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AM reception is essentially the direct conversion of the strength (amplitude) of a given radio frequency into an audio signal. Any other noise present at the same frequency is adde…

FM works better because it is easier to detect the change in frequency independently of any change in the amplitude. I'm unsure of what the correct terminology would be, but (for m…

Please see the section titled "Faster multiplication"

My understanding of PC game development at the time was that most games would re-implement their own drivers for system hardware, hence why you would often need to select what kind…

Oi Oi Oi!!!

Ramtha's School of Enlightenment used to come to a university I used to work at between sessions while the students were away. They would have a section of paddock fenced off and w…

It's hard to tell what's actually happening in that clip. To me it looks like the chain is actually fully off the rear sprocket just before the rear locks up (it appears to have co…

Programming is all about abstractions and the ways they interact. Specifically this article talks about what it means for two instances of an object to be "equal", which depends ve…

MTBF: Mean time between failures MTTR: Mean time to repair

Hell on Earth.

As an embedded software engineer, my only response to this is that sometimes I'm surprised anything works at all. Bugs in silicon do exist. Often there's nothing a supplier can do …

Matthew Walker wrote that book [1]. He also has a few talks on YouTube worth checking out. From memory [2] was an informative one for me. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_S…

You're not old. You're elite!

As a guy with a brother, I can't help but read this as yet another ploy to get one-up on the brother, but this time in the name of science!

His Morty was happier almost instantly though - he was a particularly traumatic Rick, which is saying something!

On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin. It's pretty dense, dry, and can require a bit of a commitment, but there's some pretty interesting bits and pieces in there aside from …

It is customary for the vintage of old articles to be added in the title to make it clear that they may not be current. GP is attempting to bring the vintage of this article to the…

Slightly off topic, but I've followed this a little deeper and am wondering if anyone has any recommended Taoist reading? It appears this translation of Tao Te Ching is available i…

Nope, that one is different. https://www.xkcd.com/327/

This is addressed in the article. He wanted the domain, but didn't want to pay more than necessary for it. This includes avoiding an auction that could unnecessarily inflate the pr…

Is bauxite really new cargo? Or do they mean ship-operators need to be careful when switching to bauxite cargo? My read on it was that bauxite was new as a solid bulk cargo, not th…

Sure, there are absolutely varying degrees of screw up. You can make the same argument for anything. But for any position there is usually a general rule, and any number of excepti…

Admitting I'm wrong or that I screwed up ... You would not believe how much smoother everything at work is when you learn to recognize early the signs that you're holding on to a b…