nestes

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by nestes 1mo ago
This is one of my major pet peeves, and it extends well beyond TSA. Help desks, call centers, car rentals... Essentially, it's when someone expects you to be able to do their job. When you invariably don't, they treat you as if yo
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by nestes 3mo ago
Well, the value of the stock for people who essentially do not have any meaningful control of the business must essentially be tied to the expectation of some liquidity event down the line -- future cash flows. So this could come in the for
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by nestes 5mo ago
I would actually go so far to say as I am not aware of any good "as it really works" references. Handbooks exist, but they're pretty expensive. Since you have an EE background, I would recommend a few strategies (in any order
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by nestes 8mo ago
Focusing in on "grabbing references", it's as easy as drag-and-drop if you use Zotero. It can copy/paste references in BibTeX format. You can even customize it through the BetterBibTeX extension. If you're not a Zot
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by nestes 1y ago
To be maximally pedantic, sine waves (or complex exponentials through Euler's formula), ARE special because they're the eigenfunctions of linear time-invariant systems. For anybody reading this without a linear algebra background,
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by nestes 2y ago
Interesting, I somewhat of an opposite reaction, although I am certainly not a mathematician. Once everything became definitions, my eyes glazed over - in most cases the rationale for the definitions was not clear and the definitions appear
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by nestes 2y ago
Not the original poster, but I want to push back on one thing -- being capable of something and being one of the best in the world at something are hugely different. Forgive me if I'm putting words in your math -- you mentioned "
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by nestes 2y ago
Five or six years ago my family started went through all the old recipes - from old newspapers, cookbooks, etc. that were in homes across my extended family. They then decided on which to keep, and printed a new cookbook from the compilatio
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by nestes 2y ago
The 600-6GHz range is a rough approximation for some of the most used bands in telecommunications, e.g. Wi-Fi and 5G NR FR1. It's worth noting that the article explicitly mentions that this filter will be useful for FR3, which is &quot
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by nestes 2y ago
That's true, Laplace corresponds to a basis of complex exponentials that can grow or decay in time instead purely imaginary exponentials. We restrict the A e^[(a+j b) t] domain just to A e^(j b t) for Fourier. From an circuit analysis
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by nestes 2y ago
I'm surprised you're one of the only commenters to bring this up. I have an electrical engineering background -- for analysis, lots of systems are assumed to be either linear or very weakly nonlinear, and a lot of our signals are
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by nestes 2y ago
I've done a ton of low-budget analog hardware debugging, and the major problem with hardware debugging is each attempt to fix the problem takes a long time. If I had wanted to test every idea I had I could easily waste a week. Not to m
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by nestes 2y ago
Yep! Fully agreed with all your points, I was just trying to get at the original poster's line of thinking.
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by nestes 2y ago
What they're saying is that the geometrical interpretation of an outwardly expanding spherical shell of power shouldn't depend on frequency. In this respect they are correct and they have a good intuition for the problem. Now here
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by nestes 2y ago
Absolutely I agree that the geometry of the problem dictates 1/R^2 dependence, regardless of frequency. The gain, which I agree is a misleading way to think about the area, is related to the area of receive through the frequency terms.
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by nestes 2y ago
Short answer: it doesn't, though I understand why it's misleading. Read my response above.
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by nestes 2y ago
Yes and no. I emphatically agree that the way the Path Loss Equation (Friis) is taught is misleading. I much prefer the way you interpret it, with the transmit antenna represented with gain and the receiving antenna having only an effective
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by nestes 3y ago
Not the original poster, but I learn best reading textbooks cover-to-cover. A couple things that help me: 1) I buy physical textbooks and absolutely destroy them with notes in the margins, highlighting, etc. It helps me to interact with th
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by nestes 3y ago
Not the commenter you originally addressed, but I used to use a Brother printer that was purchased around 2016-2017. I once bought third-party cartridges and the printer noticed that the cartridges weren't first-party and refused to pr
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by nestes 3y ago
Long answer incoming, recurring events plagued me for more time than I'd care to admit. I'm perfectly happy to clarify anything I've expressed poorly. a) I had full control of the back-end, so my solution was ultimately fully
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by nestes 3y ago
Very cool! Having written a couple of web calendars myself, I found that most of the hair-tearing logical complexity was due to recurring events. I didn't see any reference to recurrence when I skimmed the docs or the demo. Have you de
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by nestes 3y ago
I'm not even sure you need to invoke AI for saturation of the web, at least for things that don't have to do with current events -- our collective archives just keep getting bigger and bigger. This may be a bit tangential, but som