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robmiller

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Acoustics Consultant and web developer in Chicago. https://www.10log.com

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robmiller··on Ask HN: What are some great posts or articles about history of computing?
I'm most familiar with BBN for their contribution to acoustics, but the firm is best known for its development of ARPANET among other contributions to computing. Here is a PDF of collected stories by employees.

http://www.cbi.umn.edu/hostedpublications/pdf/CultureInnovat...

robmiller··on Learning to See in the Dark (2018)
I wonder if photographic evidence "enhanced" by such a method would be admissible in court?
robmiller··on Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of Covid-19 fight
When I was a kid, my dad sat next to a different RadioShack CEO on a plane. He mentioned that I was always in the store and Mr. Roberts gave him this, https://imgur.com/a/BolEA
robmiller··on Amazon asks court to halt Microsoft's work on Pentagon 'war cloud'
Wouldn't surprise me. I heard the person who wrote the legislation left when they were completed and took a job with AWS.
robmiller··on Black boys don’t need more discipline, they need mentors (2018)
I'm at the end of my knowledge on the issue. Someone else will need to weigh in.
robmiller··on Black boys don’t need more discipline, they need mentors (2018)
Specifically, I understand a 1968 law put into effect the Man in the House rule. Black families had to decide if welfare would pay better than the father's job. Many left the house so the mother and child(ren) could receive the welfare payment. The Moe Factz podcast has been helpful to me in understanding these structural problems in society.

https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Man-in-the-Ho...

http://www.moefactz.com/

robmiller··on U.S. airstrike kills top Iran general Qassim Suleimani
Well, Iran is after all the last of the Wes Clark Seven.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw

robmiller··on Internal FAA Review Saw High Risk of 737 Max Crashes
Yup, I'm sure Amazon can get them at a discount for a Prime Air fleet.
robmiller··on New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy
There are already cameras in some seatback systems although airlines have denied using them.

https://www.flyertalk.com/articles/seatback-cameras-designed...

robmiller··on Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application
Renovations 3D is the Android companion app to Sweet Home. A little clunky, but it exists.
robmiller··on Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store
Thanks for sharing this perspective. Some of us have a core competency in a domain outside of CS and want to build niche tools to serve our industry. Electron helps us reach our userbase without excluding one or more platforms. Bloat is secondary compared to the other heavyweight software I have to use.
robmiller··on Amazon orders 100K electric delivery trucks from Rivian
Checking in. Grew up in Decatur/Forsyth.
robmiller··on AirSim: open-source simulator for autonomous vehicles
> I just ran across Real Engine looking for Architectural Visualization software (note that Twinmotion is free until Nov!)

Thank you!

robmiller··on Google collects face data now – what it means and how to opt out
For those with a Synology, their Photos app has some of this search ability, but Google is much further ahead.
robmiller··on Edward Snowden: Permanent Record
I did a photo search too and decided to use "every" anyway. But hey, I got you to investigate it yourself and you'd have to agree on "most."
robmiller··on Edward Snowden: Permanent Record
Seems odd that every picture of Edward Snowden shows one of the nose pads on his glasses missing.
robmiller··on Every Noise at Once
White noise is equal energy across all frequencies linearly. Sounds hissy because there are more frequencies included within each musical octave as you go higher.

A more even-sounding spectrum is pink noise which is equal energy per base 2 logarithmic bandwidth. Sounds like a waterfall.

robmiller··on A Look at Overnight Stays at US National Parks
I hiked the backcountry there two spring breaks during college. That was 20 years ago, but I don't really recall it being crowded. Beautiful time of year, but a little scary when I had to forge a river of snowmelt.
robmiller··on VAIO announces tiny laptop with tons of ports
Does it have a Memory Stick Pro Duo reader to go with the SD?
robmiller··on EASA demands additional changes for the 737 Max
Convert them to cargo. Amazon could probably scoop them up for pennies on the dollar for a new Prime Air fleet.
robmiller··on On Jony Ive Leaving Apple
MS outsources some of their product industrial design, https://pensar.com/project-gallery/consumer/
robmiller··on Libra Core
Will FB dogfood it by paying their employees in Libra?
robmiller··on CERN opts for open-source software in light of Microsoft price hikes
I do love that my kids' birth certificates from King County (which Redmond is within) is printed in a Comic Sans variant. Reap what you sow.
robmiller··on Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10
Windows Is an Emulator

...doesn't quite have the same ring.

robmiller··on Banks Look Safer with Deposits
The house is the collateral in a mortgage though.
robmiller··on Denver voters consider next frontier in decriminalizing drugs: magic mushrooms
This has been a fascinating decade or so watching the children of the 60's make their way into positions of senior governance/policymaking.
robmiller··on 5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk
5G attempts to market a compelling reason to upgrade a phone and stave off the slowing phone replacement cycle?
robmiller··on Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster
I wonder if you could repurpose the mythflagcommercials process from MythTV to do this. It has a variety of methods to detect commercial breaks.
robmiller··on Hollywood Upended as Unions Tell Writers to Fire Agents
Bob's Red Mill
robmiller··on Pentagon names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B cloud contract finalists
I heard the guy who wrote the government regulations for cloud computing promptly resigned after it passed and went to go work for AWS.
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