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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago
> It's fine to rewrite copyright in a way that explicitly allows things like Copilot, as long as FOSS gets to copy bits of proprietary code, too. This is exactly what I was thinking about. If Copilot is fair use, it means that all
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago
The position of the FSF is severely misrepresented by the title. Open the full article, you'll see that all FSF says is GitHub Copilot is proprietary software and SaaS, and all forms of proprietary software and SaaS are unacceptable
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The Apologist and the Revolutionary(lesswrong.com)
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago
Occupy Wall Street
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago
Note: The author is not entirely serious. It's part of a series called Mystifications: A short series of semi-satirical pop science articles, called "Here's why we don't understand". The science presented is mostly
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago
> radical leftism ("freenode autonomous zone") Previously he also claimed "the freenode network is its own sovereign state", So I'm pretty sure he's just trolling here.
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago
> This is a new idea, and has barely been tried. What do you think? As the author later pointed out: it's not a new idea, FreeBSD has been doing it for decades. Nevertheless, I agree it deserves broader uses.
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Designing Analog Chips by Hans Camenzind(designinganalogchips.com)
2 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago|0 comments
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Hundreds of gibberish papers still lurk in the scientific literature(nature.com)
1 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago|0 comments
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago
Usually it's inductor coils and transformers, occasionally it's ceramic capacitors (all grades other than NP0 are microphonic, SMD or not), both problems are common in switched-mode power supplies, for example, powering the calcul
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago
I remember seeing an interesting Audio Engineering Society's presentation (2005) [0] on a similar problem in balanced audio interfaces. Interestingly, an old-school audio transformer is more robust, it has higher CMRR in the real world
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago
The experienced and mysterious audio engineer "NwAvGuy" [0] praised the virtue of using two gain stages and moving the volume control away from the first input to reduce Johnson noise in audio amplifier designs [1]. It's a go
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago
Fun fact: for the most demanding RF applications, namely, radio astronomy, the front-end low-noise amplifiers are indeed cooled to cryogenic temperature by liquid nitrogen. Here's how it's done at NASA for the Deep Space Network [
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Resistor Noise Can Be Deafening, and Hard to Reduce (2007)(analog.com)
260 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago|106 comments
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago
I always want to make a nice-looking infograph for Wikipedia on the TV color bars, with colors, labels, and explanations of the staircase waveforms, black level, color burst, etc (basically combining all annotations in a textbook to a singl
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Three examples where DSP saved my butt(dspguide.com)
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago
> from 1930 Good news: It's very likely that the copyright has expired. If you were to scan them, remember to upload them to archive.org for everyone else to see. Bad news: It's only the case if the copyright hasn't been
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DIY Book Scanner(diybookscanner.org)
340 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago|124 comments
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Building the Largest 555 Timer in the World Out of Vacuum Tubes [video](youtube.com)
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago
> PCB assembly shops are usually unwilling to work with externally-produced PCBs, so there's no point in making the PCB yourself. I think these PCB processes and machines are all really designed for prototypes and experiments, it&
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago
I bet many people will say that today's circuit boards are so cheap and making one at home is just too troublesome - and these days you can't make a good digital system on a two-layer circuit boards without a ground plane and cont
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Why is it a bad idea to filter by zeroing out FFT bins? (2020)(dsp.stackexchange.com)
91 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago|40 comments
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Maybe Rats Aren't to Blame for the Black Death(nationalgeographic.com)
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago
It seems that even a megacorp like McDonald needs the right to repair... On second thought, not exactly the megacorp, but the franchise owners.
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Extracting the elusive TMS32010 mask ROM(caps0ff.blogspot.com)
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No More Nanometers – It’s Time for New Node Naming (2020)(eejournal.com)
121 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago|41 comments
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Why were programs entered on punch cards instead of paper tapes?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
5 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago|6 comments
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago
PaX's implementation of W^X (MPROTECT) is stricter - you can disallow any attempt to introduce new executable code, including writing to memory first and giving it executable status later.
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago
I always believe allowing any forms of JIT (in userspace programs) by default creates unnecessary security risks - only a handful of programs use it. The sysadmin should have a choice to enforce strict W^X on all programs and to whitelist J
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Chebyshev Approximation and How It Can Help You Save Money(embeddedrelated.com)
2 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 5y ago|0 comments

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