OldSchool

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by OldSchool 15d ago
Family and friends aren't impressed by experiments measuring C either...
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by OldSchool 15d ago
10 GS/sec is very impressive as far as I'm concerned! One sample every 20mm or so at typical transmission line speed. That said, anything with a floppy drive scares me because it undeniably indicates how old it is. My SDS7102V is
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by OldSchool 1mo ago
I am always reminded at a convenience store if I pick up a candy bar that some of my earliest memories include them costing 5 cents in the early 1970s that very quickly became 10 cents and by the late 70s, maybe 25 cents max for a standard
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by OldSchool 1mo ago
Mine are from 2011, R410a and on the rare occasion that it gets to 22F here in Austin, they are painfully ineffective!
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by OldSchool 1mo ago
Yep, electricity cost kills its viability in California.
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by OldSchool 1mo ago
Heat pumps are probably vastly under-installed in the southern part of the US because natural gas has been cheap and plentiful. If you live where natural gas isn't available your fuel option is propane. Propane tracks the price of gas
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by OldSchool 1mo ago
A very welcome service! Here's a request: I haven't tried the process, so maybe you do, but if you don't offer a variety of PCB materials you will potentially lose opportunity in the mmWave space where antennas are printed on
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by OldSchool 2mo ago
Excellent example of a creative effort that even includes the physical satisfaction of building a physical object! Sometimes that makes it way more fun (motivating), and actually probably helps you learn and understand whatever you're
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by OldSchool 2mo ago
I'm old, but I get this subjective read: of my friends and even family who had sons, they seemed smaller and less bold than we were 50 years ago.
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by OldSchool 3mo ago
I worked as consultant at a major west coast-based health insurer in 1993. A family plan, that is, two adults plus any number of children, was $300/month; a figure that wasn't far off from the cost of a studio or 1 BR apartment at
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by OldSchool 4mo ago
Interesting read, in effect, the live room level defined the envelope of the added reverb in the original discovery at least- I was not aware of this detail. Perhaps much more subtle and useful, (certainly more timeless...) is the technique
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by OldSchool 4mo ago
However... those professions are encouraged to donate basic human needs/rights to those without resources. Yes, even tradespeople donate their time to those in need sometimes, but normally only to those in need. Contrarily, open source
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by OldSchool 4mo ago
This has always confounded me when presented as a first choice when developing something with value. I can't think of any other fields with so much practical value where all participants are practically shamed for not giving away somet
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by OldSchool 4mo ago
As an electronics-enthusiast kid in the 70's, just before home computers showed up at all, I wished the 555 was for Time Travel
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by OldSchool 5mo ago
I will suggest that for sure it was way easier to get an engineering job in the 80's, 90's, even 00's. Offering one resume and getting one interview and one job offer soon after wasn't uncommon. I was an employer for a d
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by OldSchool 5mo ago
More "bad news" and from the man who helped create and then promote Agile to dilute the value of software developers by forcing software development out of the control freak's nightmare where it started: seemingly esoteric, n
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by OldSchool 6mo ago
When Alder Lake finally made a sizable jump, I looked at decades of old tests I'd done along the way with CPUs and tried to bridge them together reasonably. Between IPC (~50 to 100-fold improvement) and clock speed increases (1000-fold
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by OldSchool 7mo ago
IF the joules of energy in your EV battery came from gas-fired or coal-powered generation, a similar amount (~60%) was simply dumped somewhere else.
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by OldSchool 7mo ago
Kind of a stretch to suggest that an internal combustion vehicle requires 3x more "energy" to move it than an equally physics-burdened (weight, friction, etc) electric vehicle... This is only "true" if the energy stored
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by OldSchool 7mo ago
Well thank you for your input General Le May but the consensus is still that zero nukes is the best choice for humans in particular.
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by OldSchool 7mo ago
This is particularly true of a deep psychedelic experience "inside" with IV Ketamine. Your own internal processing will still determine how you perceive a perspective change, but specific to this idea in particular, you may for ex
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by OldSchool 7mo ago
Yes. For example, IV Ketamine can yield not only immediate relief in a chemical sense, the treatment itself results in a fully-aware, balls-tripping, metaphor and symbolism-filled, time and space-warping experience in an entirely fictional
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by OldSchool 7mo ago
The way I saw it in 1995 was that Delphi was the fastest way to create a full windows desktop app and do it as single compiled-to-native-code executable at that critical time it was released. The slightly-later 32-bit version was powerful a
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by OldSchool 7mo ago
"99 red balloons" sounds almost quaint and innocent, even ironically a bit darkly refreshing, with its portrayal of the relatively clear threat of cold war nuclear annihilation. Compare it to the constant flux of threats we now fa
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by OldSchool 7mo ago
If there was ever a time when the old Soviet Union could have won the Cold War... Fortunately for us, the window of top-down incompetence came far too late.
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by OldSchool 7mo ago
Wow in 2026, I got downvoted on Hacker News for liking the viscerally-appealing aspects of a classic Ferrari. Is nothing sacred?
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by OldSchool 7mo ago
After the 993, Porsche was a different company. Not exactly cheap-ass, but maybe something less than their often aircraft-quality mechanicals and spartan but hand-made quality interior.
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by OldSchool 7mo ago
I think I would be looking for that very real, confident and perfectly even vibration a Ferrari has at idle; the valve train song, an extra octave in the exhaust.
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by OldSchool 7mo ago
Well said!
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by OldSchool 7mo ago
that is certainly a reasonable paraphrase of my own prompt. I was also using 5.2. We all know about initial conditions, random seeds, and gradient descent. I have the transcript of what I quoted. Here's a bit more: --- Is That Still “O

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