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Manufacturing. I have no idea where one would start with learning it that doesn't begin with having at least $100,000 in machinery and industry knowledge.
Python packages written in low-level languages like C/C++ and Rust. There are currently so many cool open source projects in the python ecosystem that involve writing python packages in low-level languages. But unfortunately, I've barely written any low-level code since university, so these projects are effectively out of reach for me at the moment. However, I do plan on learning Rust sometime later this year and the…
Making electronic music. Any recommendations for where to start?
The software you want is called a DAW - Digital Audio Workstation. There are 300 DAWs, you need to find the one that fits your 'style' or 'workflow'. There are a multitude of paradigms, as making music is not a single technique.
Once you find your DAW, my recommendation is to just make lots of music. Make the music you imagine in your head. Make the tracks that don't exist but you wish they did. Your first 100-200-300 tracks will all be extremely crappy in hindsight, but when you finish them you'll think they are, at the time, a magnum opus each. Keep iterating that process over and over and after many years, you'll start making something that you'll feel semi-proud enough to be able to show your friends!
This is a track I've done 11 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlkoEI4Sq7w&list=PL2xsoYcYFo...
and this is a newer track, released "only" 8 years ago:
https://soundcloud.com/flipbit03/twothousandseventeen-feat-m...
so you can definitely notice the difference of what 3 years of music making look like in terms of progress
GOOD LUCK!
I've wanted for years to take the research paper "Coq: The World's Best Macro Assembler" through several of its more and less obvious next steps, including re-implementing it on top of a formal specification of ARM (or RISC-V) machine code, and introducing a concept of virtual registers on top of a (light weight) register allocator. I really feel like there's a path here to a system in which low-level non-portable co…
Python packages written in low-level languages like C/C++ and Rust. There are currently so many cool open source projects in the python ecosystem that involve writing python packages in low-level languages. But unfortunately, I've barely written any low-level code since university, so these projects are effectively out of reach for me at the moment. However, I do plan on learning Rust sometime later this year and the…
C is not as hard to get into as you might think, and probably necessary to be at least a little bit comfortable with if you want to write Python libraries or understand Python internals. I would suggest Beej’s guide, if you’re looking for a place to start! https://beej.us/guide/bgc/
I did do some C in uni and I remember not finding it too terrible and actually pretty fun, but yeah, it does feel intimidating to come back to.
Python packages written in low-level languages like C/C++ and Rust. There are currently so many cool open source projects in the python ecosystem that involve writing python packages in low-level languages. But unfortunately, I've barely written any low-level code since university, so these projects are effectively out of reach for me at the moment. However, I do plan on learning Rust sometime later this year and the…
Do you have examples of such projects? I have some low-level language knowledge and might be interested in giving it a shot.
1) Revisiting one of my past projects, using Hashcash as a rate limiter. The original one I worked with was Camram/2 Penny Blue, which embedded proof-of-work tokens in an email message as an anti-spam method. It was the wrong solution, and proof-of-work tokens should be embedded in the protocol itself, which would enable dynamic pricing based on reputation. Why I'm not doing it: I'm not sure it would be accepted. I t…
I think the economic problem is that while there /may/ be overproduction during the day, the day is the only time other than early-mid evening when there is significant demand.
You would effectively be targeting the early-mid evening demand, assuming there was overproduction during the day, and with the current cost of batteries, their installation, and their replacement, I can't see the numbers working out.
I would love for battery prices to come down enough to make something like this possible though.