Moggie100

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by Moggie100 4mo ago
Never underestimate the ingenuity of a motivated fool. My litmus test for this sort of thing is Excel - I think we all can agree that Excel is used for way more than it should be, and the most complicated, unhinged uses of it are done by no
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by Moggie100 1y ago
I'd just like to throw https://hedgedoc.org/ into the mix here, for anyone looking for a collab + notes + presentation selfhosted thing. I've been trialling it for a little while and loving the whole experience so
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by Moggie100 3y ago
Somewhat obvious disclaimer that this is my own stab at this a little while back: https://johnvidler.co.uk/blog/federated-web-rings-and-link-s... with its associated search tool: https://johnvidler.co.uk&#x2
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by Moggie100 3y ago
True enough, but even physical museums have warehouses where the artefacts are safely preserved between viewings. Analogies aside, I’m not against anyone using Youtube (or any other platform) for distribution - just that it absolutely shoul
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by Moggie100 3y ago
The title here might be hyperbole, but if shutting down a channel would make the museum ‘die’ then they’re simply not preserving the data properly. I’m not sure why folks seem to think that Youtube is a good place to archive anything - sure
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by Moggie100 3y ago
If the site isn't being updated any more, it could be run through one of the wordpress-to-static-site generator things and hosted as you'd describe, though.
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by Moggie100 4y ago
Heck, it's bad even on reasonably fast machines like my surface pro. I've recently found that if I "blind type" a search query at my normal (very fast) input speed, it actually enters the keypresses _before_ loading full
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by Moggie100 4y ago
If you're into the embedded/edu/stem/steam space at all, the micro:bit v2 codebase for audio is being integrated more widely this year, and expanding our audio processing components might be a fun, bounded project if you
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by Moggie100 4y ago
Current UK CompSci PostDoc here - and yeah, pretty much what everyone says here is correct. My contract is 'contingent on funding' (so casual/short-term by any other name, but 'perminant' so HR can fudge their short
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by Moggie100 7y ago
Reliability across power cycles or brownouts, for one. Cost is another - sure the dev boards are expensive as compared, but the chips used are easier to integrate with your own designs than building an rPi into them. Just different use case
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by Moggie100 7y ago
While I agree the sentiment that the silly range ones are just for fun, I have in practice seen good links over ranges with no line of sight. I've personally observed links through many buildings, over hills, and so forth that easily d
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by Moggie100 7y ago
503'ing here for me, so here's an cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... Also, I've been part of the group looking at LoRa at Lancaster University for some time,
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by Moggie100 7y ago
Will try! It's slow going because everything tends to start with some variation of 1. Get/buy new tool. 2. Learn entirely new skill. 3. Make mistakes. 4. Goto 3. The documentation lags quite far behind the actual build (really nee
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by Moggie100 7y ago
Whenever I have any breathing room after my thesis work, I'm working on an electric motorcycle build based on an the chassis of an old Honda H100-S2 as a challenge in hardware, software, fabrication, and well, everything really. Shooti
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by Moggie100 8y ago
Honestly, I kinda like the square phone mock-up. It would be a little weird to use as a phone, but perhaps there's a compromise to be made for the pocketability of it all?
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by Moggie100 8y ago
While I agree that it's odd that there was no fallback, the whiteboards do immediately convey 'stuff is broken, you should check this board' pretty decently, as they would stand out like a sore thumb in the airport normally.
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by Moggie100 8y ago
While it entirely put me off going further into the site, I did look through some of the cookies listed - a few have 68-year expiry dates. I doubt I'll even be using the same architecture in 68 years, let alone the same laptop or brows
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by Moggie100 8y ago
Most random sources are PRNG rather than 'true' random sources, and sometimes it's useful (for debugging, for analysis or just for interest) to be able to use a predictable pattern of otherwise random numbers. One way is to a
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by Moggie100 9y ago
Leaf driver (bought second hand), and DIY electric motorbike builder here. The commercial chargers are all waterproof, with connectors rated IP67 or similar, usually with a drain outlet for any water that does somehow manage to get in the c