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   Linus Torvalds: “GitHub creates useless garbage merges”(lore.kernel.org)

   181 points by wedesoft 5y ago|102 comments
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   by wedesoft 5y ago

   Ah, I see. Not so sure myself now.
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   by wedesoft 5y ago

   Orbiter 2016 is a brilliant game. I am currently trying to do a small space simulator in Clojure ( https://github.com/wedesoft/sfsim25 ) and I probably should take a look at the Orbiter source code.
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   by wedesoft 5y ago

   I think you meant to say "pointing the nose to the space station in 50 km and applying thrust towards it turns out to be a sure way to NOT get to that station" Edited: made mistake as well ;)
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   by wedesoft 5y ago

   The James-Webb telescope is supposed to launch this year: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/webb/main/index.html
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   by wedesoft 5y ago

   You can just use "(clojure.main/repl)" to start a repl with environment in your code.
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   by wedesoft 5y ago

   Yes, I also was confused because this Pixie [1] already is open source. [1]: https://pixielang.org/
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   by wedesoft 5y ago

   We are using Mumble ( https://www.mumble.info/ ) to be able to hear your colleagues the whole day. When I need to focus more, I go to a virtual office in Mumble.
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   by wedesoft 5y ago

   Microsoft tried to spread FUD about Linux patents and by trying to scare the industry into buying patent licenses from Novell (which had acquired SuSE).
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    by wedesoft 6y ago

    In math you can prove statements given a set of axioms. But in physics you can just validate things with experiments.
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    by wedesoft 6y ago

    Clojure code is more dense, but once you stop trying to read as many LOC per minute as you would in other languages you are fine. Also the increased use of pure functions and immutable datastructures makes it easier to reason about code.
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    A Chat with Andrew on MLOps: From Model-Centric to Data-Centric AI [video](youtube.com)

    2 points by wedesoft 6y ago|0 comments
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    by wedesoft 6y ago

    I used the PulseAudio simple API only to find out that it didn't work. Only when I changed to the normal API it started working.
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    by wedesoft 6y ago

    Did you use transactions? I noticed a significant performance increase after wrapping blocks of queries with BEGIN TRANSACTION and COMMIT TRANSACTION.
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    by wedesoft 6y ago

    Worked at an optics company and they were spoiling lenses until someone discovered that Excel was rounding values to two digits after the comma (financial rounding).
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    The Future of Programming Languages at the Confluence of Paradigms [video](youtube.com)

    1 points by wedesoft 6y ago|0 comments
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    by wedesoft 6y ago

    I am not sure which link you mean. Glen's Mealmaster archive is here: http://thehoseys.org/buster/recipes.html
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    by wedesoft 6y ago

    Looks like the recipe ingredients are not structured any further. That means that it is going to be difficult to extract amount and unit from the text.
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    by wedesoft 6y ago

    Back then I tried to implement that, but if I tell it, that I have no water, it ruled out many recipes. If I told it, I had water, it suggested coffee or tea.
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    by wedesoft 6y ago

    PS: I have played with robots a bit myself: https://github.com/wedesoft/arduino-sainsmart
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    by wedesoft 6y ago

    An ingredient continuation line has to start with a "-". Otherwise the software can't recognise it. There is no intelligence in the parser.
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    by wedesoft 6y ago

    Ok, I wish you success with your endeavour. Sounds like a really futuristic project :) Thanks for the project list. I was only aware of Moley robotics.
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    by wedesoft 6y ago

    Another thing I forgot to mention in the article is that I set up a Debian Sid Docker container in order to build a package to submit to the Debian developers. Hopefully I will find a sponsor soon so that it will eventually be available as
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    by wedesoft 6y ago

    Wow. Really? Do you have any videos of the robot to share?
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    by wedesoft 6y ago

    Thanks. I can take a look. That's interesting.
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    by wedesoft 6y ago

    The thing is, I don't have the copyrights. I just downloaded the recipes from Glen's MealMaster archive and imported it. But MealMaster is human readable text if you just want to look at the data.
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    by wedesoft 6y ago

    Not sure about Electron. You would probably still need the parser to be Flex/C for performance. Even using Flex and C it takes about half an hour to import 250000 recipes. Sorry that I haven't done a build for MacOS. But I don&#x2
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    by wedesoft 6y ago

    It is difficult to support more recipe formats because they are more generic than MealMaster. But I can take a look.
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    by wedesoft 6y ago

    That's an interesting article. Thanks for sharing. Maybe something more structured than MealMaster is required when programming a kitchen robot in the future ;)
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    by wedesoft 6y ago

    Thanks for your comment. Of course one can use a search engine for finding recipes. But using a recipe database one can perform ingredient searches and category searches more easily.