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by jack_h 6y ago
> Furthermore, the volume production stuff is just silly. If I'm printing a bunch of small objects, I'd rather fill a build tray with them, and then swap it out every 8 hours when it's done. The belt release stuff really s
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by jack_h 6y ago
I've done this before where we were printing thousands of small objects for a small scale production build. I attached a kicker plate to the print head and modified the gcode to pop it off into a chute before printing the next one. Thi
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by jack_h 6y ago
I think this is a much wider problem than just in academia/research. Really any area where software isn't the primary product tends to have fairly lax software standards. I work in the embedded firmware field and best practices ar
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by jack_h 6y ago
Since I have a bit of experience in this area, quasi-Monte Carlo methods also work quite well and ensure deterministic results. They're not applicable for all situations though.
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by jack_h 6y ago
Look at the response to things such as mass shootings which, statistically, represent a small fraction of the total murders committed. Terrorist attacks (in the west) receive a disproportionate amount of attention compared to other problems
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by jack_h 6y ago
I've had problems with the chips themselves. I had a card whose chip worked perfectly for maybe a year or more before I lost it. The replacement chip worked for about a week then I'd get a chip error every time and everywhere. So
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by jack_h 6y ago
> Wouldn’t primary/replica and allowlist/denylist be more explicit anyway? Primary/replica would be far, far less explicit for describing the relationship between the CPU and an ADC (or ethernet switch, or accelerometer) o
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by jack_h 6y ago
I would say that if developers are hacking on an abstraction that is ill-suited to the task until the code base is a nightmare, they will take this advice and duplicate code until it's a nightmare. The fact of the matter is every line
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by jack_h 6y ago
Yeah, I'm in a similar situation at the moment. It's incredibly frustrating because during code reviews I will request changes so it's not such a broken hack job, and the response will basically be "No, it's not wor
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by jack_h 6y ago
I think political division is a symptom. With power concentrated in such a small portion of the population (one person) you end up with two coalitions who vie for power behind the person because no smaller group can affect change at that le
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by jack_h 6y ago
Like with anything on HN the EC is has its detractors and promoters. The US has changed a lot since its inception and has structurally changed in profound ways. The 12th and 17th amendments, the civil war, and the rise of federal power. I t
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by jack_h 6y ago
> Proprietary software is undeniably immoral. At this point no discussion can be had as it depends on a persons own beliefs which are rarely changed by fact or argument. This also skips over any nuance concerning the benefits, costs, and
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by jack_h 6y ago
As someone who used to moderate a pretty large gaming community back in the day I think there are two things to keep in mind. The first is that transparency doesn't "fix" hostile community members. What it does is justify the
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by jack_h 6y ago
So I'm almost certainly in a different industry (embedded) where EEs tend to prolifically copy+paste code. In the end this always makes it so that a change that should take very little time consumes an entire workweek or more. So I hav
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by jack_h 6y ago
> It seems like there must be a way to treat text in a more flexible way without going to a full visual programming language. I've mentioned this a few times on past articles on HN, but I think the issue is we're marrying two d
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by jack_h 7y ago
I'm not sure how your examples illustrate your point. For instance the power to pardon is defined within the constitution with a singular exception added to it. It doesn't say a president can't pardon their friends. That migh
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by jack_h 7y ago
> After the interview is done and the answer is a solid NO, as a company we have NO BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP with you. And plenty of companies don't even feel a candidate is owed that answer after they've made their determination.
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by jack_h 7y ago
It should also be noted that historically these were restrictions on the federal government only (see Barron v Baltimore). This is a pretty important distinction since states were not limited here. In practice most states have their own con
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by jack_h 7y ago
But the full quote is: "I doubt that we'll see it used for low-power/resource-constrained firmware, but lots and lots of embedded systems are now bulky Linux boxes with years of uptime, and I can see Rust making inroads there
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by jack_h 7y ago
I have never seen or even heard of the spring contacts in the lightning port failing. The biggest issue I've ever seen is lint ingress preventing good contact/locking, which can be cleaned out. I can't speak to arcing problem
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by jack_h 7y ago
> It would also be nice to have a repo that isn't language-agnostic. It's too easy to track non-semantic changes, like white space. In my opinion this is a problem with programming languages rather than version control. Namely
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by jack_h 7y ago
The expansive reading of the Commerce Clause has allowed drug prohibition. See Wickard v. Filburn and Gonzales v. Raich.
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by jack_h 7y ago
What if the intruder isn't perpetrating this "most likely" case of theft? The other possibilities aren't exactly great alternatives for the occupant. That seems like a very risky gamble to me.
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by jack_h 7y ago
I agree that these discussions are healthy. I would like to explore your initial comment though as we're dealing with culpability and intent. > When we're considering regulation, it's important to consider the activity we&
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by jack_h 7y ago
> If you're spreading anti-vax propaganda, you're complicit in killing kids ... and any restrictions or punishment should reflect that. > If you're spreading pro-vax propaganda, you're complicit in giving kids auti
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by jack_h 7y ago
> I wonder if Moore would be as critical if instead of there being 20+ Marvel Character Universe movies in the span of 10 years there had only be say 4 or 5? Almost certainly, he did write the Watchmen after all.
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by jack_h 7y ago
True, and the general consensus is if you want to make a start-up in this industry just don't. It's more likely you'll end up on a future episode of Forgotten Weapons. I can definitely understand not wanting to invest in thes
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by jack_h 7y ago
This is true for major manufacturers that have been around for decades or even centuries. Small start-ups have a much harder time finding funding.
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by jack_h 7y ago
That 36,000 number isn't really the entire story. The majority of those are suicides. In the year that this incident took place (2015) there were 9,616 murders with a firearm of some kind. Source: https://ucr.fbi.gov/cr
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by jack_h 7y ago
I'm actually kind of appalled that you think a handgun justifies not only arming police departments with military surplus, but also the use of them. Unlike in a military conflict where the combatants are actively trying to create casua

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