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by xondono 7y ago
As an engineer myself (EE) I disagree completely with OP. Engineering is mostly about making tradeoffs. It’s not that software does things different that other engineering fields, it’s just that it faces different cost structures. Bridges,
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by xondono 7y ago
While I’m sure it works for the OP, I’m guessing most other options would work. My take is that this approach just moves the discussion to what qualifies as “fun money” or should come out of the shared account. Maybe it’s because we are too
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by xondono 7y ago
Yes, because that never goes wrong... Maybe it’s because I’m a hardware guy, but if anything, agile has normalized a lot of bad practices (like developing before getting any specs) that can only be made to work in software development.
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by xondono 7y ago
I’m more concerned with how long this thing is going to last.
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by xondono 7y ago
If there’s journals that only publish interesting results, these get more attention. Researchers trying to score points aim to be published by these. This gives them incentives to try new stuff, disregard boring results (like negative resul
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by xondono 7y ago
Also, github pages require a public repository (or a pro account), Netlify + github doesn’t
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by xondono 7y ago
Nice theme, I built one some months ago I found none to my taste, so I modified my own https://xaviondono.com/ Now I just need to start writing
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by xondono 7y ago
It is if you are standardizing documentation. I don’t expect FAQs in the main website. https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.0.0/complement-lang-faq.html
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by xondono 7y ago
The critical part is understanding that confidentiality is temporal. All “secrets” are eventually revealed, security is about managing the risks and timing associated with this revelations
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by xondono 7y ago
I know this comment adds nothing of value but I have to quote it anyway “Service guarantees citizenship, want to know more?”
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by xondono 7y ago
Security by obscurity is no security
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by xondono 7y ago
Content generation can be automated if you know what you are doing. Also, it’s not only about content but about proper timing and strategy in your communications.
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by xondono 7y ago
What I’m wondering is how many of those people complaining on the Twitterverse did so while driving or otherwise putting others at risk. We live to think we’d do otherwise, but if we are honest with ourselves, we know we’d do the same..
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by xondono 7y ago
>Professional setup has much tighter tolerance than 3dB. To comply with CISPR (as an example), a lab only has to validate <4.5dB (in the 30 MHz to 300 MHz range), and up to 5.2 dB (from 30 MHz to 1 GHz). See for instance [1]. By the w
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by xondono 7y ago
If you have a decent oscilloscope, you can actually get pretty far with that and some DIY probes.
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by xondono 7y ago
The problem is that even with a professional setup you should expect about +/-3dB tolerances. Since there’s no expectation of that uncertainty being systematic, taking a relative change pushes your error bars +3dB. That 6dB drop is und
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by xondono 7y ago
Yes, I got that, but if you are closing a design loop around a noisy, bad aimed target, you'll get worse results.
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by xondono 7y ago
While it's a nice hack, the problem with the EM certification world (and why it's so expensive) is not about the devices themselves but about calibration and measurement stability. Most EE will be able to guess the patterns this s
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by xondono 7y ago
my takes from my +10 years on this sector: - Unless you are building something with high volumes (or something trivially easy), development costs are going to be your biggest expense by far, specially firmware/software. - Using cheap p
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by xondono 7y ago
You do realize that covering 10% of the planet in solar panels is the start of a Dyson sphere right? Just push it up to 100% and start adding "fake" planets until a sphere is formed. :) Jokes aside, "A truly advanced civiliza
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by xondono 8y ago
The article completely forgets that one of the greatest strengths in video compression is temporal compression (how much a frame is similar to the previous). Blizzards/snow/rain tend to add randomness to the pictures, greatly redu
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by xondono 8y ago
You have earned yourself a virtual high five, and a redeemable beer if we ever met in person :) Thank you for showing this to me.
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by xondono 8y ago
I would pay a decent amount just to get Omnifocus working on windows and linux machines.
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by xondono 8y ago
It's certainly a surprise for a government to go this route, though I'm not that optimistic. If I understand it correctly, it just means that the surcharge needs to appear in the price listing, so I'd assume that customers wi
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by xondono 8y ago
AFAIK the main issue is that people with disabilities usually require bendable straws. Reusable and bendable typically makes the straw hard to clean.
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by xondono 8y ago
And it's 100% a problem for people with coeliac disease
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by xondono 8y ago
Why do we have to play such word games around Islam? When someone plants a bomb and claims to do it for christianity, I call that "Christian terrorism". When someone plants a bomb and claims to do it for islam, I call that "I
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by xondono 8y ago
I was once forced to change the initialization of all the structs in an old codebase that used them for almost everything. The senior programmer that requested the change came from the application world and used the same argument. When I to
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by xondono 8y ago
There’s a different between islamist and muslim...
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by xondono 8y ago
Are you serious? The hundreds dead in terrorist attacks aren’t evidence enough for you?

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