I've been sorting out what mosfets are suitable for linear use since I've heard rumors that modern ones are less capable in that regard, and I found this article to be a good resource on the issue.
Reminds me of a favorite quote from Fahrenheit 451:
> Man, when I was younger I shoved my ignorance in people’s faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
For those like myself wondering how a regular wave could do this, the article says it was something colloquially termed a "sneaker wave." Like a rogue wave, but on the shoreline. It also sounds like they all got hit by the wave, and only Charity survived.
Thank you, never heard of this. It sounds terrifying.
> Sneaker waves appear suddenly on a coastline and without warning; generally, it is not obvious that they are larger than other waves until they break and suddenly surge up a beach. A sneaker wave can occur following a period of 10 to 20 minutes of gentle, lapping waves. Upon arriving, a sneaker wave can surge more than 150 feet (50 m) beyond the foam line, rushing up a beach with great force.
> The force of a sneaker wave's surge and the large volume of water rushing far up a beach is enough to suddenly submerge people thigh- or waist-deep, knock them off their feet, and drag them into the ocean
Very common on the west coast… I recommend having any kids playing on an ocean beach to wear a life jacket, and adults too unless they are, say, very experienced reading waves and swimming long distances in the ocean.
The sort of visual programming the author talks about seems like it could benefit from the concepts of presentations and semantic graphical output as seen in projects like CLIM (the Common Lisp Interface Manager).
> I don't like the financial aid system in general, it's really bad for young adults with rough backgrounds. Not everyone has a good relationship with their parents.
Having gone through the community college and state university system, it wasn't that uncommon to hear students say "my parents make too much for me to get aid, but they don't contribute to my schooling" when discussing financial stuff.
At least with GPS, I've found a reasonable substitute to be an honest-to-god map. Here in LA the Thomas Guide is fantastic, but other places have "road atlases" that function similarly to my knowledge. In some ways I find it better than Google maps, because it's actually designed to be a map instead of a robot overlord dictating what you do.
The big hurdle now becomes that all collaborators now need to know emacs;-)
But good to know! Although I am curious as to how clicking on TeX leading to scrolling the PDF to the corresponding location in the PDF would work (and vice-versa). Also for collaboration (some of my collaborators are not in the same continent) I'm assuming you need to host an emacs server; where might one typically do this? Any cloud compute provider, e.g., Linode?
> The big hurdle now becomes that all collaborators now need to know emacs;-)
As God intended. ;)
They actually don't though, if they prefer to remain heathens see bottom of this reply.
> Although I am curious as to how clicking on TeX leading to scrolling the PDF to the corresponding location in the PDF would work (and vice-versa).
Could be wrong, but I think the synchtex files produced by builds are for that. I usually have the PDF open in one Emacs buffer (you can view pdfs in Emacs), and the TeX file open in another. Ctrl-left click in the PDF jumps to the spot in the text buffer for that spot in the PDF, and in the TeX buffer there is a keybinding to do the reverse. Probably a way to click and get there too, but I use the keybinding.
> I'm assuming you need to host an emacs server
No, Emacs runs locally and interfaces with the cloned git repo on your machine. Your collaborators could use Notepad for all Emacs cares, as long as they work in the same repo and push to the shared remote.
Wasn't aware of synchtex - read up on it a bit based on your comment, yes it looks like that might work, thanks!
For collaboration, I meant real-time collaboration, where you see your collaborator's cursor or changes while you are on the document yourself. Git push/pull probably won't suffice for that, but yes, while convenient, the larger question is if all projects even need that kind of collaboration.
It definitely happens if you’re writing in the same room with someone. I’ve done this with advisors or other students, not all the time but with enough regularity to make it relevant.
