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by wiml 5y ago
The RFID readers I've dealt with show up as a tty (either an actual UART or something emulated over USB). Writing a small script to accept well formed input from the tty and then update your database, make an http request, or whatever
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by wiml 5y ago
Bitcoin speculation, probably.
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by wiml 5y ago
From what I remember this (at least used to) fall under the heading "operations research", which spawned a lot of mathematical tools used elsewhere like queueing theory. Related terms include supply chain engineering, logistics, i
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by wiml 5y ago
The asterisk is there to avoid writing the word out in full, like "G*d" or "f*ck". There was a time when Unix[1][2] was a trademarked name and if you used it you had to attribute it. If you wanted to refer to the general
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by wiml 5y ago
IIRC it dates to before we had things like media-query in CSS or other good ways to adapt the page load to the device.
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by wiml 5y ago
How does this compare to cjdns? Has anyone tried both?
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by wiml 5y ago
Title 47, part 15, holds the relevant regulations. Subparts 5, 15, and 23 are probably where you should start. TBH, if you keep your radiated power low and make a reasonable attempt not to interfere with other users (be aware of bands'
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by wiml 5y ago
Certificates contain a pair of absolute times in a Gregorian representation. The ASN.1 time format does support leap seconds (in the usual way, e.g., a time of 23:59:60) but I don't know if X.500 or PKIX restricts that.
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by wiml 5y ago
Storm shutters?
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by wiml 5y ago
Also helps when management decides to defer maintenance for a decade or two and someone drives a truck over it that's just a bit over the weight limit what could it hurt?
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by wiml 5y ago
Aren't there also a bunch of alloys like Kovar that have expansion pretty similar to borosilicate's?
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by wiml 5y ago
I think Tacitus had a similar anecdote about the Germans. (Even without getting drunk, I've always found it useful to consider a hard decision once analytically and once intuitively, and if I don't agree with myself, think about i
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by wiml 5y ago
We also figured out how to make direct glass-to-metal joints at some point. Widely used in mass-manufactured stuff, but I think you can also buy just a glass-to-metal transition or feedthrough by itself if you're doing custom glasswork
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by wiml 5y ago
It's definitely partly that, but it's also that the reading experience for many articles is atrocious. If I click the comments link, I get to the comments immediately — perhaps incomplete, uninformed, argumentative, but they'
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by wiml 5y ago
I don't think it's implying anything like that — it's just implying that there is better UX somewhere out there in the design space.
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by wiml 5y ago
Too resistive, or at least, higher than what they were aiming for. You can compensate by making traces wider to get a lower resistance from the same resistivity, or by running circuits slower (digital circuit speed is often limited by the R
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by wiml 5y ago
Apparently the comparisons aren't simple enough that people get them right, though.
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by wiml 5y ago
It's a form of attempting to disconfirm your beliefs. If it's easy to put together an argument against yourself that you can't rebut, then it's a sign you need to think more. And you can't do that well unless you&#x
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by wiml 5y ago
Common Voice ( https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/ ) is one such project. I've urged the people I know who have less-common accents to contribute, but I'm not sure they have. Good, high quality, wide coverage, labele
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by wiml 5y ago
The argument is just an array of unsigned longs, each bit of which represents one file descriptor — there's no magic in there. The add/remove macros just do the typical shift-and-mask style bit twiddling. You can pass a bigger or
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by wiml 5y ago
> People tend to forget that it's the value of the fds you pass to select() which can't exceed FD_SETSIZE Is that true? I have a memory of working on systems where you can pass larger arrays in if you want, you just have to all
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by wiml 5y ago
Or the adhesive paste of the same name.
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by wiml 5y ago
From what I remember, all of the phases of sleep are essential — if you suppress any of them, the person becomes unwell (possibly even dies). That includes the REM phase in which we sleep. I don't know if you can arrange to have health
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by wiml 5y ago
I think they're from Leo Brodie's _Starting Forth_, which I also read as a kid.
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by wiml 5y ago
Cloud providers like AWS will do data import/export via racks of drives in a shipping crate, if you have that much data. [1] (Or just a few drives in the mail if you're not moving petabytes.) On the other end of the enterpriseynes
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by wiml 5y ago
You might be interested in the SNARC [1], a very early neural network machine. Each neuron was a few vacuum tubes, weights were stored in potentiometers, and training was done through a system of belts and electromechanical clutches to adju
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by wiml 5y ago
According to the pypy people, the type annotations also don't provide the kind of information the JIT wants. The JIT cares about things like "this integer fits into a machine word" and "this parameter can be None but i
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by wiml 6y ago
Many of those provisions are unenforceable in the USA as well (it varies by state). But there's no rule that says that boilerplate contracts can't contain intimidating-but-ineffectual language simply to discourage people.
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by wiml 6y ago
The article headline has been simplified a bit[1]; the storms in question are geomagnetic storms[2]. Geomagnetic storms are perturbations of Earth's magnetic field by changes in the solar wind (i.e. solar storms). Having a high-spati
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by wiml 6y ago
It is already mentioned in Project Lovelace's About page, but people who like this and Project Euler may also like Rosalind, which is a programming problem site focused on bioinformatics and adjacent algorithms.

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