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by buescher 5d ago
Probably not: you grossly underestimate the amount of urban growth and development worldwide since the industrial revolution.
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by buescher 17d ago
Option C: Let the tiger drive, and pretend there is no human to hold accountable
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by buescher 19d ago
I first learned of it in Douglas Hofstadter’s Metamagical Themas, I think. You can run it here: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Racter_1984
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Racter (1984)(ubu.com)
34 points by buescher 19d ago|10 comments
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by buescher 25d ago
S100 systems were sometimes called mainframes after their card cage construction: usually with the qualifier “s-100 mainframe” for the system or the enclosure and backplane.
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by buescher 3mo ago
Just wait until they shred all the old useless books
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by buescher 3mo ago
True, but “normal schedule” is hiding a bit of subtlety there: the hpv vaccine was recommended for women up to 26 at the time, so the oldest women who got it then would be pushing 50 now.
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by buescher 4mo ago
>You're supposed to be able to order "a" 5532 without specifying the supplier This is not true. >because many vendors produce "a" 5532 This is true, in the sense of a "5532-type part". But you will
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by buescher 4mo ago
No, I’m talking about the guy that builds prototypes out of his magic parts box and says “oh, you can still get those” when the last direct substitute was obsoleted in 2008. Or he’s using the old version of a part like this in a “proven” s
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by buescher 4mo ago
They’re just not really standardized at all, especially semiconductors. Not in the sense you’d expect naively. Some were a long time ago, and supposedly the old Japanese sc parts were, down to die geometry and process. But otherwise, the p
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by buescher 4mo ago
It annoys me too but part numbers are not a spec but more of a strong hint. The attitude of the industry is that it’s up to you to read data sheets carefully and test. Even for a 2N2222 or whatever.
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by buescher 4mo ago
This is why you should always order new parts for a new design and never, never trust the old guy with the magic parts box. Also why learning to read and compare data sheets skeptically is a fundamental skill.
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by buescher 4mo ago
There is a C.S. Lewis quote that is as good as St. Paul and I don’t say that lightly: “There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to our
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by buescher 4mo ago
I guess it could be if you left out the bacon… and the rabbit.
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by buescher 4mo ago
When I put together my telescope setup I got a manual equatorial thinking I’d add a clock drive and my next telescope would have a go-to mount. It’s been about 20 years now.
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by buescher 4mo ago
On-screen tablet/phone keyboards seem perfect for apl to me. There’s an iOS port of J but it’s no longer available on the App Store.
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by buescher 4mo ago
I got a VIC-20 when I was about 12? Jim Butterfield loomed impossibly large over all things Commodore at that time. One of the first things I typed in on it was his TINYMON, a <1kbyte “monitor” (for some reason resident debuggers were
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by buescher 4mo ago
At some point you have to go from S-100 to original “8-bit” ISA. There might have been a combo backplane in period.
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by buescher 4mo ago
How did the skedd connectors work out? I assume Wuerth redfit? I'm looking at ordering some to try them.
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by buescher 4mo ago
Yes. For about 98% of embedded, you want the pinout for the TC2030-FTDI-C232HD-DDHSP-0-DTR cable that has DTR and RTS on it for STM32, ESP32, and Arduino-style bootloaders. It's 3.3V only iirc. Power is delivered by the cable on pin 1
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by buescher 4mo ago
Yes. Look at the old national app notes for the lm339 family of comparators.
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by buescher 4mo ago
Piezo harvesting switches and similar (I think there’s a flywheel design out there too) are quite expensive, not terribly reliable or consistent, and require substantial activation force. Conventional switches and batteries that can last f
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by buescher 4mo ago
Right, and they were superseded by battery-powered infrared remotes for good reasons. I would recommend revisiting those reasons before proposing this sort of technology for wireless sensors.
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by buescher 5mo ago
> My general rule of thumb was to look something up when I came across it. That is good advice. Nethack “spoilers” are more like being let in on an “in-joke” than being told the solution to a puzzle or the ending of an M. Night Shyamala
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by buescher 5mo ago
It’s about humans presenting something plausibly awful in a deceptive way, and using a machine to be plausible and deceptive.
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by buescher 5mo ago
That’s exactly what a clanker would say, isn’t it?
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by buescher 5mo ago
The amyloid hypothesis and associated fraud covered in the TFA.
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by buescher 5mo ago
No.
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by buescher 6mo ago
Just have an AI make a video out of it, I guess.
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by buescher 6mo ago
Because it told you so!

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