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n3roaster

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Owner/Coffee roaster at Wilson's Coffee & Tea, author of Typica https://typica.us and CRUCS https://crucs.net
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n3roaster··on In pre-WWII Berlin, the shape of your roof was a political decision
I live a couple blocks away from there. The roofs are flat in that whole complex aside from the Golden Rondelle Theater. I don't know if they've since fixed it since I see they've done some redecorating on the upper floors in recent years and I haven't thought to ask anybody who works there, but for a long time they couldn't have people working in a large portion of the central tower due to inadequate fire exits.
n3roaster··on Cubic spline interpolation
Coincidentally, I recently put up a profile coffee roasting planner built on cubic splines. The constraints of the cubic spline match up nicely with the behavior of coffee in a roasting machine so doing it this way gets you plans that are easy to follow and fast to put together or edit. This one is just done as a web site, but prior to that I'd been using a prototype in C++ (unreleased because no UI) for several years. Try not to look at the code too closely, not a web dev. https://crucs.net.