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As far as I know Cuda is only available as a C bin.

It's also nice to check out CUDA if you have a Nvidia card. You can run parts of your code very easy on the GPU gaining a lot of speed.

On Windows that is. On Linux they work out of the box.

This is absolutely the power of Arduino. I've got zero knowledge of chips but can buy an Arduino, a CNC shield and some stepper drivers. Press them together and suddenly I got a working CNC machine.

Agree. I bought a better than Arduino clone for $5. The Chinese even sell cheaper ones but you must have some luck with the soldering.

Very cool (note that you can place the light and drag it's direction)!

One thing I noticed is that this visualizes how dangerous laser light can be. A lot of DIY projects these days use lasers (SLA printers, Laser cutters). You can't warn people enough about the risks when working with lasers.

This app shows how laser light bounces around in ways you don't expect.

Edit: and ofcourse the rest of his portfolio is great: https://benedikt-bitterli.me/portfolio.html

Well I was expecting an article about air traffic control :o

Agreed. I had to create a 'modern' design website for a client with all the fullscreen images included. I hate those websites but had to do the job. So I decided to do it all myself. And guess what: 80% compression for a fullscreen image is enough, people don't notice it. All animations were done in CSS. And then I wrote some small javascripts for those hide on scroll, paralax images and other scripts.

Kept the page size below 1MB, server time around 0.3s (ProcessWire), onload below 3s.

It's still not optimal, but when you dump all those bloated Javascripts and compress images a page should not be 10MB.

We used to drill holes in a 720K floppy so it would advertise itself as a 1.44MB drive.

But in the end it's all about the density of the disk so I'm not sure if you could use a driver to store more data.

Also you will need very accurate positioning of the head. So the drive is also a limiting factor.

I think the largest floppies where 32MB.

This is all great but one thing bothers me: they still apply to some government requests to give some data [1].

I know that adding a backdoor is different, but why not also protect for example emails on a server?

http://www.apple.com/privacy/government-information-requests...

Risk is also what raises prices:

  - We are going to fine you if you don't deliver on time
  - Ok, but then we have to tripple our price

We also will wind up (already have) with more smart terrorists who hide data in better places. So the only people who lost are we (again).

If you like this I can recommend you to look into the raw audio format [1]. It is a very simple format but it helped me a lot to learn about digital audio.

Just take your fav programming language (I took PHP) and write some bits to a file:

  $file = fopen('output.s16', 'w');
  $amp = returnANiceSynthValue();
  fwrite($file, pack('s', $amp));

[1] http://www.fmtz.com/misc/raw-audio-file-formats

And I don't think it's an issue if you are using continuous delivery.

Exactly my first reaction.

At the moment we get hundreds of Locky mails per day.

There is a huge spike in ransomware at the moment. And all ransom has to be paid via a tor location.

Homeless people lost trust in the system so they prefer to live without it. But they don't prefer to be homeless.

Try living on the streets and you will become an addicted asshole. I don't think there are a lot of people who can do it for years and stay 'normal'.

Take off the HN glasses and PHP, Java, C# and loads of other 'old' languages are still huge.

As for Python: I think it is starting to grow again in the Linux world.

In basic I used the beep() debugger ;)

As others said you can use a parabolic reflector to direct the light in one direction.

I think this can work:

On one side place a parabolic reflector to direct the light in one direction.

On the other side place a circular reflector to direct the light back to the source. And place a tiny hole in this half circle to let the light out.

Quick drawing: http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgWwAzALEBEwC0AO4A/wAAtADxAL...

More about the winning teams: http://hyperloop.tamu.edu/news-release-january-30-2016/

Material cost of houses is already 'cheap'.

But you also need a place to build it. In The Netherlands ground prices range from $100 - $500 per m².

Then you need sewage, electricity, gas, labor, and so on. I don't think you could make those much cheaper.

I don't think this is shocking. A lot of painter do something like this because it's somehow easier to draw the form of skulls than the form of a face. So the skull is there as a framework for painting the face.

There are also a lot of painters who start with naked people and then dress them. This also helps with 'transparent' clothing.

And when you learn to draw comics most of the time you start with a 'skull' of the character.

In my experience some small rules can help to grow towards DDD. For example when the team starts to use immutable model objects everybody is forced to think in a more domain driven way because what happens at the model constuction becomes very important.

You forgot to start your comment with something like: imho

Some roads in The Netherlands have this since 2000. The heat is also used to melt ice and snow in winter.

This is scarier than I thought. For me this passed the Turing test for art.

I't not obvious from the article but Dopesmoker is in fact a single.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_and_Dopesmoker

I'm not sure what you mean with pro tool.

All those vague concepts kept me away from learning rails because it always felt it was hacked together.

There are also a lot of PHP frameworks that have this pro status because they are hard to learn. But using comments as programming features doesn't sound pro to me.

Some time ago I jumpt fresh into C# and .NET MVC. Now that is what I call a pro framework. It was very easy to learn but so powerfull.

Ofcourse I'm biased now because I fell a little in love with C#

Talking about Blender: I think that the way windows work in Blender could make a great OS window manager. Devide the panels the way you like and select a program or part of a program you like to show inside the panel.

There are window manager who can do this but imho not as simple as Blender.

In another related thread I posted: Cut away branches that suck energy but don't bear fruit.

For me this is my bullshit filter.