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analogwzrd

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    Comment #44186349

    A couple of decades ago tax code transparency and making it easier and cheaper to file your taxes would have been a very Republican policy. Point taken that the current administrat…

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    Comment #43763013

    I was expecting command line financial software...oh well, maybe next time.

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    Comment #42867413

    You'll never be able to run both scenarios side-by-side to compare - obviously. But for the people who say that the solution is to just spend more money, we've been doing that for …

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    Comment #41837615

    Where are you getting 1.41x? What you'd really like to increase is the SNR. As you open up the bandwidth, the amount of energy you can collect in your band increases, but there's n…

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    Comment #41837388

    I don't put a huge emphasis on credentials. If someone is capable and talented, a degree doesn't change that. However, if they were able to complete an engineering degree (or inser…

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    Comment #41832347

    It's notoriously difficult for the government to fire an employee. It can also be difficult to fire an employee in a defense contractor. From what I know of Anduril, part of their …

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    Comment #41832243

    I almost graduated (switched programs) from a graduate school cybersecurity program. They tried making the program "interdisciplinary" which essentially meant that they dumbed down…

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    Comment #41769871

    This is a great line, though it might not have aged well. Younger generations might just think "Oh, the sky was black"

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    Comment #41769854

    Is this some kind of test?

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    Comment #41769816

    If I met someone who said that any book was their favorite book, and then didn't remember anything about the book or had any value for the ideas that it advocated for, then I'd hav…

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    Comment #41701682

    Ah got it, there was a 'Constellation' option to find the GPS sats.

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    Comment #41701044

    A user interface suggestion: I tried using the 'Find Satellite' option and manually scrolling through all the options in the drop down menu was a little tedious. Maybe allow a filt…

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    Comment #41569816

    If you have no experience in writing software, physics, or applying higher level math, jumping into a master's program without an engineering background will probably wreck you. Lo…

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    Comment #41560409

    That Chevron Deference decision might change the authority that the FTC has in interpreting that.

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    Comment #41560300

    Definitely need to add a womp womp on a compile error

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    Comment #41061421

    Some others have mentioned this in their comments and I agree that once you succeed in getting a non-null result, publishing the null results (all the things you tried that didn't …

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    Comment #41028889

    Of course every bill is going to allocate money. But there's a difference between allocating money accompanied by a policy reform and passing a bill with the sole purpose of floodi…

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    Comment #41028249

    I obviously haven't read all the bills that were passed (ha!), but my impression is that many of the bills are just spending money - which is always popular with both parties. I do…

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    Comment #40988046

    My pessimistic take on the world at the moment is that at least 50% of jobs in the US fall into Graeber's BS jobs category. I saw a map a few years ago that labelled the largest em…

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    Comment #40927333

    "Author is modifying the product behavior with their software." I would say that the end user is modifying the behavior of the hardware, that they own and are fully in control of, …

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    Comment #38960118

    What does the average company spend on R&D percentage-wise? My old company was a contract engineering company, so they always tried to staff everyone possible on projects being pai…

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    Comment #37933698

    If you're just getting started, I agree with others here to just get something working. You'll naturally bump into the limitations of whatever structure/design patterns you're usin…

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    Comment #30880698

    Location: Boulder, CO Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: No, but I can do site visits Techne Solutions, LLC is a embedded engineering consulting and services firm specializing in cus…

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    Comment #28039261

    SEEKING WORK Techne Solutions is a small, embedded software and hardware design firm located in Boulder, CO. I specialize in IoT and Industrial IoT prototyping, but can design for …

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    Comment #27364436

    SEEKING WORK Boulder, CO Remote Work: Yes Techne Solutions, LLC is a small embedded software/hardware engineering design firm. I have an aerospace and RF electronics background wit…