Often when working on microcontroller projects you need a background function to run at regular intervals. This is often done by setting up a hardware timer to
To make a density map from a 2D set of data, the first step is to compute values for the third dimension. (Gnuplot has no facilities for computing these values automatically.) The simplest way is to make a 2D histogram; the plot is divided in small 2D regions, and the z-values are proportional to the number of points inside these regions. The following Python script will make an histogram from a time series of two dihedral angles.
Last week, Diaspora — the OSS privacy-respecting social network — released a “pre-alpha developer preview” of their source code. I took a look out it, mostly out of curiosity, and was struck by numerous severe security errors. I then spent the next day digging through their code locally and trying to get in touch with the team to address them, privately. In the course of this, I mentioned obliquely that the errors existed on Hacker News, and subsequently was interviewed by The Register and got quoted in a couple of hundred places.
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