nbernard

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by nbernard 9mo ago
Sounds literary, if a bit grandiloquent, more than anything. It was once considered "good style" and books from the XIXth and XXth centuries are full of such sentences. See the works of James Jeans, John McPhee, Carl Sagan, and th
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by nbernard 10mo ago
Not exactly what you are looking for, but you may still want to take a look at Moore's /Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy/. IIRC, it contains a section on the evolution of machining since the early 1800s and covers the trans
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by nbernard 1y ago
Probably not the cheapest nor the easiest way, but take a look at Cynthion: https://greatscottgadgets.com/cynthion/ On the hardware side, it probably has what you need (and more).
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by nbernard 1y ago
And now... 59 sold, more than 10 available!
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Synthetic aperture radar autofocus and calibration(hforsten.com)
201 points by nbernard 1y ago|16 comments
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by nbernard 1y ago
None taken! :)
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by nbernard 1y ago
AFS (on which DFS was based) lives on as OpenAFS [0]. And there is a commercial evolution/solution from AuriStor [1]. [0]: https://openafs.org/ [1]: https://www.auristor.com/filesystem/
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by nbernard 1y ago
> Lots still available on eBay Probably not for long: only 7 available now...
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by nbernard 1y ago
Left academia, still using LaTeX for about every document (not counting org-mode documents for my own use). At this point, using "common" text processors (Word, Writer, ...) still (?) feels like torture.
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by nbernard 1y ago
Scientific text editors, you mean? ;) I suspect it is actually worse than that and that they are actually subject to the Lindy effect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect ).
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by nbernard 1y ago
> If you're routinely using LaTeX to write papers, the time spent learning something new isn't comparably large. I don't know. By then aren't you quite comfortable with LaTeX? It may be Stockholm syndrome and sunk cos
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by nbernard 1y ago
I enjoyed T. W. Körner's The Pleasures of Counting ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521568234 ).
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by nbernard 1y ago
As I understand it, dns0.eu is run by a french non-profit and has no actual connection with the EU.
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by nbernard 1y ago
To a french ear, it sounds like a (bad) translation from English. For instance, "a été testée au combat" is meaningless in French. The same idea in idiomatic French would be "a subi l'épreuve du feu". And I guess th
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by nbernard 1y ago
I don't remember if it was the case for the TI-92+, but some calculators can show the intermediate steps, or at least some of them.
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by nbernard 1y ago
> they walk in, shut the power and start hauling drives. Or, if they suspect disk encryption, they don't shut the power. Instead, they dissect the power cords to add a special UPS, so that they can move servers without powering them
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How to Make a Longbow(howtomakealongbow.co.uk)
144 points by nbernard 1y ago|41 comments
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by nbernard 1y ago
Another story involving many of these topics is told in Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series. Very different (less space opera, more history) but quite interesting too.
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by nbernard 2y ago
For those interested, there is also OpenUC2 on this niche: https://github.com/openUC2/UC2-GIT It would be interesting to see how the two systems compare.
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by nbernard 2y ago
Not really true anymore unfortunately: The latest models (post-2020?) are locked down and cannot use non-official FW.
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by nbernard 2y ago
Then, you have Mindustry and its thorium reactors. IIRC, they don't need to be connected to turbines like in Factorio to generate power, however bad things (TM) happen if they are destroyed or if their coolant supply is disrupted...
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Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone(hforsten.com)
5 points by nbernard 2y ago|1 comments
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by nbernard 2y ago
What do you think of IDR, for Intergalactic Digital Research (which later dropped the 'I') ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Research
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by nbernard 2y ago
Check that you are allowing webworker scripts, that did the trick for me. I still have issues on slower computers (Raspberry pies and the like) as they seem to be to slow to do whatever Cloudflare wants as a verification in the allotted tim
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by nbernard 2y ago
Thanks! I just checked an 10TB Ironwolf bought to a German seller through Amazon.fr less than two months ago: Its warranty expires in a few days... :(
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by nbernard 2y ago
I don't care for high refresh rates or high DPI, but: - matte surface - effective* vertical res >= 1200 px (*: meaning that, for instance, 1440 with 2.0 scaling counts as 720 px only). - ability to rotate (not a must, but nice to
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by nbernard 2y ago
More a "must try" than a "must read". I enjoy reading SF, and didn't like the Hyperion and Endymion series...
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by nbernard 2y ago
Seconded. In chem labs, it happens quite often that glass labware pieces get stuck together. The gentle application of a wooden mallet is the usual solution...
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by nbernard 2y ago
Yes. Yet, in my mind, for some peoples and/or subjects (drawing buildings, interiors where perspective is important, etc.), it may be easier to do the exact opposite . Meaning, to learn instead¹ how to construct an accurate perspectiv
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An Introduction to Ngscopeclient(crowdsupply.com)
1 points by nbernard 2y ago|0 comments

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