Gracana

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by Gracana 10y ago
There are plenty of companies who will compromise their customers to make a buck, why not invest in them? As a human, I'm glad Tim has priorities other than greed.
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by Gracana 10y ago
I absolutely loathe comcast. They're the only ISP in my area and they operate accordingly. Their range of offerings has a huge gap, so either you pay too much for a slow connection ($45/mo for 6mbit) or go up to the next level and
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by Gracana 10y ago
It could be set up as "black hot."
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by Gracana 10y ago
Awesome, I hope you can find the time to do it. I don't suppose the popular industrial bus with edge connectors was STD Bus, was it?
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by Gracana 10y ago
FWIW I certainly agree that it is an awful lot of JavaScript, even at 150kB. That sort of thing annoys me and I try to block it.
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by Gracana 10y ago
> > It's not lightweight -- the average script include I have right now is around 280k. > You consider 280k script lightweight? Wow. They do not. :P
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by Gracana 10y ago
We're already pretty darn well optimized for cars. As a friend of mine often says... "just lie down until that feeling goes away."
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by Gracana 10y ago
I just bought an RC2014 kit ( http://rc2014.co.uk ), which bears some similarity to what you're talking about. A larger community making cards for that computer would be really cool.
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by Gracana 10y ago
The languages aren't so bad, but the ecosystem is rough. On the PLC vendor side, implementations vary widely and they're all proprietary, so for a given controller... what they give you is all you get. On the programmer side, skil
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by Gracana 10y ago
Running is bad for your knees. You should learn to do better and more substantive things with your life. Eat a vegetable. Watch a pigeon. Cure world hunger.
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by Gracana 10y ago
IEC61131-3 family.. very widely used stuff, but definitely feels clunky and old. It's not even fun-retro-old, it's just old-old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_61131-3
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by Gracana 10y ago
> This is interesting academically, but I wouldn't buy a hacked-together TB2 enclosure. Huh? The article is about a setup built using an AKiTiO PCIe box. You even mentioned that manufacturer as an alternative. I guess it's not
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by Gracana 10y ago
> You don't even say thanks to the submitter. Ohhh, don't do that. I thanked a submitter once because I enjoyed their post and nobody had commented, and that earned me downvotes and a patronizing response about why such things
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by Gracana 10y ago
I went to a seminar on collaborative robotics (industrial robots that work in close proximity with human workers) and one of the vendors had a robot arm that you programmed by simply moving it from position to position, telling it what tech
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by Gracana 10y ago
If it's a UX problem, I think the issue is not that garbage disposal chores lack special tingly feeling of empowerement and engagement, but that the negative feedback loop isn't closed. Wiping your ass is pretty low on the happy f
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by Gracana 10y ago
I'm just annoyed that unfinished products are listed alongside everything else on the front page. I don't browse anymore... If something interesting comes out, I'll find out about it eventually, through other means.
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by Gracana 10y ago
Similar thing happened to me. I would have liked to buy a display intended for digital signage or somesuch, but I stumbled across a really good deal on a 60" 'smart' TV, so that's what I've got. A deal is a deal and
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by Gracana 10y ago
I thought Fortran's aliasing-free rule was just an assumption of the compiler, not something that it actually enforced.. so you could very easily write code that contained aliasing bugs.
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by Gracana 10y ago
I wish the various linux WMs/DEs took inspiration from the Mac on this, vs the Windows ctrl-combo method. In addition to avoiding key combo collisions in the terminal, I like how in Mac OS X all the control keys for line editing work e
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by Gracana 10y ago
Hah, I run the exact same config. I used to be a wmii user but moved to Windows for quite a while when work and school required software that only ran there. Now I'm back on the tiling window manager train with dwm, and I realize I had
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by Gracana 10y ago
You might be right, and my memory is fuzzy, but I'm pretty certain it was a T-series laptop. It had the five trackpad buttons, trackpoint, square edges and rubberized lid, keyboard light, etc. We also had a T40 that was beat up from sh
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by Gracana 10y ago
I disagree. They used to be heavy duty and well designed, now they just look heavy duty (and well designed if you squint). The best example of the slide downhill is their heavy-duty metal hinge... covers. Inside it's the same hinge e
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by Gracana 10y ago
Quinn Dunki did something like that when building her "Veronica" 68k computer. IIRC the VGA output remains AVR-based. Seems like a good way to go, provided you don't get bogged down in timing constraints. If you just need to
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by Gracana 10y ago
I feel like there has been considerable improvement in the hobbyist PCB scene... Prices, process size, and turnaround time for low layer count boards have come way down. But still, like you say, >4 layer stuff gets crazy expensive fast.
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by Gracana 10y ago
The toolchain for a 7400 series project is very different from an FPGA. That's a bit obvious of course, but compare them... With an FPGA you have a giant proprietary software package, with some incredibly powerful tools at your disposa
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by Gracana 10y ago
So very true. I have an ongoing 32-bit computer project using a simple MPU and RAM/ROM/peripherals attached via a standard bus, and oh my god is that ever a lot of signals. It's not as bad if you use big device packages, but
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by Gracana 10y ago
TI still makes a lot of them, but you have to mix and match series if you want broad coverage of the device family. This document is a very helpful overview of their range and how they interoperate: http://www.ti.com/lit&#x2
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by Gracana 10y ago
The important thing about Mythbusters is that they have an idea and they test it. Their methods aren't always the best (or even good at all), but they take the right approach: they get an idea, and they try to verify or invalidate it.
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by Gracana 10y ago
Clipboard managers.
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by Gracana 10y ago
Unsupported hacks and a feature needed for an uncommon setup don't work, yeah, those are relatively minor issues.

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