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I definitely wouldn't pay $1600 but I like the idea of an ultra-modular and configurable desk. I wonder if you could build something similar with 80-20 extrusions (and/or similar knock-off) and an Ikea desktop. There's a huge ecosystem of ways to integrate/extend these and you could do some cool things with them.


This looks really cool. I need to dig through some more examples before I'd take anything I say without a massive grain of salt. :)

Maybe I've been writing too much React and Android Compose UI lately, but instead of a declarative structure, have you considered a functional structure? That seems to be a create way to build composable components and add enough programmability (e.g. loops, conditionals) and keep a nice one-way flow down the line.

Something like

``` import {Resistor, Signal, Ohms, Float} ...

def VoltageDivider(totalR: Ohms, ratio: Float, signal1: Signal, signal2: Signal, signalOut: Signal) { r1 = Resistor(totalR/ratio, signal1, signalOut) r2 = Resistor(totalR(1-ratio),signal2,signalOut) }

def MyBoard() { s1 = Signal() s2 = Signal() s3 = Signal() div1 = VoltageDivider(totalR: 100_000, ratio:.33, signal1: s1, signal2: s2, signalOut: s3)

}

It's similar to what you have but maybe a bit more of a programming language than a declarative format. The trade-off is that tooling support gets harder as you add some basic language features, but the upside is a more powerful language.


For sure, we have been pretty focused on the low level part of the language, I think it will be interesting to see how our language evolves as we are able to abstract away more of the low level connectivity and configuration. I think eventually we will end up building something like a python library on top of ato to get the best of both worlds.


This road trip video does a good job showing the papercuts and more significant issues that make a non-Tesla road trip painful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92w5doU68D8


Good story about that decision here (they did think about making it reversible): https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/6/25/18744012/u...


You can run WSL on any version of Windows (including Home Edition). Docker can also use WSL2 as its backend, so I rarely need to run VMs on my Windows dev machines anymore.


QEMU and Docker under WSL just seems like it should not work, but it does, and it works well.


WHO had a good section in their situation report a few days ago comparing Covid-19 and the standard flu: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...


A good analysis on this point from a public health perspective: https://www.flattenthecurve.com/


I have noticed this as well. I keep a set of "mildly interesting" podcasts for when I want to occupy mind enough to help me fall asleep, usually on airplanes.


I agree, as a mostly C# developer for years, then Typescript (Node, Angular and React) for the last couple of years, when I go back to C# projects, I feel like I'm doing a lot of work for the compiler. And really elegant use of the TS type system doesn't translate well into C# many times, forcing me to write boilerplate.

I've been eyeing F# for more elegant managed code, but that's going to take me a little more up-front investment to get productive.


Azure has a separate service to read forms and formatted docs. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...


Thanks I was not aware! I’ll have to figure out how to easily test it (AWS tectrsct is actually really nice in that regard)


Do you know how good it is? I have a LOT of structured documents that I need to OCR.


MSFT person here - give it a try! sign up, and you get a free trial that can allow you to easily benchmark.


Interesting. That is actually something I've been looking for and I do have a msdn sub.

fyi that defaulted to indian rupee as default currency for me (UK based & zero indian connections). Weird


Have you tried the tabula free program? I use it for some finance work reading filings.

http://tabula.technology/


Yep! It's great, but is maybe 60% there, so I'm looking for something that can extract much more structure from a document. I doubt what I'm looking for will exist for another 10 years, though.


is it feasible to create loose templates for where the data is and extract that way? i have a mothballed project that did pretty well. it was able to discern different templates from a mass of documents.


I'm curious, if you email me a sample I can tell you what's possible.


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