cartoonfoxes

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by cartoonfoxes 4mo ago
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
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by cartoonfoxes 6mo ago
And yet my licensed Visual Studio 2026 that's supposed to be for serious-face commercial development is rife with Copilot. > You may stop using Copilot at any time. But how? Microsoft has shoved it into so many products that I don&#
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by cartoonfoxes 1y ago
Some of what I learned from a decade of keeping up with the perfusion of JS libraries and frameworks seems relevant to AI: - anything with good enough adoption is good enough (unless I'm an SME to judge directly) - build something with
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by cartoonfoxes 2y ago
Try the "Paste as plain text" tool in PowerToys - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/advanced... .
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by cartoonfoxes 2y ago
Every time I start playing Factorio it's always a matter of time before I'm trying to figure out how to solve factories with VHDL and how to interface Magic VLSI with the game's blueprints. From there it's another day or
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by cartoonfoxes 2y ago
The industrial hubs I'm familar with use optoisolators to separate the host and attached devices, I think. Advantech has a USB-3 version (P/N USB-4630), but I can't speak to these personally.
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by cartoonfoxes 2y ago
Absolutley. In a hardware-development context, we use them to stop frying computers with broken devices. I've had good experience with the BB-UHR304 from Advantech. They're expensive and occasionally sacrificial, but cheaper than
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by cartoonfoxes 3y ago
HN has a high concentration of above-average salaries, even within the US. It's tough constantly hearing how many multiples more my southern equivalent at FAANG is earning without it affecting my sense of self worth.
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by cartoonfoxes 3y ago
I've always just used the palm of my hand. You can work a keyboard with more surfaces than just your fingertips.
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by cartoonfoxes 3y ago
Most definitely. I've been playing with using ChatGPT to generate proof texts in Isabelle/HOL, since it lets me verify the correctness of the output before code generation.
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
After receiving an aggressive call from Embarcadro's license compliance team for installing Delphi "Community Edition" registered with a personal email address, on a personal laptop, to the effect that I could not use it beca
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
If its furniture you're thinking of - people want custom hand-made things now, they just can't afford them. That trend isn't going to change with increased automation.
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
NIF is still doing fusion research? I thought they pivoted to materials research in support of stockpile stewardship years ago.
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
I'm aware of it, and I'm not aware of anyone using it for proprietary software in the kinds of projects where Ada would come up in discussion. FSF GNAT + Alire are fine as a hobbyist toy and for open source, but they're not i
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
Same here. I keep eyeing Ada and waiting for the compiler prices to drop.
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
I recently learned of Dysgraphia from an interview with Eric Weinstein. For some, writing notes on paper actively destroys recall. Western education pretty much forces students to take notes by hand, which is understandably a nightmare for
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
>As a developer, the only reason to use Windows today is if you need Visual Studio for .NET development. What do you mean by developer? Lots of embedded systems and industrial automation development is Windows-only, as a random example.
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
Early history of artificial intelligence research, maybe MIT CSAIL specifically? https://projects.csail.mit.edu/films/aifilms/AIFilms.html There were a few decades of research into symbolic AI and expert systems -
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
BRL-CAD is CSG instead of B-rep geometry. Different use-case.
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
>Every new hire In what industry?
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
Here's a modern example of a Jig Grinder. https://mooretool.com/jig_grinders.html
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
Currently, I'm not currently working in a dedicated modeling tool at all - just draw.io. We started with Enterprise Architect from SparxSystems - it's a bit janky and covers a lot stuff beyond SysML, but it works fine. Cameo Syste
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
Despite being mostly a subset of UML, SysML is a more cohesive and useful design and modeling tool. Unlike UML, I've actually used SysML on real embedded systems projects and like it. It lends itself well to model refinement, wheras UM
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
You sure? For a cloud-hosted app like Fusion/360 I would expect that you're only entitled to 3 years of access to PRODUCT_NAME/CURRENT_BUILD, without an option to rollback to older versions (eg. at time of purchase) on reques
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
With a fat EULA attached. Insert obligatory definition of product applies to current billing period only, Autodesk reserves the right to add or remove functionality without notice
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
No-one in these spaces was using Fusion/360 to begin with. Aero and defense are mostly CATIA 5 and Pro/ENGINEER (Creo), with offline PDM.
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
Inventor is their direct competitor to Solidworks, which afaik can still be run offline.
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
Lately? Autodesk has been a user-hostile company for a long time.
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
When working with the huge amounts of embedded silicon that is supported by C libraries and toolchains only.
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
It does, or ignorant at the least. All the auto manufacturers use clay, not just for Italian sportscars. Automotive technical surfacing in CAD is stupid hard, and is a waste of time for the design staff. The clay models are easier to work

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