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by nrclark 9y ago
Statecharts are a very different beast than a traditional state machine. Putting together a good statechart implementation is a boatload of work.
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by nrclark 9y ago
I think that looks awesome! Makes me wish I was a JS programmer so I could try it out :)
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by nrclark 9y ago
Is there much in the way of FOSS statechart implementations? It's been a while since I looked into the ecosystem. I remember that the canonical one was always the Quantum framework, but I never wanted to deal with the licensing aspect
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by nrclark 9y ago
What's the revenue model for Alexa? I see all these companies designing Alexa integration into their IoT farting widget, often for uses that don't involve buying stuff from Amazon. Do manufacturers pay a license fee or something?
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by nrclark 9y ago
It could be a money thing. If the product is a "medical device", that means an extra 1000% markup. Look at hearing aids as a perfect example of this. And yes, it probably does slow down the pace of innovation significantly.
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by nrclark 9y ago
My work gave me one of the 2016 15" MBPs as my main computer, and the keyboard is horrible. My V key double-presses about half the time, and the rest of the keys are really hard to press down all the way. Some of the keys make a weird
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by nrclark 9y ago
To the best of my knowledge, there is no reliable way to test whether a driver is actively intoxicated from pot. Existing blood tests will tell you if a person has used it in the past week or two, but not whether they've used it in the
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by nrclark 9y ago
I always thought it was kind of fascinating to think about how much of Hell is actually early Catholic in origin. Most of the bible's descriptions of Hell come from the book of Revelation, which is basically just some guy's drug-t
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by nrclark 9y ago
No opinion on the surgery, but you might try a CPAP machine! I have a family member whose epiglottis was damaged in surgery, and she developed really bad sleep apnea as a result. It took her a solid year of being a zombie before she figured
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by nrclark 9y ago
interesting! In my California college town, greasy and greezy were both words that mean different things. 'Greasy' was burgers/fries/bike-chains, and 'greezy' was reserved for people like that 'uninvited b
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by nrclark 9y ago
How does the Wali part work? do you employ conversation reviewers? Does one dater recruit an outside person?
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by nrclark 9y ago
I actually did this exact thing in Verilog at a former employer, and got pretty good results (at least with the Xilinx toolchain). It just took some creative use of Verilog's 'function' construct. The basic structure was: 1.
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by nrclark 9y ago
I'd say go with Verilog. SystemVerilog 2013 and VHDL 2008 are competitive when it comes to synthesis features, but synthesis is only half of the story. SV's simulation features are really top-notch. If you're going to pick on
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by nrclark 10y ago
I assume 8k is the lot size (~0.2 acre)? I had a similar experience moving to Colorado from CA.
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by nrclark 10y ago
I'm pretty interested in the FPGA/DSP and firmware engineer jobs, and I'm based out of the Boulder, CO area. Any chance you'd consider hiring somebody into that office?
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by nrclark 10y ago
This is kind of a stupid question, but why not just use .rpm/dnf or .deb/apt and a custom repo?
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by nrclark 10y ago
Any chance we'll see a first-party X11 server at some point? XMing, VCXsrv, and Cygwin/X all have some warts when it comes to stuff like windows previewing, copy/paste, acceleration, and fonts. OS X has shipped with an option
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by nrclark 10y ago
Xming works, but it does have some warts (at least, on my machine YMMV). The three things that bug me most about it: 1. Copy/Paste between Windows and XMing is pretty dicey. Sometimes I have to do 2-3 copy or paste attempts before one
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by nrclark 10y ago
Adding an FPGA onto a desktop CPU probably doesn't speed up any existing benchmark tests, but it does have a lot of potential. At an ELI5 level, FPGAs are reconfigurable blocks of digital logic gates. So a CPU-connected chunk of FPGA f
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by nrclark 10y ago
You gain Rust's memory-safety, but also you gain all of its meta-programming facilities. Which means all those #define macros become a thing of the past.
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by nrclark 10y ago
Agreed that there isn't really any harm in a generalized way. You might be surprised to learn that movie theaters (as they're currently operated) don't really get much from the ticket sales, however. I have a friend who used
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by nrclark 10y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you suppose are the long-term effects of raising minimum wage? If you were a landlord managing an apartment building, how much do you charge for a unit? If all of your tenants suddenly make twice as much money as t
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by nrclark 10y ago
Got any advice for ways to bundle stuff written in Rust, Go, Ruby, or Node? All of these languages come with package-managers that encourage reusing packages from their respective ecosystems. I packaged a Github clone called Gogs (written
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by nrclark 10y ago
IIRC, that's true for the 'classic' transforming sound. The "wub---wub---wub--wub--wub-wub-wubwubwub" from every Michael Bay movie ever is a different story.
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by nrclark 10y ago
works great! That's what I've been doing for the past few years. IT is happy because my workstation is still Windows, and I'm happy because I can be autonomous. I'd definitely recommend VMWare over Virtualbox - it's
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by nrclark 10y ago
yep! Macports is awesome.
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by nrclark 10y ago
You should give Macports a try if you haven't already! I run it on my macbook, and it's made a world of difference. 99% of everything I use in Linux can be found in Macports, and it "just works" for the most part. You ca
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by nrclark 10y ago
It comes with practice in the field. After a few medium-size designs, you start to have some data-points for design-to-FPGA mappings. If you _really_ need to get close the first time, the only way is to mock up the design and synthesize it.
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by nrclark 10y ago
I still use macports! As for why, there are a couple of reasons. First, Macports is often the fastest at updating their ports database after new versions of an upstream are released. Next, I also like that Macports doesn't really rely
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by nrclark 10y ago
Could the decline be explained by the Hawthorne effect? It's been pretty well proven people behave differently when they know they're being studied. Being subjects in the study could have affected their behavior far more than the

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