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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone started over outside of tech?
on Friday March 03, 2023 @03:53PM (#35014848)
On the job training. Entry level pin setter mechanic training is fairly basic (Lock out tag out procedures, basic machine operations, simple trouble call resolutions (ball returns, re-spotting pins, that sort of thing)). Usually you'll be working with a full mechanic, learning how to do various repairs and preventive maintenance on the machines.
I'm working with the Brunswick A2 machines. Here's a link to the service manual if you're curious what these machines are like (PDF): https://brunswickbowling.com/uploads/document-library/Servic...
Re:Ask HN: Has anyone started over outside of tech?
on Friday March 03, 2023 @11:44AM (#35011912)
After working full time in a wide variety of tech since 1983 (embedded systems work on medical equipment and commercial fire alarm systems, hotel reservation systems, ramp and fuel delivery systems in aviation, multiple startups in Silicon Valley, etc, ad naseum) I’m currently taking a break and working as a pin setter mechanic at a couple of local bowling alleys. The work is physical (running up and down the back of the 40 and 64 lane alleys, climbing up on the machines) and challenging in its own way: the machines were designed in the 50s and are a complex assortment of pulleys, belts, gears, cams, levers, etc. There is even a mechanical “computer” that acts as a state machine directing the operations of the machine. I still get to use my problem solving skills but in a much more tactile way. Also, no pointless meetings, conference calls. Downside: the pay is terrible. Fortunately I’m in a position in my life where that is not nearly as important as it used to be.
MNT Pocket Reform
Re:Literate programming is much more than just commenting code
on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @11:28AM (#30767251)
One of my favorite examples of a literate-style program is "cl-6502, A Readable CPU Emulator" by Brit Butler
Re:The BYTE magazine covers by Robert Tinney
on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @02:57PM (#28608508)
Yep, I got the FORTH cover a few years ago, looks great:
Re:Intuit to share payroll data from 1.4M small businesses with Equifax
on Thursday July 01, 2021 @03:57PM (#27703881)
https://plaintextaccounting.org
Not sure about receipt scanning though.
Re:Watchy: Hackable $50 Smartwatch
on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @08:58PM (#26323780)
Regarding the "camera viewfinder remote view thingy" I've used it to:
* point my phone at a TV while I aligned an outside VHF antenna
* point my phone at a security flood while I figured out which breaker in the garage controlled it
Re:The Framework Laptop
on Thursday February 25, 2021 @01:58PM (#26266659)
Any plans to support movable keycaps? I'd love to actually have the physical keys match my Colemak layout
Re:The benefits of note-taking by hand
on Saturday September 19, 2020 @01:18PM (#24528970)
I'm hoping the ReMarkable 2 closes that gap even further.
Re:Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects
on Thursday August 06, 2020 @02:02PM (#24073675)
I've added mini-clover to my back yard. It's only been 2 months but the yard is already much healthier.
Re:Show HN: Quill – Messaging for teams that focus
on Thursday April 02, 2020 @02:28PM (#22762028)
Will there be a RESTish API available? Or really any well-documented API.
Will Quill play nice with federated systems?
Re:Basics of Compiler Design (2000) [pdf]
on Friday December 13, 2019 @11:34AM (#21783026)
Instaparse is excellent (https://github.com/engelberg/instaparse) if you are using Clojure
'Apply Concat' and Friends
Re:Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer
on Saturday September 07, 2019 @03:20PM (#20905901)
how about like this:
# cp [existing-thing] [new-thing]
# mv [existing-thing] [new-thing]
# ln -s [existing-thing] [new-thing]
Re:USAF Is Jamming GPS in Western U.S. For Largest Ever Red Flag Air W...
