auxym

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The GM Trolley Conspiracy: What Really Happened (2010)(cbsnews.com)
2 points by auxym 10y ago|1 comments
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by auxym 10y ago
>burn time plugging things into (-b +- sqrt (b2-4ac)) / 2a I swear to god, I had so much of that to do, I got tired of it and learned enough python in one night, at 15, to get the computer to do my homework for me.
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by auxym 11y ago
Honestly I've never seen a teared polymer bill yet, whereas the paper did tear up after being folded over and over. You do have to be careful to keep them away from heat though (driers, space heaters etc), they shrivel up.
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by auxym 11y ago
From my experience in the field, convergence studies are something everyone knows they should do, but never actually happen because results are always needed yesterday. As for automating it, sure for a model like that with tens or hundreds
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by auxym 11y ago
Each new version of SW introduces new "features" (some genuinely useful, some shiny marketing gimmicks) and a host of new bugs. Software churn at it's best. Gotta release a new version to make money, just fixing bugs isn&#x27
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by auxym 11y ago
I tried the (or one) android app and it was fairly good, though I'm back with keepass ATM as it ultimately has the best cross-platform support (windows).
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by auxym 11y ago
Anecdotal evidence, but I found my MASc [1] to be a very hard sell for most employers. That is even if it was very applied, the goal at the end of my project was pretty much to have a good enough prototype to get funding for a startup [2].
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by auxym 11y ago
I think his point is that 19 year olds are much poorer negotiators, and that gets taken advantage of.
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by auxym 11y ago
Montreal is planning to implement a BRT line by 2018 on one of the major north-south routes (Pie IX): https://www.amt.qc.ca/en/news/projects/pie-ix-bus-rapid-tran...
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by auxym 11y ago
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ Thought that might be interesting, it was to me (came upon it on HN).
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by auxym 11y ago
Bearings also tend to start running quite hot when they are at the end of their lives. Bearings on trains often have smoke bombs on them that go off at a specific temperature.
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by auxym 11y ago
I use it over ssh. 1 ssh session, multiple terms/windows/etc. And persistence of sessions.
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by auxym 11y ago
What is it with parents driving their kids to school these days? Or is it a US thing? Back when I was in school, every single kid would ride the school bus. Well, except those close enough to walk/cycle, or those old enough to own and
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by auxym 11y ago
Such as? (Genuinely curious) Canada also has the same language, can have the same time zone as any US location, is closer (no overseas flights) and has established trade relationships with the US.
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by auxym 11y ago
Function signatures like (Int -> Int -> Int) should be familiar to anyone familiar with functional languages (f#, ocaml and haskell come to mind as having similar notation). I would also assume the return type of addCandidate to indee
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by auxym 11y ago
Similar success with my TP-Link TL-WDR3600. Had a 20$ netgear before that needed resetting several times a week.
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by auxym 11y ago
How is hidpi support on Arch?
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by auxym 11y ago
This winter's been pretty warm with little snowfall, I think we only had one real cold snap dropping below -20C, and only one major snowstorm in early january. But I like winter in the city. I live walking distance from a large park wh
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by auxym 11y ago
Throwing a wild guess (not even in the industry), but I'd be pretty surprised if it were above 100k. Or even 90. To put this in perspective though, you can rent a reasonable 2BR for 800-1000, even not that far from the city center. GF
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by auxym 11y ago
I prefer using cygwin and opens to ash into vms rather than putty
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by auxym 11y ago
In Quebec, programming is not considered an engineer-reserved task and therefore experience cannot be used towards getting the PE. In practice, it means that even thoug there is such a thing as software engineering degrees (most universitie
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by auxym 11y ago
OpenSUSE is great, YAST is the best "control panel" app I've seen in any distro, you can configure antyhing without ever opening a terminal or vim. Zypper has also been more robust for me than apt (I've seen apt-get hell
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by auxym 11y ago
I'm a (jr) mechanical engineer by day. One of my hobbies is programming. Nothing special, various small projects to either scratch an itch or learn something I was curious about, though I have contributed thingies to a few small OSS pr
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by auxym 11y ago
In the 90s maybe? Even CATIA doesn't officially support UNIX anymore.
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by auxym 11y ago
Really love lyx. Used plain latex for a while, but for me LyX really hits the sweetspot between writing latex in vim and word-like WYSIWYG. Lyx and Zotero+LyZ made for a quite fine thesis workflow. LyX files are plain text and thus easily m
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by auxym 11y ago
A grad-student-colleague of mine developped a control system for a robot using hyper-redundant binary-state actuators using GA's to search the solution space. See: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630624
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by auxym 11y ago
Are you confusing WAT with SecureBoot?
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by auxym 11y ago
I don't think that's true of modern Tcl anymore, though.
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by auxym 11y ago
Unfortunately I'm stuck with the embedded 8.5 interpreter. And, to be entirely honest, most of the gripes above are likely more due to the poorly designed API than to the language itself.
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by auxym 11y ago
The only language I use these days at work is Tcl, as it's the embedded scripting language in the app we use for post-processing finite element analysis [1] results. Thus I use it for small scripts to make various data extraction and p

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