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by auxym 4y ago
I agree, and was to note that I loved the soundtrack, too.
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by auxym 5y ago
Nim is mostly inspired by the Pascal/Modula/Oberon family, notably in its type system. The only thing it took from python (arguably) is the indentation-based block syntax. Programming in Nim actually "feels" quite differ
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by auxym 5y ago
Good NPR Throughline episode on the subject: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/28/917747287/the-everlasting-pro...
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by auxym 5y ago
Mechanical (or aerospace) engineering. Fun/easy reading: Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed (Ben R. Rich) Textbook: Shigley's Mechanical Design (recent editions are by Budynas/Nisbett by older editions wit
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by auxym 5y ago
You've raised real downsides (for some applications), but the rp2040 also many features that are unheard of at its price point (1$): dual core, PIO, lots of ram. In fact the RAM + dual core means you're almost getting two Cortex
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by auxym 5y ago
Matlab works fine for anything purely "numerical" but fails hard as soon as you need to do more "general computing". Just string handling for example. Or, as far as I know, it's still not possible to implement a cus
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by auxym 5y ago
Unfamiliar... for whom? Are we at the point where all developers , or all GUI developers , are expected to be familiar with HTML/CSS/JS/DOM concepts? The QT stuff is familiar to me (from python mostly), but I have only very
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by auxym 5y ago
Yep, we annealed a bar of 304 once (in a good kiln oven with electronic temp control) and it came out looking like brass.
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by auxym 5y ago
Got an H64 a few months ago as an alternative to a RPi. Definitely much easier to get the H64 than a pi. Bit disapointed by the support in general though. I expected the Pine stuff to be better than "random boards from no name companie
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by auxym 5y ago
Words like however and similar are often useful in the introduction of a paper to expose the context, current state of the art, and problem that your research is attacking. I'm in engineering though, so most research and papers follow
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by auxym 5y ago
Not a personal recommendation, but I've seen this book recommended a few times: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/prototype-to-product/97...
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by auxym 5y ago
Oh yes, the PIO is very cool and somewhat unique. The list of examples of things that can be implemented with such a tiny "computer" (9 instructions assembly language, program size maximum of 32 instructions) is quite impressive:
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by auxym 5y ago
Digikey's parametric search is hard to beat.
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by auxym 5y ago
TBH the rpi pico (rp2040 dev board) is hard to beat for the price of 5$. Dual core ARM cortex-m0+ at 100 something MHz and loads of ram and flash.
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by auxym 5y ago
Nim compiles to C and therefore should be able to run on anything which has a C compiler available. To my knowledge it's been demonstrated on AVR, ARM Cortex-M and ESP32. It's macro system comes in handy for embedded, too, as you
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Cutting-edge, aerial drone technology could help combat browntail moths(themainemonitor.org)
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by auxym 5y ago
It's definitely not at the level of numpy/scipy, probably not even Julia, but there's an active community developing Nim for scientific applications at https://github.com/scinim
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by auxym 5y ago
A lot of previous contributors to Nim are currently working on an experimental fork due to disagreements with the development of the official compiler: https://github.com/nim-works/nimskull
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by auxym 5y ago
To be clear: Ratel isn't my project, just something I'm following due to interest. In the interest of shameless self promotion :), my own experimentations are : https://github.com/EmbeddedNim/svd2nim https:&
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by auxym 5y ago
In case you're interested, there's a new project underway that aims to make running Nim on AVR (and eventually other micros through BSPs) as easy (but leaner and more performant) as Arduino: ratel.peterme.net Nim can already run o
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by auxym 5y ago
All micros require separate hardware to flash it, no? Some is cheap (stlink), some are a few hundred dollars, but still. Unless you have a USB bootloader programmed on the chip, but you still need the adapter to flash the bootloader in the
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by auxym 5y ago
I had to Dremel out a Dell desktop case to fit a standard ATX power supply, circa 2005.
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by auxym 5y ago
Eh, I don't know. I wouldn't choose Tcl today for such a use case, maybe Lua. But you could certainly do worse than Tcl. Like a half-thought out custom language. Anyone ever coded nastran DMAP? Or Tex macros? I'd be ecstatic
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by auxym 5y ago
TCL associative arrays are hash maps that have to be global. They are definitely one of the worst part of the language. Most people use dicts on modern TCL instead.
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by auxym 5y ago
I know PE licensing doesn't in general make a lot of sense of software. I read all the discussions on HN on this topic with a lot of interest. I agree it's not even a perfect system for traditional engineering. But consider this:
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by auxym 5y ago
Personally, as mostly a hobbyist, I've been having a lot of fun lately with Nim, including running it on microcontrollers!
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by auxym 5y ago
or `gci -rec` in powershell
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by auxym 5y ago
Sumatra is one of the rare pieces of windows software that I miss on linux.
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CPS – Also Known as Continuation-Passing Style – For Nim(github.com)
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by auxym 5y ago
FWIW, the inch has also been redefined as "25.4 mm" in the 1950s.

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