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by wrigby 10y ago
This is an excellent overview of optical networking - one that I wish I had found years ago. As transceivers are getting cheaper, more and more industries are finding use for optical systems. Having a basic understanding of how these system
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I mostly agree on this, but I can also see how they got to a design that has this flaw. You can do better (more transparent, more adaptive, etc.) limiting in DSP than with a simple hardware circuit. Doing the limiting in the driver also sav
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by wrigby 10y ago
Oh definitely. I think the point is that the trend in automobile sales is toward a vast majority of new sales being electric cars, just as the trend in phones is towards smartphones[1], and those smartphones overwhelmingly resemble the firs
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by wrigby 10y ago
I think the argument is that the iPhone set the trend for what all phones looked and felt like (large, touchscreen-based devices that can run third party applications). Saying that the iPhone is a small minority of phones is similar to sayi
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by wrigby 10y ago
Often times corrosion on battery terminals, or loose connections to the bulb, can cause a flashlight to not turn on when you hit the button. In this case, hitting it into the palm of your hand a few times usually solves the problem, and the
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by wrigby 10y ago
A great example of this technique being used stylistically is Titanium by David Guetta (ft. Sia) - listen for the kick drum masking out all of the other instruments in the mix at the end of the chorus. In this case, it's used more as a
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by wrigby 10y ago
White noise is defined as having equal energy per frequency; that is, a 10hz wide slice of spectrum centered on 100hz will have as much energy in it as a 10hz wide slice of spectrum centered on 1khz. Pink noise has equal energy per octave;
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by wrigby 10y ago
I was going to post this one as well - it's my all time favorite. He does a great job of making truly funny, yet incredibly intelligent jokes.
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Agreed, which is my main complaint: the older (non-retina) MBP was better at sustained CPU usage (at least in my experience - this is 100% anecdotal and non-scientific). Apple used to produce a machine that was suited for the things I do, b
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by wrigby 10y ago
> Any iMac or MacBook Pro from the last 5 years is sufficient for any pro audio workflow. Just a few days ago, Pro Tools popped up the annoying "A CPU Overload Has Occurred" dialog box while I was working on a mix. Mid-2015 rMB
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by wrigby 10y ago
I've been really impressed with Richmond, VA. The tech scene is small, but pretty healthy. It's not my favorite weather, but it has four seasons, which is a plus. Great restaurants (some DC restaurant concepts get tested there fir
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I think the assumption is that he has in-demand skills that would be used in a job at home, while the work he would be doing overseas could be done by unskilled labor. Put another way, for a highly skilled technology worker, it is better to
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I truly have no clue. My direct experience is in network operations in the satellite communications industry, which tangentially exposed me to more traditional telcos. I couldn't speak with authority on what those buildings do nowadays
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That's a very good point - I wanted to point out that the issue is clear from a binary legal perspective, and my personal stance from an ethical perspective is that reproduction and distribution _should_ be the sole right of the origin
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by wrigby 10y ago
After studying copyright law for music business classes in college, I think that most conversations about piracy could be enhanced by a common understanding of some concepts that current (US) copyright law is based on. The most important, I
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by wrigby 10y ago
Having worked in the telco world for a bit, I wouldn't say that your description is unusual for a remote site. Generator backup is typical, and a switching office usually isn't manned, so it makes sense that they would arrange for
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by wrigby 10y ago
This is a ton of fun - thanks for sharing! Is there a way to detect shift? I noticed that when I tried to type exclamation points, it just shot a bunch of the 1 digit onto the screen.
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Show HN: A quick tool for dumping packet payloads from pcap files(github.com)
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by wrigby 10y ago
Just for the benefit of those looking for great coffee shops, you're speaking of Spyhouse in Minneapolis[1], right? 1: https://foursquare.com/v/spyhouse-coffee/52408489498e959bae4...
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by wrigby 10y ago
I agree, but I think GP is also considering the premium paid to live in a "walkable" area.
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I've been there, and I feel your pain. My boss wanted to use it as the source of truth for one of our monitoring systems. It was... ugly.
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This is from the same people that make Systems Toolkit (STK), which is well-known and used a lot in the space industry. They know what they're doing.
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The reused rocket will be used to launch SES-10 later this year, not AMOS-6. Source: http://spacenews.com/spacex-to-launch-ses-10-satellite-on-re...
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by wrigby 10y ago
My previous company used Okta, and it was a positive experience, though not overwhelmingly so. Web apps that don't integrate it are clunky, but there's no getting around that.
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I have tons of memories of playing Civilization with my brothers. We would leave the game board set up for weeks at a time and play it for a couple hours every day. It's frustrating to know that such a great board game was killed off b
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by wrigby 10y ago
I've been really happy using Pex[1] for releases, but it's not 100% perfect. It definitely feels less painful than other ways of doing things. At one point I used bdist_rpm for all of my projects, and then made sure I had all the
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by wrigby 10y ago
His videos are extremely entertaining, but his disregard for safety exaggerates the danger a little bit. My understanding is that most bridge rectifiers are put in a circuit after a step-down transformer, so they're operating on a much
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by wrigby 10y ago
Wouldn't 'Area 201' be a more confidence inspiring name, if we're sticking to HTTP status codes?
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by wrigby 10y ago
Moment is a fantastic library; I used it to build a world clock to go across the top of a display wall UI, and it made dealing with timezones in JS painless. Huge thanks to Tim for writing it!
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by wrigby 10y ago
Makes sense. I know FlightAware operates their own network of ADS-B receivers, which augments the FAA data. I should look into whether or not that changes things, but I imagine the SWIM data feed doesn't have many holes.

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