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I get the feeling that labview was very big in the 00s but has been losing a lot of steam in the last 10 years or so, maybe because of failure to modernize. Labview today feels and…

There are ocasionally Nim talks at FOSDEM.

They had stopped for a while because they were transitioning away from using Paypal as a processor. A few weeks, maybe a month or so tops? I had to switch to JLC PCB for an order b…

In case anyone is interested, I enjoyed the book "Turn the Ship Around!" by L. David Marquet, about management lessons applied by the author who was a US Navy submarine captain. It…

Agreed. Tex/Latex is very old tech. Error recovery and messages is very bad. Developing new macros in Tex is about as fun as you expect developing in a 70s-era language to be (ie p…

uv has mostly solved the python issue. IME it's dependency resolution is fast and just works. Packages are hard linked from a global cache, which also greatly reduces storage requi…

I mean, he absolutely knew it was going to burn up. But I have no trouble believing that such a circuit was designed by AI.

It's because aluminium has a higher coefficient of thermal expansion. It expands and shrinks more as it heats, and as those cycles add up it tends to loosen electrical connections.…

Just an idea but Nim seems to have the features you mentioned. Nim "transpiles" to C, and can even be compiled via `zig cc` (which is an interace to clang). If you really want to, …

As long as you keep the module and pressure angle the same, the gears should be compatible.

This is great! Any chance you could add STEP export also? It would facilitate importing into CAD software to customize the gear, eg to add a custom hub.

Typically, company would pay for a week or so of training if you don't have previous experience with the software. Once again, this isn't a huge expense compared to the license cos…

uv uses a global cache but hardlinks the dependencies for your script into a temp venv that is only for your script, so its still pretty fast.

Ansys also costs 5 digits per seat per year. My experience working at large size company that paid those sort of sums for a different FEA software is that we got an "application en…

Also this Nim library: https://github.com/nim-works/loony Which is based on: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9490347

Also wasn't the D compiler proprietary and a paid product for a long time after its initial release? No judgement against trying to monetize valuable work, but in this day and near…

> it is like C in that you can fit the whole language in your head. Sure, you can fit all of C in your head, including all the obscure footguns that can lead to UB: https://gist.gi…

Scoop ( https://scoop.sh/ ), a package manager for windows that is essential to make Windows usable for me. Sourcegit is my new favorite git client. Git in general, of course. Linu…

Unless things have changed, Amazon is the official and only reseller for Anker products in Canada and probably many other countries.

I've had a lot of fun using Nim for AOC for many years. Once you're familiar with the language and std lib, its almost as fast to write as python, but much faster (Nim compiles to …

Just as a fun fact, some of the largest tractors made these days actually rival F1 cars in horsepower output. John Deere 9RX goes up to 913 HP for example.

FWIW, I agree that Araq is an abrasive character and probably not a great community leader for an open source project. But I disagree with your take on the moderation team. I don't…

@[] is syntax for a "seq", which is similar to a C++ vector, ArrayList in Java/C#, or a python list. It's a heap-allocated array that automatically resizes. In contrast with [], wh…

The Netherlands Bach Society has actually started a huge project to produce high quality video recordings to all of Bach's catalogue. You can find the videos on their YT channel ( …