auxym

12 ms·

121.
by auxym 4y ago
Sumatra PDF on windows is very fast. I like it so much in fact that I've been looking for a linux alternative and haven't been satisfied yet. I will try evince though.
122.
by auxym 4y ago
Listening to various Rick Hartley talks on youtube, I got the understanding that it was the opposite: even at slow clock rates , modern ICs cause all sorts of signal integrity and EMI issues because of very fast edge rise times . Cannot c
123.
by auxym 4y ago
In Nim, let is an immutable runtime value, but const is an immutable compile time value, sort of like constexpr in recent c++.
124.
by auxym 4y ago
Unfortunately, Raspberry Pi is far from the simplest possible computer. In fact, from my understanding, the boot process for RPis is rather complex, in part because it needs to be initiated by the GPU. Besides 80s computers which were truly
125.
by auxym 4y ago
Agreed. I occasionally teach a strength of materials class, for mechanical engineering students, as a contract lecturer (my main job is research). I love starting the fatigue part of the class with some historical context such as the Versai
126.
by auxym 4y ago
Out of 120 credits for my ME degree, only 2 were CAD (directly). Mechanical engineering consists of learning tools for analyzing designs, such as fluid mechanics, materials, solid mechanics, thermodynamics, statics and dynamics, control sys
127.
by auxym 4y ago
For me it was reading about git internals: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Plumbing-and-Po... It made me understand how simple git really it under the hood, you just need to understand how the co
128.
by auxym 4y ago
I am a mechanical engineer and CAD user (never worked for a CAD software company). I second this feeling. OnShape was founded by the original creators of SolidWorks before it was bought by Dassault. It showed great promise in being efficien
129.
by auxym 4y ago
Debian stable has really old packages, for one thing.
130.
by auxym 4y ago
If you discretize the string into a bunch of tiny masses, linked together by a bunch of tiny springs, you can build a mass Matrix (diagonal) M and a Stiffness matrix K (element ij = stiffness of spring that links mass I and mass j). I can&#
131.
by auxym 4y ago
Yeah, to be fair, my perspective is from Canada, which I probably should have mentioned. I mean, we do have the RCMP and Bay Street, but I don't think it's comparable (in number of positions, salaries offered, etc) to NSA and Wall
132.
by auxym 4y ago
Yeah, there's a reason why people who make the AOC leaderboard overwhelmingly use Python. It's very efficient for small-ish tasks like AOC. I'm really liking Nim as a hobby these days. It has a very powerful macro system, w
133.
by auxym 4y ago
I don't think it's satire. STEM is pushed hard, but realistically, science and math dont have that great career prospects. For one thing, a PhD, and the 4-7 year opportunity cost that comes with it, is pretty much required to get
134.
by auxym 4y ago
Not exactly what you asked, but: I worked as a structural analyst on passenger train cars (metros, LRVs, etc) for a while, as my first job after grad school actually. Depending on the project (client requirements), we designed for 25-35 yea
135.
Are completely out of touch with copper mining(twitter.com)
9 points by auxym 4y ago|3 comments
136.
by auxym 4y ago
Overclockers maybe? But I definitely do remember the era of cold cathodes:)
137.
by auxym 4y ago
Cortex-A appears to be way more vendor-implementation dependent. For example, I remember reading that the Raspberry Pi SoC, which uses a Cortex-A72 core, actually boots off its GPU.
138.
by auxym 4y ago
Correct. I'd add that with ARC (or ORC even), there's little reason to do manual memory management (alloc/free), even for embedded systems. ARC is an automatic memory management system based on reference counting, but there&#
139.
by auxym 4y ago
Hopefully it should get better soon-ish, but concurrency (and even parallelism aka threads) unfortunately is probably Nim's weakest point at the moment. On the good side, compared to go, Nim's interop with C is fully transparent (
140.
by auxym 4y ago
The zigbee spec is freely available, I fail to see how BLE would be any more "open source". I think it's just that every smartphone, tablet, laptop, etc now has BLE integrated, so it's easy to make a widget like a soil m
141.
by auxym 4y ago
Horizon can import KiCAD footprints IIRC.
142.
by auxym 4y ago
Agreed, Kate and Geany are the ones that came to my mind. They are fast and full featured.
143.
What is Strict Aliasing and Why do we Care?(gist.github.com)
2 points by auxym 4y ago|0 comments
144.
by auxym 4y ago
I believe Scotia/Tangerine are still 6-digits only for passwords. Really. And I have yet to see any Canadian financial institution (whether bank, brokerage, credit union, etc) that supports anything else than SMS for 2FA. The situati
145.
by auxym 4y ago
Actually "full speed" (USB 1.1, 12 Mbps) is the slowest speed that still somewhat common (in keyboards, etc). High speed (USB 2.0) is 480 Mbps. I do agree though, as you and many other people have in the comments, just getting a n
146.
by auxym 4y ago
Yeah. I'm in southern Quebec, and with the road salt here, its not uncommon for car frames/bodies to become damaged beyond economical repairability from rust while the propulsion is still working fine. In fact body work in general
147.
by auxym 4y ago
There is https://patoline.github.io/ but it's been in alpha / active development for years now. I agree that TeX's errors is one of the worst things about it. Strongly suggest you track your changes in git, I
148.
by auxym 4y ago
It's been a while, but I wrote my master's thesis with LyX, exported to latex (luatex I think) for rendering.
149.
by auxym 4y ago
They ship to businesses in Canada (you have to open an account with them I think, our purchasing does that), but not individuals.
150.
by auxym 4y ago
> It seems most companies here are stuck in the 80s and dedicate next to zero effort to their web ordering process. I'm so glad we can order from mcmaster here in canada, even though shipping is two days and usually min 30 USD even

More ›