wlievens

Reminds me of ditaa which is also pretty awesome. I even use it in an (internal) production tooo to generate a manual.

Actually I use a tool similar to this (ditaa) to generate drawings in an automatically generated reference manual frop ascii code diagrams in source code. There's definitely a good use for it.

I find that on pet projects I almost never learn new tools. I tend to have an idea that I want to try out, and I use the tech I know to get there quickly. It feels a bit sad, I must admit.

Did you read Schild's Ladder? It's basically about quantum cellular automata consuming the galaxy.

I've had such a situation and we were lucky that we had written software that makes dealing with embarassingly parallel problems embarassingly scalable.

So can you go vote near your workplace instead of near your home?

In Belgium we have to vote at a designated location (almost always a school building) but it's on a Sunday.

Problem with that kind of setup is that if you unexpectedly need to scale out of that, you haven't done any of the work required to do that, and you're stuck.

I obviously agree.

In a follow-up post, he explained that his missions concerned tracking suspected war criminals and delivering them to war crimes courts.

Does that change your view in any way?

What he probably means is that it's not (just) happening to people who are so badly addicted that an overdose is a likely conclusion in any case.

Is that Luc Steels you are referring to? I took a couple classes from him at uni a little over tem years ago. What is he doing lately that you refer to?

Who says they have poles? Maybe they only have austrians and hungarians.

Extensibility from C isn't there for people to accelerate their slow code, it's much rather there to cooperate with existing libraries, and C is the lowest common denominator there.

> That didn't happen

Actually ARM's stock went x10 in six years time. Having Apple as a key customer was no small part of that.

You're sort of cheating in that example as a big chunk of that growth is from the acquiston offer and not organic.

But still, good move and your point stands. I took a position in ARM (my former employer) again half a year ago, too bad it was tiny!

So true, and it's often even worse in that you get peppered with ads of stuff you already bought.

The screen pixels or the camera pixels?

I'm a generalist, and while I enjoy working with new technologies I no longer get a kick out of knowing every itty bitty detail inside out. I've worked in several industries in engineering roles (compiler design, geographic information systems, fabless semiconductor device production and testing).

I think writing a technical book could be very enjoyable for me. I'm good at explaining technical stuff, or so I'm told.

But I have absolutely no idea with the profile above what I could possibly write a book about that adds to the state of the art. "Wafer Database Schema Design For Dummies"?

The screen would be in the way?

That's actually the impression I get at my company too.

Giving the machine a camera and wheels is basically embedding it in the real world. It goes against the spirit of my question, and since I was asking it skeptically it's actually the thing I intuitively (without any relevant expertise!) expect to be required.

If you like pcg maps, have a giggle at my pirate-themed maps and the awful js code behind it.

https://github.com/wlievens/scallywag

So a related question becomes, can you learn to understand and thus predict physics (the way a child does - I'm not talking about quantum mechanics) from literature only, without interacting in space?

A very vague comment but here goes: IIRC Italy is a pretty significant partner in ESA projects, maybe there are some interesting challenges in that space?

MorningLightMountain!

> Packaging is always the expensive part of optics

That's not always true, it depends on the die size. Bigger dies often means lower wafer yield for optical sensors.

The web is dark and full of errors.

It's 40% above the current market cap.

If you don't intend to sell antytime soon, that's not si very important

LabVIEW would be one, though I'm by no means a fan of it.