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by aylons 10y ago
> Our conclusion was that for hobby projects and very simple professional PCBs, KiCad is a great tool, but it's just not enough for even slightly demanding projects (and I'm not even talking about high-frequency design, EMI ana
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by aylons 10y ago
If you live in Brazil (or is willing to come), and want to contribute to Kicad, São Paulo will host a Kicad hackaton as part of an Open Hardware Summit: http://www.e-hal.org.br/ (english version: http://www.e-hal
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by aylons 10y ago
I do PCB design, mostly in Altium, and I'll even add that some of my designs are of relatively high complexity. Saying that Kicad interface is horrendous compared with Eagle is, to say the least, disingenuous. Eagle has a terrible inte
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The Linux Foundation Drives Standardization of Open Source Software Supply Chain(linuxfoundation.org)
1 points by aylons 10y ago|0 comments
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by aylons 10y ago
The name changed to GrazeRSS a long time ago, but my memory keeps bringing Newsrob back.
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by aylons 10y ago
GrazeRSS is somewhat hard wired, but it has support for at least a few feed managers (Newsblur is not the only one). Maybe it is possible to just change the URL.
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by aylons 10y ago
You're right - Newsrob is the old name. Now it is called GrazeRSS https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grazerss&h... It is strictly in Maintenance mode, but still works and do its job well.
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by aylons 10y ago
I haven't tried the Newsblur app for a while, but it used to be a long time ago. My main usage is to download everything automatically while on wi-fi, with a readability version of the full pages, and read offline while commuting. Fo
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by aylons 10y ago
If you haven't yet, give Newsblur a try. A very powerful and efficient interface, also integrates well with Newsrob, a free-as-in-freedom Android reader.
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by aylons 10y ago
Some things are in the SSD, others on the HDD. This seems to wear the SSD while being seldomly used. Looks like a good case for HDD.
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by aylons 10y ago
In Linux where should this be written? Inside the home folder? Maybe moving this folder to a HDD should suffice.
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by aylons 10y ago
> a 6-year-old GCC bolted to a proprietary backend Not only a violation of the GPL, but for a code owned by the FSF and even Stallman himself. That's a bold move. And very douchey.
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by aylons 10y ago
> But there are often significant (even legislative!) barriers to doing that, especially in the United States where government entities are often required to release data to the public domain. How about changing that legislation? If it i
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by aylons 10y ago
Unauthorized use of your code or product for uncovered applications is a problem no matter if the source code is open or not. Companies exclude themselves from such liability as a matter of policy, demanding special contracts on these cases
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by aylons 10y ago
You don't seem to realize that the software license means no warranty, but that does not preclude anyone from giving support and warranty on the product. So yes, GPL'ed software may be used on critical applications the same way as
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by aylons 10y ago
Economically, the main advantage of automating is paying less for the same. So, if there were the same need for engineers than for truck drivers, even in aggregate, automation would be a lot less compelling. Putting it more straightforward
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by aylons 10y ago
It's kind of the last option. This kind of analysis is already done and important, but usually it takes installing a lot of sensors and giving an impulse to the structure. I have actually worked on a company that did this, using strain
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by aylons 10y ago
> You might have noticed that the hardware we used was a nasty hack – the shared bus was floating around 0V when nobody was transmitting or when someone was transmitting a zero (which would be -12V on a regular RS-232 connection), so it
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by aylons 10y ago
Because the current law on fraud is not enough for this. And that is a good thing: a fraud law so flexible as to prevent this beforehand would clearly be an overly broad law.
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by aylons 10y ago
I actually find RSS more valuable for sites that do not update often. You know, that one blog from an incredible guy who posts five times a year, or from a friend of yours who post a project update even now and then. I also subscribe for si
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by aylons 10y ago
There's a lot of value on doing this, but GP idea has its value. For starters, there's some survivorship bias, as you cannot map people who have already died. You may also want to gather more detailed data that the medical history
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by aylons 10y ago
Thank you! Macrofab does this for their web tool, from their Github I guess they merge gerber-to-svg with this SVG Stacker: https://github.com/MacroFab/SVG-Stacker
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by aylons 10y ago
This is very interesting and something that I can really apply at work? Does anyone knows how this compares to Gerber-to-svg? https://github.com/mcous/gerber-to-svg
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by aylons 10y ago
If it is of any consolation for you, metric is becoming increasingly common in PCB design. New ICs packages are all metric and even the traditional resistors are being measured in metric (damned be the 0603).
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by aylons 10y ago
Given the price range, yes. Even though USD 10K sounds a bit too low for a VNA, even a simple one.
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by aylons 10y ago
I'm more prone to believe the answer is dull and not well-defined, on the likes of: - We really don't know how to deal with the differences, and it is scary to try; - There are some company process that we are afraid of changing t
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by aylons 10y ago
> person's characteristic of speaking (is there a word for that?) I think you're talking about prosody: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosody_(linguistics)
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by aylons 10y ago
Not a new problem, nor a new solution: emacs has done this for a long time [1]. I wonder if we have to pass through all design stages every time something changes. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual&#x2F
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X-ray Experiments Show Hewlett Packard Team How Memristors Work(www6.slac.stanford.edu)
4 points by aylons 10y ago|0 comments
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by aylons 10y ago
I stand corrected! At least until the latter days of dial-up.

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