blacksmythe

2 lata temudiscuss

Sounds like one solution would be to apply a sealant that looks like bare concrete.

2 lata temudiscuss

Caltech - where your best just isn't good enough.

  https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixieza/79223350

blacksmythe

3 lata temudiscuss

It is amazing how much less time it takes to pay off a 30 year mortgage if you increase the payments 10%. The first good many years are paying mostly just the interest.

blacksmythe

4 lata temudiscuss

I have a very cheap plastic one with a dial, which works amazing well for the cost (<$10). I don't remember where I bought it, but it looks like this one: https://www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-900003

blacksmythe

5 lat temudiscuss

Kinetic energy is a good measure for a baseball, because essentially all of the kinetic energy is being transferred from the small object to you.

Kinetic energy is not a good measure for a car or B-52, as after the collision the large object has essentially the same kinetic energy, and a very small fraction has been transferred to you.

A bicycle is more toward the small object side, as a pedestrian is going to absorb a good fraction of the kinetic energy of the rider, which is much larger than the kinetic energy of the bicycle itself.

blacksmythe

5 lat temudiscuss

  >> Taking the FFT, modifying frequency amplitudes

Modifying amplitude and phase. In the time domain you can't modify frequency amplitude without modifying the phase. If you modify just the FFT amplitude, you can end up with non-causal impulse responses.

blacksmythe

6 lat temudiscuss

AMA95 is one of the few Caltech classes that I still think about, mostly because it was not useful. Almost all of my other classes have been useful over the years.

I wish that the math sequence for non-math majors had included linear algebra instead.

blacksmythe

7 lat temudiscuss

  >> makes sure to walk the trainees through the confusing states you can get into, 
  >> then we explain what happened, why, and how to correctly get out of them

Is this something you could share?

blacksmythe

7 lat temudiscuss

You have to convert the wood to charcoal to burn hot enough for a blacksmith forge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcoal

I highly recommend a visit to Plimouth Plantation to anyone interested in 1700's era technology: https://www.plimoth.org/

Or Old Sturbridge Village for 1800's era technology: https://www.osv.org/

blacksmythe

7 lat temudiscuss

I don't travel with an extra keyboard, but I do take a mouse.

An external mouse is so much better, and hardly takes up any space.

blacksmythe

7 lat temudiscuss

The talk that you link to: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/tdd-original/

  Ian Cooper reminds what was Kent's original proposition on TDD, what misunderstandings occurred along the way,
   and suggests a better approach to TDD, one that supports development rather impeding it.

blacksmythe

7 lat temudiscuss

"Table saws in use in the United States: Estimates range between 6 million and 10 million... in any particular year, about one table saw in 229 will be in an accident that sends someone to the emergency room." https://www.popularwoodworking.com/article/table-saw-injury-...

blacksmythe

7 lat temudiscuss

  >> bet it's considerably higher than per hour of cruising around on a motorbike..

I would imagine so as well.

"Haaf was described as an experienced skydiver with over 1,200 jumps and was a frequent visitor to Skydive Cross Keys" https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/local/south-jer...

blacksmythe

7 lat temudiscuss

  Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Antwerp, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Oslo, Paris, Vienna, Helsinki,
    Bremen, Bogotá, Ljubljana, Berlin, Tokyo, Taipei, Vancouver, Montreal, Hamburg

blacksmythe

7 lat temudiscuss

Fun for foreigners (both in Tokyo area):

Itabashi Station: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itabashi_Station

Iidabashi_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iidabashi_Station

(the major difference you hear is the long ii, rather than the t/d difference)

blacksmythe

7 lat temudiscuss

  >>  last few times I tried to play chess, my mind would just drift off designing a program to do it so I wouldn't have to bother.

That describes exactly how I feel about Sudoku.

I do find a good game of chess to be enjoyable, though.

blacksmythe

7 lat temudiscuss

  >> without `go fmt` "fixing" it

Great point.

And this line should be indented relative to the 'happy path' lines!

blacksmythe

7 lat temudiscuss

  >> no idea how to get a random PDF onto my kindle.

Amazon gives you an email address; just attach the file to an email.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle/email

blacksmythe

8 lat temudiscuss

grpc-go: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go

blacksmythe

8 lat temudiscuss

  >> A lot of people ask why I have a surgical laceration kit 
    in my go-bag given that I am not qualified to actually use it. 
    My reasoning stems from what I have seen across many disasters that have occurred all over the world. 
    In the most likely scenario for the bay area, an earthquake (like the Loma Prieta quake or the Northridge quake), 
    all these people are moving around and then boom, everything stops moving. 
    At that instant in time you have a cross section of people evenly distributed across an area, 
    then some percentage of them will be health care workers (Nurses, Doctors, PAs etc). 
    And the hospitals will be far away.

blacksmythe

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