on Saturday January 27, 2018 @03:53PM (#16248035)
Interesting, I’m doing the same but using WWVB 60khz radio signal for my time source
Re:Insomnia REST Client
on Thursday December 07, 2017 @03:48PM (#15874020)
I've always been partial to 'restclient-mode': https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el
So nice to capture a flow of commands and notes in a single plain text file
Re:“It is never a compiler error”
on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @11:06PM (#15701377)
I was a user of a very early version of Zortech C++ (one of the first native C++ compilers (late '80s); no running through cfront) and ran into a very subtle bug in the math routines: sometimes when doing math with 8 bit values the answers would be corrupted. Took a while for me to track down the bug but I eventually found it in the assembly output. Turns out that the math was actually being done with 16 bit registers and the high byte (AH) was not being cleared and this would sometimes set a carry (I think, my memory is fuzzy on the details).
Walter was quick with a fix. Sometimes it is the compiler, but usually it's not.
Re:Energy Efficiency Across Programming Languages
on Thursday September 14, 2017 @02:44PM (#15251144)
A real shame that Forth wasn't included in the tested languages. Chuck Moore has been an advocate for more energy efficient computation for a while now.
Re:Ferret – A free software Clojure implementation
on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:42PM (#14953441)
It seems well thought out:
* malloc/free (ref counting GC)
* memory pooling (no heap, stack-based for memory constrained systems)
* third party allocators
* third party GC
Details here: http://ferret-lang.org/#sec-4-2
Re:The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA’s Voyager Probes Across the Universe
on Friday August 04, 2017 @11:09AM (#14929237)
I'd also highly recommend "NASA Voyager 1 & 2 Owners' Workshop Manual" https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0857337750
It goes into amazing detail on the history of the spacecraft and the events that made it possible. For example: the story of an intern figuring out the '3 body' problem and, from there, the concept of 'gravity assist' gave me goosebumps
Re:Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures
on Friday July 21, 2017 @10:29PM (#14825081)
For github I crafted together this little bookmarklet to ignore whitespace on diffs (use it daily for our code reviews):
javascript:(function()%7Bopen(location.href+'?w=1');%7D)();void(0);
Re:GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.13.0 released
on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:12PM (#14404855)
I just installed GuixSD 0.12 last week on a Dell 13 7000. Went mostly smoothly (had to use Grub BIOS instead of UEFI, that's been fixed in 0.13) after I replaced the Intel WiFi card with an Atheros based one.
My needs are simple: emacs, Clojure (with Icedtea), Icecat and StumpWM. Plus all the guile goodness!
Just realized I'm living in a system with four Lisps front and center (guile, Common Lisp, elisp, and Clojure)
Re:America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient
on Thursday May 18, 2017 @05:04PM (#14371078)
Actually, assuming about 2000 RPM at 60 mph in a 4 cylinder car you are getting more like 17 detonations/second
Re:Software Developers after 40, 50 and 60 Who're Still Coding
on Monday April 24, 2017 @06:07PM (#14188831)
52 and I started with a KIM-1, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1 (mowed lawns to save up for it, still have it, still works). Been programming ever since and rarely use SO (most of the time I just read the code when I'm trying to grock some aspect of a library.)
Re:Don't Give Up on the Guitar, Fender Is Begging You
on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @03:45PM (#13017490)
Perhaps something like the Eigenharp (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenharp) with some tweaked software.
Re:Ask HN: What small websites do you frequently use/visit?
on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @05:20PM (#11810353)
https://pinboard.in - an awesome bookmarking service
Re:Pilot aims to fly super glider to the edge of space
on Saturday August 01, 2015 @01:13PM (#9987777)
There's a great podcast where Einar Enevoldson talks about the Perlan Project: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/airplane-geeks-podcast-podca...
He goes into some detail about how they have to design around the low Reynolds numbers at that altitude and other esoterica, very interesting.
Re:Show HN: Opp.io – Meeting Minutes Made Useful
on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @03:50PM (#8174694)
I really like the "markdown" aspect of this.
Trello and Hipchat integration would be awesome (actually, how about a nice plugin system or a way to fire off REST calls (and receive them as well))