency it's robust to a lot of common failure cases. Take the Boston Marathon Bombing, of all the communication infrastructure Amateur Radio was one of the few t
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by vvanders 7y ago
Assuming this is legit that's a BFD for the ham community. 144-146Mhz is probably the most active band given the low cost of equipment and high utility due to not being dependent on the solar cycle.
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by vvanders 7y ago
I've had the same thought about rotary motors, they're interesting beasts and I wonder what we'd see if they had the same R&D investment like we saw in piston engines. Alas I think that ship has sailed, aside from energy
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by vvanders 7y ago
It's deceptive, if you're going to advertise a price make it clear that the price is online only.
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by vvanders 7y ago
In that vein the Saleae Logic[1] are really awesome, the prices went up recently but they're the real deal, next step up from them gets into the $X,000/$XX,000 range very quickly. [1] https://www.saleae.com/
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by vvanders 7y ago
Really not seeing how they pull this off. Even a couple of congested wifi channels is enough to put latency jitter into the connection that's noticable. Back in gamedev we did all sorts of tricks with dead reckoning and the like to hid
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by vvanders 7y ago
Yup, as someone who wrote action networked games when I was in gamedev this is pretty on point. You're not going to get any chance at latency correction so jitter(which tends to be bursty) on the connection is going to really hurt you.
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by vvanders 7y ago
In all my gamedev I've found that the best structure was how Lua does meta-tables. You can then use that simple mechanism to implement inheritance, component based design, message passing or whatever structure makes the most sense for
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by vvanders 7y ago
Honestly I'd love to go the other way, the Lua VMs are so far ahead in terms of portability, ease of integration and speed(luajit is still a marvel of engineering) but so many people are turned off by parts of the language it'd be
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by vvanders 7y ago
Bandwidth doesn't help you with HAAT[1] and the fact that you need to build out towers every couple miles or more depending on your terrain. Towers are not cheap to build or maintain, if you only get a couple hundred people per tower i
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by vvanders 7y ago
I'm not sure how solving problems with multi-path and/or LOS helps here. The fundamental problem with rural is that the $ invested : customers served($ out) is drastically lower as population density diminishes.
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by vvanders 7y ago
Yeah, I've always interpreted the "loosely held" part to be not strong in your presentation and display skepticism in your own solutions. Sometimes it helps to just put a stake in the sand to kickstart a conversation. What he
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by vvanders 7y ago
Even with a MEE your Homeowner's policy may deny a claim due to non-UL listed components installed along the mains. I won't touch electrical on my house and will happily contract it out to a license+bonded electrician for the exac
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by vvanders 7y ago
I don't think that's true, especially since it was specifically called out that this glue work is what senior engineers do a lot of. To me senior engineers deal with ambiguity and unclear ownership in a decisive way and that sound
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by vvanders 7y ago
https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/extensions/OES/OES_E... is the basic entry point on most the OpenGL ES platforms, elsewhere you get into platform-specific APIs. Mostly my point was the unified sy
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by vvanders 7y ago
Project management usually has a component of org/people politics that aren't (quite) as present in the IC role. At the end of the day your goal should be having impact (usually) by shipping something and people who do this glue w
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by vvanders 7y ago
That's basically the entire state of mobile(minus a few weird SoCs) and many game consoles, makes for a much more convenient development platform.
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by vvanders 7y ago
Huh that's cool, kinda of makes me wonder if the SPE[1] in Cell is somewhat of a great-grandchild of Channel I/O. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_%28microprocessor%29#Syne...
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by vvanders 7y ago
Yeah except that epic already prints money via their engine licenses and has since the days of UE3(when MS paid for the development of Gears while the rest of us licensees fended for ourselves mostly). There's literally no reason for t
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by vvanders 7y ago
> faulting them for becoming successful and relevant in the first place. Sorry but I'm going to call out bad work practices that run counter to building a better product when I see it regardless of the success. Crunch destroys liv
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by vvanders 7y ago
> Give bonuses to my employees, who are working their tails off, to prevent resentment. Especially in the over-worked video game industry. Hah. I've know a few people on break-away titles(on the level of fortnight for an era) in my
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by vvanders 7y ago
It's all in the culture. I did similar after a long drawn out crunch. Decided I was going home at 10pm rather than 11-12(after being in at 8am each day for the last 6 months). I was branded as 'not a team player' the whole te
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by vvanders 8y ago
C++ makes it really easy to corrupt the heap or stack which depending on tooling can take days or weeks to track down. I don't mind trading a bit of flexibility with and optional escape hatch (unsafe). I'm really skeptical of back

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