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by westbywest 10mo ago
The "Vintage Space" channel host Amy Shira Teitel recently posted this long form video expressing her frustration with YT so heavily incentivizing SFVs with its creators. She goes into considerable detail about the intentionally
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by westbywest 3y ago
The "Soliton Wave" from TNG was very far down on the list of things I would have expected to see in real life.
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by westbywest 3y ago
Good thing the 304L (etc) comprising Starship's shell won't be subjected to repeated heatings. https://app.aws.org/forum/topic_show.pl?tid=7585
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by westbywest 3y ago
Although the end of the Weimar Republic was essentially an electoral choice, significant chunks of the electorate by then had been skewed, divided, disenfranchised, or even displaced it wouldn't be accurate to call the elections fully
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by westbywest 3y ago
An underlying motivation to this new power-mongering in school district politics is that education is typically the 2nd largest budget item in most US states. The "troublemakers" despite their theatrics also as a category tend to
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by westbywest 3y ago
The increasingly toxic politics (arguably by design) emerging around school board elections is very recent addition to disincentives. I live in a Midwest city where suburban school districts that previously wooed young professionals away f
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by westbywest 3y ago
The conflict of self-interest and common good becomes especially perverse when power utilities themselves start mining coin at their own facilities (for additional profit). https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news&#
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by westbywest 3y ago
At a previous job I was checking out MicroPython due to its support on LEON4 RAD-hardened CPUs like GR740. It was appealing as a possible design path from proof-of-concept implementations with desktop python/numpy (etc) to space-certi
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by westbywest 3y ago
60GHz wifi products are pretty common now. With the notable quirk of having difficulty passing through paper.
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by westbywest 3y ago
Highlighting Vienna's district heating system which does this, partly because the facility in Spittelau had artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser design it to look like a psychedelic castle. https://hundertwasser.com/en&#x
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by westbywest 7y ago
Probably the flexibility of that router having 3 MiniPCIe slots for the wireless card(s), from the standpoint of ease in firmware development. The cheaper routers with embedded radio chipsets range from very good to crappy support for open
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by westbywest 7y ago
I think the author phrased it somewhat differently, but my understanding is grep's high throughput also comes from its use of what we (Computer Engineering grad research group) referred to as a variable state machine. A colleague was
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by westbywest 7y ago
MSCoE here. FPGAs have limited applicability due to their high cost per unit and relatively low clock speeds. They were all the rage ~15 years ago during my grad study, but then flattened out. Although, it does look like they're boun
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by westbywest 7y ago
I diverged from a very similar career path due to layoffs spurred by my employer being acquired, the remaining HW design team told to promptly relocate to Bay Area, whereupon they were gradually weaned out by extremely large work loads. Th
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by westbywest 7y ago
At a prior job last decade involving FCBGA packaging design for the company's ASIC, and I witnessed exactly this to debug ESD problems, etc. That is, prototype dice failing test would be ground down until a black spot was found. Very
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by westbywest 8y ago
Your reasoning would be fine, were it not for the fact that an ISP's mere existence in an area, no matter how crappy, generally satisfies FCC's mandate to promote/fund broadband penetration. So, Crappy-ISP, LLC existing and
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by westbywest 8y ago
Measures 3x9x11cm, so likely too bulky for many drones.
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by westbywest 8y ago
I've heard more about my home state's alleged consumption of squirrel brain outside the state than in it. And I have a couple kitschy KY cookbooks with recipes for burgoo, entirely rodent free. Every place will have hillbillies
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by westbywest 8y ago
Leaving car doors unlocked is SOP in urban corridors with high incidence of petty theft. I.e. don't leave attractive objects in your vehicle, and leave it unlocked so that would-be thieves can learn it themselves w/o smashing a w
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by westbywest 8y ago
Vaguely similar observation from a previous employer in engineering: job health is effectively a derivative of the general economy. That is, if your job entails design/construction of something new, you job would be stable in an eco
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by westbywest 8y ago
Legal expenses, if the eviction sees court challenge. Especially if any claims of discrimination are sustained against the landlord. Also, labor cost of emptying the unit, repair/cleaning to make the unit ready for a new tenant, etc.
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by westbywest 8y ago
Leases aren't offered with such flexibility in markets where the supply of available housing is small. I'm also interpreting "available" to mean available at a resident's income level, i.e. overlapping with "a
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by westbywest 8y ago
Likewise, I'm curious about the energy consumption of fabricating structures of this size (and greater) via laser sintering, when compared to conventional techniques of casting i-beams and welding only at the joints. The power require
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by westbywest 8y ago
Whiskey is aged in barrels using white oak from North America. The mash is made of grains like corn, barley, rye, etc. I'm guessing the grains came from areas upwind of the plume. Everything pretty much blew out onto the Pacific.
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by westbywest 8y ago
Looks like OpenWRT snapshot versions since Nov/Dev 2017, and now their 18.06-rc1, should have this incorporated. https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/blob/a367645f23d2ed93ea29...
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by westbywest 9y ago
To its credit, OpenWRT/LEDE community implemented DFS per the requirements they were able to glean from regulatory bodies. Open firmware can indeed be hacked to operate against its authors' wishes, but as other comments indicate,
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by westbywest 9y ago
> This is just a ridiculous HN meme at this point: every problem is caused by regulation and the only tool we're allowed to use to solve problems is incentives. A data point amplifying this assertion is the situation in St. Louis, w
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by westbywest 9y ago
Billing is not always similar. Many urgent care facilities are outright predatory in pricing, to the extent they begin to look like the payday lenders of medical care. It would be a poverty to consider these kinds of operations part of the
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by westbywest 9y ago
Plenty of professions, actually. Especially those where skills cultivated by individuals become highly specialized, and companies thus maintain a large number of employees to ensure their business requirements (including billing and bookke
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by westbywest 9y ago
Comments up-thread speculate Musk may be looking at something like ATM, which uses small, fixed packet sizes for better flow control, along with expectation packets may arrive out of order due to traversing multiple paths. ATM has implemen

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