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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? Micros…

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 (unle…

Try the "Paste as plain text" tool in PowerToys - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/advanced... .

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 bl…

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 …

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 expensi…

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 …

I've always just used the palm of my hand. You can work a keyboard with more surfaces than just your fingertips.

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.

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 lapto…

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.

NIF is still doing fusion research? I thought they pivoted to materials research in support of stockpile stewardship years 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 hobbyi…

Same here. I keep eyeing Ada and waiting for the compiler prices to drop.

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 …

>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 auto…

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…

BRL-CAD is CSG instead of B-rep geometry. Different use-case.

>Every new hire In what industry?

Here's a modern example of a Jig Grinder. https://mooretool.com/jig_grinders.html