AlotOfReading

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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
That's both a relatively cheap price tag for a robot and a famously hard problem in robotics. You're in luck though, foldimate is aiming to launch this year for $1k. Given that a washer/dryer combo can be purchased separately
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
Is the bulk of cell tower cost going towards equipment? My understanding was that a significant chunk went towards labor/construction costs and land rent, both of which are probably much cheaper in India.
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
Visual Studio Community is free. It doesn't have the fancy cloud/devops enterprise-y stuff, but it's not like Xcode does either.
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
Here's one I encountered today with an obscure debugging tool. Google gives me a bunch of relevant and useful links, all in the first few results. DDG has one semi-relevant page that links the actually relevant page and the rest are us
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
Why should code in a REPL be indented correctly? What if you copy from your own terminal (which may only support spaces) to your codebase, which may be in tabs? It doesn't make sense for a language exclaiming the principle of we'
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
Sci-Hub is great, but it absolutely does not have everything published. I try to keep up with the archaeology journals and maybe 1/3rd of papers I look for are available.
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
An interesting difference between this and "traditional compilers" is that since it's targeted to user-facing applications and the output is intentionally hands-off, there are incentives for dry to subvert developers. Imagine
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
Speaking as an embedded developer (though not currently in healthcare), no device should be sold without the manufacturer's firmware. With that said, there are plenty of cases where the hardware is fine, but the software doesn't s
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
My understanding is that natural gas has to be trucked in from the south, as the North Slope doesn't export it overland. I could easily imagine the local coal mine being cheaper, especially accounting for winter supply mitigations.
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
Are you kidding about historical information not being applicable enough to tourism? Versailles, the Acropolis, the Great Wall, D.C., Stonehenge, Machu Picchu...?
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
You're obviously joking, but for those who aren't aware, even a naive "hello world" can have bugs. https://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/slides/jim-meyering-goodb...
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
CMake is painful to use for so many common things I find it hard to believe it's achieved the popularity it has. For instance, given the focus on out-of-source builds, the -H and -B options remain undocumented for vague reasons . The
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
Apple ported KHTML to Mac OS, calling it Webkit. It was released as part of the initial Safari release in 2003. They had a breakup with KHTML a few years later and open sourced Webkit separately. Webkit then became the basis for Chrome when
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
AskHistorians is definitely not about the length of answers, except in that it takes a fair bit of writing to communicate complicated histories. The format does encourage a narrative, but that's reflective of the fact that most of the
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
The civilian government does MVP pilot programs all the time and looking at them is one of the first steps in evaluating the merits of expensive proposals. You can't MVP a bridge or a fighter jet though, because the political and econo
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
I've had similar issues on multiple distros and boards over the years, easily replicable with any sort of intensive disk load. It's not one specific issue (as the underlying bugs get fixed and change over time), but simply that th
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
Tickets have gotten dramatically cheaper over that period. A round trip ticket to Europe from the US costs under $300. A ticket to Australia can be had for about $600. In Europe, prices have dropped so much that planes are cost-competitive
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
GCC added an extension years back that allows VLAs as struct members and function arguments. Clang had the good sense not to, thankfully.
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
They're universally regarded as a dangerous, difficult to use feature (yes, even by C programmers) and are no longer required in C11. VLAs can have nasty side effects like stack corruption and are a leaky abstraction at best. You can&#
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
The SH3/4 were cool little chips and had a surprising number of JVMs. Aside from the planetweb implementation on the Dreamcast, IBM had one, there was a cleanroom implementation called Kaffe project, and I had an optimizing JIT in SH4
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
There already are more options than C on embedded devices. You can run C++, Lua, Python, Ada, Lisp, Java, Forth, Rust, and dozens of others. The reason C dominates is that it's by far the most flexible, portable, and economical of th
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
There are still places in the US where electricity isn't used, the primary languages aren't European, and the gdp per person is that of a third world country. If it's fair to compare those places to New York or San Francisco,
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
If you want a solution, don't develop your own. Industrial robots can be purchased on Ebay for <10k that have already had the certification and engineering done. Then you just need to do the easier job of engineering your specific
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
The only required dependency to build CMake is libuv. Are you talking about something else?
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
This is my view as well, from the same industry. However, the quality of the tools available in C to deal with its issues far exceed those in any other language. I would love to drop C from all my systems, but the alternatives simply aren
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
There is an extension to the original x86 instruction set called x87 which has an instruction called fsin. Unfortunately, it's very slow and somewhat inaccurate. On newer processors it's actually faster to call a function using SS
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
This technique is highly susceptible to noise. I had implemented this in a prototype game controller years back to get latency down and it was plagued by phantom keys when people physically bent the PCB.
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
That is a controversial definition that many academics criticize because of the ridiculous questions it raises. Most Archaeologists and anthropologists use broader definitions of history that encompass a whole host of non-literary sources p
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
You own them as long as they don't fall under NAGPRA and there are no human remains. Even then, most states have laws restricting what you're able to do with a site.
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by AlotOfReading 8y ago
You can absolutely learn the syntax of C in an afternoon, or a few days at worst, if you're not having to learn to all the other concepts interesting C programs require. Much of the immense learning curve comes from th things that are

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