Ginger-Pickles

This author, discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=spakhm.com

There are now only two articles presently live on his site; all past ones are 404.

For great justice, does anyone know of any applications (other than Maple) that support WYSIWYG typeset input (not output) like Maple does?

As far as I know, Wolfram/Mathematica, LaTex, SymPy, Jupyter, Sage etc all rely on typewriter text for composing and inputting math. For this (and only this) reason, Maple is the only application that ever resonated with me, because input may be written in the same form it's written by hand, and it's baffling this capability isn't more commonplace. Is this a barrier to anyone else?

Commodity logic ICs ubiquitous and totally capable if needs are well-matched; it’s perhaps a deliberate prototype engineering/development choice.

From the paper:

> Synchronous voltage pulses are sent to both the electrode of the strip connecting to the gate and drain electrodes of the MOSFET. The drain pulse is applied for around 1.1 ms at a constant voltage. The gate pulse starts at 40 μs after the drain pulse and ends at 40 μs before the end of the drain pulse.

> the antigen-antibody complexes undergo stretching and contracting, akin to double springs, in response to a pulsed gate electric field. This motion across the antibody-antigen structure, corresponding to the pulse voltage applied on the test strip, induces an alteration in the protein's conformation, resulting in a time-dependent electric field applied to the MOSFET gate. Consequently, a springlike pattern emerges in the drain voltage waveform due to the external connection between the sensor strip and the MOSFET's gate electrode.

So they shake ‘em just so, and listen to the response…

ICs are perhaps variable timing & pulse-shaping logic?

First standout thing I noticed is the “patern generator” array of DIPs - admittedly without having dived into the paper, any answers from the hive mind what they’re doing?

> Boeing deliberately did not want to use both AOA sensors because, as I said at the beginning, “a man with one AOA sensor knows what the angle of attack is, a man with two AOA sensors is never sure.”e. if Boeing used two sensors then it would have had to deal with the problem of what to do if they disagreed. And that would have meant training which would have violated ship the airplane.

> It is well-known that Boeing's engineering staff is greying. Many of the engineers are within 10-15 years of retirement age - and most of those are counting the years, months, days, hours and minutes until that magical time. Trust us when we say that there has already been a huge loss of "tribal knowledge" that can never be recovered. In 5-10 years, when these greying engineers begin to retire, the resulting knowledge loss may well prove fatal to Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

> The Boeing Company is headed down a dark and dangerous path. It is heading down this path at a reckless pace with little regard to long-term consequences. High-level executives are making decisions that, on paper, may look promising, but are in truth destroying the company. The safety and quality of Boeing airplanes is at jeopardy because of the foolhardy actions of Boeing's senior management.

Once upon a time I eagerly showed a promising newbie the top page, and they said exactly the same thing. Felt bad.

> As we all know, the most secure computer is one not connected to the internet. That’s why I recommend Telstra ADSL.

See this article about the history: https://makezine.com/article/maker-news/the-braun-lectron-sy...

Submitted ten years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5812175

That’s astonishing.

It makes me sad when computers represent things with lossy abstractions, like “album art is a square image,” and those abstractions end up widely supplanting the essential idea of what the thing is.

Detailed article on this and other criticality incidents: https://www.science.org/content/article/near-disaster-federa...

Heard about this at SpaceX too

Nobody chose to visit content farms. They were mislead there by highly-ranked Google search results, generating page views and ad revenue for the farms.

> And that’s the main takeaway I got from reading these three volumes of history. Most of humanity throughout history has suffered from the ambitions of a few. The people of history that have led us have nearly always led us into suffering.

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> That’s another lesson from reading these books. We glamorize history. […] We have whitewashed history so thoroughly that many people long for the past.