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Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)

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russdill ◴[01 Apr 25 13:30 UTC] No.43546583[source]▶
Anyone who did undergrad lab work around 2000ish might throw in some comment about lab view software and the number of times it crashes and loses all your data
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ptsneves ◴[01 Apr 25 16:15 UTC] No.43548534[source]▶
2000s? My university's wind tunnel instrumentation was mostly LabView.
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1. russdill ◴[01 Apr 25 21:11 UTC] No.43551401[source]▶
It's been around a very long time and continues to be relevant. It's just a window in time where it was feasible to have a graphical application made on labview to be accessible to undergrads crossing over with such a thing being quite unstable.
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2. immibis ◴[02 Apr 25 13:26 UTC] No.43556430[source]▶
I once wrote A* in LabVIEW for a robot.

It was a competition sponsored by National Instruments, so the code was supposed to be in LabVIEW. Another person wanted to write it as a C plugin, but I thought that was cheating.

There's A* built into LabVIEW, but it's for completely generic graphs so it takes a lot longer to run. The rewrite brought it from about 10 seconds to compute a path, down to about 0.5 seconds.