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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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This embedded dude longs to use Erlang on his MCUs. Closest I can get to it is one of the embedded *nixes. Raspberry PIs are great for prototyping but not all that easy a sell on the BOM
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The recommended 32Fs have FPUs so the hit isn't all that bad
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> It would be an awful lot like the end of Fight Club The film ended that way. The novel had a different, more Palahniuk-ish ending. Spoil it for yourself if you must at https://en.wikip…
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Provisioning more than one ethernet PHY is an issue. There aren't a lot of choices for two or more PHYs at a reasonable (singe $ digits in medium quantities) cost
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It's a feature, not a bug
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What's that puppy's wind loading in an 80mph gust?
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I switched from a bluetooth dongle of unknown provenance to a more powerful Zoom (brand) class 1 dongle and hung it from a usb cable off of a lighting fixture in my home office. I get complete cover…
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> 1) I imagine a hospital that performs surgery via telepresence. This seems a pretty clear area where I would really want the opportunity to pay more, to ensure that the connection between the sur…
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It may be an allusion to McDonald's...
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I like it. Simple and clean. Consider appending a 20-30 word plain text snippet from the first sentence of the linked article to the entry.
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Pro: News sites I never want to see are finally gone from the editors recommendations. Cons: White space as far as the eye can see, no more article preview, much less content available with a lot mo…
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TFA says they chose it because of the mechanical actuation vs the hydraulic disc actuation. However it could have been updated after your comment.
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A small set of hosts intersecting with those 10 also ditched their netnews newservers because of, as you say, "think of the children." The abandonment was by the ISPs, not so much the users…
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For some reason only the arrows and page up/down work. Sometimes. edit 4 grammar
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Lasik and discrete MRIs are really awful examples. The former is elective, the latter is an oddball. In reality one needs to shop around for the things that happen after the positive MRI such as the …
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I'm not certain the details are problematic. If you rephrase the hypotheticals in the context of common carriers the detailed application is clear. So would a telco be allowed to block incoming c…
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And I was looking forward to the author finishing the slogan. Because she left it up to the end user, how about "A day without JavaScript is like a day without a brain bleed"?
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It labor's like 80% of marginal costs 1/4 of it would be tremendous profit margins matched by exceptions like google and pharma. You can see why I'm probing. Can you disclose the typica…
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Is excessive profit taking eating up the productivity?
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1942...A golden oldie!
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Insofar as Florida (Floriduh), a "right to work" state is concerned, this is sadly not correct. Most non-competes are enforceable here :( IAAL but IANYL.
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As was the hope Airbus would land the Air Force tanker contract it lost to Boeing.
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Can't recommend Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe's Ancient Mystery by Miranda Aldhouse-Green (2015) highly enough. I found it in my library. A-G goes into good detail on all of the bodie…
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Sounds like time to lodge a complaint with the bar.
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Are there any good reasons to take a drone above a few hundred feet AGL? And the BE99 midair is terrifying.
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> manually approve every customer to ensure our entire CIDR ranges are clean This is probably a key element of good performance. To keep my mail admin duties part time I simply whois the IP of ev…
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s/mindreading/truthseeing/
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Look, I'm a big fan of the original Dune series (not of the mess Frank Herbert's son did after his death in order to make money out of his father vision - those books actually ruined a bit …
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WTF is ADF? Something to do with druids?
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I try very hard to stabilize it to avoid getting franked at the voting site. (problem: Florida)