throwaway9870

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by throwaway9870 2y ago
Add about two zeros to what the West collectively can build.
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by throwaway9870 3y ago
I literally meant the library would call assert() on incoming data. I am fairly certain that has been removed for a long time, but it can be hard to get past first impressions.
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by throwaway9870 3y ago
What I mean is literally have an assert with incoming data as the parameter: > assert(data_buf[4] < 8); While your protocol might guarantee that data_buf[4] should always be a value less than 8, you don't use assert() to check it
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by throwaway9870 3y ago
> I have a product with an addressable market of something like 300 to 500 units per year. That puts me in the Defense/Aerospace/Medical area, where unit economics are completely insane. I have manufactured in that area and whi
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by throwaway9870 3y ago
The problem is that it started out as any but stable and reliable. It asserted on received data, which in a network application is a super newbie mistake. When I looked at it, the pub/sub socket would hang forever if the other end inte
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by throwaway9870 3y ago
Because the product engineering isn't as important as the community and organization. I got excited about Firefox when it forked from Netscape, but since then I have been unimpressed.
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by throwaway9870 3y ago
Rambus is an interesting company. I can't vouch for their crypto offerings, but they have been around since the 90's and at one point pioneered high-speed DRAM interfaces. Lots of what we see in DDR today is based on ideas and con
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by throwaway9870 3y ago
Have you never walked into a store and they said you can't use a CC because their reader is down? It is nice to have a few dollars in your pocket for times like that.
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by throwaway9870 3y ago
Your comment and mine are basically the same. This is what I call terrible engineering judgement. A random co-worker could review the simple solution without much effort. They could also see the corner cases clearly and verify the tests cov
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by throwaway9870 3y ago
I don't understand. There are 7 suffixes, can't you pick the right one with binary search? That would be 3 comparisons. Or just do it the dumb way and have 6 comparisons. How are two log() calls, one pow() call and ceil() better t
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by throwaway9870 3y ago
Depending on how you define "randomly", you might have just decided no more phones, laptops, etc. Bad batteries can sneak into even the best supply chains and cause fires.
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by throwaway9870 3y ago
I don't like this. I recently sold some networking equipment to somebody for a bit more than this amount and asked for cash. Made the whole transaction simple. Things like this just keep taking power from the people and moving it into
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by throwaway9870 3y ago
I think you are confusing terms. You are saying latency, but I think you mean the time constant of the poles / zeros. When one speaks of latency in a control system, they general mean a real time delay, like a digital processing delay,
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by throwaway9870 3y ago
A couple days ago there was a thread on Hacker News that devolved into a discussion of what a comp-sci student learns in school that they can't learn by themselves. Control systems are a good example of something that is good to have a
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by throwaway9870 3y ago
Yes and no. PID loops are linear systems and don't understand ramp-up and ramp-down times. They understand poles and zeros. So normally you would speak of time constants and bandwidths rather than ramp (slew) rates. This is not just se
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by throwaway9870 3y ago
If you know characteristics of the system, like thermal mass, inertia etc., then coupling feed-forward control along with the PID can help. The idea is that if you know the thermal mass (and you do for a coffee maker's internal element
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by throwaway9870 3y ago
Maybe it should be based on your driving record? The worst driver you are, the higher the cost to society when you are driving.
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by throwaway9870 3y ago
It has been like that since the 90s. At Stanford we had a sysadmin track down a warez site to our HP logic analyzer. Everything at Stanford in the 90s had a public IP address (at least in EE).
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by throwaway9870 3y ago
What is your degree in? Because when I got a PhD in EE it was covered by either being a Research or Teaching Assistant. What school/dept would suggest aiming for anything less than a PhD as horrifying? Most students go that path.
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by throwaway9870 3y ago
How long until I can make my own movie like Star Wars, but with my story line and my characters? Serious question, does anyone have has insights into this problem?
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
With as large of economic disturbance we have seen in the last 3 years, you will find examples of almost anything. However, I can assure you as some who was in manufacturing during this period, it was not just price gouging. There were true
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
Doesn't really seem like due process.
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
Not only a slave to the state, but a slave to private companies. Most electronic payments, including cards and apps are via companies (as opposed to govt). Who wants companies to have more control over their life?
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
Gentoo is fantastic for building a custom rootfs. I much prefer it to Buildroot or Yocto. Google uses the Gentoo package system for ChromeOS. Using the same portage file allows you to trivially pin the exact version of every installed packa
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
For example, feed prices and electric prices to heat the coup are generally more predictable than a raging virus.
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
Because bird flu might be a very unpredictable supply disruption.
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
I talked to a farmer yesterday who said (at least in the US) it is bird flu. For some reason, the layers seem to have been hit harder than the boilers.
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
I don't see that distinction being made. The counter argument is things like libraries vs microservices. Those articles ignore the common case that probably is true for 99% of the apps - we live in a service based architecture. The Int
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
So you embed S3 into your app? Do you embed your ERP system? How about your marketing e-mail system? Your CRM? Do you use an in-process database? Everyone already has a service based architecture whether they want to admit it or not. The qu
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
In the 90s he would answer Windows programming questions on usenet.

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