lincoln20xx

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by lincoln20xx 3mo ago
I concur. Most of the most painfully over-engineered swamp projects I've dealt with have been a result of not understanding the requirements. Of course, this is not to imply that it's necessarily possible to know every requirement
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Ask HN: What toolchains are people using for desktop app development in 2025?
113 points by lincoln20xx 1y ago|132 comments
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by lincoln20xx 1y ago
That may be true. But it's pretty great at generating lines of questioning for cross-examination.
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by lincoln20xx 1y ago
I have a non-zero number of industrial process patents under my belt. Allegedly, that means that I had ideas that had not previously been recorded. Once I wrote them down, paid some lawyers a bunch of money, and did some paperwork, I have t
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by lincoln20xx 2y ago
I've been using build123d (based on cadquery) quite a bit and I really like it. I still use solidworks for simulations, drawings, and most fillet operations - because it turns out that doing fillets right is very non-trivial. Code-cad
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by lincoln20xx 2y ago
Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) that follow the IEC 61131-3 standard [0] utilize 5 different programming languages, three of which are visual/graphical, and two of which are text-based. The graphical languages are well-suited to
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by lincoln20xx 3y ago
Git works great with text-based code-cad. My personal favourite flavor is build123d, which is based on cadquery.
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by lincoln20xx 3y ago
Drugs are a big part of the "how are people going faster for longer" equation, of course. But in an endurance context, adequate fuelling is likely even more important than a new magic drug, because it doesn't matter how many