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by gh02t 9y ago
> I'm waiting for the equivalent of a Kinko's for 3D printing A lot of universities offer this to their students already. Commercially, off the top of my head, Staples and the UPS store have some 3D printing services available
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by gh02t 9y ago
Probably the next revolution in 3D printing speed will be something that prints an entire object at once, maybe via some sort of science fiction style hologram illuminating a resin. There are technologies that kinda resemble this on the cut
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by gh02t 9y ago
One area they really target is the scientific market, which has more diversity in compilers (see also, Cray, Portland Group etc). icc/ifort/icpc still produce some of the fastest numerical code on Intel hardware and tend to suppor
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by gh02t 9y ago
I think Zim uses a two level approach, storing text files but also keeping an index database for doing full text search.
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by gh02t 9y ago
I'd be pretty keen on this too, my girlfriend lives far away and is completely blind- it'd be really nice to be able to play board games with her online.
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by gh02t 9y ago
I've used Riot ( https://riot.im , built on Matrix) and it worked very well. Voice chat is still in beta but I haven't had any trouble with it.
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by gh02t 9y ago
Netlib. Some good ones: * LAPACK (BLAS is there too) http://www.netlib.org/lapack/explore-html/ * QUADPACK (quadrature integration) http://www.netlib.org/quadpack/ * MINPACK (nonlinear solver
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by gh02t 9y ago
I agree, having worked in the American national lab system I can say that government research can easily keep pace with industry. Especially in risky or inherently costly industries, I'd argue that government funded research labs that
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by gh02t 9y ago
> When I read the philosophy pages of the FSF, I come away disagreeing vehemently with their arguments, and often simply unable to understand why people find those documents convincing for anything. I mean, there's one thing that is
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by gh02t 9y ago
> I have to admit I'm not even sure why they did change licence. See previous discussion on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12894721 , Apple has a history of it. I think a lot of companies view it as a liabi
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by gh02t 9y ago
It's important to note the rest of that portion though. But even as popular as Atmel is among hobbyists, Atmel has largely stayed out of this space directly. Instead, they’ve secured small-volume AVR sales by relying on the
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by gh02t 9y ago
Not stupid, irrational . Even people who know better get addicted to gambling because it seems to hook in to some sort of primal instinct for some.
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by gh02t 9y ago
It's tedious if you wanna validate a complex structure. Most of these libraries are meant to validate stuff that is user input. Imagine I load a complex input from a configuration file into a nested dict and checking it, that'd be
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by gh02t 9y ago
It looks like crap on Linux too, they deliberately chose a widget theme to make it look that way. This version at least includes revamped theme support, so maybe someone will give it a decent coat of paint.
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by gh02t 9y ago
It's pretty common to use Audacity as a (very crappy) oscilloscope to capture analog signals via a sound card, is that maybe what you're thinking?
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by gh02t 9y ago
I don't think you could practically power a display + processor combo with the heat from your hands. The best I can find on the power radiated by your hands is this article https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation&#x2F
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by gh02t 9y ago
Yep, a modern nuclear bomb takes a very coordinated sequence to actually have the confinement needed to get good utilization of the fissile fuel (i.e., be a nuclear-driven explosion), otherwise they just fly apart before any significant fis
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by gh02t 9y ago
Micro USB connectors can be had for cheap on Aliexpress if you don't mind waiting for shipping, I usually buy from this guy at slightly more than a penny each. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/10pcs-5pin-Female-Micr
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by gh02t 9y ago
CUDA has a strong grasp on a lot of the scientific market because Nvidia was ahead of the curve with CUDA initially and then has spent tons of money advertising and selling it to entrench it. To some degree it's a dev's own fault
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by gh02t 9y ago
Scroll lock, break/pause and sys rq keys on keyboards come to mind. They technically still are used for stuff but typically not what they were originally for and they could easily be removed or renamed, but still most full sized keyboa
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by gh02t 9y ago
Yeah, a lot of microcontrollers have integrated capacitive sensing (Atmel calls it QTouch, other manufacturers have similar). In that case a capacitive button is very near free, as you only need an extra trace that is reliable to fabricate
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by gh02t 9y ago
In this particular case though, 24 hour time is common in Europe and even in the US it's somewhat common (I use it). I curious how they could have overlooked it (partially).
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by gh02t 9y ago
They still value raw CPU grunt for legacy software that can't easily be ported to use GPU. There's a lot of old software that has received billions in verification and validation work (especially in the nuclear area, which is impo
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by gh02t 9y ago
That's basically what Firefox Containers does. https://medium.com/firefox-test-pilot/firefox-containers-are...
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by gh02t 9y ago
CPython doesn't really have a "stream mode" like `perl -pi`, but you could easily make a pretty trivial wrapper to do it if you found yourself wanting to duplicate that functionality. I'd much rather use sed or awk in yo
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by gh02t 9y ago
The Advantage is certainly an investment, but I found it worthwhile. They last for eons, they're built like a tank. If you have significant wrist problems you might be able to talk your employer into paying for one, I know a couple peo
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by gh02t 9y ago
Ditto, after a bad strain injury on my wrist I bought a Kinesis. I don't think I could really use a computer without it. For me though it's mostly wrist angle; while I love the tactile mechanical switches I don't think the im
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by gh02t 9y ago
Eh, I'm talking mostly about the large scientific code packages that are being developed with millions of dollars in funding and large, organized teams. The people writing these sorts of codes know what they are doing and a lot of migr
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by gh02t 9y ago
Physicists / engineers / mathematicians are the target audience for Fortran. For heavy number crunching it's still quite good, it's people trying to use it for other stuff that causes problems. That said, Fortran really
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by gh02t 9y ago
I dunno, BIOS was pretty opaque and all the major BIOS vendors stuff was completely proprietary (and often full of bugs). The difference is that BIOS was simpler and hence easier to understand. It was also not as well-protected and if you w

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