It is always been unreasonably inconvenient to get a copy of the STE100 spec. But not quite as unreasonable as OP implies.
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It never really bothered me to be honest. I was always a little baffled when I read stories about it ruining someone's life. Then two years ago I had just moved into a new house. After returning from a roadtrip I started hearing what I was convinced was a smoke detector beeping due to low battery in mostly my left ear. I looked everywhere for the source of the beep. In the attic, in the crawlspace, in the garage, everywhere. I started to wonder if maybe it was in my head, but from time to time I would hear the beep and once again scour the house for the source of the mystery beep.
Finally, I went on another trip and lo and behold, I heard the beep in the dead of night in my hotel room. After that, I knew it was a new tinnitus symptom. My theory is that possibly having the windows down while I was driving on such a long trip caused new hearing loss and produced new tinnitus symptoms. Luckily, I feel that being able to recognize that it is no different than the tinnitus I have always had, and that it is something outside of my control seems to allow me to remain unbothered once again.
From my perspective STE100 is intended for things like the aviation industry, where everything is in English, but non-native English speakers are involved in critical process like repairing and flying aircraft. I'm not sure it is really necessary anywhere else, but the fundamental concepts are reasonable. Keep your sentences short, avoid ambiguous terminology, and keep your vocabulary minimal.
From a hiring manager perspective, I'm more interested in experience, level of ownership in past work, and good performance on technical screening questions. I rarely look at GitHub profiles and candidates rarely list them.
From my personal experience, what you have publicly available in your GitHub can only hurt you unless you are the owner of a successful open source project. As you said, you have a lot of half-baked stuff. It's probably not worth making public.
Will the lack of online presence be an issue? Maybe or maybe not. Some people seem to care a lot about whether or not someone has a LinkedIn and whether or not they keep their job history up to date. I do not personally care, but I will say LinkedIn is a low effort investment of your time. As much as I don't care for it, I have landed multiple jobs thanks to having a reasonably up to date profile that recruiters look for.
- Permissive license. Other Forths such as FlashForth for the Arduino are copy-left.
- Direct threaded code. Faster execution compared to traditional indirect threaded Forth.
- Out of the box support for x86 and an inexpensive ARM microcontroller.
I definitely think I'll pick up a Teensy to test this out to see how it compares to working with FlashForth on the Arduino.
* HDMI will be replaced by USB-C or some other multi-purpose standard.
* USB/Audio ports on handheld devices like smartphones.
* General purpose personal computing won't be obsolete, but it will become increasingly obscure.
* Screens will still be around, but I predict a some kind of push for augmented reality devices to take place of screens if devices like the Vision Pro take off.
"Kubernetes up and Running" covers the basics of what Kubernetes is and how to use it. Within the first few chapters you should be able to use what you have learned to deploy an application to an inexpensive hosting provider like DigitalOcean.
The best way to learn is to learn by doing. After those books that's what I recommend.
The macs I got to use in school felt inhumanly slow. I never got to use one of the fun colored macs but I heard those were a big step up.
Windows XP was a big improvement. Downloading and installing SP2 and SP3 was daunting on a 56k connection. Still, the OS was plagued by malware. I remember running various malware scans constantly.
Mac OSX on the first intel based macs was a massive step up from Windows XP. It converted me from a die hard Windows fan to a mac user. I still prefer macs.
For a while I used Windows 7 and it was ok. Better than XP and everything that came after 7, but still not that great in my opinion. One thing that drove me crazy was fixing fuzzy tex issues in Windows 7.
Not long ago I re-installed Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) on my 2007 MacBook. I was surprised by how snappy it was compared to my 2018 MacBook Air, and even my M1 pro. To this day the computer I miss the most was my 2013 MBP.
I would argue that Mac OS kept getting better until 2013-2017-ish. Windows peaked at Windows 7. Linux desktops struggle to compete with Windows. The operating system play a huge role in user experience. Declining UX quality in operating systems makes the good stuff not as good and makes the bad stuff really stand out.
My winter plan is to supplement heat with a fireplace insert, but I haven't gotten that far yet.
As for eating well get a camp stove. You can also run this off a big propane bottle with the same adapter used for the Mr. Buddy heater. You can use the camp stove to make side dishes. You'll also want an outdoor grill. Webber charcoal grills work great and you can do both hot and low and slow cooks with the right technique. Since you have a generator you could also consider an inexpensive pellet grill. This will require electricity, but not much. You can use this type of grill like an oven, and it is much easier to manage compared to charcoal. With this setup, you can make anything. Pizza, chicken, roast, and ribs all come to mine. I'm smoking a chuck roast on my pellet grill in the snow right now.
Thinking long term, I've been thinking of the same thing with the low temps and heavy snow we got in the PNW this week. My house is also all electric. I have a heat pump and electric aux furnace. Heat pump is slow start/solar ready and has been doing fine with temps in the teens. It only needs 30 amps to run. I looked into whole house generators and I'd need an enormous propane tank to run it for just a couple of days. Having the heat pump available year round is appealing. Has anyone gone with a smaller generator to just run their heat pump?
I tell ya I gotta disagree. It is a boxy and weird looking thing. It's how I'd imagine a PS1 era graphic of a first generation Honda Ridgeline (also ugly).
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- Grokking Algorithms: Simple and to the point explanations of common algorithms with pictorial representations.
- Let Over Lambda: A Guide to making the most of macros in Common Lisp.
- Starting Forth: Never used or hear of Forth? No problem, this book teaches this very unique language in terms that are easy to grasp. Forth is perhaps my favorite way to program microcontrollers.
Militaries, for one. But that doesn't mean supersonic flight is completely off limits to passenger flight. There used to be regular flights across the Atlantic at supersonic speeds operated by Air France and British Airways. The last one was in 2003. Did the Concorde program fail because they couldn't fly over the CONUS?
This seems like a hasty conclusion to make. There are plenty of things that correlate with the stagnation of economic growth. I'm aware the author goes on to say almost the same thing after making this statement, but it is clear the author is trying to offer the ban on supersonic flight over soil to be the cause of economic stagnation in America.
To borrow a term from Ross Douthat, there is something decadent about putting a complete halt to the development of a key technology simply because a few otherwise harmless sonic booms might annoy a vocal minority.
I fail to see how there has been a complete halt on the development of supersonic technology. A ban on supersonic flight over US soil is not a ban on the development of the technology.
We need to get back to doing great things.
Who says we aren't?
If we want growth—if we want greatness—it’s time to make America boom again.
I can't agree with the author's conclusion. Besides, they don't really make an effort in their article to tie the development of supersonic flight over land to economic growth. This is more of a "build it and they will come" conclusion. I don't buy it.
“Sometimes a thing happens, it splits your life. There’s a before and after. I've got, like, five of them at this point, and this is your first. But if you use it right — the bad thing — you use it right and it makes you better.”
The character is talking to a kid who's dad was murdered.
I think everyone experiences something like this at some point in their life. Life changing doesn't always mean good. The constant is what life was before, and what life is after. People talk about these types of life changing events all of the time.
"Before I got divorced."
"Before my mom died."
But there are some good ones too...
"Before I got my driver's license"
"After I moved out on my own."
Not sure about Render, but the others you mention do not appear to be wholistic. They either focus on the frontend exclusively, or are intended for development, not production use cases.
What about your data layer? You need something that provides that and my guess is that will drive your decision about what platform you choose more than anything else. That, and cost.