Probably not the cheapest nor the easiest way, but take a look at Cynthion: https://greatscottgadgets.com/cynthion/
On the hardware side, it probably has what you need (and more).
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nbernard commented on Alibaba cloud FPGA: the $200 Kintex UltraScale+ essenceia.github.io/proje... · Posted by u/signa11
nbernard commented on Ask HN: Do people lose interest in TeX/LaTeX after leaving academia? · Posted by u/amichail
No offense, but an org-mode user's opinion about Latex is about equivalent to a Masochist's opinion on letting your child play with Lego in the living room.
None taken! :)
nbernard commented on NFS at 40 – Remembering the Sun Microsystems Network File System nfs40.online/... · Posted by u/signa11
What happened to Transarc's DFS ?
I looked, found the link below, but it seems to just fizzle out without info.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCE_Distributed_File_System
Anyway, we used it extensively in the UIUC engineering workstation labs hundreds of computers, 20+ years ago, and it worked excellently. I set up a server farm 20 years ago of Sun sparcs but used NFS for such.
AFS (on which DFS was based) lives on as OpenAFS [0]. And there is a commercial evolution/solution from AuriStor [1].
[0]: https://openafs.org/
nbernard commented on Alibaba cloud FPGA: the $200 Kintex UltraScale+ essenceia.github.io/proje... · Posted by u/signa11
Lots still available on eBay https://www.ebay.com/itm/167626831054
I guess there aren't any GPIO's wired up to headers or such? Any suggestions on a project for it that's a good fit?
> Lots still available on eBay
Probably not for long: only 7 available now...
nbernard commented on Ask HN: Do people lose interest in TeX/LaTeX after leaving academia? · Posted by u/amichail
Left academia, still using LaTeX for about every document (not counting org-mode documents for my own use).
At this point, using "common" text processors (Word, Writer, ...) still (?) feels like torture.
nbernard commented on Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement lwn.net/Articles/1037577/... · Posted by u/pykello
Text editors progress one funeral at a time.
Scientific text editors, you mean? ;)
I suspect it is actually worse than that and that they are actually subject to the Lindy effect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect ).
nbernard commented on Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement lwn.net/Articles/1037577/... · Posted by u/pykello
> Almost nobody wants to learn something new when they already know something similar.
I think it depends on what the thing is. I use LaTeX for occasional documentation, a better version would save me a maximum of 5 minutes a year. I probably won't be an early Typst adopter.
But, I spend loads of time for example, working with dataframes in Python. I got into Polars fairly early because improvements in that space can massively affect my productivity.
If you're routinely using LaTeX to write papers, the time spent learning something new isn't comparably large.
> If you're routinely using LaTeX to write papers, the time spent learning something new isn't comparably large.
I don't know. By then aren't you quite comfortable with LaTeX?
It may be Stockholm syndrome and sunk costs speaking, but I'm using LaTeX all the time: I quite like it and I don't feel any need for something else to replace it...
[1] https://archive.org/details/practicaltreati00cogoog/page/n8/...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRXI9KLImC4&list=PLZioPDnFPN...
BTW, in later parts of the book, Michelson appears as interferometry is used to check the accuracy of parts.