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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> It's really hard to think about how a robotic system that doesn't maintain a map could work intelligently to accomplish navigation goals, For navigation with less map input, see the work of Oussama Khatib. A single nav goal
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Great read! Well done!
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
This, and for most Brother printers there is a page counter bypass for toner carts.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
I have always been a fan of flex. The thing that impressed me in this table is the speed-up from the -F and -f options -- I didn't realize it could make a 4X difference. Anyway, in this benchmark, the author gets about a 15% speed-up
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Maybe you missed this part: > So of course you actually need to exercise the code also, which is where the hypothesis package comes in. These are tests you should be doing anyway. Type checking does not excuse poor test coverage.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
An old boss of mine worked on that beast! From the sounds of it, it barely worked in the lab. He told a story of getting so frustrated one day that he literally shoved his ‘scope off the back of the bench in frustration and walked out for
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Very cool! Thanks for sharing. Many years ago at a ham swap meet (used to be a thing pre-E-bay) a guy was selling an old record lathe that had come out (years earlier) of one of radio network affiliate stations in SF. It was used to record
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Most of what you say I agree with. But it is actually very easy to construct a __init__ that handles a very flexible parameter list. That style is well represented in the standard library. And I find that writing a beefy constructor simplif
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
I am not going to dispute the value of compile-time type checking. And I admit to only having had time to skim the link at this point but it looks like a great read so I bookmarked it for later. That said... Python can be as strongly type
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> But overall have they produced interesting work? At all? Yes, quite a lot. (In the American sense of 'quite', not the British...) Just look at what has come out of the Life-Long Kindergarden lab, and see how many things you r
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> They are asking to search Apple and Google, not individuals. They are asking Apple and Google to tell them what individuals have on their phones. They are in a very practical and concrete sense searching the phones of individuals. &gt
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Yes, and exceptions. Tests must tickle all the exception paths. An exception that contains a dumb typo crashes the system instead of propagating up to get handled. Just touching the exception path roots those out. raise ValueError(
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
100% of what? Oh... line coverage, in Python. Well, with Python, the compiler doesn't do type checking, so 100% coverage (or close) is very important. One of his cases of "what do you not need to check" is error-handling.
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Search without probable cause.
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https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?q=gun try this
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
pfft. Built any “City” theme sets lately? All the police minifigs pack pretty realistic-looking semi-autos.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Thanks. Informative. I agree, it seems that simply gazetting a withdrawal without debate is consistent with the rules.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Link is Chinese. Just FYI to other non-Chinese readers. What are the LegCo rules of procedure around this? Is there something we can read in English translation? Whether or not a motion is required seems a major point.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
The ham packet radio literature has the most readable descriptions. The professional RF networking write ups that I am aware of are pretty old because I have not followed networking much since grad school (back in the last millennium). Sor
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Ok. I guess “first applied it to software” is more accurate. I was misinformed:)
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> the next step would to build higher powered repeaters that can be placed on top of tall buildings. Nice sentiment, but technically counterproductive for mesh networks. Wide coverage nodes create/suffer the “hidden transmitter prob
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> The FSF and the OSI don't own what 'open source' means, of course - the term predates them and comes from intelligence. You are misinformed, at best. 1. FSF predates the term "open source", that much is true. 2
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Soy also needs to be avoided by people with thyroid problems.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Yes, well, at some point you get tired of seeing people make the same mistakes over and over. Those people might be senior engineers tasked with architectural design for the first time. Those people might be management with their heads up
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
I think just the ejection force can break bones if you are unlucky. A friend of mine had to punch out of a Harrier at low altitude. When he got out of the infirmary months later he was 2cm shorter from vertebrae compression than when he joi
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Yeah, I was fighting the list problem. And not able to mix numeric and string data in a list just made the whole thing unwieldy and frustrated me. I’ve used JSON for configs, which is not great, but at least readable. The biggest problem is
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I was hoping to like TOML, but my first experiments using a Python package for parsing it were disappointing. I found the syntax cranky, and the Python package I was using did a terrible job at providing diagnostics — very poor exception pr
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Thanks! Now I need an excuse to write a Python extension. Seen any shaggy yaks around here?
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Ah, I get it. From what little I have done with Cython, you done really see the C compiler much. Just the data types. Rython would still have the Python garbage collector ultimately “owning” all the variables, though, I think.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Good point! That would probably make validating the Python interpreter easier.

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