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There is one story in there about a Russian sub and American sub grazing one another. Somehow the Russian sub lost its propeller stuck in the sail of the American sub. The American sub waited around hoping the Russians would surface for a rescue but they never did. The American captain felt...

There's a great book on this called Blind Man's Bluff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Man%27s_Bluff:_The_Untold_Story_of_American_Submarine_Espionage

One thing not mentioned here is that sonar and side-scan sonar operate on very different frequencies. High-frequency side-scan sonar (HFSS) operates at 900kHz to 1600kHz. HFSS produces near-photographic images of the lake floor, clearly resolving body outlines separate from rocks. It detects...

I guess I'm late to the party. I struggled with this as an undergrad until I read somewhere that there is no connection between math and physics. We intrinsically use our math, define some axioms, and apply them to a problem. When difficulties arise, we adjust our math to cover them. When the...

I liked a card trick that the YouTube channel Scam Nation streamed. The host is a magician, and a friend stopped by to show the host a new card trick. The host was blown away by it and asked how he did it because, as a magician, he couldn't figure it out. The trick was the trick didn't...

Be careful about discussing your ideas here if you plan to commercialize them as it can torpedo any patents you might file since it was discussed beforehand online. Also any ideas you gather must be carefully considered as you likely will bake them into your ideas. There is an episode on This...

For zeroMQ having zig wrapper the calls is okay but for CUDA I'm not sure what you’d be missing using the zig approaches. Fun times to look at what can be done.

My first few experiments with zig were impressive but apparently there is still API churn in the versions released since it is at the 0.15.2 version. The churn caused some confusion and issues to be debugged. Not as smooth as learning C.

Yes, there are other Unix tools, and that's why I ditched them: they could all be replicated in AWK with minimal effort. The Zig benchmark is just incredible. Dave didn't really get into why that was the case though but I suspect it was the compile-time functions prepping the way. For his...

This is an interesting idea. I recently completed a small project for grad studies and didn't worry about naming until I took a break for a few days, came back and couldn't decide which program was my latest version. At work, this wouldn't have been an issue since I would've checked my code...

Many years ago, while programming under PC DOS, I wanted a Unix-style environment and found a company that made DOS-based Unix tools, Thompson Automation. They had a kit of the most valuable tools and another featuring AWK. I got both, not knowing anything about AWK. For me, it was a...

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Welcome to PF! What have you learned so far about Quantum Computing? There's a lot of hype going around. The latest significant news I heard was that Nvidia has partnered with a QC startup. The news sent shockwaves through the industry, and several well-known QC ventures suffered a serious dip...

I'm always interested in new programming languages, and Zig looks pretty interesting. I've traveled a similar path from FORTRAN IV to later fortrans, to C then C++ then doing C++ with SOM for DOS and OS/2. Taligent C++ frameworks. Then took a java track for the past 25 years. My most recent...