whims
I need to move my/our server back to sandwich soon. I'm sure it'll take the opportunity to break.
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When I was in school, I was interested in a lot of things, and took a bunch of classes that I didn't really need but sounded like something that would be useful or fun to know. Building devices was interesting, leading to studies in operating systems and realtime systems. had worked with some sound stuff back in high school and early undergrad, and while I got the code parts to work I never really had any clue what was going on and I wanted to know how that all worked. A bunch of other stuff came with for the ride - communications theory, coding and information theory, and the like.
There were a few things I avoided.
As an undergraduate, one of the reasons I stayed in computer since was so I didn't have to deal with the killer systems design course that everyone hated (it was ECE 312 at the time), and I didn't miss it. As a graduate student I went out of my way to avoid learning about RF and analog device issue; they were hard and I didn't really find them that interesting. I mean, I'm really a software guy under all that, right? I know what the communications systems can do, but really, making them do it is someone else's problem.
Right?
So why am I now doing digital systems circuit designs and seriously considering taking courses in RF and antennas so I can debug radio circuits?
Can anyone recommend a good book?
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At work, my boss told me he wasn't yelling at me.
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It's kind of interesting to watch the anti-Facebook meme make its rounds (for instance, there was an appearance on xkcd today). As a notorious holdout, I find The Internet making many of the same arguments I would have made if I actually cared, though really as far as I can tell we have far more to worry about from companies like google and apple, which have access to a hell of a lot more data available to do evil with.
In any event, I don't get it.
Facebook exists precisely to share the kind of information that people put on it. If you don't want the information public, don't put it in a public place, and certainly don't trust a company who has a vested interest in making that information public to respect "privacy" in that public place. If you're putting information there that and assuming it isn't going to be used, well, what the hell were you thinking?
I think Upton Sinclair said it pretty well: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
Google at least has an interest in keeping private data private.
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My mother is apparently hosting a TupperwareCephalon party. I'm so excited.
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When I was in school, I was interested in a lot of things, and took a bunch of classes that I didn't really need but sounded like something that would be useful or fun to know. Building devices was interesting, leading to studies in operating systems and realtime systems. had worked with some sound stuff back in high school and early undergrad, and while I got the code parts to work I never really had any clue what was going on and I wanted to know how that all worked. A bunch of other stuff came with for the ride - communications theory, coding and information theory, and the like.
There were a few things I avoided.
As an undergraduate, one of the reasons I stayed in computer since was so I didn't have to deal with the killer systems design course that everyone hated (it was ECE 312 at the time), and I didn't miss it. As a graduate student I went out of my way to avoid learning about RF and analog device issue; they were hard and I didn't really find them that interesting. I mean, I'm really a software guy under all that, right? I know what the communications systems can do, but really, making them do it is someone else's problem.
Right?
So why am I now doing digital systems circuit designs and seriously considering taking courses in RF and antennas so I can debug radio circuits?
Can anyone recommend a good book?
...
At work, my boss told me he wasn't yelling at me.
...
It's kind of interesting to watch the anti-Facebook meme make its rounds (for instance, there was an appearance on xkcd today). As a notorious holdout, I find The Internet making many of the same arguments I would have made if I actually cared, though really as far as I can tell we have far more to worry about from companies like google and apple, which have access to a hell of a lot more data available to do evil with.
In any event, I don't get it.
Facebook exists precisely to share the kind of information that people put on it. If you don't want the information public, don't put it in a public place, and certainly don't trust a company who has a vested interest in making that information public to respect "privacy" in that public place. If you're putting information there that and assuming it isn't going to be used, well, what the hell were you thinking?
I think Upton Sinclair said it pretty well: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
Google at least has an interest in keeping private data private.
...
My mother is apparently hosting a TupperwareCephalon party. I'm so excited.