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by auxym 10y ago
Wow, somehow I expected something complex. Thanks a lot!
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by auxym 10y ago
As an amateur programmer, I'm intrigued in how this is achieved, would you happen to have any references you could point me to? My first encounter with recursion was when I needed to traverse a directory tree. I couldn't figure ho
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by auxym 10y ago
Same here, the Artic Cooler was 20$ and the difference is dramatic. Cooler temps all around and near silent at modest loads, where the stock cooler was annoyingly loud.
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by auxym 10y ago
So does excel VBA. But man, are arrays a pain in VBA.
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by auxym 10y ago
People reading this on HN are probably already in the top 20% of earners, or close enough. As such, they are likely better off in the US. Edit: actually, based off a quick Google search, it seems that if you earn 150k, you are in fact in th
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by auxym 10y ago
I also have been switching over to VSCode for coding. The vim plugin is pretty decent. I still keep vim around for huge files though. I work daily with NASTRAN input and output files, routinely multiple 100 mb, sometimes multiple-gb. I edit
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by auxym 10y ago
Yeah, in my lab we prohibited cutting anything with chlorine, including PVC and polycarbonate. The results are really bad anyways, it melts and burns. I'm curious though, can you get good cutting of polycarbonate using an inert gas shi
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by auxym 10y ago
Is this the one? https://projecteuler.net/problem=267 Interesting, I might have a go at it this afternoon.
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by auxym 10y ago
Only 3 countries in the entire world have not adopted SI units.
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by auxym 10y ago
According to this [1], running is much more efficient at improving cardiovascular endurance than biking, in terms of time spent training for a particular gain. Particularly trail running. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Training-
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by auxym 10y ago
Universities are generally non-profit. For profit ones exist but are generally regarded as scammy. Of course, one could argue that universities exist to grant generous salaries to highly ranked administrators, who are mostly politicians.
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by auxym 10y ago
I'm curious how you would go about determining the frequency of your tinnitus.
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From my limited experience, the code that needs the most work is that involving reading text files -- the whole unicode vs bytes thing. For the rest, the 2to3 tool does the vast majority of the job.
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by auxym 10y ago
Sherbrooke, QC, is a mid-size college town about 1h45 drive from Montreal and has some of the cheapest rents in the province. I was paying 500/month for a large 2BR 10 minutes walk from the "downtown" area and an indoor climb
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by auxym 10y ago
Lyx for one does run latex/bibtex as many times as required.
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by auxym 10y ago
Around 6 or so I think? 386 running MS-DOS, dad taught me the commands needed to start up Prince of Persia. I had no idea what they did, just learned by heart. C: cd \ cd games cd prince prince
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by auxym 10y ago
The new matrix multiplication operator in 3.5 is nice syntactic sugar: C = A@B vs C = A.dot(B)
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by auxym 10y ago
You're entirely correct that today'd global economy is one of the many imperfections of the system I alluded to in my original post. It's mostly easy to constrain for civil works, once again. You design a bridge in a given pr
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by auxym 10y ago
In Canada, the test required to be passed to obtain the PE license does not have a single question concerning actual matters or competency. Rather, it concerns the legal framework, the deontology, the ethics and the responsibilities of the
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by auxym 10y ago
Here is how it works in traditional engineering: 1. Works that potentially affect public security need to be approved by licensed Proffessional Engineers. 2. Therefore, businesses and managers need to be hire Professional Engineers, o
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by auxym 10y ago
The Iron Ring is mostly symbolic and a tradition, but protection of public is the whole idea behind the Professional Engineer licenses in a lot of countries (I'm mostly familiar with Canada). Unfortunately, laws seem awefully tradition
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by auxym 10y ago
I haven't studied the MKL license, but in the python world, Christoph Gohlke is kind enough to freely distribute some python packages (notably Numpy and Scipy) built with against MKL. http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke&#x2F
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by auxym 10y ago
When I was in CEGEP (2 years of pre-university basic science and general ed college, specific to Quebec), we used maple for exploratory symbolic and plotting kind of work in math classes (calculus and lin alg). In university (engineering sc
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by auxym 10y ago
Ha. The equivalent of "why" on matlab, I guess.
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The Enterprise.
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by auxym 10y ago
No need to look as far as Sweden, in most Canadian provinces, alcohol is controlled through a Gov-monopoly. In some of them, you can buy beer&wine at the grocery store (or convenience stores), but even they have to buy it from the offic
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by auxym 10y ago
Have you been using windows in the past 5 years? Accepting random binaries from the net and running them is the main software distribution model.
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by auxym 10y ago
Yes, but in most cases you'd be looking at industrial-scale machines. Better find a smaller local shop and send them a .dxf, they'll have better access to raw material anyways. Buying sheet metal in small quantities is expensive a
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by auxym 10y ago
VBA has access to "VBScript Regular Expressions 5.5", which is quite functional. I use it from time to time. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22542834/how-to-use-regul... https://msdn.micros
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by auxym 10y ago
I believe OP was suggesting that he would be paid to actually live in your property, I assume mostly as joke :) That said, I wouldd pay you 0.5%/y to live in (ie rent out) your property -- that works out to 400/month on a 1M pro

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