OnlyOneCannolo

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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
The problem was that they had so little room for error. But I guess landing a rocket vertically on a heaving ship is also tricky, so maybe the problem is surmountable.
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
Do you happen to remember any specific textbook? I'd be interested to see an example, assuming that they're still available in some format.
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
It's a general rule of thumb, so it wouldn't apply to proper nouns, but I did edit to specify verbs rather than all words in general. I do appreciate the irony that the example I chose breaks that guideline.
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
Unless it's a verb that ends with -ano. In that case, stress the preceding consonant. It's kind of like the difference between urAnus and Uranus. There are other exceptions, but that's the most common and important one.
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
There's also a floating point expression generator that tries to make your calculations more accurate, but it doesn't seem to give an analysis like this. These two tools would seem to go well together. https://herbie.uw
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
Tilting your head to look at opposite edges of the screen can irritate the neck.
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
It's a simple and general method that works in many domains, which is an usual combination. The other ways of solving the example of arbitrary heat sources and sinks on a plate range from hacky combinations of simpler methods, to tedio
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
I've read the USB PD spec. What's wrong with it? It seems ok to me compared to other specs. And yeah it's long, but different sections are for different people with different roles. In my anecdotal experience, the problem is
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
True. I take back what I wrote for being too reductive. Well said.
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
Edit: Retracting my whole comment for being wrong.
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
That's not at all what I'm saying. Aside from web development, most professional tools are only used by professionals because they cost money. It wouldn't make sense to judge something by the free toy versions that happen to
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
I think they're saying that the switch was justified because the workforce is no longer familiar with Ada.
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
Ada is mostly used by professionals, not enthusiasts. It has a captive audience of governments and companies working on safety-critical systems where they have strict toolchain requirements or legacy systems. Pretty much the only thing that
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
I binge-read the RAQs a few months ago. So much great information. Thank you! I also appreciated the consistent URL scheme because it let me easily scrape all the PDFs to read them offline. The one bummer is that the links at the end of the
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
They have a cool PDF cheat-sheet related to this which doesn't seem to be linked from the page. https://www.analog.com/media/en/selection-guides/Equation_Pu...
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
Similar, but less modern: Elements of Mechanism by Peter Schwamb, 1921. https://archive.org/details/elementsofmechan00schwrich
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
Assuming that the backyard is for playing and the front is ornamental, you can keep the backyard as grass and transition the front to plants.
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
Because it's still a town? It just happens to also have a college in it. The transient population results in more stuff (industry, services, transportation, ...) than you'd get otherwise, minus the traffic and real estate prices.
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
It depends on whether you're talking about electron flow or conventional current, because they're opposite each other. The original mnemonic is incomplete because it doesn't specify to which it refers.
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
It could be probing the response to a drone intrusion for the purpose of using drones as weapons in the future.
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
Anecdotally, I've noticed that management tends to consider interruptions more acceptable for anything related to web development. It's usually not as bad for the web dev team to slip their schedule as for the hardware team or the
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
Is it really undetectable? A smarter USB PD controller and maybe some extra sensors should be able to mostly avoid that problem, no?
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
There's a French graphing calculator company called NumWorks. Maybe TI prioritized the French market in response to growing competition. https://www.numworks.com/simulator/
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
That's just how consumer protection and liability law works pretty much everywhere in the world. I don't make the rules. But they do exist for a good reason.
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
A treadmill cutting you is neither its purpose nor even a necessary risk.
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
If anything, it's the opposite. Even if engineering advocates for doing more about the problem, it only takes one manager screw it up. Either everyone has to want an ethical product, or there have to be formal processes to make everyon
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
I'm re-reading what I wrote, but I still can't see how you inferred that implication. I agree that a hazard analysis should have identified it. But whether it did or didn't, there are still many possible reasons why it wasn&#
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
It takes institutional knowledge and experience to make a safe and reliable product. Even if you had a whole team dedicated to it, it's not much use if the rest of the company doesn't care or do their part. It also takes money. Bu
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by OnlyOneCannolo 5y ago
That's part of it, which I agree falls under the excluded category. I was thinking more about code generation and program modification. Curious what the better way to swap implementations would be?

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