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by bsder 10mo ago
> And yes, I'm aware of Octave. It does not have the capabilities of Matlab in the areas that I worked in Was there a specific reason for that? Or was it simply nobody wrote the code?
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by bsder 10mo ago
Mark Twain on this subject: > Well, also he will notice in the course of time, as his reading goes on, that the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightnin
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by bsder 10mo ago
> To read and speak English? Ok, then why can't kids test out of it most of the time? Is the purpose to be knowledgeable about a canon of literature? Why can't people test against that? Because people VASTLY overestimate thei
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by bsder 11mo ago
> If you’re willing to use distilled water, ultrasonic humidifiers have their own advantages over evaporative. Unless you are anally retentive about cleaning it, ultrasonic humidifiers vaporize microbes into the air. There have been loa
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by bsder 11mo ago
No, you need to bust up Google as the monopolist it is. YouTube should get split out and then broken up. Google Search should get split out and broken up. etc. This is not a problem you solve with code. This is a problem you solve with l
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by bsder 11mo ago
There are two hard problems in computer science: caching things, naming things and off-by-one errors.
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by bsder 11mo ago
> Autonomy has diminishing returns here; it doesn't magically prevent the chaos of mixed-use environments. It doesn't prevent chaos, but it does provide ubiquitous cameras. That will be used against people. I'm ambivalent
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by bsder 11mo ago
Anime was probably my first introduction to "Heroes can both sacrifice and still lose. "Winning" may not be worth it but may be the only option." I'm trying to think of the earliest "Western Literature" t
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by bsder 11mo ago
My old eyes really wish more people used something like New Century Schoolbook.
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by bsder 11mo ago
"Source Available" means that it can become "Source Unavailable" overnight. See the "Our Machinery" fiasco. Yes, Open Source isn't a complete defense against this (especially when there are copyright assig
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by bsder 11mo ago
In this instance, it's a community college in California. Most of community colleges don't have any dorms but they have generally really large parking lots that are completely empty outside of class hours. Any homeless person who
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by bsder 11mo ago
All the US universities outsourced their bookstores. Now I can't even walk in and browse what books the various departments are using for classes, anymore. Everything is now behind bars and completely inaccessible.
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by bsder 11mo ago
O365 lock-in is all about Outlook. Word, Excel and PowerPoint are just hangers on to help spread the Outlook virus.
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by bsder 11mo ago
Why should you see a flurry of software? What LLMs demonstrate is that the problem is dealing with people , not software. Look at the number of open source maintainers who are hanging it up. Unless you have a path to monetization, writing
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by bsder 11mo ago
> There are parts about the past we can miss: shared public spaces, authenticity, quality goods and services, ritual, deeper connectedness to each other. Deeper connectedness? Yeah, conform to the small town or gossip ruins your life.
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by bsder 11mo ago
I'd start with HarfBuzz: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz That's the open source font shaping engine. It does a lot of work to handle font shaping and rendering for languages that can't really be
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by bsder 11mo ago
> No matter what fancy things you do with superscripts and subscripts, you're not going to be able to do even basic things you need for equations like use a fraction bar, or parentheses that grow in height to match the content insid
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by bsder 11mo ago
Exactly. Perl did regexes very well. It did basic hash tables okay. It did everything else poorly. Once languages came along that did okay regexes and good hash tables along with getting other stuff decent, Perl just got pushed aside.
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by bsder 11mo ago
Except that Python took the other path when migrating from Python 1 to Python 2 and ... guess what? That was a "disaster" too. The only difference was that by the time of Python 3, Python programs were orders of magnitude big
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by bsder 11mo ago
Exactly. Claims like "even without dealing with a single reference/borrow." When you have this stuff in "Hello World": Egui Hello World: ui.add(egui::Slider::new(&mut age, 0..=120).text("age"));
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by bsder 11mo ago
Precisely. You can subset C++ and still knock out a program. You cannot subset Rust and still create a program.
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by bsder 11mo ago
> So RAII isn't the big evil monster, and we need to stop talking about RAII, globals, etc, in these ways. I disagree and place RAII as the dividing line on programming language complexity and is THE "Big Evil Monster(tm)&quo
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by bsder 11mo ago
> Never with a GUN to my head would I install 3D printed parts in a CAR engine, let alone in an aircraft engine. The fabrication technology doesn't matter. The qualification process, on the other hand ... This is the primary reas
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by bsder 11mo ago
Being a fab is a garbage business. Being a software supplier to fabless semiconductor companies is a very profitable business. In the Gold Rush, the people who came out rich were selling the shovels and denim.
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by bsder 11mo ago
Thanks for the refs and discussion--especially that app note. I will note that we're all talking about 10+ year old chips and technology--mostly prior to GaN. Apparently, I'm going to have to dig through a bunch of stuff to see wh
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by bsder 11mo ago
> I'm just as confused as you are, honestly. It feels like we've seen the "ASIC for everything" campaign so many times over, and yet only FPGAs and CUDA typically find adoption in the industry. That's because we
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by bsder 11mo ago
It would be better for Linux to gain native support for some of the Windows and DirectX 12 APIs. Linux gets a useful set of API targets and meets Windows devs more than halfway.
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by bsder 11mo ago
Links or refs? That sounds very interesting. A basic search coughs up a bunch of papers from academic paper mills, and I don't see obvious links to an OTS series from Wurth Elektronik.
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by bsder 11mo ago
People driving "Brodozers(tm)" can't see shit near the vehicle due to both the big hood and being super high up, while the gigantic, flat front grille kills people rather than crumpling them over the hood. And while I call th
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by bsder 11mo ago
At this point you are now forced to use the "AI"s as code search tools--and it annoys me to no end. The problem is that the "AI"s can cough up code examples based upon proprietary codebases that you, as an individual,

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