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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 in…

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 …

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 usef…

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…

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 nea…

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 …

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…

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'…

Hey, that's a really cool idea! Using an asteroid as its own propellant.

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 i…

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 fi…

The is the operating system that I always wanted to make, without having the time or talent to pull it off. Just wonderful.

Some folks have already moved on to a lost PLA casting process. I've seen some pretty decent results. http://3dtopo.com/lostPLA/

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 ha…

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 net…

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 dyna…

I'm excited about cadquery for this reason. It's a Python library. https://github.com/dcowden/cadquery

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 w…

Very odd placement, but the code examples are posted under "screenshots".

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 genuin…

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

If they think you're a crook from the outset, their hypothetical future confidence is not worth the effort.

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 …