Do you know why radiation hardening is not needed for the Ingenuity? Is there a mechanical shield? Or is it just the shorter runtime that makes the use of an off-the-shelf processor acceptable?
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Source: native speaker, reasonably literate
I think what they mean is "no one who is in a position to give me the job I want is going to read this", they clearly went to the author because they think his help will increase their chances of getting that job.
When writing a cover letter, which is quite common when doing direct applications in Switzerland, I never know who I'm addressing, and knowing your audience is a key factor when designing poignant communication.
Will it be a HR person? A tech lead? A team lead? Will they appreciate the ugly-but-hard-to configure LaTeX template I used, the hand-coded postscript to generate the symbols for the telephone and the letterbox? Will they know that if I write "C" in the list of programming languages, that does not mean I am proficient in C++? That a seemingly tangentially related job I am mentioning is actually solving the same problem, but in a different industry?
The result of this is that most cover letters I have written contain generic platitudes, to the point where I now have a makefile and just make minor adjustments like company names and addresses, plus some tweaking, before sending it out, with a reasonable success rate.
Now that I'm thinking about it, maybe it is true that nobody is reading these.
The addictivity of facebook/youtube/instagram/hackernews upvotes condensed in a single sentence, great insight!
It appears that the state of the mouse is [X, Y, Heading], where X and Y are discrete positions in the available cells.
Once the maze has been solved by "a rather involved strategy of trial and error", the solution is saved, and for any of the known states, the mouse "remembers" its way to the exit of the maze.
Now, about a year later, I have earned 0.47$. 0.33$ of it come from Spotify, where I raked up a full 131 listens, averaging at 0.25 cents per listen. 0.25cents * 1e6 would amount to 2500$, which is admittedly still not much, but two orders of magnitude off from what is reported here.
That being said, I believe the main source of revenue for bands has been concerts in recent years (not 2020 though), with ever-increasing prices charged for live performances. I gladly accept that though - it is quite appealing to cut out the middle-man that were Music Studios up until the early 2000s.
With the barrier of entry to record an album ever-decreasing (using a Roland Octacapture, Reaper DAW, a Shure SM57 and lots of sweat you can get far), pretty much anyone can record an album in decent-ish quality in the comfort of their home, there is no more appeal to pay expensive studios to do a recording for you.
alias fzubl='fzf -m | xargs subl'
So after all those years, we have finally found a use case for cryptocurrencies!
#define FIELD_SIZEOF(t, f) (sizeof(((t*)0)->f))
2. Not strictly C: using `pahole` to analyze how structs are laid out in memory
"Every computer on an enterprise network needs a set of basic services. In particular, power and internet must be available."
Power? In the sense of [Nm/s]?
And the graphics! Why is the Mac-Square larger than the PC square in the second graph? Why does the "Hardware and essential software" square not contain references to hardware or software, but concepts like "encryption" or "deployment"?
I have a really hard time understanding the point of that article.
2) Sublime Text (80$)
[1] https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/yes.c
Fast forward to two days ago, when I was idly watching George Hotz design a monocular visual SLAM prototype in 11h. Much to my surprise, one of the first things he fires up is pygame for visualization [1]!
I was quite surprised to find that while it is straightforward to go from WGS84 to ECEF with a closed form, the other way, from ECEF to WGS84, needs to be computed iteratively [1] and is not trivial to find.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_conversi...
Indeed. It seems like the winning move is not to play, but I guess that applies to all cyber-bullying. Avoid the offending environment (in that case, JupyterCon) and contribute to a place where discourse is appreciated.
I have been playing guitar for 28 years and barely improved in the past 15 years - after a teenage burst of disciplined, daily drills with metronome and recording a lot of music, I still regularly doodle and learn new songs, but it is just not enough to give me escape velocity from the current plateau.
Many filters in Robotics (Kalman Filter, Particle Filter) and many concepts in digital communication (Modulation Schemes, Filters, ...) are firmly rooted in statistics and require a decent applied understanding of the area.
- recon on foot if uncertain (this is also in the article)
- always keep a positive torque on the rear wheel and let the front wheel find its way
- don't get scared, the front wheel is supposed to skid a little and the rear wheel is supposed to slip a little
func helper(a float64, c chan float64){
time.Sleep(time.Duration(a) * time.Second)
c <- a
}
func clamp(a float64, min float64, max float64) float64 {
c := make(chan float64, 3)
go helper(a, c)
go helper(min, c)
go helper(max, c)
_, out, _ := <-c, <-c, <-c
return out
}Yes, there is FreeCAD and OpenSCAD, but every time I try to use them, I give up in the end and whip up something in Fusion360.
This video was an absolute eye-opener me [1] on what classification is, how it works and why a non-linear activation function is required. I probably learned more in the 5 minutes watching this than doing multiple Coursera courses on the subject.
There's an STM32 micro-controller which presumably acts as an USB slave and controls the servos.