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by montecarl 4y ago
This is a very low effort blog post on this subject, I'm not sure it is adding anything new to the topic and just feels like the same sort of low quality blog spam that shows up at the top of Google search results instead of a high qua
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by montecarl 4y ago
I run Linux for software development, but I need to also run Autodesk Fusion 360, which doesn't run on Linux. So I run it in a VirtualBox virtual machine. It works poorly as it sometimes doesn't render correctly and the performanc
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by montecarl 4y ago
Figure 2 shows that the CD material is used kind of like electrodes or probes and those are attached to a microcontroller. This makes much more sense to me than the headline and main article.
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by montecarl 4y ago
This is short and to the point. I dislike patents, but as far as patents go this is a very good one. In patents my company has filed, the goal is to describe the invention in the most obtuse and general language possible. It would be nearly
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by montecarl 4y ago
A mass spectrometer by itself, will tell you the mass to charge ratio of ions in a sample. In most samples the molecules themselves are not ions naturally and need to be ionized. This can be done using a number of techniques, but a common o
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by montecarl 5y ago
One of the best things about Eigen is that it is the only linear algebra package that I know of that easily supports using the same code for low, high, and arbitrary precision floating point numbers. I had some linear system of equations th
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by montecarl 5y ago
How is this greed? The alternative is that they will be out of stock and only sold by scalpers. I've needed raspberry pis for work and if some people were not selling them at 2x their MSRP then I wouldn't have been able to find on
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by montecarl 5y ago
This is the most important thing I have ever learned about using vim. For the past 15 years it is the first thing I do on any computer I use.
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by montecarl 5y ago
I also just reviewed a massive review article. Just thoroughly reading through it once and noting what I thought the main issues were took several hours. Writing up my comments took a few more. It ended up being rejected for publication. By
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by montecarl 5y ago
I have used the google sheets API to implement something similar when working with a nonprofit. They needed a fairly complex listing on their website that needed search/sort/filter/mapping and needed to update this list regul
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by montecarl 5y ago
I have built several embedded linux distributions for raspberry pi using buildroot. I have had great luck with it. There is a bit of a learning curve, but that seems to be the case with most embedded devices. I would recommend anyone gettin
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by montecarl 5y ago
I am on Google Fiber and I get < 10 ms to anything served out of a CDN or to servers in my own state. If I ping google, reddit, amazon, etc they are all about 8 ms.
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by montecarl 5y ago
Since you asked. Most of the motherboards I've worked with recently let you set a custom fan curve with the option to turn the fan off completely. You can also adjust which temperature sensor the fan curve is based on. This can be cont
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by montecarl 5y ago
Iron is the 4th most abundant element in Earth's crust. There are almost 3000 times more iron atoms than lithium atoms.
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by montecarl 5y ago
When clicking that link in Chrome I get a "The site ahead contains harmful programs" warning page with a bright red background. "Attackers on github.com might attempt to trick you into installing programs that harm your brows
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by montecarl 5y ago
I live in the US, but not in California. I've worked at three different companies. Each time when signing the employment contract I have pushed back on any terms that would make code that I write outside of work owned by the company. I
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by montecarl 5y ago
The outro on MC Frontalot's Charisma Potion covers this! https://open.spotify.com/track/21HeW6fxCl02b3gcvf1TIC?si=9fb...
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by montecarl 5y ago
I had the exact same experience. Hanging, then slowly lowering, then eventually being able to do one! Then worked up to 3x sets of 5, then an unrelated injury has prevented me from working out. I really enjoyed doing pull ups and the streng
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by montecarl 5y ago
In scientific computations, it is often sufficient that the final answer is correct to a few significant figures. There are several reasons for this. One is that the model uncertainty is typically quite large (unless you are dealing with pa
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by montecarl 5y ago
I have mapped a key to insert "import pdb;pdb.set_trace()" in my editor. Also use it daily, and not just for debugging. It is useful when working on a new project and you just want to interrogate some object you got back from a li
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by montecarl 5y ago
Seems much easier to control, influence, and parent your children than to make other people stop selling drugs. The USA has been losing a war on drugs for decades.
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by montecarl 5y ago
You may not have meant it this way, but "College should be for academically gifted high school graduates" is not what I would have in mind for who should attend college. I think college should be for those who want to learn. For e
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by montecarl 6y ago
In case anyone is curious, the most aggressive form of regularization is sometimes called L0 regularization or sparse regression. Here, there is a penalty term for every additional parameter used in the model. This allows you to define a co
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by montecarl 6y ago
What I find frustrating is that I cannot read or write SMS or iMessages on my computer (I don't use OSX). I'm not going to be that person who asks all their contacts to message them using some new app. Can this service really inte
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by montecarl 6y ago
I've just started to get into microcontrollers, but I have been playing with boards based on the NRF52840[0]. I'm using them to build an air quality monitor to measure CO2[1], volatile organic compounds[2], temperature and humidit
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by montecarl 6y ago
It would seem more reasonable to limit commercial activities (i.e. resale) than the rights of individuals to grow food.
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by montecarl 6y ago
I use pyinstaller to build windows executables directly from Linux using this docker image: https://github.com/cdrx/docker-pyinstaller Between Qt and Python there is a huge amount of cross platform support. For example
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by montecarl 6y ago
I hope not. These are some of my favorite posts!
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by montecarl 6y ago
If it is not possible to compute most reals, then is there a number system, with only computable numbers that extends the rational numbers to include computable reals such as Pi, e, sqrt(2)?
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by montecarl 6y ago
In my city we have seen several peaceful protesters (some quite some distance away from police) be nearly killed by less lethal ammunition. Being hit in the head or neck by a rubber bullet will drop a person to the ground unconscious instan

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