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by auxym 9y ago
I'd rather have adoption of high density urban areas, public transit and walkable/cycle-able neighborhoods. Traffic jammed highways will still be traffic jammed highways with EVs.
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by auxym 9y ago
Wow, I work in a big, non-software-focused, multinational company, in a mechanical engineer role. Your post describes our exact review process. What more, it seems managers always set the expectation high, or vague, that way everyone alwa
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by auxym 9y ago
I'm in Canada, greater Montreal area. 5 Mbps for a bit under 30$ is pretty much the best deal around. Honestly it gets the job done. I can watch Netflix in 720p. I get the article, and entirely agree that internet, even broadband is a
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by auxym 9y ago
Studded tires, like the Schwalbe Marathon Winter, are pretty popular amongst winter commuters here in Montreal.
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by auxym 9y ago
Hah, yes, actually!
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by auxym 9y ago
For what it's worth, I did something similar for my master's dissertation, but couldn't be bothered to learn make, so I used a python library called pydoit: http://pydoit.org/ All my analysis code, plots, etc
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by auxym 9y ago
When I was in grad school, I had quite a few colleagues using FEMM for various electromagnetic clutch designs, looks like it worked well.
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by auxym 9y ago
This whole toxins thing is a load of crap. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/05/detox-m... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detoxification_(alternative_me...
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by auxym 9y ago
Related question: is it considered bad form to give a recruiter reference contacts, without first asking those contacts for permission? Also, what should one do, when one's previous employers (and thus potential references) are also
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by auxym 9y ago
Open XML formats (.docx, etc) came with Office 2003. From what I remember, the EU wanted to standardize an open document format, and had their eye set on OO ODF, as the most mature of those at the time. Microsoft put out their OXML format,
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by auxym 9y ago
It looks like this uses the github logo for the .git folder. Why not the git-scm logo? https://git-scm.com/images/logo@2x.png
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by auxym 9y ago
I really had my hopes up for VisPy for this (GPU-accelerated 3D plotting). It was supposed to be the convergence of 3 or 4 previously existing OpenGL-based plotting libraries. However, 4 years after starting development, it's still in
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by auxym 9y ago
The vast majority of advocacy groups do demand real lanes. The thing, I want to commute to work today. Do I just stay home and yell at politicians until a lane is built? Or do I legally use the existing roadways?
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by auxym 9y ago
I'm no big fan of excel, but the modern xlsx format is "open", in that it's documented (though maybe not perfectly). It certainly is possible to read data from it using a variety of open source packages, from LO Calc to
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by auxym 9y ago
I want my station wagons back :/
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by auxym 9y ago
Let's also not forget that the orignal Frauhofer encoder was not exactly impressive in it's results. Anyone remember downloading 128k CBR files off napster, the warbled mess that was? A lot of the advances came from the psycho-aco
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by auxym 10y ago
Tcl 8.5 is a recent release though, around 2007. When GP says "one of the first scripting languages with a GUI toolkit", he is talking about the early 1990s. Before even python's first release. In fact, python ended up with T
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by auxym 10y ago
I would also add that the "Everything is a String" paradigm makes it simple to reason about somewhat complex concepts. You don't have to try to teach beginners about objects and pointers. Just plain old text strings. Everythi
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The next generation of jobs won't be made up of professions(bbc.com)
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by auxym 10y ago
Office dress code has a no sneakers clause, so I have a pair of used Allen Edmonds I got on ebay for pretty cheap that I leave there. Out of the office, I've been rocking Adidas Campus for a few years now. Disclaimer: I'm probably
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by auxym 10y ago
orpie has been my main calculator-on-the-pc for a while now. Curses based interface, written in OCaml, extensive library of scientific functions, configurable hotkeys. It's quite neat. Unfortunately, the homepage seems to be down at th
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by auxym 10y ago
pdffonts, part of poppler-utils, will dump a list of font names.
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by auxym 10y ago
Actually, since Matlab v7.3, .mat files are actually hdf5 files.
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by auxym 10y ago
Own a G4 Play, highly satisfied. Long battery life. Minor downside: no compass.
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by auxym 10y ago
Unfortuntely I don't think that was a 15c, as it hasn't been made in a while. As GP mentioned, there was a batch made in 2012 and that sold out fast. It was probably the 12c, the financial model, that has been continuously in prod
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by auxym 10y ago
I have yet to try it, but there are things like mypy and PyCharm apparently has an integrated type checker now. http://mypy-lang.org/
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by auxym 10y ago
I work in mechanical engineering, mostly structural analysis at the moment (ie, figuring out if parts will hold up). Vast majority of calculations are performed in excel. Most engineers know at least a bit of programming from one mandatory
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by auxym 10y ago
Don't know if you are aware, but python now supports optional type hints.
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by auxym 10y ago
I've been too lazy to learn make, but I pull a python library named doit when I need to do automation that is more complex than a linear shell script (dependencies, etc). http://pydoit.org/
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by auxym 10y ago
Junior Mechanical Engineer (aka EIT) here. Interviews are pretty... standard I guess? Nothing like the interviews I read about on HN. Most of the time is spent discussion my past projects, both technical and less technical aspects, like con

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