steve_b
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I started a company called Empress Effects in 2005. We make guitar pedals, some of them have processors. I can be reached at [email protected]
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Comment · 10 months ago
It’s interesting to compare Lord of the Flies with a real life example of children being marooned on an island: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-...
Comment · 11 months ago
Companies would then outsource their low-paying jobs to other companies.
Comment · 1 year ago
Not quite. She was killed by someone who started out as a fan but then became one of Selena’s employees, who was then caught embezzling.
Comment · 5 years ago
I think that's backwards: P-type has more holes than electrons, n-type has more electrons than holes.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-type_semiconductor (property 2)
Comment · 5 years ago
For the subtle variants, I believe it's how they price discriminate. It's all the same part, but they use fuses to disable various peripherals. Way easier to do that than to fabricate a whole bunch of different chips.
Comment · 5 years ago
Who paid for the new looms?
Comment · 6 years ago
I used jk for a long time until I found out that control-C escapes pretty much every mode. No mapping necessary!
Comment · 6 years ago
What you or I want is no longer a question afforded to us sadly.
I'm genuinely curious: Are there periods of history where people could choose what to go into without it having a large effect on their income or quality of life? From my point of view, it seems like our standard of living is at an all-time high and our freedom to choose what we do with our lives is unprecedented. But I'd be open to being shown empirical evidence to the contrary.
Comment · 6 years ago
Brute force is rarely the answer.
Comment · 7 years ago
I use it do Anki on my bike ride to/from work. Wrote some scripts in Python. They take my deck, convert it to speech using IBM Watson’s TTS. Then i made a small PCB with 4 buttons that is fixed to the handle bar. That way I can interact with the program.
Comment · 8 years ago
I received Experimenting with Babies as a gift and loved it. Looking forward to both Newlyweds and Preschoolers!
Comment · 8 years ago
There's a really good Econtalk podcast called Weapons of Math Destruction about this: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/10/cathy_oneil_on_1.ht...
Comment · 8 years ago
www.empresseffects.com | Embedded/DSP Engineer | Ottawa | REMOTE or ONSITE | $110k CAD
We're a small 10 person company that makes some of the most sought after guitar effect pedals. https://empresseffects.com/products/echosystem
Our products are programmed in C and contain Blackfin DSPs and PIC microcontrollers. Embedded programming and DSP experience would be great. Electronic design experience would also be great.
Email with subject heading starting with HN if interested.