Lramseyer

Honestly, in hindsight, I am really bad at seeing the implications of my quality of life at the time of purchase. Part of it is due to changes in personal habits that I don't always foresee. For example, I play significantly fewer video games than when I was in college. But it's also due to my perception of what it should cost versus how much I use it. An example of that would be some of the nice clothing I own that I paid extra for. I wear it enough to justify the cost. Then there are the non-tangible things like vacations which have given me some amazing stories that I would not have imagined.

Though that speaks more to the concern over the quality of what I get, or whether I should own or rent something. In practice, as a young, single, physically active engineer who lives in the Bay area, (aside from clothes, food, shelter, and transportation,) I get my 80% value out of the following:

Running shoes, a bike, a good backpack, a gym membership, Spotify premium, a good computer or two, a good smartphone, and the more than occasional airline reservation.

I am not sure what the other comments are going on about, but let me give you a little bit of my perspective, since I have a few years of experience in the HDD industry.

An all zeroes pattern would look nothing like all zeroes on the media. Modern read/write channels use a scrambler, RLL, and LDPC, which scrambles the data, limits the length of long magnets (since the heads don't like DC signals,) and then parity bits. From a signal processing perspective, writing random data will not look much different from all zeros.

One thing to keep in mind, however; if you tell the drive to write a large range of LBAs to the same pattern, depending on the firmware, it might only write one physical sector and point every LBA in that range to that physical sector. So now your data only has the first sector overwritten. If someone hacks the firmware in a way that allows reading of physical sectors, they can get your data.

I wouldn't go as far as to say spreadsheets are the biggest fail in computer history. In fact, I would say that they were pretty revolutionary for its time. But now that it's not 2001 anymore, I definitely get frustrated by some of the things we still use Excel for in 2017. I work in engineering, so my needs are a little different. I would much prefer Matlab for managing sets of data, except for its shortcomings with handling non-numerical data.

> "some whispers have said that the reason CEMU is closed source is they used parts of the Wii U SDK that were under NDA to bootstrap development"

I would bet money on that. I am not am emu dev myself, nor am I an expert at reverse engineering game consoles, but the progress that Cemu is making is blazing. Even for hacky HLE. Cemu is running circles around it's open source alternative. If they really cared about moving WiiU emulation forward, they could at least release the source code and not let others contribute. It's not like the emulation community is competing for money here ...right?

Who knows. Maybe the Cemu team will wait for more information to surface, maybe for some better documentation from the reverse engineering community, or some leaked documents from other sources. Then open up their code and play it off like it was always a level playing field.

I really like the idea of this game. But while it seems to simplify certain aspects of optical tables (like adjusting mirrors and other optical elements,) it makes other things way more complicated than they should be due to the visual simplicity.

It's mostly the polarization (and phase to a lesser degree) that I am referring to. That stuff is way more intuitive on a real optical table.

Could somebody with more expertise explain how modern day protein folding simulations work? (Like Rosetta) I'm only familiar with the folding@home method of brute force molecular dynamics simulation. What kind of computational power does it take to go from an RNA sequence or polypeptide chain to stable protein with these algorithms?

This has always been a subject that has fascinated me, ever since high school when my biology teacher told us about folding@home. I went into computer hardware, so I always saw this problem as a computational power problem. I always believed that if we could figure this out, we could do a lot of cool things like make nanotubes and cure diseases. I saw it as the key to the nanotechnology revolution.

Wow! My thoughts exactly! Having worked at both companies, I can confirm.

I thought the exact same thing myself when I saw this news. It made me think of this: https://medium.com/@aristoNYC/social-justice-bullies-the-aut...

It's all fun and games until this DNA storage downloads a virus!

Location: Midwest

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

Hardware - Mixed signal ASIC Hardware validation; High speed signal processing/communication; Photonics - optics, Imaging, and Image Processing (education only)

Software: C/C++ (firmware), Perl, TCL, Matlab, Python (minimal experience), Java (College only)

Résumé/CV: by request

Email: domain - gmail; address - laramseyer

I am currently employed as a Computer Engineer at a tech company (2.5 years of experience, and a BS EE.) I primarily work on integrating hardware into a mass produced product. I enjoy programming, but have a strong hardware background and would prefer to work for a hardware startup. I am a very passionate person, and I ultimately hope to work somewhere that makes an impact in the third world.