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by bmitc 2y ago
Yep. Select software being Unix command line tools.
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by bmitc 2y ago
Does anyone besides poorly designed Unix tools and Git actually get confused by any of this? I configure my editor to just use LF on whatever OS to appease Linux and configure Git to never mess with them. And in dealing with serial protocol
723.
by bmitc 2y ago
I personally balk at the idea that everything is at our fingertips. Yes, a lot of information is readily available, but it is mostly very shallow, poorly referenced, and in short form. It is actually very hard to find in-depth, long form co
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by bmitc 2y ago
Do you think that's useful? The old school way would be to jot down notes about questions and followups. I'm curious if the old school way relates to better retention of both the questions and answers. My suspicion is yes. I shoul
725.
by bmitc 2y ago
Not a chance. See: all of human history and in particular, the Internet and software.
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by bmitc 2y ago
By the same people who guaranteed they'd see certain things at the existing energy levels but now all of the sudden need higher energy levels after they didn't find what they were looking for.
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by bmitc 2y ago
> They already got a Nobel prize, one of the quickest in history. From some aspects, it was late. Gravitation waves were predicted decades ago. It's almost unfair to predict something but then have engineering take decades to catch
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by bmitc 2y ago
Are people working on fundamentals these days? It seems to be a forgotten art, where everyone is working at the edge of something.
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by bmitc 2y ago
Do you mind me asking if you work full-time on your app, or is it passive income? The drag and drop looks really nice! Do you have some hints as to how you accomplished that with QML?
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by bmitc 2y ago
Qt Quick doesn't launch a browser.
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by bmitc 2y ago
And vice versa.
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by bmitc 2y ago
Does this support Qt Quick and QML?
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by bmitc 2y ago
I generally like the idea of most everything being emergent, but where does it stop? Is it emergence all the way down?
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by bmitc 2y ago
> .NET and Ubuntu are notably not programming languages. C# does not have LTS releases. As someone else already pointed out, this is incorrect. Installing the .NET SDK is how you install C# and F#, and both the C# and F# language version
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by bmitc 2y ago
While I don't work in the automotive field, I've worked on adjacent-esque distributed systems with some of the shared protocols (e.g., CANopen). Part of my lament here is that almost no effort has been put into anything other than
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by bmitc 2y ago
I think the thing is, if you don't use C or C++, then you don't need a million lines of code.
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by bmitc 2y ago
How do you use it then? A Roku is more secure?
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by bmitc 2y ago
So is it Kotlin?
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by bmitc 2y ago
I even think on embedded it's overblown in terms of not being able to use a GC language. C#, F#, OCaml, Java (and I suppose all JVM languages), Erlang, Elixir, etc. can run on embedded devices, including some microcontrollers. In my op
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by bmitc 2y ago
I was recently looking into things along these lines, and my understanding of Ferrocene is that it's just regular Rust with extra tests added. I'd love to know if that's accurate or not. If it is accurate, I've wondered
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by bmitc 2y ago
> but I see no real need for an LTS release What makes Rust special over other programming languages and operating systems and software systems that have LTS releases? For example, .NET and Ubuntu have LTS releases.
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by bmitc 2y ago
The article also does absolutely nothing to motivate the choice of Rust. It's not like it's hard to find a better language than C or C++, so why Rust? Ada seems like it wasn't even considered, as the only mention of it was at
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by bmitc 2y ago
JLCPCB also offers some services. Also, it's fairly easy to learn Easy EDA, especially if you leave the PCB layout to JLCPCB.
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by bmitc 2y ago
Capitalism is ruining America. We're headed to where everything is buried behind oligarchical institutions.
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by bmitc 2y ago
Sounds like his research is a way to bend perceived incentives in favor of a hidden agenda. Hmmm ...
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by bmitc 2y ago
Agreed. Quanta has great content, but man alive, this particular "article" (?) is completely unbearable. I wish they'd just release these special issues as actual print magazines. I'd love to have them in the flesh, but
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by bmitc 2y ago
I would actually argue that STEM education is generally harmful in that it acts like it's the only thing important. Honestly, engineering and technology is mainly made difficult by engineers themselves, who have little influence from o
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by bmitc 2y ago
No one said otherwise. But let's be honest. Do they really currently have to justify things to such a degree that artists do? The National Endowment for the Arts' budget is less than $200 million. Here's the approximate budge
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by bmitc 2y ago
> Artists do not need to justify their existence. They do need to justify their desire to obtain access to other people's money. I reiterate my comment. Scientists and engineers get billions of dollars of other peoples' money,
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by bmitc 2y ago
For some reason, it feels like artists always need to somehow justify their existence. Meanwhile, tech gets billions of dollars of private and public funding. As long as what you're doing in tech fits within the current hype cycle and

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