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by auxym 6y ago
You might enjoy this talk "statistics for hackers" (in case statistics is not included in your data science knowledge): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq9DzN6mvYA For structural beam analysis (ie, from mechanical
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by auxym 6y ago
I agree but there's no great cross-platform syncing solution yet, to my knowledge. Dropbox dropped all linux support except ext4, which is limiting. GDrive and OneDrive don't have a Linux Client. Nextcloud is neat, but still not v
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by auxym 6y ago
Have not used TC, but I'll agree solely based on the fact that Jenkins UI is so bad. Someone else mentioned groovy with a frown face, but tbh I much preferred writing all jobs in JobDSL, rather than in the Jenkins UI.
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by auxym 6y ago
Sony's A7 lineup seems to even be starting to take a large bite out of the high end DSLR market. I wouldn't be surprised to see them overtake Nikon soon.
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by auxym 6y ago
My understanding is that webp is video. That is, it's a still frame using the vp8 codec.
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by auxym 6y ago
CATIA is pretty much used exclusively in automotive and aerospace. Creo also has decent market share, though has lost a lot to SW and Fusion in the past few years.
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by auxym 6y ago
I think it's just the typical feature-based, got to have a reason to sell customers the new version, development. Every new version (multiple thousands upgrade cost) brings a bunch of new features I don't use and make the software
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by auxym 6y ago
I have to agree with that. A decent CNC is a few 10k$, plus ongoing cost like tooling. At that point 60/month is pretty minimal.
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by auxym 6y ago
The important bit is the claims. However, you still have to know the legalese codewords. Every word has a very specific definition. For example, "a plurality of things" explicitly excludes from the claim an implementation where on
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by auxym 6y ago
If that patent was filed in 98, it expired in 2018.
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by auxym 6y ago
You might enjoy this, IIRC it came up on HN a while ago: https://nobsgames.stavros.io/help/
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by auxym 6y ago
University research is strongly optimized to please grant commitees.
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by auxym 6y ago
The page also advertises flash games. Old school.
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by auxym 6y ago
My understanding, at least in the past, is that it's the same hardware with different drivers. The drivers "guarantee" accurate rendering at cost of a bit of performance (maybe). At one point there were even hacks that allowe
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by auxym 6y ago
MS Office
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by auxym 7y ago
Nim was inspired by Oberon, and compiles to C (so easy interop). Neat language.
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by auxym 7y ago
Reminds me of Temple of the Screaming Electron. Spent lots of time reading text files on there as an early teen. Thankfully I didn't blow my face up/go to jail for terrorism.
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by auxym 7y ago
> If that happens often you have the wrong repo split. Yes, but: you pick out a nice, clean perfectly segregated architecture. Two years later, things have evolved, and a new feature that no one initially thought of is asked and involved
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by auxym 7y ago
I worked in a company where a million line project was split in about 130 repos. Features or bug fixes frequently required syncing PRs between multiple repos. We needed scripts to create feature branches in all repos, or bump up the version
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by auxym 7y ago
I've done quite a bit of powershell scripting, and it has some warts but overall it's actually pretty good. * You have access to the entire .Net standard library * Optional typing * Writing functions and using pipes allows
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by auxym 7y ago
Mathematica?
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by auxym 7y ago
I'm 31 and still remember spending every weeknight doing 1 to 2 hours of long division problems in 5th grade. It was mind nimbingly boring.
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by auxym 7y ago
> For "write once, read many" workloads, like archival or backups. My backup drive gets written to nightly, but reads are very rare (only in case of data loss).
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by auxym 7y ago
Rings have been SS in canada for a couple decades, too. Still faceted, though. One in a while you meet a really old school engineer with a dull iron (or carbon steel?) ring and the facets have been worn smooth.
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by auxym 7y ago
In Canada, engineering (not science) graduates "suscribe to the Obligation" before receiving the iron ring. The text is here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ritual_of_the_Callin...
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by auxym 7y ago
I have not worked in software for long (a year, a while ago) but my experience with agile at that time was that even if you realize that you can and should fix something, you still have do political representation to the scrum master, team
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by auxym 7y ago
That's why I'm clueless at all the politicians and journalists claiming we have a STEM shortage, we need to boost STEM education, need more kids interested in STEM careers... STEM = science technology engineering math CS/soft
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by auxym 7y ago
I'm a mechanical engineer working in a university research lab. We're a pretty broad lab with researchers in diverse domains but focused around one idea: innovative design. Making stuff that works. As a research engineer, I get pu
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by auxym 7y ago
I work for a university, and the official word is to use Teams for everything, including classes transferred online, as the internal infra is not at all able to take the load. Teams has video conferencing, but also hooks into SharePoint for
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by auxym 7y ago
Writing raw latex sort of sucks for more than tables. You need a specialized editor/plugin for your favorite editor. I like LyX a lot!

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