I worked with QNX 4 at uni and we built a robot system based on 2-4 networked 486/Pentium CPU cards in a rack with it [1]. We fully used the OS to make our robot system both hard real-time and completely network based…
AND no dust, grime, etc. These tiny wheels get dirty and clog up pretty fast in human environments and then stop to work and need a good cleaning. Nice for demos but unsuitable for even normal research lab work. I hate…
Hmm, Kalkar, the only nuclear power plant I ever protested - in the late 70s when I was still in school and construction had just begun. It was finished in 85 but never even fueled due to safety concerns (liquid natrium…
> Philosophy at the end of the day is about arguing a point; it isn't about producing an aesthetic experience. I'd argue that point. Nietzsche's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) comes to my mind first.…
Erm, no, I don't think so. Can you give a source for that claim? Medieval wars were in general shorter, more regional, used much smaller forces and affected the civilian population less than in later ages. Of course it…
Athens-Sparta would be the Peloponnesian War, Punic wars were between Rome and Carthage. Sorry for the nitpick.
Hmm, but this is a very common problem particularly in history and archaeology and one that requires highly specialized expertise. Therefore almost always a modern unified calendar is used in new publications and the…
The term was also new to me. From [1] I understand it is a class of cryptocurrency scams starting by building a cordial relationship via social media or dating apps and then suggesting financial investment. [1]…
best OS I ever had the pleasure to work with
To the contrary there is very good evidence that we pull arbitrary explanations whenever needed. See Gazzaniga's split brain experiments where people gave all sorts of reasons when asked why they did something and just…
Since it is tidally locked around a low mass star, axial tilt should be near 0 and seasons should not exist [1]. Tidally locked also means much higher temperature than the estimated average (231K or -42C for the hotter…
Actually Apple had to find solutions to some of the problems you mention when they transitioned to OS X: * multiple resource forks can be presented as files in a directory, the directory having the name of the…
C programming - luckily in my opinion - has a culture of very rigorous evaluation of programming techniques especially towards memory-unsafe programming, arguably the biggest weakness of C as a programming language.…
Yes, it is even pretty much a design principle for newer board games [1]. It started to become popular with games like Settlers of Catan. [1] https://boardgamedesigncourse.com/making-a-comeback/
Backpropagation was probably the most important step, but there was also the issue of workable training methods for many-layer networks. Fukushima did some very important - but rarely mentioned - work about this…
that's the way some embedded control systems are designed. with some (many) errors (can't read/write) being fatal and shutting down the system after an alarm is sent.
Yes, it is derived from the saying. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabellumpistole
The programming language Occam, in its time the primary language to program Transputers, did not have operator precedence, so you had to use parentheses for anything. It was a huge pain, but probably still better than…
Completely agree, except I'd say physical electronic instruments have a lifetime of about 20-30 years now. Several synths I own are now non- or half-working because of fading displays, broken floppy drives, power…
The Apple II was hardwired to run on 60Hz AC and used a limited character set. Minimal hardware design has its downsides. In countries that run 50Hz AC games and other real-time software ran slower or had wrong timing.…
She gives very good advice for us non-designers though use color templates. They are available as book or webpage and by trying out just a handful that seem to fit your needs you can quickly get to a reasonably good…
Well, for rooms with actual tatami mats, you are not really interested in the area, but rather how many mats will fit. Thus, a 24m^2 (12 mat) room with the wrong aspect ratio will not fit 12 mats. (I'm using the 1 mat =…
I think for Windows Mobile, their persistence and slowness made them fail. They kept trying to improve Windows CE based systems (not going to list all the renames) which were a very poor base to build on. When they…
> You need to create a makefile to tell make what to do. Nope. You can say "make hello" and have make automatically use its default rules - which can be configured - to e.g. compile hello.c into a hello executable. I…
> How did Wagner justify his music in philosophical terms? Why did he even feel the need to justify it? What would such a justification look like? What would a competent justification look like? How can I identify a…
I worked with QNX 4 at uni and we built a robot system based on 2-4 networked 486/Pentium CPU cards in a rack with it [1]. We fully used the OS to make our robot system both hard real-time and completely network based…
AND no dust, grime, etc. These tiny wheels get dirty and clog up pretty fast in human environments and then stop to work and need a good cleaning. Nice for demos but unsuitable for even normal research lab work. I hate…
Hmm, Kalkar, the only nuclear power plant I ever protested - in the late 70s when I was still in school and construction had just begun. It was finished in 85 but never even fueled due to safety concerns (liquid natrium…
> Philosophy at the end of the day is about arguing a point; it isn't about producing an aesthetic experience. I'd argue that point. Nietzsche's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) comes to my mind first.…
Erm, no, I don't think so. Can you give a source for that claim? Medieval wars were in general shorter, more regional, used much smaller forces and affected the civilian population less than in later ages. Of course it…
Athens-Sparta would be the Peloponnesian War, Punic wars were between Rome and Carthage. Sorry for the nitpick.
