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by wlievens 10y ago
Reminds me of ditaa which is also pretty awesome. I even use it in an (internal) production tooo to generate a manual.
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by wlievens 10y ago
Actually I use a tool similar to this (ditaa) to generate drawings in an automatically generated reference manual frop ascii code diagrams in source code. There's definitely a good use for it.
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by wlievens 10y ago
I find that on pet projects I almost never learn new tools. I tend to have an idea that I want to try out, and I use the tech I know to get there quickly. It feels a bit sad, I must admit.
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by wlievens 10y ago
Did you read Schild's Ladder? It's basically about quantum cellular automata consuming the galaxy.
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by wlievens 10y ago
I've had such a situation and we were lucky that we had written software that makes dealing with embarassingly parallel problems embarassingly scalable.
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by wlievens 10y ago
So can you go vote near your workplace instead of near your home? In Belgium we have to vote at a designated location (almost always a school building) but it's on a Sunday.
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by wlievens 10y ago
Problem with that kind of setup is that if you unexpectedly need to scale out of that, you haven't done any of the work required to do that, and you're stuck.
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by wlievens 10y ago
I obviously agree.
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by wlievens 10y ago
In a follow-up post, he explained that his missions concerned tracking suspected war criminals and delivering them to war crimes courts. Does that change your view in any way?
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by wlievens 10y ago
What he probably means is that it's not (just) happening to people who are so badly addicted that an overdose is a likely conclusion in any case.
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by wlievens 10y ago
Is that Luc Steels you are referring to? I took a couple classes from him at uni a little over tem years ago. What is he doing lately that you refer to?
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by wlievens 10y ago
Who says they have poles? Maybe they only have austrians and hungarians.
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by wlievens 10y ago
Extensibility from C isn't there for people to accelerate their slow code, it's much rather there to cooperate with existing libraries, and C is the lowest common denominator there.
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by wlievens 10y ago
> That didn't happen Actually ARM's stock went x10 in six years time. Having Apple as a key customer was no small part of that.
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by wlievens 10y ago
You're sort of cheating in that example as a big chunk of that growth is from the acquiston offer and not organic. But still, good move and your point stands. I took a position in ARM (my former employer) again half a year ago, too bad
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by wlievens 10y ago
So true, and it's often even worse in that you get peppered with ads of stuff you already bought.
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by wlievens 10y ago
The screen pixels or the camera pixels?
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by wlievens 10y ago
I'm a generalist, and while I enjoy working with new technologies I no longer get a kick out of knowing every itty bitty detail inside out. I've worked in several industries in engineering roles (compiler design, geographic inform
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by wlievens 10y ago
The screen would be in the way?
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by wlievens 10y ago
That's actually the impression I get at my company too.
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by wlievens 10y ago
Giving the machine a camera and wheels is basically embedding it in the real world. It goes against the spirit of my question, and since I was asking it skeptically it's actually the thing I intuitively (without any relevant expertise!
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by wlievens 10y ago
If you like pcg maps, have a giggle at my pirate-themed maps and the awful js code behind it. https://github.com/wlievens/scallywag
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by wlievens 10y ago
So a related question becomes, can you learn to understand and thus predict physics (the way a child does - I'm not talking about quantum mechanics) from literature only, without interacting in space?
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by wlievens 10y ago
A very vague comment but here goes: IIRC Italy is a pretty significant partner in ESA projects, maybe there are some interesting challenges in that space?
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by wlievens 10y ago
MorningLightMountain!
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by wlievens 10y ago
> Packaging is always the expensive part of optics That's not always true, it depends on the die size. Bigger dies often means lower wafer yield for optical sensors.
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by wlievens 10y ago
The web is dark and full of errors.
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by wlievens 10y ago
It's 40% above the current market cap.
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by wlievens 10y ago
If you don't intend to sell antytime soon, that's not si very important
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by wlievens 10y ago
LabVIEW would be one, though I'm by no means a fan of it.

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