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Inverse Kinematics: moving a robotic arm (and why it's harder than it seems)(appliedgo.net)
2 points by mdip 6y ago|0 comments
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The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is still developed and modern in 2021(raymii.org)
3 points by mdip 6y ago|0 comments
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by mdip 6y ago
Apparently I'm not the only one trying to load this page; Text-only cache link (full wouldn't load either): https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Eh061j...
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by mdip 6y ago
> Why Do We Assume Extraterrestrials Might Want to Visit Us? I'm not trying to be sarcastic, though it'll be hard to write this without the tone seeming that way, but the question alone has a pretty simple set of answe
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by mdip 6y ago
It looks slick and this is something I'm looking in to (again), but with slightly different goals in mind. I had some feedback on the copy, though, that I hope isn't just me being a pain in the a$$. > Are my notes safe?
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by mdip 6y ago
> Can you imagine how cool it would be to manipulate Windows services from the WSL session? This was a little confusing, in some ways, because it came right after "being able to list out processes to kill". A Windows Service
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by mdip 6y ago
... and every few years it changes. Not to belittle the whole PC thing -- I get it: repeat to someone that they are at a disadvantage their whole life and they'll grow up believing it. My girl understands that her hearing makes her di
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by mdip 6y ago
> questions about how the hearing impaired use video chat I am not deaf or hard of hearing, but have a teenage daughter who is old enough to articulate some of these things. She doesn't sign (used to, and there's reasons beyo
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by mdip 6y ago
I'm glad to see someone bringing these points up. I have been dealing with mild hearing loss for a little while now and have found Teams closed captioning to be extremely helpful, but my hearing is good enough that I usually manage fi
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by mdip 6y ago
A little off topic, but thanks for sharing: The age of 13 seems to be a common thread with a lot of developers -- I know of 5 others who will point to that age as "when they started writing software". It was age 13 when I started
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by mdip 6y ago
So I say this having used XCode about 10 years ago, but is XCode really that bad? Around 2000 or so, I was installing the Visual Studio -- Pre .NET Version -- on a number of new developer workstations. I was not a Helpdesk or Desktop tec
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by mdip 6y ago
> ... used the Web since 2007 Am I really that old? Something that was stated, but not directly, is what's driven a lot of the latest additions to the browser: Cross-platform development. The operating system provided the abstracti
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by mdip 6y ago
That's it. I didn't even really use Photoshop in a professional capacity, but it's probably worse in that situation. In the past, if you wanted to do something "cool looking" on the web, you'd describe to
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by mdip 6y ago
Thank you for confirming the things I have suspected for a long time. Maybe it's the path I took in the industry but I had the displeasure of having to automate the installation of Adobe security updates to tens of thousands of Windows
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by mdip 6y ago
I think since you've asked this question, it's been answered that this specific tool was written using SculptGL. How do you even start? I started with `three.js` about two years ago and a ton of documentation. I didn't writ
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by mdip 6y ago
I did a massive project using Onshape's APIs. It's a fantastic product -- excellent modeling tool that performs very well, but the kicker is the language that makes up the underlying 3D "document"[0] into a set of ins
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by mdip 6y ago
I'll be the next one to parrot the whole "nicely done" atmosphere -- it really is cool. It's amazing what we can do in a browser these days[0] and it's only outpaced by how quickly, it seems, those things become dra
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by mdip 6y ago
I love this sort of stuff -- does anyone know of a solid forum/place for these kinds of projects (outside of searching here )? Specifically, I have a basement full of old (some non-working) hardware for various gadgets/computers&
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by mdip 6y ago
> With so few firsts available in life, take those that present themselves and have a crack, even if failure is always an option. About two years ago I realized I was doing the opposite sort-of without realizing it. I'd want to
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by mdip 6y ago
I'm not sure it's so unpopular of an opinion; at least, it's shared by me. Your "silly parallels" make great points. In the "app store" analogy, it's not "apple eating itself", it's de
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by mdip 6y ago
My favorite ... when those "U" locks came out and the bike guy was trying to sell me on a lock that was 1/4 the price of the bike it was meant to protect, I jumped to "Freeze/Shatter" (details in another commen
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by mdip 6y ago
> Material that cannot be cut ... The Ultimate Bike Lock I remember the bike shop guy trying to sell the last bike lock that was cut resistant. It was a steel (I think) "U" lock (back right after they came out). I worked at
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by mdip 6y ago
Hmm; Maybe I'm not a power user of Office 365 Outlook, but I'm on openSUSE Tumbleweed, running Firefox and that's all I use for work e-mail. I think I have Chrome and Chromium on here, but I haven't used them in mon
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by mdip 6y ago
As the other poster mentioned, I'm not aware of any terminal that allows these sequences these days. This wasn't an uncommon thing back in the 90s with DOS ANSI art. I'm not sure if the original ANSI.SYS included with DOS 5&
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by mdip 6y ago
> mini Micro-center There used to be variations of a lot of these all over the place. Some were exclusively software (Babbages), some had a mix (we had a local franchise called Computer Warehouse, often located in small strip-mall locat
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by mdip 6y ago
Interesting; based on what I'm seeing, it certainly looks like a matching structure and it's got enough uncommon fields in it to suggest that it's likely to be related to Covve software. There is a link in the comments to th
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by mdip 7y ago
Sadly, I came to that conclusion last year for different reasons. I've got an excellent ThinkPad laptop and do development mostly in .NET[0]. When I received it, it was loaded with Windows, and since the rest of the team ran Windows,
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by mdip 7y ago
I had wondered how this individual was going to make Inkjet printer ink out of highlighter pens. I mean, considering the ink is priced somewhere around the same rate as liquid gold, I figured it was either going to end up being "way t
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by mdip 7y ago
We had this at a telecom I worked at in the early 2000s. It's easy to sit back and bitch about "the things you have to use at work", so I usually avoid it. However, short of whatever-the-heck-is-used-for time tracking/
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by mdip 7y ago
I'll second that... Now, I'll say, after 30-40 batteries, I've never had one catch fire. I've had a few that I probably broke as a result of heat, and I suspect that if you've tested the cells carefully and the bat

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