mighty_atomic_c

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by mighty_atomic_c 7y ago
I've had some success converting an old printer to do pen plotting, but I haven't tried PCB manufacture yet because Sharpie marker does not do a sufficient, reliable job at working as a mask. I haven't been able to even use i
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by mighty_atomic_c 8y ago
For a while I committed to at least using DDG for sanitization/anonymisation of my Google searches with bangs: !g <query> There is always value in trying other engines, but it's come such a long way since I've fi
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by mighty_atomic_c 8y ago
Watch the range over time, though. The cells in even the latest Nissan Leafs do not have any charge or temperature conditioning for the batteries, so they are likely to age poorly basically anywhere with more than 1 season. If you care for
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by mighty_atomic_c 8y ago
It is a matter of order. First, we learn how to terraform ourselves out of our inadvertent unhelpful terraflopping, then we use that learning to terraform anywhere we go. :)
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by mighty_atomic_c 8y ago
> No one "pioneered the west". Various groups of people with powerful technology traveled west and stole land from other groups of people. The people crossing the land bridge to North America from Asia pioneered the west. Or pe
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by mighty_atomic_c 8y ago
Oh my Goddess, there is nothing worse than hearing: "It's on the website". Yeah, that's unhelpful if "the website" is a sprawling, vast wasteland. Finding a specific thing on an obese, convoluted site is like t
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by mighty_atomic_c 8y ago
Oh my goodness, I love icarus verilog, I wish there was a push to get to icarus systemverilog... ... or a more recent version of the verilog standards ...
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by mighty_atomic_c 8y ago
Same reason you can't drug up or taze the special goose to produce more golden eggs. Long term high intensity output will lead to burnout, even if the salary is 10x people would struggle and crash. Pushing at 100% full enthusiasm is li
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by mighty_atomic_c 8y ago
Oh no! My mother's maiden name is _invalid_!
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by mighty_atomic_c 8y ago
Just go with the snark and out in a joke answer that you will find funny. Some of my security questions are hilariously inapplicable, so the first silly, snarky thing I think up is likely to be memorable. It is also a little hard to guess u
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by mighty_atomic_c 8y ago
"The Dispossessed" was incredibly interesting abd my favorite novel from Le Guin so far.
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by mighty_atomic_c 9y ago
6 characters? Let me guess, were there restrictions on character space and case? One place I had an account has a password input that restricts all of those, so it's like an 8-10 character string of all capital letters. I don't un
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by mighty_atomic_c 9y ago
Necronomicon quote? Nice. This has me thinking about what I can do to make my security answers to security questions untethered from PII. A book quote is a really good idea.
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by mighty_atomic_c 9y ago
Can confirm. I had a trippy experience where I had on one monitor some RTL+simulation for our chip up for view, on another I had the PCB schematic I had helped design, and on my third I had the GUI and embedded toolchain development environ
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by mighty_atomic_c 9y ago
Sous vide burssels sprouts? I mean, sous vide is amazing, but have you ever had your sprouts crispy? I used to be pretty indifferent to them until my fiancee cooked them up crispy. Hmm... Now I'm thinking about food, oh look, its lunch
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by mighty_atomic_c 9y ago
When you end the day, do you have a second fake commute home?
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by mighty_atomic_c 9y ago
Banning suicide is as effective as declaring pi as 3 via legislative fiat. At least in my mind. For one, it is hard to enforce; those who choose to end their own lives may not show any signs until the attempt. If they succeed, they cannot b
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by mighty_atomic_c 9y ago
These trends come and go. When they annoy me, I really am glad for "reader" views that ditch all the fancy, unreadable flourish (and social media nag-bits that just don't fucking die). One of these days, "retro" web
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by mighty_atomic_c 9y ago
This is an interesting point. Companies that try to "hire to greatness" have a steep fee to pay for their hiring approach, and it might not work for reasons that cannot possibly be squashed into, and recognized from, the sloppy &q
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by mighty_atomic_c 9y ago
I was thinking this while reading, too. Concurrency is everywhere in hardware by default, and explicitly statesd with fork...join!
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by mighty_atomic_c 9y ago
Yes, I have this too. Robinhood Instant is a margin account, with the same conditions/restrictions as a Gold account. They loan you money in that settlement time window, basically
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by mighty_atomic_c 9y ago
And, potentially, pull you over for complying with the speed limit if the normal rate around you is large. Either way, you could lose.
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by mighty_atomic_c 10y ago
So you thave ouched on an important limitation of electromagnets; they need to be cooled. In space, the vacuum surrounding this power hungry object would be inferior to air for heat transfer; heat merely seeps out slowly radiatively. So the
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by mighty_atomic_c 10y ago
Those also damage electronics far below. In fact, that is the characteristic way of using high altitude nuclear weapons to damage communications over a continental region. But far enough away it would push a little solar wind around, for a
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by mighty_atomic_c 10y ago
My parents TVs have RCA plugs.
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by mighty_atomic_c 10y ago
Mathematica was my tool of choice. I could plot, Manipulate and visualize things. That was very powerful for learning quickly and getting a "feel" for things. The ability to check if my work was equivalent to the initial and final
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by mighty_atomic_c 10y ago
Yep. There is a difference between a stereotype and a generalization. Stereotypes are often bound to a kernel of truth, but the problem is that the scale is exaggerated so greatly, taken seriously, and held for so long that it begins to dis
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by mighty_atomic_c 10y ago
I didn't realize it was a reference to anything until just now.
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by mighty_atomic_c 10y ago
http://archive.archaeology.org/1209/artifact/images/clay_tab... Rounded rectangles are at least as old as history itself.
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by mighty_atomic_c 10y ago
I'm unfamiliar with the term "growth hacker". I get the impression that it means marketing and sales. What I've read so far seems to indicate that, us that an inaccurate impression?

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