jolhoeft

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by jolhoeft 9mo ago
A cautionary warning about AI I'm starting to use is, "make sure you aren't taking a forklift to the gym". Getting heavy objects of the ground is vastly easier with mechanical assistance, but doing so completely misses t
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by jolhoeft 7y ago
Is there a link to the maintainer discussion?
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by jolhoeft 10y ago
I'm curious how you are using 3-D printing for an electric motor. Most of the key components, steel laminations, copper windings, magnets, commutator and brushes (if you are going old school :-) ) don't lend themselves to 3-D prin
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by jolhoeft 10y ago
I actually did this a lot when I was designing electric motors. One detail the original article didn't note, is the 39th root of 92 is very close to the 6th root of 2, off by half a percent. This makes scaling for voltage changes simpl
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by jolhoeft 10y ago
Ugh, yes. The inheritance tree is just a line, of 4 or more segments. interface -> abstract -> base -> TheOnlyImplementationInstantiated Repeat for a couple more chains, and one line bug fixes require visiting a dozen files
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by jolhoeft 11y ago
The classic example of this is ultramarine blue in the Renaissance. Typically cost three times its weight in gold. Painters often had to have their patrons supply the ultramarine if they wanted blue in their painting. Having a very blue pai
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by jolhoeft 11y ago
I wonder what the direction of causation is. Perhaps the issue is not the cool, thoughtful, and kind are pushed out of the forums, but they are successful in engaging people on a personal level and are less motivated to go public. The obnox
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by jolhoeft 12y ago
A good movie, and the only movie I've seen in 3D that benefited from 3D. You can see how the painters used the shape of the walls in their painting.
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by jolhoeft 14y ago
Put it in a freezer grade zip-lock bag. Works fine with buttons to turn pages. Not as sure about touch screens.
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by jolhoeft 16y ago
A while back as I was meandering through my history readings, I noticed that most of the philosophers, sages, and artists of ancient Athens weren't from Athens. I didn't actually follow that up with a study to confirm it, but I can't help b
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by jolhoeft 16y ago
I sculpt in stone as a hobby. I'd heard that quote, or variations of it, before I started, and just regarded it as a clever quip artists make. Not really a reflection of the process of carving, which would be much more detailed and painstak
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by jolhoeft 17y ago
Well, he notes in the linked talk that "use strict;" and "use warnings;" will be the default in Perl 6. The fact that your goal is to Huffman encode the language design doesn't mean you'll always succeed. Things change over time. Initially,
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by jolhoeft 18y ago
To your last question, convenience. Being able to carry around in a single 10 oz device an entire library is quite handy for those of us who don't know what we want to read. Or anticipate wanting to read several books on a trip. I don't hav
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by jolhoeft 18y ago
And interestingly, Apple isn't selling synchronization. They are selling products that use it, but only mention in passing the synchronization. Synchronization isn't a product, it is something you need for certain products.