davidgould

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by davidgould 3y ago
"Every Grain of Rice" is my favorite cookbook ever. Its emphasis is home cooking so the recipes are pretty practical and it covers more than just Sichuan or Hunan cuisine so there is a lot of variety. The amazing part is that almo
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by davidgould 4y ago
I'm a big fan of Buckaroo Banzai but it seems odd that you credit BB when the linked Wikipedia article is about the original source of "Yoyodyne" > Yoyodyne was introduced as a fictional defense contractor in Thomas Pyncho
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by davidgould 4y ago
Try the Mala Market 0]. They have really good Sichuan products that are hard to find in the US. The quality is really good as they are a low volume business and travel to China to pick specific items. They definitely charge for this, but th
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by davidgould 4y ago
I don't think your comment about a breaking abi change on a minor point release is fair. Perhaps you have misunderstood the release number scheme? Every year around the first quarter they have one major release, ie 3.9, 4.0, 4.1, and n
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by davidgould 4y ago
If you are interested on programming something like a 6800 or 6502, but would like to make a practical device and not just run in simulation, take a look at the STM8. It's a very widely used 8-bit embedded controller and architecturall
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by davidgould 4y ago
There is no such thing as 8051 love.
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by davidgould 4y ago
> The project itself is terribly run--the maintainers recently pushed out an ABI change which broke everyone's code, but released it as a minor version bump. When was this? What version? Thanks.
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by davidgould 4y ago
He cannot become president as he was not born in the US. However, he could perhaps become governor of Texas. Might even be an improvement.
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by davidgould 4y ago
> they call the police and tell them a home-jacking is ongoing Who show up three hours later and shoot your dog.
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by davidgould 4y ago
John Kenneth Galbraith called this phenomenon "convenient social virtue".
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by davidgould 4y ago
Most gas stove tops in the US are not great for cooking with a wok anyway as they are underpowered and the flame comes out the edges of the "sealed burner". I use an Iwatani 35FW tabletop butane burner for wok cooking which works
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by davidgould 4y ago
After watching "Fitzcarraldo", be sure to watch "Burden of Dreams". Another director would have used practical special effects (models) to film dragging the steamship over the mountain and riding it down the rapids. Herz
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by davidgould 5y ago
"The Switch" [0] This set of blog posts that turned into a book is a great history of the underlying technologies that ultimately led to the computer, from the discovery of electricity onward. It's not a complete history of s
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by davidgould 5y ago
> Can you explain the 'thinner spokes are better' bit? The rim deflects inward as it contacts the ground. This is controlled by the stiffness of the rim. The deflection untensions the spoke. The cycle of tension/untension
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by davidgould 5y ago
If you want a more modern microcontroller that can actually be used to make things, take a look at the 8 bit STM8 series. They are widely used (you may have a few already, toasters, rice cooker, car etc). They definitely have that 6502 flav
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by davidgould 5y ago
Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler, by Niklaus Wirth and Jurg Gutknecht. Oberon is a beautifully simple language and the Oberon System was amazingly creative and fresh. The ideas and code in the book are a model
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by davidgould 5y ago
Perl is not generally faster than awk. Obviously there are cases where perl is faster, but for the text smashing that awk is meant for, perl usually much slower, particularly than mawk or recent gawk versions. mawk in particular is shocking
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by davidgould 5y ago
> so if you label me you need a more generic term. Does Luddite work for you?
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by davidgould 5y ago
Tesla has reduced (but not yet eliminated) cobalt in their batteries over the years and has further reductions in the works. Tesla does not source cobalt from the Congo.
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by davidgould 5y ago
> dealers parked cars in the spots for charging, had them in locked off areas, had them turned off or otherwise inaccessible, etc That has caused me a few anxious drives in my Spark EV, finding charging at dealers that was available on t
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by davidgould 5y ago
Interiors don't weigh all that much being mostly fabrics, plastic and foam. A Pikes Peak quality roll cage is quite heavy. That said it's probably quite a bit under 4700 lbs, but according to Randy Pobst well above 4,000 lbs.
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by davidgould 5y ago
There is only one incident, not two.
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by davidgould 5y ago
I'm hoping for this in Oakland, I'd love to go all electric.
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by davidgould 5y ago
I cook Chinese. Cooking on a typical gas rangetop is also painful. Not enough heat, and the wok is not very stable. I use a tabletop butane burner indoors (Iwatani 35FW) and it has at least 3x the heat and the wok is more stable.
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by davidgould 5y ago
The human body is not perfectly elastic, as it is made out of meat. When the bike goes up and down, it makes the meat jiggle or flap which dissipates energy in the flesh as heat. So taking the hit at the tire which is much more elastic inst
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by davidgould 5y ago
What sort of person do you imagine will find your "usual advice" necessary or helpful?
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by davidgould 5y ago
Stephenson has done some great things, but dude needs an editor badly. I'm afraid success has scared off anyone who can tell him when to stop. Fall, had some interesting and vivid passages, but the whole "Dodge wakes up in a simul
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by davidgould 5y ago
Phalanx usually has about 1500 rounds ready, so 20 drones at 75 rounds each will run it out. Phalanx is large, heavy, and costly, and can't be readily be used in built up areas at low angles. A few dozen m/s is probably a good est
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by davidgould 5y ago
Do you provide her with a form 1099 at the end of the year?
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by davidgould 5y ago
>reply reads as “let them eat cake” I don't think that was the parents intent. I read it as descriptive of how the system currently functions, not as justification for it being that way. I've been thinking about this, how a soc

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