DriftRegion

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by DriftRegion 4d ago
Great writeup on an important topic. I like the NLnet/German Sovereign Tech fund model that has emerged in the last few years. Maintainers go and apply for funds from these disbursers. The disbursers are not a software registry, instea
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by DriftRegion 1mo ago
video: https://figshare.com/articles/media/Supplement_Number_1/2894...
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Modular Tracks for Magnetic Levitation(pubs.aip.org)
3 points by DriftRegion 1mo ago|1 comments
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by DriftRegion 4mo ago
This is the first time I've read an AI-heavy piece and stayed engaged with it all the way through. I think the author's sharing the prompts was key to that experience.
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by DriftRegion 4mo ago
See also: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/11/fqke-a11.html https://scabusa.org/featured-researcher-bio/2024-Poster-Winn... https://www.idsnews.com/arti
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by DriftRegion 5mo ago
Thanks, I enjoyed that.
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Kola Superdeep Borehole(davidsmythe.org)
2 points by DriftRegion 7mo ago|0 comments
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by DriftRegion 8mo ago
Writing unit tests is futile exercise without a specification. The software under test is always modeling something -- business logic, a communications protocol, a control algorithm, a standard, etc. Behind each of those things is a specifi
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Segmented Turning Designer(cdelker.bitbucket.io)
1 points by DriftRegion 8mo ago|0 comments
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by DriftRegion 10mo ago
The problem is management. Managing bilingual teams is challenging. See also: TSMC in Phoenix https://www.reddit.com/r/Semiconductors/comments/1m96m4f/my_...
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by DriftRegion 11mo ago
I found the linked article to be difficult to follow. Vacliv Smil wrote a book called Energy and Civilization (2017) in which he argues that the ability to harness energy is what makes civilizations thrive and enables the production of cult
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by DriftRegion 1y ago
Thanks for sharing. As a non-google bazel user this is quite helpful.
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by DriftRegion 1y ago
Start with the question: what is the problem that you want to solve? Next, find codebases that solve that problem and study how they do it. Good design is so deeply tied to the domain details. Wonham's Internal Model Principle applies
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by DriftRegion 1y ago
NASA branded things have been big in China since as early as 2019, peaking in 2021. https://fashion.sina.cn/s/fo/2019-04-28/detail-ihvhiqax54682... https://www.zhihu.com/question/33749455
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by DriftRegion 1y ago
Mapping escape to caps-lock makes much more sense after looking at the ADM-3A keyboard layout. Cool write-up!
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by DriftRegion 2y ago
I just finished reading this one. It was fantastic. I particularly enjoyed the spicy editorial excerpts from The Electrician ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electrician ).
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by DriftRegion 2y ago
This is a wonderfully concise description of why software testing, especially GUI testing is cursed by dimensionality. Type checking, borrow checking, invariants, hell even MISRA rules are all constraints imposed to reduce unmanaged state i
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by DriftRegion 2y ago
"if we're adding time to the clock, it means that the team thinks that there might be a possibility that they can sort it out"
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by DriftRegion 2y ago
Anyone know more about the payload? Here's what I've found: It's carrying the "Blue Ring Pathfinder Payload", part of the "Dark-Sky 1 Mission" > Dark-Sky 1 is jointly funded by DIU and Blue Origin. [5]
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by DriftRegion 2y ago
I've had a couple of experiences in the past month where I do respond to the enthusiastic sales engineer's check-in with a genuine product question, only to receive an immediate, lengthy, and subtly wrong LLM generated response.
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by DriftRegion 2y ago
> By all appearances, it just seems like an absolute no brainer....I really dont get it I understand the policy around hydrogen (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law allocated $8 billion to hydrogen production) as a technological pivot for the
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by DriftRegion 2y ago
The article writes: > they had not asked me to explain git, they had asked me to explain GitHub This is often the case for me as well. Hey, at least git owns it by calling the shell commands "porcelain" (with git itself being t
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by DriftRegion 2y ago
> Remember than when the AIDS epidemic broke out. The doctors and labs didn’t help much. People took things in their own hands and tried stuff, and in the end, they found things that worked. What? how did people take things into their ow
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by DriftRegion 2y ago
Hydrogen electrolyzers perhaps makes sense as a backup load: something that can be turned on when there's too much electricity production (as is increasingly the case in renewable-heavy grids). But then what to do with the hydrogen? Fe
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by DriftRegion 2y ago
I like that the microarch names -- Yanqihu (雁栖湖), Nanhu (南湖), and Kunminghu (昆明湖) -- are lake-themed. Coffee lake? Skylake? no, Kunming lake. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_codenames
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by DriftRegion 2y ago
Hi, source?
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The Journey of HyperPhysics [video](youtube.com)
3 points by DriftRegion 2y ago|0 comments
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by DriftRegion 2y ago
The Obrist Zero Vibration Generator is exactly that: reimagining ICE tailored to series hybrid application. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0s5Du7qrPoM https://www.obrist.at/powertrain/components/
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by DriftRegion 2y ago
The two uses of mecanum wheels are: 1. rolling on clean flat surfaces and 2. nerd-sniping.
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by DriftRegion 2y ago
this is nice. I love the scale layout

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