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by auxym 3y ago
Technical analysis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_analysis Amongst many "efficient market" proponents, technical analysis has a reputation of being mostly equivalent to a crystal ball.
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by auxym 3y ago
r/embedded feels like it has become 75% "how do I find my first job as an embedded programmer", which gets old after a while. AskElectronics is pretty good though, in large part thanks to Davide's moderation. Losing plac
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by auxym 3y ago
Crafting Interpreters was fun to read and easy to follow, even as someone with a mechanical engineering degree :)
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by auxym 3y ago
60 VDC / 30 VAC in Canada per CSA Z462 (workplace electrical safety).
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by auxym 3y ago
It's actually pretty easy to "import" a C# class, either from a string or from a separate .cs file, with `Add-Type`, you don't even need to compile it first. See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24881346
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by auxym 4y ago
Nope, not in my experience. They will happily ram themselves at full speed into your solid-block-of-steel workpiece if you tell them you (thereby probably causing tens of thousands of dollars in damage).
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by auxym 4y ago
Nim has exactly that with the GC_step proc. https://nim-lang.org/1.4.0/gc.html However recent and future versions (2.0) are moving towards a different approach that is also applicable for deterministic real time system
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by auxym 4y ago
Second that. Similar questions get posted pretty often in engineering subreddits and it's difficult to answer as robotics is so multi-disciplinary. Very few people in this world are skilled enough in embedded programming, PCB design (m
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by auxym 4y ago
I like this one personally: https://makerdiary.com/products/pitaya-link It's both a USB-UART bridge and a debug/programming adapter for ARM microcontrollers, for 11$. Based on a microcontroller itself, with o
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by auxym 4y ago
Hijacking to post another example. I know from a previous work experience that automated dye-penetrant inspection ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescent_penetrant_inspecti... ), using CV for the automatic detection
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by auxym 4y ago
Oshpark?
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by auxym 4y ago
When reading a shell script, it's way clearer for me to understand what `$file.LastWriteTime` does, compared to extracting a column by numerical index from the text output of `ls` with cut or awk. Yes, writing powershell tends to be mo
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by auxym 4y ago
Agreed. The podcast is great, and the community is the highest quality discussion of personal finance I've seen anywhere on the internet.
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by auxym 4y ago
One option you could consider is mentoring high school FIRST FRC teams.
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by auxym 4y ago
I can confirm that at the mechanical hardware level you'd also typically have specializations. At the very least I'd see one design engineer (CAD, designing parts for manufacturability, selecting COTS systems based on requirements
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by auxym 4y ago
Yes, in addition to Simulink, see AUTOSAR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUTOSAR From my understanding it's very prevalent in automotive to generate microcontroller code.
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by auxym 4y ago
The problem is that a volunteer developer will now have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars/pounds (according to nullc's comments in this thread) to defend against said bozo with a faux-dispute.
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by auxym 4y ago
> Component level repair is generally impractical, as replacement boards are usually available at reasonable cost. That has not been my experience. A power relay for oven elements blew on the main PCB of a very basic Kenmore oven I had.
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by auxym 4y ago
My day job is building one-off prototypes as a mechanical engineer in a research lab, so I end up sourcing a lot of random stuff like this in small quantities. As others have mentioned, my first stop is the usual suspects, mostly McMaster a
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by auxym 4y ago
And oink, waffles, Pedro's. It was the golden age of piracy.
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by auxym 4y ago
Indeed. And Nim has very good FFI with C++, including templates even.
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by auxym 4y ago
Significant chunks of numpy and scipy, the "main" python packages for numerical algorithms, are wrappers around classic libraries such as BLAS, LAPACK and ARPACK, which are Fortran. Fortran was the de-facto language of scientific
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by auxym 4y ago
You can use C# or F# using excel-DNA. I've played with excel add-ons (xll files) in F# in the past, pretty neat.
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by auxym 4y ago
I am mechanical engineer, though I never worked in engineering. The low cost and amazing reliability, all things considered, of modern cars, absolutely amazes me.
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by auxym 4y ago
Correct. Software companies have very little cost other than engineering. For hardware, once your engineers have created a design, you still have to operate a factory, pay for expensive manufacturing equipment and expensive labor required t
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by auxym 4y ago
restic also seems to have better Windows support. Borg can can run in WSL but has seen limited testing under such, per their own docs.
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by auxym 4y ago
Pypy, probably. You could also consider writing pre compiled extensions for your "hot" code, eg. in Cython.
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by auxym 4y ago
I use Keepass(XC) across all my devices, windows, Linux and android. I sync the DB with Nextcloud and encrypt with a combination of password and keyfile. The keyfile is a few KB of /dev/random and I only transfer it "offline&
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by auxym 4y ago
Same here. Beside phones that simply become outdated (slow, small storage, RAM fills up) or accidentally damaged, I had a Samsung Galaxy phone which wouldn't read SIM cards anymore, and then a Motorola phone which stopped being able to
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by auxym 4y ago
If you are interested in trying out a modern and actively developed language, maybe have a look at Nim. The author / main dev is a fan of Pascal/Modula/Oberon and took a lot of inspiration for Nim.

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