auxym

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   by auxym 6y ago

   Heh, back in the day we purchased those "CD" things and they were lossless. Actually, they didn't employ any compression at all!
2. 422.▲
   by auxym 6y ago

   Or just using it it to spam advertisement.
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   by auxym 6y ago

   A few years ago I wrote Tcl occasionally, macros for computer-aided engineering software. As a linter, I used nagelfar ( http://nagelfar.sourceforge.net/ ). I had it set-up in vim with Syntastic. From what I remember it worke
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   by auxym 6y ago

   No one makes station wagons anymore, except luxury european makers :(
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   by auxym 6y ago

   Second OnShape. Autodesk Fusion370 also has free license for hobbyists and even startups with low revenue. In the OSS world, I believe the best contender in that space is FreeCAD. I've yet to try it myself.
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   by auxym 6y ago

   Wait, NFS isn't a thing anymore?
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   by auxym 6y ago

   Ha, reminds me. I don't know how it is nowadays, but back 15 years ago or so, Dell used non standard sized PSUs, in in regular form factor cases. I had one go, and had to Dremel out the case to fit an ATX supply in it. Fun times.
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   by auxym 6y ago

   FWIW, my answer was not meant to be trashing nim. I like and use nim. And to be perfectly transparent, I know relatively little of Go. My impression is that nim has more features in general, which could be considered to make it more comple
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   by auxym 6y ago

   Nim has more features like generics and metaprogramming via templates and macros. You don't have to use them, but if you read someone else's code that uses it, you might have trouble understanding it, which probably doesn't h
10. 430.▲
    by auxym 6y ago

    Nim's pascal-inspired type system is very powerful it feel very different to me. Maybe "a better Pascal with Python syntax" would describe it better?
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    by auxym 6y ago

    AKA ISO 8601
12. 432.▲
    by auxym 6y ago

    Still very common in Canada. Unlimited plans exist, but are expensive.
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    by auxym 6y ago

    I was babysitting younger cousins at 13. As in, I actually took babysitting classes at that age, it was common and socially accepted.
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    by auxym 6y ago

    That's neat. Do you think it could be modified for nesting, in the context of laser cutting? Last I checked there were no OSS nesting options, o my commercial options marketed for industrial production.
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    by auxym 6y ago

    G7 would be perfect for me if only it had NFC. It seems you have to go into the 300$+ range to get NFC. Is is really that expensive to add NFC, or is it a marketing thing where it's considered a premium feature for product differentiat
16. 436.▲
    by auxym 6y ago

    Nim has a type system that is heavily inspired by Modula/Oberon/Ada
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    by auxym 6y ago

    If the hidden data is encrypted anyways, then wouldn't it be indistinguishable from truely random data? What would then be the point of distributing it randomly or in order?
18. 438.▲
    by auxym 6y ago

    Or AVIF
19. 439.▲
    by auxym 6y ago

    Yeah, the Spotify model. Not the best thing if your main intention is supporting the creators you enjoy.
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    by auxym 6y ago

    Does YT Premium redistribute any money to content creators?
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    by auxym 6y ago

    Same here, I didn't really get the end, if there's anything at all to get. It was a good read though.
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    by auxym 6y ago

    That angers me so much. In university I owned an Epson inkjet printer that refused one night to print out my paper in b&w because the cyan cartridge was empty. Never bought an Epson cartridge after that, only counterfeits on eBay.
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    by auxym 6y ago

    Here's a decent list centered around photography: https://pixls.us/software/
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    by auxym 6y ago

    > Most major research uni profs are obliged to teach 2-3 courses per semester. IME, that's a heavy courseload. At the university where I work (not as faculty), it's closer to 1 course per semester on average. Maybe 2 occasional
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    by auxym 6y ago

    Nim compiles to C, can be split into multiple files/modules, and does not require a "main" function.
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    by auxym 6y ago

    And... guess who made the drawing (blueprints have not been used in a while)? An engineer. Probably using a vague spec by an architect, too. And I can assure you, they were not judged on the number of views or pages on their drawing, or on
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    by auxym 6y ago

    I've heard it's used a lot in EE design software (PCB design, or FPGA as you mentioned). My experience with Tcl is as part of Altair's suite of mechanical simulation (FEA, MBD, etc) software, which is quite popular in aerospa
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    by auxym 6y ago

    I use this too. Keepass on windows, keepassxc on Linux and keepass2android on Android, with the db synced to all my devices via Nextcloud. The db is encrypted via a passphrase plus a keyfile that I copy manually to each device (that is, it&
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    by auxym 6y ago

    Just wanted to chime in regarding Concepts of modern mathematics. Really enjoyed reading it when I was in college. It's not a textbook, just a prose book for enjoyable reading, but it's inspirational and a very interesting overvie
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    by auxym 6y ago

    Consider replicating your Synology to a cloud service. Ransomware isn't your only risk here, burglary or fire could also leave you without your backups.