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by camtarn 5y ago
> It drives me nuts to deal with the typical Java "Each class has its own file -no matter how small" thing. Couple this with extensive use of inheritance and design patterns, and you have a recipe for awfulness. One of my previ
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by camtarn 5y ago
Yeah, I was confused by this too. In my line of work, we use solenoid as a shorthand for hydraulic or pneumatic solenoid valves.
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How to Get Stronger Consistency Out of a Datastore (2019)(blog.sentry.io)
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A closer look at electric vehicle contactors(chargedevs.com)
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by camtarn 5y ago
Agreed! It's great to see Quinn turn up on HN. Her channel is an excellent source of very relaxing machining content.
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by camtarn 5y ago
Like another commenter mentioned, I have different types of notes: procedural (how did I fix X), thought processing (I want to design Y, what's the best way to do it), and non-code documentation (this setup works this way because pers
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by camtarn 5y ago
As the article says: "bridges and buildings" engineering isn't even representative of all of civil engineering, let alone the entirety of the engineering profession. Also, not all engineers are even professionally accredite
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3D-printed hinged negatively-curved surfaces [video](youtube.com)
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Non-Euclidean Virtual Reality [video](youtube.com)
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by camtarn 5y ago
> it’s even easier to not spend the effort reworking your workflows and ways you use password tools. Yeah, this. I've been using LastPass since 2012 - four years before BitWarden even existed. BitWarden actually looks excellent and
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by camtarn 5y ago
Heh, yeah, that's actually what used to motivate me to buy things on CD. Nowadays, I'm very fortunate to have a decent bit more disposable income than I used to, so I'm happy to put some directly towards the artist. I prefer
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by camtarn 5y ago
It doesn't even need to be physical media. I switched from buying CDs and ripping them to MP3, to just buying MP3, once I realised that the bit that I value most is simply having a finite music collection that I know well. I take my mu
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by camtarn 5y ago
Oh wow, talk about trial by fire! That's a lot to learn in a very short time. Good on you for finding the OBS bug as well.
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by camtarn 5y ago
The last paragraph was truncated for me. I had to look at the page source to read it! Reproduced here for those on mobile browsers: "It's a weird experience, crawling over the guts of one of the marvels of the atomic age, smellin
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by camtarn 5y ago
I mean, sort of, yes, but that's an extremely broad bucket you've built. Lots of things are to do with identity: nationality, political party, etc. 'HN reader' is a fairly strong identity! The difference comes in the uti
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by camtarn 5y ago
Fascinating. I know very little about golf, but it's always a treat to read a detailed and well-explained article in a completely unfamiliar field. Thanks for sharing!
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by camtarn 5y ago
Yeah, definitely. Tree: big tall thing with a thick trunk. Bush: little round thing. Younger me was very confidently wrong sometimes ;)
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by camtarn 5y ago
Perhaps I'm just on the low end of botanical curiosity, but I wouldn't ever have made that leap myself. If you'd asked my younger self 'what is a shrub?' I would have said 'uh, like a small bush?'. It woul
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by camtarn 5y ago
I would happily wager against you. I made a similar comment further up the page: I think some people massively overestimate the amount of general knowledge people have about biology. Like the article says, a lot of people are still at the &
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by camtarn 5y ago
'Anyone'? Really? I think you massively overestimate how much general knowledge about biology people have. For a lot (I would reckon most, but obviously I have no evidence of that) of people, terms like 'paraphyletic' ar
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by camtarn 5y ago
The fact this apparently triggers an error in Reddit is freaking hilarious.
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by camtarn 5y ago
It's pretty darn weird realising that Simon is actually a person who knows somebody I've met IRL, rather than a mysterious benevolent entity responsible for manifesting the PuTTY suite fully-formed upon the internet ;)
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by camtarn 5y ago
Tatham, rather than Ducker - the former wrote a comment on the latter's link blog.
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by camtarn 5y ago
The text interface is curses-based - so while it may not be rendering graphics pixel by pixel, it's still laying characters out in two dimensions rather than e.g. presenting you with a list of cell values as unformatted text. So it&#x2
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by camtarn 5y ago
That was my first thought too, but it seems to be addressed in the FAQ: https://github.com/algorithm-archivists/algorithm-archive/wi...
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by camtarn 5y ago
Yep, similarly. We work with PLCs where the manufacturer normally has fairly deep stocks of all the PLC CPUs, expansion cards, etc - guaranteed part availability is one of the big selling points of using PLCs. Some things are still availabl
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by camtarn 5y ago
Obviously comment order changes, but I literally just needed to look one comment down to find somebody saying "This type of contact classification is useless", and there are a bunch of other similar comments scattered around. I th
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by camtarn 5y ago
This is super interesting! Shame that you can't tell us more - I'm very curious what could link products from these companies.
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by camtarn 5y ago
Hmm, the automated garage is actually a damn good idea. Shouldn't be too hard to program a robot to remove valve caps and top up tires, check tread depth, wipe bugs off the windshield and bird droppings off the paintwork. Maybe even po
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by camtarn 5y ago
Ha! This exactly. I really hate the 'pretending to be something it's not' angle of faking handwriting. But the tech and the effort that went into making it work is indeed fascinating.

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