"General Radio was founded in Cambridge in 1915 by Melville Eastham and four other investors to manufacture radio measuring instruments and parts. Initially, the company focused on transmitting and receiving components and precision measuring instruments, as well as a few complete receiving sets. ... By 1924, General Radio began its decades of dominance of the high-end instrument market. During the time, the company introduced a host of unique instruments, including the first commercially available oscilloscope. Two products developed in the 1930s found major uses during World War II: the Variac variable autotransformer and the Strobotac, the first commercial strobe light. "
Am I the only one who read this to mean a Urinary Tract Infection has afflicted the latest versions of MacOS and iOS, perhaps some special case of markdown ens--ttification?
"The superjunction (SJ) charge balancing concept has been successfully implemented in silicon (Si) MOSFET power devices. Greater focus is now being placed on improving the performance metrics of wide bandgap (WBG) power devices with this technique. In this article, we summarize initial results that show promise in the application of the SJ structure in a lateral gallium nitride (GaN) Schottky diode."
There are few in the same category, perhaps Widlar or Gilbert for pure analog circuit design, or Bill Atkinson in later Mac software? It's a very short list.
Indeed. I have often wondered why university courses tend to use their own made-up machines to teach this stuff, as opposed to using the Apple II (or some of its near-contemporaries).
Not for this data, but in the past, yes - there is persistent pressure to do that for any maker of password managers, be it independent, in-browser or in-OS. (Source: I was a cofounder of a company that made a password manager as part of our product).
“When building structures are designed and built to required codes and standards, they have margins against failure, meaning they should be able to support much more load than they are expected to bear,” said Mitrani-Reiser. “In the case of Champlain Towers South, however, these margins against failure were too narrow from the start.”
Thank you for sharing your story, and I'm so glad it worked out in the end.
This story however is also why algorithmic interviews and the supposedly "irrelevant to the real job" programming interviews are not going anywhere soon.
Having done a lot of hiring, it's surprising how many candidates do not actually know how to code despite experience and looking good on paper.
The article includes a link to https://github.com/virtualagc/virtualagc - virtual AGC which is interesting.
Although the github repo itself is not new news (see github dates), it's still good news this history is preserved.
Only thing missing is a SCSI hard drive, it's a shame for the Adapter controller to only have the CDROM connected to it. Perhaps an external SCSI RAID array?
"The name Radiation Laboratory, or "Rad Lab," was chosen to be intentionally deceptive, creating the perception to those on the outside that the laboratory was working on nuclear physics, a discipline that was seen as too immature to have an impact on the war effort. During the fall of 1940, the Rad Lab sprang to life on the MIT campus, and by December, a primitive two-parabola system had already been emplaced and was undergoing initial testing on the rooftop of Building 6 at MIT.
During the next five years, the Radiation Laboratory made stunning contributions to the development of microwave radar technology in support of the war effort. Inventions included airborne bombing radars, shipboard search radars, harbor and coastal defense radars, gun-laying radars, ground-controlled approach radars for aircraft blind landing, interrogate-friend-or-foe beacon systems, and the long-range navigation (LORAN) system. Some of the most critical contributions of the Radiation Laboratory were the microwave early-warning (MEW) radars, which effectively nullified the V-1 threat to London, and air-to-surface vessel (ASV) radars, which turned the tide on the U-boat threat to Allied shipping. In November 1942, U-boats claimed 117 Allied ships. Less than a year later, in the two-month period of September to October 1943, only 9 Allied ships were sunk, while a total of 25 U-boats were destroyed by aircraft equipped with ASV radars (Buderi, pp. 155–169). "
Sad end of an era - not bc there aren't good reasons for it, but bc there was a lot of good opportunities for shared code and skills between NGINX and k8s with this approach.
Agree re: different types of JITs producing wildly different results but don't agree about language semantics - even a Java JIT has to give up speed due to certain seemingly minor language and JVM issues. So both matter - no matter how good of a compiler engineer you are, some semantics are just not optimizable. Indeed, the use of a "trace JITs" is a proof of that.