wumbernang

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by wumbernang 11y ago
Google "jim Williams bench". I'm nothing :)
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by wumbernang 11y ago
1. Little explanation of how anything actually works which is crucial for intuition. 2. Some of the fundamentals are actually wrong, particularly in Getting Started in Electronics. 3. It deals with basic construction and very basic fundamen
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by wumbernang 11y ago
These aren't great to be honest. I've scanned through them in the past and there's a ton of missing stuff. You can read these and know what stuff is and how it works but not how to use it or any practical concerns. This is ju
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by wumbernang 11y ago
I've built commercial designs using that approach no problems at all. Most of my crap is built on PCB blanks and I have to spend some time reverse engineering it after I'm done. Picture straight off my bench: http://i.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Seriously it's completely fine in the digital domain if the boards are relatively new, aren't crap (i.e. are Wisher/3M boards without those awful phosphor bronze contacts) and you're under about 10MHz and have enough dec
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Windows has by far the best solution to this since Windows Vista/2008 server. Full instance control provided by the OS, fully scriptable with powershell, desired state configuration (like ansible), clustering, logging, fully event driv
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by wumbernang 11y ago
I went from two 22" screens and an Aeron, neck ache, back ache and eyestrain to one 12" screen at 1280x800 and no problems. I RDP to the big workstation connected to the monitors and use my laptop as a terminal. I get to move arou
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by wumbernang 11y ago
I thought that. Then living in the UK our first 32-bit ARM personal computers turned up in 1987. They even ran rings around high end Unix kit. And here I am in 2015 typing this on a 32-bit ARM A7...
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by wumbernang 11y ago
This. We use microservices but we do allow services to call services. All endpoint and data contracts exist separately to services and are used by both the service provider (server) and a consumer so all internal contracts are enforced. Tha
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by wumbernang 11y ago
When I was at school we were supposed to build a robot that put out a candle. Basically an LDR guided squirter. Mine used an aerosol and a lighter until I got told off. Someone had to relight the candles. So that idea is right up my street
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Interesting - thanks for pointing it out. I was completely unaware of that. Going to go and play with it on my win10 test box now :)
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by wumbernang 11y ago
That's really nice. This is a royal PITA with .net and nuget and I've get to find a half decent solution that allows you to actually have the source rather than a bunch of symbol-less dll dependencies or a ridiculous build stack.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
We are indeed a rotten place but its not because of CCTV and surveillance. This is just a symptom of deeper problems in society.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Indeed. This was in in early 00's for ref. I think it should be compared. Hockley is right at the bottom of "Wells Road" at the arse end of St Annes and was a notorious shit hole in the early 00s. Genuinely surprised they man
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by wumbernang 11y ago
To be fair, as an ex-Nottingham resident, putting a CCTV camera up made life better for us. There were crack whores jacking up on heroin on my doorstep because there was a light there. Eventually I took the bulb out. Mapperley Road for refe
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Hahahaha. That's such a good film and a good reference too.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Actually most of it is talk, then a hastily pushed through bill, then a technological measure, then a pile of consultancy, then a pile of tendering, then armies of consultants filing expenses for 5 years, then a royal fuck up due to nothing
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Upvote for funny. Its pretty ok on O2 4G for me. Everything else seems congested.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Better cover your face as well. There are 11 cameras within 50m of my house in London.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
It is exactly taxes of others. There is no taxation on welfare technically speaking as you didn't create any value to have tax removed from. One of the things that is explicitly allocated from my taxation is policing. In some states&#x
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Actually a better way to deal with the world is to chip in and honestly reap the benefits of hundreds of years of civilisation, industrialisation and the general improvement in quality of life. I mean we can all have that attitude, live off
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by wumbernang 11y ago
No I'm comparing the culture here and there. I'm interested to see if a more technically inclined forum has a different set of morals and work ethics. She is my wife's sister for reference. You're probably right about be
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Star trek has all the answers. (Hint: Facetious :)
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by wumbernang 11y ago
What is so wrong: It's dishonest. Dishonest as she has built her life on a web of lies at the extreme cost of others. Everything she owns is on credit and has no intention of paying for it for example. If she's short of cash, her
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Glad to hear that there are people who think the same.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Another stupid product which exists for the sake of technology. $3000 for a fucking oven. Seriously. For that you can get a professional kitchen oven with decent warm up time, is easy to clean and serviceable for a couple of decades without
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by wumbernang 11y ago
I was going to write a diatribe about how my sister-in-law manages to get a three bedroom semi in Berkshire in the UK, has a nice 60" television and an iphone 6 and hasn't worked a day since 1998 nor has her numerous partners, her
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by wumbernang 11y ago
That's the price of running a community on the internet. Bear in mind I've run forums with 50,000+ subscribers and was an EFnet and Quakenet IRC op.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Agree. Hellbanning is a step too far. If you're going to ban someone, just kill their account honestly, not let them toil away posting.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
What really makes the difference in how gifted someone is[1], comes down to wanting to do the job because they enjoy it and being able to improve themselves. Not gender, race, socio-politics, genderists or media pressure. [1] Is that even m

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