Hmm, but this is a very common problem particularly in history and archaeology and one that requires highly specialized expertise. Therefore almost always a modern unified calendar is used in new publications and the…
The term was also new to me. From [1] I understand it is a class of cryptocurrency scams starting by building a cordial relationship via social media or dating apps and then suggesting financial investment. [1]…
best OS I ever had the pleasure to work with
To the contrary there is very good evidence that we pull arbitrary explanations whenever needed. See Gazzaniga's split brain experiments where people gave all sorts of reasons when asked why they did something and just…
Since it is tidally locked around a low mass star, axial tilt should be near 0 and seasons should not exist [1]. Tidally locked also means much higher temperature than the estimated average (231K or -42C for the hotter…
Actually Apple had to find solutions to some of the problems you mention when they transitioned to OS X: * multiple resource forks can be presented as files in a directory, the directory having the name of the…
C programming - luckily in my opinion - has a culture of very rigorous evaluation of programming techniques especially towards memory-unsafe programming, arguably the biggest weakness of C as a programming language.…
Yes, it is even pretty much a design principle for newer board games [1]. It started to become popular with games like Settlers of Catan. [1] https://boardgamedesigncourse.com/making-a-comeback/
Backpropagation was probably the most important step, but there was also the issue of workable training methods for many-layer networks. Fukushima did some very important - but rarely mentioned - work about this…
that's the way some embedded control systems are designed. with some (many) errors (can't read/write) being fatal and shutting down the system after an alarm is sent.
Yes, it is derived from the saying. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabellumpistole
The programming language Occam, in its time the primary language to program Transputers, did not have operator precedence, so you had to use parentheses for anything. It was a huge pain, but probably still better than…
Completely agree, except I'd say physical electronic instruments have a lifetime of about 20-30 years now. Several synths I own are now non- or half-working because of fading displays, broken floppy drives, power…
The Apple II was hardwired to run on 60Hz AC and used a limited character set. Minimal hardware design has its downsides. In countries that run 50Hz AC games and other real-time software ran slower or had wrong timing.…
She gives very good advice for us non-designers though use color templates. They are available as book or webpage and by trying out just a handful that seem to fit your needs you can quickly get to a reasonably good…
Well, for rooms with actual tatami mats, you are not really interested in the area, but rather how many mats will fit. Thus, a 24m^2 (12 mat) room with the wrong aspect ratio will not fit 12 mats. (I'm using the 1 mat =…
I think for Windows Mobile, their persistence and slowness made them fail. They kept trying to improve Windows CE based systems (not going to list all the renames) which were a very poor base to build on. When they…
> You need to create a makefile to tell make what to do. Nope. You can say "make hello" and have make automatically use its default rules - which can be configured - to e.g. compile hello.c into a hello executable. I…
> How did Wagner justify his music in philosophical terms? Why did he even feel the need to justify it? What would such a justification look like? What would a competent justification look like? How can I identify a…