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by alhirzel 10mo ago
Years ago, this very subject was an interview question at a national lab (at an undergrad level). The question was roughly: > the ends of windmill blades look a lot like a jet on radar. If you were assigned to this project, what would yo
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by alhirzel 10mo ago
+1 for CADQuery - it lets you easily specify surfaces as the basis for manipulation, and results in much less fragile designs than OpenSCAD.
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by alhirzel 10mo ago
> Apple acquires OpenAI, Sam becomes CEO of combined company; iPhone revenue used to build out data centers; Jony rehired as design chief for AI device. Wonder what to call this brand of fanfic? https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by alhirzel 11mo ago
Crazy that it's pretty much a 3D printed assembly internally, and the manufacturer didn't know how it worked. No way that would pass any kind of vibration test.
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by alhirzel 11mo ago
> I wonder what some outage analogs to the pre-internet ages would be. Lots of things have the sky in common. Maybe comet-induced ice ages...
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by alhirzel 11mo ago
> I worry this is the big botnet flexing. Even worse - the small botnet that controls everything.
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by alhirzel 1y ago
s/Aplication/Application/g
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by alhirzel 1y ago
Automatic generation would be really tough because of all the levels of abstraction traversed in this diagram in particular... But tools like Mermaid / PlantUML can get you in the ballpark, and PGF/TikZ could be a reasonable targe
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by alhirzel 1y ago
I have had some really good results with Alpine.js and back-end templating for simpler apps (especially served from non-traditional embedded web servers). This base plus the combo of what kids these days call "vanilla JS" and what
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by alhirzel 1y ago
Only if they care...
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by alhirzel 1y ago
Has anyone tried the `--trim` option? I wonder how well it works in "real life".
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by alhirzel 1y ago
Good name!
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by alhirzel 1y ago
There have been other graphite mines in the US.
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by alhirzel 1y ago
> would be quite the burden to carry only if you care
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by alhirzel 1y ago
Snow load is not mentioned when using horizontal panels. In higher latitudes, solar is relatively uncommon because of the sunlight deficit in winter. Panels that are deployed are usually placed at an incline equal to the latitude (or even v
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by alhirzel 1y ago
This cycle starts with an integration for model developers. I wonder if anyone is working on a generic ARIA hookup, as well as whatever standards are necessary for desktop/smartphone integration?
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by alhirzel 1y ago
What are the economics of this?
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by alhirzel 1y ago
Reminds me of Electric Sheep https://electricsheep.org/
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by alhirzel 1y ago
Especially the part where improved safety tooling (bolts) were used to increase efficiency rather than safety: regulatory dysfunction at its finest. Interestingly, in other regulated areas (such as toxic emissions into the environmental), t
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by alhirzel 1y ago
That article touched on so many facets of a person's career: the pursuit of meaning, grit, familial context... It should be required reading for all young engineers.
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Ask HN: License to Protect Training Data?
2 points by alhirzel 2y ago|1 comments
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by alhirzel 2y ago
GOOG currently pays ~0.47% APY. The GOOG stock price could reflect some certainty of these dividend payments, but there is not much stock price independent risk basis to choose GOOG over e.g. US treasury bonds at ~4.32% or Swiss bonds at ~0
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by alhirzel 2y ago
It's all a tower of cards based on what people think the cards are worth. Unless stocks pay dividend, valuation is afloat on the expectations of shareholders.
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by alhirzel 2y ago
Designing for space is definitely an art full of pitfalls. Guides like [1] exist that cover basics, but experience is king. One of my favorite pitfalls in aero is connector mating lifetimes. Any time there is a connector (like a good old-fa
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by alhirzel 2y ago
I use vimwiki[1] just for this "diary" functionality, with different days in different files. Can browse the directory in netrw to find a day's notes, and I have scripts that let me archive old stuff. I tend to put an "x
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by alhirzel 2y ago
Surprised to not see Pandoc.
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by alhirzel 2y ago
The diversity measures used in this study are a fascinating window into some unusually measurable communities. The count of contributors and volume of their contributions are proxies to many things, including project popularity, ease of con
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by alhirzel 2y ago
Agreed on all fronts - and I bet you're doing interesting work! I feel like acausal modeling environments are also much like symbolic computer algebra systems (because they are basically applied CAS...)
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by alhirzel 2y ago
I thought this would be about OpenSCAD as well. Thanks for the reference to CadQuery!
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by alhirzel 2y ago
Modelica is an excellent way to perform these simulations. Exporting a functional mock-up unit (FMU) according to the FMI standard is a first-class capability [1] that is another huge source of value, especially for systems integrators. You

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