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by stew-j 4y ago
It seems to me (having sworn to not ever publish another line of free software after many years of doing so) that a kind of serfdom has been established in free software similar to the one working directly for FAANG. The difference is free
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by stew-j 4y ago
Thanks! That is the right repo. If you want to use it, I hold the copyright and we could relicense it. "My kingdom for a voice" [1] or maybe "My kingdom for a horse" [2] we did post an item about it on the BRL-CAD maili
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by stew-j 4y ago
> I'm not sure why this appeared on HN Because it is more interesting than the use of ML in Bitcoin trading, for example, thanks for sharing it. ;) I don't know if you are still here answering questions, but I was wondering &qu
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by stew-j 4y ago
There's a flip side to reconsidering aviation--the choices we make as consumers. Since leaving the aircraft manufacturing industry over 20 years ago, I have flown on 3 flights at approximately 5000 miles total, all 3 of which I wish I
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by stew-j 4y ago
Our company wrote C++ and Ruby wrappers around BRL-CAD a number of years ago for scripted CAD, here is the tutorial for the radio example: https://mirrors.sarata.com/non-gnu/tovero/Tovero_tutorial.pd... We used it
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by stew-j 4y ago
Another link to the vacuum tube project: https://hackaday.com/2021/12/27/single-bit-computer-from-vac...
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by stew-j 4y ago
You might look at these: https://sigrok.org/wiki/Supported_hardware https://sigrok.org/wiki/Oscilloscope_comparison https://sigrok.org/wiki/Logic_analyzer_comparison etc.
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by stew-j 4y ago
You can remove the paper filter and clean up liquid spills--plumbing overflows, accidents in the kitchen, etc.
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by stew-j 4y ago
From the guide: > The original, and most iconic manufacturer of wet-dry vacuums, the privately held Shop-Vac Company, imploded and went out of business. A disappointing sign of the times, but luckily (so far) I've been able to find
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by stew-j 4y ago
What a great idea! There was also a sequel: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53692 I'll look into doing these, I also know a librarian who might be interested. I really can't believe Disney or Pixar, or some
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by stew-j 4y ago
My wife is an admin on the PG project. She puts in a lot of effort to keep the site secure. I think they welcome efforts like yours, and reuse is part of why they exist! They also research the copyrights, to make sure they are clear to s
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by stew-j 4y ago
I couldn't read the article either because of the paywall. As an anecdote, I remember when we lived in Colorado, they wouldn't allow collection of runoff from the roof of our house into barrels, e.g. for gardening, because that wa
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by stew-j 4y ago
I found this interesting book on Project Gutenberg, by L. Frank Baum of "The Wizard of Oz" fame, about a girl and her brother doing an aircraft startup around 1911: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Gir
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The Flying Girl(gutenberg.org)
5 points by stew-j 4y ago|1 comments