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by Sodel 3y ago
Very interesting indeed. This reminds me of a (relatively) recent standard for distributed industrial process control. For industrial process control, the IEC-61499 [1] standard introduces an architecture where the program and its function
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by Sodel 3y ago
I mostly agree with your points except to say that, even if Oracle is not active in the project, the risk is real as long as Oracle owns any of the copyright for any ZFS code. The USL vs BSDi litigation over BSD ultimately came down to a ha
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by Sodel 6y ago
Someone will probably need to correct me, but here's how I understand it. Proteins naturally fold into a shape where they have the lowest "potential energy". There are several useful metaphors to explain what "lowest pot
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by Sodel 10y ago
I've got two hobby projects on the go. I'm building a steam power plant simulator for students and trainees that won't cost upwards of $100K for a site license. It also has a plant builder interface, which lets anyone place a
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by Sodel 11y ago
First of all, I love this. One nagging thing in my mind, though, is how easy it seems it would be for a Three-Letter Agency to backdoor LE to pieces. Then again, I guess that's nearly just as true for any CA out there. (I don't me
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by Sodel 11y ago
You appear to be assuming (not being a mind-reader, whether you actually are or not is of course unknown to me) that QNX would automatically be used in server farms if it was high throughput; and, since it's not visibly used there, it
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by Sodel 11y ago
From that article, I get the impression that the 6-month limit only applies to direct submission of prior art to the Patent Office. Patents can still be invalidated by prior art in court.
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by Sodel 11y ago
One friend of mine essentially refused to take breaks after school. He'd get home and immediately start working on the day's homework. It would frequently take him until after 9 o'clock to finish up work that shouldn't h
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by Sodel 11y ago
Hey, that's a really cool idea! Using an asteroid as its own propellant.
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by Sodel 11y ago
Agreed. Posix xargs is bafflingly inane. GNU xargs, at least, supports `xargs -d '\n'` to regain some line-oriented sanity. I prefer to use GNU parallel these days, though, since it's line-oriented by default and a bit more e
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by Sodel 11y ago
Sorry if this is pedantic, but actually: find . | grep 'abc' === find . -name '*abc*' find . | grep -i 'abc' === find . -iname '*abc*' The -name and -iname options do a verbatim file nam
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by Sodel 11y ago
The is the operating system that I always wanted to make, without having the time or talent to pull it off. Just wonderful.
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by Sodel 11y ago
Some folks have already moved on to a lost PLA casting process. I've seen some pretty decent results. http://3dtopo.com/lostPLA/
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by Sodel 11y ago
I was lucky enough to get a tour of their facility last June. One half was assembling and testing the most colossal plasma injection guns, driven by the biggest capacitor bank I have ever seen in my life. The other half of the facility cont
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by Sodel 11y ago
Isn't this the definition of "unauthorized access", as far as the law is concerned? I'd be less uncomfortable if you had to deliberately choose which friends to share a certain network with. "Share with this person&
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by Sodel 11y ago
I recommend adding something about static type checking to the list at the top of Crystal's homepage. I saw "never have to specify the type of...", and believed it was another dynamically typed language. I actually didn'
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by Sodel 11y ago
I'm excited about cadquery for this reason. It's a Python library. https://github.com/dcowden/cadquery
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by Sodel 11y ago
I'd worry about the same thing. Government subsidy sure hasn't made education any less expensive. (Education and public housing aren't quite the same thing, I know, but I'd still want to see some active work to prevent t
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by Sodel 11y ago
Very odd placement, but the code examples are posted under "screenshots".
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by Sodel 11y ago
First off, thank you for mentioning Cadquery and Verb. I've never heard of either, and they're both interesting. Cadquery in particular looks very promising. Solvespace is a genuine joy to use. If making chamfers, path-based opera
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by Sodel 13y ago
This tutorial fits the bill, and it's not too long. I worked through it when I was first learning C. http://www.osdever.net/bkerndev/Docs/intro.htm
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Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers(dadgum.com)
1 points by Sodel 13y ago|0 comments
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by Sodel 13y ago
If they think you're a crook from the outset, their hypothetical future confidence is not worth the effort.
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by Sodel 13y ago
If hard work in excess happens to be one of the reasons you find it hard to get up in the morning, you may confidently disregard this post. It is not meant for you; if it actually is meant for those sorts (I am not the author), it shouldn't
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by Sodel 13y ago
I've started running tmux in all my terminals automatically, and conveniently sharing a "master" session between them all. Instead of running tmux directly, I have a small script which creates a session named TMUX-MASTER if it doesn't alrea
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by Sodel 13y ago
> At 200/hr, if you gross 400K they're taking 60K? Are they really providing 60K worth of service? It depends on what you would have been making without their help. If you otherwise would have made any less than $280K that year, they
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by Sodel 13y ago
> I really can't believe you referred to a student as a client. It just feels to me completely against the spirit of education. Actually, I can completely understand why the OP would say something like this, and I can see the value in i
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by Sodel 14y ago
I won't pretend to be an authority on aesthetics, but GoDaddy's site doesn't seem to be quite the aberration against reason that this post seems to describe. Granted, I have no account with GoDaddy, so it may well look different when logged
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Inline-crypt.el: simple inline AES encryption for emacs(github.com)
2 points by Sodel 14y ago|0 comments
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by Sodel 14y ago
Well, Woz is involved, and he seems optimistic.

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