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howard941
22,428karma·4,690submissions·November 1, 2014
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My article submissions aren't endorsements, unlike my favorites...
My professional interests: Embedded and RF/networking. Droooooones. Bare iron, freertos, lately NuttX. Resource constrained or ARM. Hard realtime. *BSD / linux embedding and BOFHing. New product and sustaining devel.
Amateur radio. Attorney (Fla.)
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Your footnoted link was good reading. Disturbing but good. Thanks for posting it.
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Pity there isn't a viable class action plaintiff's bar taking on the provider telcos to make the business case. Until then I'm doing what everyone else seems to be diong, blackholing ca…
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One of the mech engrs in a cube has a mirror on his wall that puzzled me until I spent a day in the cube farm. I will steal that idea when they relocate me from a private office to cube hell.
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Including the R&D tax credit?
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If taxing price gougers seems stupid you're going to hate the pitchfork-toting mobs.
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Reducing life to exploitable profits is just wrong. If it's the only way to incentivize drug testing and marketing then the companies involved in those pursuits ought to struggle under the weight…
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Agreed on the Handbook. The Operating Manual and Antenna (handbook?) are also really good. If I'm at home I get on the air for traffic nets or QRP and there the topics are thankfully pre-defined …
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Take up amateur radio and you'll be rewarded with a license and a lifetime of fun for the learning investment. Here are some resources: http://www.arrl.org/what-is-ham-radio ht…
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If LeGuin disappoints but you enjoy a sociological take then may I suggest Samuel R. Delaney's "Triton" and Mary Doria Russell's "The Sparrow?"
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tl;dr Depressed wages are better explained by employers' ever more powerful bargaining position
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This article was a really good read. The woman featured in it celebrates finding a job in Pinellas Park but sadly she lives in Tampa and is about to experience another ill afflicting our piece of para…
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Perfect for the box doing muscle tissue image processing
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I used to name my pets after my pets. Thing is, the boxes outlived the animals. At that point the names become memorials and it's nice to ssh into them. The only glitch so far is it's diffic…
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Spectrum is still doing it (N Pinellas Co FL). Not sure if it can be turned off.
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Thank you for the data point. My psych offered that for consideration as a replacement for anxiety-inducing Effexor XR / Venlafaxine. I will explore alternatives.
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Which medication?
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If on an embedded system the low order bit of an infrequently sampled ADC input might be acceptable.
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Maybe offer them something for opting in? I volunteered for an email list with Travelpro because of the 15% discount. I can't remember another time I've voluntarily subscribed to a company&…
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Yeah what's up with that? It reads like a requirement written to be fulfilled by a specific vendor with an already identified offering.
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A large cash stash signals a failure to identify worthwhile business opportunities. For other companies it'd be an ominous sign. For this one? Maybe it's like the OP's observation th…
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Yeah you're seeing the short term variation at that site, and there's plenty of it. But over a 24 hour period
- for now anyway - NERC standards require time error correction, http:/&…
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Additional anecdata: The sensors and controls in distribution substations are also DC although 48VDC is considered the low end in those places where it goes up to over 200V, according to the engineer …
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This. In Florida US grid zero crossings randomly bounce around +/- 20nS over a few seconds. Viewing the waveform on a scope can be enlightening (or inflammatory and shocking if one's not pr…
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Almost all of the other replies are excellent. In light of your question I think you'll find interesting this realtime map that shows how far out of whack the regional grids are from 60Hz: http:…
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It is good to see a post about netnews/usenet. I thought things started going to hell when HTML-encoding became a significant part of the feed. Half of a group's subscribers would plonk the …
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I'll trade my great guy who's hard of hearing telephonic tech support dude in adjacent cube for your music but you're right about the lappie.
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Not just kids. All of us.