nbernard

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by nbernard 2y ago
How Things Work was published in the US by Simon & Schuster as The Way Things Work: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Technology, which is on the IA: vol 1: https://archive.org/details/waythingsworki00cvan vol 2: htt
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by nbernard 2y ago
Well... Wernher von Braun wrote a SF novel in which the first mission to Mars discovers native Martians. These live underground and use hyperloop-like tunnels for transportation, and their leader is called the "elon"...
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by nbernard 2y ago
I heard one of the issues is to prevent leaks through the ground connection. It seems special circuits ("crypto grounds" ?) are needed to filter the ground connection while still allowing it to work normally if an electrical fault
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by nbernard 2y ago
I found Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making , by Hastie & Dawes, useful.
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by nbernard 2y ago
True free will? No. Agency? Yes. (Proof left as an exercise to the reader).
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by nbernard 2y ago
I don't have a reference to recommend but, considering your goals, you should probably search for stuff on the ROS2 suite [0]. [0]: https://www.ros.org/
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by nbernard 2y ago
> Full linux system on phone, available as a desktop experience through hdmi out. Have you considered the Librem 5 ( https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ )? PureOS is a Debian-based Linux.
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by nbernard 2y ago
There is still some witchcraft. Look up "optical pumping amplifier" for instance.
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by nbernard 2y ago
Not exactly CAD, but Valentina deserves a mention too: https://smart-pattern.com.ua/en/valentina/about/
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Pdf.tocgen(krasjet.com)
175 points by nbernard 2y ago|39 comments
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by nbernard 2y ago
Moreover a man with two watches takes the average and gets closer to knowing what time it actually is...
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by nbernard 2y ago
According to Braudel (in Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, vol. 1), without irrigation rice farming depletes the soil much, much more than wheat. If I remember correctly, he states that if one waits for natural soil regenerati
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by nbernard 3y ago
In my experience, hardware-related issues mostly happens with stuff that was just released. If you don't mind waiting a few months before ordering, there are usually few problems. As for UI inconsistencies, I believe they depend a lot
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The process of making a camera lens. The best optical equipment factory in Japan [video](youtube.com)
3 points by nbernard 3y ago|0 comments
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Purism Launches New Secure Librem 11 Tablet(puri.sm)
4 points by nbernard 3y ago|0 comments
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by nbernard 3y ago
Among the cheap USB webcams, any model you would recommend ?
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by nbernard 3y ago
In France, the ID card is free. Some other forms of ID (passport, ...) are not.
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by nbernard 3y ago
Depending on your supply (for instance in an old house), the printer current consumption can cause a voltage drop on nearby circuits, and this voltage drop can in turn trigger the UPS.
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by nbernard 3y ago
You took the wrong column (the amount to be repaid is €31,000) but your point remains valid. (Moreover, it is often paid by the employer who wants to recruit a student just after graduation.)
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by nbernard 3y ago
On the other hand, you risk considering a whole tool class as not very useful, when actually it is just that the one you own is crap...
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by nbernard 3y ago
Interesting. Do you know if that is due to constraints coming from ABCL running on a JVM, or is it an arbitrary choice ? (By contrast, SBCL on a x86_64 laptop returns 4611686018427387903...)
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by nbernard 3y ago
There is more or less the same issue in academia. Once (hyper)-specialized on some micro-topic, it becomes quite hard (due to workload and pressure to publish) to switch to something else.
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by nbernard 3y ago
> the [N9] or its software was so slow it was almost unusable. If I had paid full price for mine I would have been pissed. Maybe you should have paid full price... ;) I believe the one you got had some defect. I used a N9 (daily driver)
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by nbernard 3y ago
Exactly. "Improvise, adapt, and overcome" could be a definition of "Système D".
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by nbernard 4y ago
Maybe. According to [0], the price of an airplane ticket sold in France is 60% taxes... [0]: https://www.lefigaro.fr/voyages/billets-de-train-et-d-avion-...
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by nbernard 4y ago
> There is no such thing as computers without programming. But there is computer science not applied to computers: Operations research for instance is basically a branch of CS: it is not about programming and it has applications in busin
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by nbernard 4y ago
> SG tubes are basically disposable once opened, since they'll be useless when they glue themselves shut or crust up. You can greatly extend their lifetime by storing them in the freezer. The metal ones then die by leaking once you
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by nbernard 4y ago
Not really. Even Word for Windows and Word for Mac don't always render them identically, and in Office 365 it may be something else! And when you add LibreOffice Writer and the like into the equation, all bets are off.
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by nbernard 4y ago
For those who have not heard of the "MiSTer FPGA gaming system" before: "MiSTer is an open project that aims to recreate various classic computers, game consoles and arcade machines, using modern hardware. It allows software
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by nbernard 4y ago
Do you have any reference/tutorial on how to do this?

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