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by pling 12y ago
We used to make nitrogen triiodide at school. It was a prank explosive. Well it was until we destroyed a whole fume cupboard with it. Blew the glass out. Nitrogen has eternally had my respect after clearing that mess up. Make your own (inse
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by pling 12y ago
Go should replace Dalvik and the half arsed Java runtime implementation on Android yes, but I'd take a proper mature JVM over both on any device.
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by pling 12y ago
That's pretty much because the CPU on the Pi is awful. I mean really bad. The CPU came with the SoC they could get their hands on rather than was selected as being optimal for a desktop/server role.
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by pling 12y ago
It uses memory differently is probably a better explanation.
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by pling 12y ago
Not only that but it's an easier to find out what is going on inside a JVM versus a static Go binary. It's not all about performance.
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by pling 12y ago
I've worked with people who build software like this. They are shameless assholes nothing more. They are no better than the engineers designing guns and bombs and and the chemists finding new creative waya of killing us.
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by pling 12y ago
People don't use Java because it's fast. They use Java because it's fast enough , easy, safe, reliable, easy to instrument, easy to debug, has wonderful tool support, is mature, has many tested and heavily used frameworks, h
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by pling 12y ago
Both adults and children. 8+ is a good age (mine are 2, 8, 10) for that one though. Usborne do a good like of younger books: http://www.usborne.com/catalogue/science.aspx?cat=1&area=S&s...
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by pling 12y ago
I started my kids on this: http://www.amazon.com/The-Space-Childs-Mother-Goose/dp/19309... It makes them ask questions to which you can explain the answers. Few excerpts: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~h
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by pling 12y ago
You can listen to that on baby monitors. Also broadcasting on "broadcast FM bands" is frowned upon world-wide. The 49MHz band is for experimentation as assigned by the FCC in the US.
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by pling 12y ago
It is a radio transmitter (and therefore a radio) regardless of what the TFA says. If you drag our your field strength meter or scanner and tune it to around that band, you're going to get a signal. Probably not a very strong one b
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by pling 12y ago
Yes mine does this as well. Totally agree. They went to some insane design effort however for it to remember where it was in the mp3 stream though when you disconnect it for a few seconds to turn the ignition.
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by pling 12y ago
It is a radio and has FM modulation. Doesn't need complicated mixing for FM if you can skew the osc resonant frequency quickly I.e you don't need an IF system. In this case the transducer does that. Its not CW, as that is switchin
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by pling 12y ago
I was the same until I got into embedded stuff. Started up writing a LP filter in software for something that was buggy as hell and slow and the tooling kept falling over. Changed the design for a simple RC+op amp LP and fell in love with a
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by pling 12y ago
Nice. Some comments: - he used simulation up front. This is a great thing. Some more detail would have been nice. I tend to design small circuit components up front on paper with a good old fashioned calculator then simulate in LtSpice. It
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by pling 12y ago
Various observations over the last few years on projects that have been posted. I'll usually flag up anything dangerous with some constructive help on why it is dangerous and how to make it safe. Simply education. Every electronics boo
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by pling 12y ago
This is a fine reason to use protocol buffers instead of JSON: [ 4738723874747487387273747838727347383827238734.00 ] Parsing that universally is a shit.
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by pling 12y ago
They're not quite as terrible as the recent press makes out. Prior to the hype around this we had nearly 20 years of low quality wall wart switch mode supplies. Very few people got hurt and very few people do today. Even if they comple
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by pling 12y ago
I think its educational for a lot of people brought up with languages and infrastructure without this capability. Then again I never debug in production these days, preferring logging and debugging replicas. It only takes one thread being s
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by pling 12y ago
Thanks for the reply. This is exactly why I have more faith in you guys with LibreSSL. You're right on the case, know what's going on all the time and communications are good (as they always are with the OpenBSD project). Please k
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by pling 12y ago
Interested to see if LibreSSL has knocked these ones on the head.
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by pling 12y ago
The thing that scares me is that as an EE in a previous life, I've seen worse things come out of one man bespoke engineering companies. One thing that sticks in my mind was a PLC replacement for some old relay logic in a factory. Rathe
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by pling 12y ago
Like Apple's lawyers would give you a choice anyway and they know it. Bend over peons, we now own your trademark.
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by pling 12y ago
That's an awesome idea. Would kill for that.
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by pling 12y ago
I bought a calculator for that (HP 50g) then found it had 1700-odd pages of manuals and reference information!
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by pling 12y ago
One reason I make my own coffee. Why go out and pay £3-4 for some slack to do it when you can take a 5 min timeout and do it yourself for £0.20 a hit. Plus you get some thinking time which is more valuable than the coffee.
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by pling 12y ago
I get your point but I think this is more about potential. After 40 minutes you feel slightly deflated that it was the end of the game. If you compared it to Cut The Rope for example there's a lot more potential realised there.
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by pling 12y ago
If I had to go to McDonalds after the fine dining so I don't starve then yes.
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by pling 12y ago
I agree it looks pretty but it took me 40 minutes to complete all ten levels. Thats not very good value for money.
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by pling 12y ago
I may have heard it somewhere so I can't claim originality but it came out of my head at the time in a sarcastic rage.

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