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by vnxli 6y ago
This is some cowboy engineering and i love it. totally shooting from the hip, but still finishing up with a nice long-form post. like other comments mentioned this is super impractical but that's not the point. building a robot finger
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by vnxli 6y ago
Why are so many people interested in markdown for notes? I've never used it before but HN seems really interested in note taking and in using markdown for note formatting. What does it offer that OneNote or Word doesnt?
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by vnxli 6y ago
The ASCII art that these folks did to set up their chapter headings was beautiful. I remember seeing them making huge block lettering, scenery, and even characters drawn in ASCII art just to give an intro to like a GameBoy game walkthrough.
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by vnxli 6y ago
> How does that follow? What right do you have to demand that things be manufactured in a particular way? They have every right to demand something be manufactured a specific way. The manufacturer doesn’t have to listen but the consumer
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by vnxli 6y ago
Email sent. Thanks! Sounds interesting
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by vnxli 6y ago
>The best books are bolded, the great ones are underlined, and my absolute favorites are in red. What does that even mean? What's the cutoff for best and great and favorite? Does anyone else find the language over the top? Like we&#
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by vnxli 6y ago
For us it's less about onboarding to the team and more of what tech do we need to develop for this product to meet client spec. I'm using it more as an organizational tool to structure which tasks need to be done sequentially (i.e
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by vnxli 6y ago
Sure, I'll do my best. My team is designing a new product for our company. We know what we want the end result to be, but we have several iterations to make on our current product to get there, and each iteration can branch through sev
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by vnxli 6y ago
How often are tech trees used in software development/ project management? I’m leading a hardware development project and I made a tech tree for my team- but I had only ever seen them in video games. Would love some professional exampl
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by vnxli 6y ago
Thank you for helping out and making that so easy to do. Much appreciated
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by vnxli 6y ago
The high-fidelity replication is much easier for things like industrial control systems (ICS)because all that needs to be replicated is the operator interfaces. Those interfaces are usually intentionally bland and typically dated - meaning
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by vnxli 6y ago
There's still a huge pursuit around this in most of manufacturing. Operational engineering groups are pushing for high fidelity digital twins to test out process control code before it hits the physical plant. The merge between simulat
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by vnxli 6y ago
Is the presentation this was delivered to recorded? I'd watch whatever lecture this was from.
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by vnxli 6y ago
I haven't seen anything in the LibreOffice suite but I'd like to see one too. Something like Joplin is the closest I've seen. But I'm on the hunt for something similar for my personal files
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by vnxli 7y ago
This looks great. Do you have a blog or something where you post updates? I'm going to write my next adventure segment here and see if it flows better than googledocs. This feels like an online OneNote tool but it's free and not o
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by vnxli 7y ago
That's the scary thing. He left it on social media and they went out and found it and used it against him. I 1000% agree with how you feel about it but this is a big issue when people go looking for someone's faults in their perso