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Why don't the "In my country" posters ever name the country

I am certainly in the minority and I do live with it. Things like motion sensor lights, faucets that turn off so quickly that you have to hold your hands in weird position to wash …

Yes there are a bunch of terrible ideas in this thread. Video camera controlled lights? Yes f privacy of everyone to save a few bucks? well I think that was sarcastic Motion contro…

Can we please ban university press releases

Statecharts are one of the those concepts that are extremely useful for machine control that it seems crazy to me that they are so little adopted from what I have seen. At most peo…

There were so many things that NI did that were great. Debugging in LabVIEW was also very easy with probes, conditional breakpoints etc. It's really too bad that it's more or less …

I am sure they each personally researched the topic very thoroughly to come to this conclusion

What if they have a bunch of prerecorded data for the guys heart, then use a lock in amplifier to see if there is a signal in the noise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock-in_amplif…

You're right but still, big error. I get its averaging over the range, and the floats are not uniformly distributed. Maybe the thing to optimize the expression for is the minimize …

You're right I misread the graph. That said though I have played around with Herbie before, trying it out on a few of the more gnarly expressions I had in my code (analytical parti…

How useful is this when you are using numbers in a reasonable range, like 10^-12 to 10^12? Generally I try to scale my numbers to be in this range, whether by picking the right uni…

The rocket company I worked at designed their orbital rocket in inches and lbm. Engine flow rates in lbm/s, temperatures in deg Rankine, thrust in lbf. Btu/hour/inch^2/degR heat tr…

I miss fuckedcompany.com

How is that working out, genuinely curious

I don't think they even had a way to do dc-dc voltage step-up and step-down at high power and efficiency, needed semiconductors for that to do high speed switching in buck and boos…

Awesome, I learned something about optics! I was afraid this was going to be about Haskell

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I haven't ever experienced this yet, what packages were involved?

LabVIEW FPGA was amazing, I did all kinds of things with it on the compactRIO controller FPGA You can write very neat and tidy code with dataflow diagram languages. I did it profes…

They like to say things like that or some version of "we want to teach the concepts, the specific technology changes too fast". Does it? Just seems lazy to me.

I on the other hand can't stand PDFs. They take up valuable screen space, it is annoying to scroll to the sections you need. Yeah yeah some PDFs have the side navigation thing. Mos…

Rockets have flown to orbit on auto coded simulink, seen it myself

Would love to see a language in which hierarchical state machines, math/linear algebra, I/O to sensors and actuators, and time/timing were first class citizens. Mainly for programm…

When I was a kid in Italy in the late 80s early 90s the elentary school teachers also did "interrogazione" at the blackboard. That is individual kids would go up to the blackboard …

So 12% of the population pays it? So more of a tax on the professional, works for a living, upper middle class?