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Re:Neo – Desired Word Processor for Authors on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @11:19AM (#15082163)

Slightly off-topic, but I'd like to recommend the Silo Series also by the author of this blog post. They're perhaps not life-altering in content, but enjoyable sci-fi reads, nonetheless.

Re:How Thou Canst Maketh a Fine Program in Fortran on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @12:49PM (#14498701)

FORTRAN is deeply ingrained in engineering culture. A lot of legacy (and some new development) is written in it. Though, this is slowly shifting with the prevalence of MATLAB in universities.

Re:3D laser printing yields high quality micro-optics on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @12:22PM (#11535519)

I did some research on the applications of micro optics and found that arrays of micro lenses can enable glasses-free 3D displays [0]. I haven't been able to find any recent articles about this effort, though. Anyone heard any news related to this or any other tech that micro optics enable?

[0] http://www.phonearena.com/news/Hitachi-unveils-4.5-inch-3D-d...

Garmin Completes Acquisition of PulsedLight

Posted by pmbailey on Thursday January 28, 2016 @05:11PM
from the businesswire.com dept.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160113005134/en/Garmin%C2%AE-Completes-Acquisition-PulsedLight%C2%AE-Developer-Optical-Distance

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Re:When Buying Two Computers Is Cheaper Than Buying One on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @12:15PM (#4636967)

My computing setup is the same in spirit as the one described in the article. In my experience, the maintenance overhead is quite small and syncing is a non-issue with a nix tool called unison. It's basically a bi-directional rsync.

Keeping my working directories in sync is as simple as running unison each time I boot my netbook only. This assumes that you have an internet accessible nix machine already in place for other purposes. Understandably, that may not always be the case.