rationalthug

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by rationalthug 3y ago
On my personal list of the top ten science fiction novels of the last twenty years. Still re-read it every now and then.
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by rationalthug 3y ago
Can you be more specific about how how her viewpoints create problems for you as a science educator? (I am speaking specifically about her content relevant to physics/particle physics/cosmology.) Generally, she is careful to point
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by rationalthug 5y ago
Aerospace specific software that goes to space or code that just happens to go to space as part of bigger projects? Here are a couple of the former: RTEMS https://www.rtems.org/ Core Flight System (cFS) https://g
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by rationalthug 7y ago
For those interested in CAN bus for UAVs, there is https://github.com/uavcan as well.
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by rationalthug 7y ago
For node, there is https://github.com/fluent-ffmpeg/node-fluent-ffmpeg .
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by rationalthug 8y ago
I’m curious to know if they ever looked at https://github.com/Microsoft/napajs from Microsoft or any other in-nodejs solutions to deal with the need for multithreading vs launching multiple processes...
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by rationalthug 8y ago
For anyone interested, here is a sampling of available ML libs in JavaScript. The first two, including tensorflow.js, are sub-libraries of the major ML projects, and the others are custom JS libs: [tensorflow.js]( https://github.c
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by rationalthug 10y ago
How does Cloud Functions for Firebase handle node modules with native code add-ons?
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by rationalthug 10y ago
You do realize that Python was not only built to appeal to "non-devs" as well ad devs but, does, in fact, enjoy some of its strongest support from them- scientists, engineers, statisticians, etc., who do not consider themselves to
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by rationalthug 11y ago
Depending on your use case, you can also use ES6 features on AWS Lambda by embedding another node version in your zip package. You then use the lambda supported version of node to launch/bootstrap your chosen version when the lambda fu
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by rationalthug 11y ago
On a somewhat interesting note: transferable objects work similarly in web workers. There have been complaints, of course, that this makes it impossible to take advantage of shared memory in cases where it provides clear performance benefit
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by rationalthug 12y ago
I think this is the best article I've read about stream processing yet. Love how all of the related concepts are tied together and how concepts in one form of stream processing naturally fall out of the structure preferred in another f
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by rationalthug 12y ago
The author's terrorism concerns are way overblown and the reasoning supporting them specious, but there is a more basic issue with hypersonic point-to-point transportation systems outside of the additional arguments related to current
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by rationalthug 12y ago
In a similar way, a separate marketing tech team can also create tension with the rest of the developers when marketing gains control over various parts of a site/service due to clear success in moving the revenue needle. There's
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by rationalthug 12y ago
Great work. This is exactly what I had been idly wondering about yesterday as I was setting up a new project that uses PM2. Does this obviate the need for pm2-interface, or will that project still be developed with a focus on the RPC angle?
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by rationalthug 12y ago
There's also http://appleseedhq.net
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by rationalthug 12y ago
How does the binary support/performance and streaming support (with socket.io-stream) compare to other web socket libs like https://github.com/binaryjs/binaryjs , https://github.com/einaros/ws
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by rationalthug 12y ago
I already commented on a different thread about the Flux architecture, but I'll state it again here: Flux seems like a slightly more constrained, perhaps less effective way of doing the same kinds of things that state machines do. Is t
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by rationalthug 12y ago
After reading the above article, I can see how Facebook ended up with their current approach, but it seems to me that Flux is a roundabout and possibly inferior way of using state machines to organize application logic and user interface co
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by rationalthug 12y ago
This is fantastic. I've been reading through bunches of patents lately doing research for a project and this actually made laugh out loud.
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by rationalthug 13y ago
Why do authors and publishers of articles like this, which invariably turn out to be about medical knowledge/studies/research, resort to using the misleading, incredibly broad word "Science" in their titles? All of &quot
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by rationalthug 13y ago
While cutting time in the air by half may not make a fundamental difference, cutting it by five or six times could. Point-to-point sub-orbital services have the potential to do this, though there are challenges for this type of flight that
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by rationalthug 14y ago
Nicely done. 3D Product previews seem like a good use of CSS transforms.
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by rationalthug 15y ago
I had a negative reaction when I first saw the string literal syntax, but after reading through your docs I can see the appeal. Using the Harmony syntax seems like it could be a big win. RequireJS is the module loader I currently use, but I
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by rationalthug 15y ago
But it's unclear if this is what "everyone else" wants as well. The most interesting group, I think, is not the mostly tech-illiterate who want to store their garden pictures and videos in the cloud, nor the tech-elite who are willing to tr
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by rationalthug 15y ago
I'm almost ashamed to admit I'd never heard of either of these before. Will definitely check them out.
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by rationalthug 15y ago
Cool. I'd guess that SEO/SEM for a domain name business would be incredibly important, but I could be wrong, and your real-life experience would be interesting.
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by rationalthug 15y ago
I use TrueCrypt on my Dropbox volume, but it really would be nice to have an integrated solution. Many non-technical users may not realize they care about this, but they do.
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by rationalthug 15y ago
I suppose a next step would be to perform a brain scan before someone starts using Facebook, then several over the course of their subsequent use. The researchers would obviously need to do their best to control for confounding factors, but
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by rationalthug 15y ago
Great list of bootstrapping advice. You haven't included a section on pricing, though, and I'm curious what quirks, problems and insights you've encountered. It seems as though the domain name business might have some unique challenges for

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