SwellJoe

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by SwellJoe 7y ago
For what it's worth I'm sure he's aware of music made with his later inventions at Ensoniq (which made the first low-cost sampler, as well as some of the most popular synths of the digital era of electronic music...huge swath
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
I don't think I mind this change. I mostly use my own mail servers, but when I setup a Discourse forum a couple months ago, it was so easy to turn it on with Mailgun that I gave it a try (the forum was migrated from an existing forum t
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
I thought I was clear, but perhaps I can explain better: Blockchain is very often suggested as a solution to a social or ethical problem, absent any evidence that it can solve those problems (or can solve them better than existing law/
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
I've gotten to the point where I automatically and instantly discount any theory that proposes blockchain as a solution. I'm not saying blockchain technology will never be a good solution to a real world problem, but I have notice
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Cantrill is probably the most well-known. Long-time Solaris advocate, worked on Joyent for a long time, etc. You'll find his fingerprints on a lot of stuff. It'd be hard to find someone more capable of building on-prem cloud infra
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
I think there's a battle between nerds and non-nerds, and maybe in between is the worst place to land. I know some of my projects' users complain a lot about the lack of a WYSIWYG editor in our forums and issue tracker (we use Mar
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
All code sucks now, not just blocks. Inline code screws up at least half the time I use it; it tries to guess what I want, and sometimes doesn't end when I close it with another backtick. And, when going back and editing it sometimes c
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Joplin isn't a Markdown editor, it's a note taking and todo list app. It just happens to use Markdown as its entry format. It seems like it's a "Markdown editor" in the same way as reddit or github.
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Seems like it would have to be the same license as BusyBox, since it is a "compiled" artifact of BusyBox (just compiled to another high level language).
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Most of these are trash. I like old buildings, a lot, and I also understand that growth requires new construction sometimes replace old buildings, but this is kind of the worst possible outcome. It still destroys the old building, and puts
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Printing books directly from the browser isn't a solved problem, so it seems like a good project, to me. I don't see any evidence on their website this is intended for reading in the browser, and tons of clues that it's inten
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
I think (hope?) it is for printing, and not for reading in the browser. The example has `@media print{..}`, so I assume that is what the intended end result is for this project.
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
A vehicle that has a towing capacity in the tens of thousands of pounds can have a big battery bank, and so it could have longer range than a small sedan. Of course the weight of the battery itself reduces range, and carrying a load will re
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Less efficient than the same vehicle at lower speeds, I assume. But, that's true of every vehicle...so, it's a weird argument.
825.
by SwellJoe 7y ago
That's not so tiny. Many of the servers that ran the early internet were about that powerful (and, many even running on that very chip). It's interesting that they used the MMU-less version. I would have assumed that since it was
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
It is an Alpha, according to the site text ("Alpha Micro Eagle 300"), just not a DEC Alpha processor. Seems like it's probably a 68000?
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
There used to be a web server running Contiki on, I think, a Commodore 64. Which is amazing even if it only serves one client at a time. I dunno if that's the one you're thinking of, but it's the most amazing "can we put
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
I think I know why it is susceptible to deadly hugs: "This site is being served to you by a real, live Alpha Micro Eagle 300 running AMOS 2.3a and AlphaTCP!"
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
"We're only just at the beginning of our civilisation's development. We, the AI, and/or the AI we'll be connected to will be able to recreate and terraform, to bio-engineer species, environments and food however we
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
I find it clean but very confusing. e.g., if I'm looking at the Sourcehut source code here: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/ I would expect to be "in" the Sourcehut project, and clicking any of the links at
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
As an aside, I've found the Sourcehut source to be really nice. Super concise, very straightforward implementations, easy to read, and cohesive (it seems to be mostly by one person over a relatively short period of time, so that should
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/feb/12/ice-cycles-no...
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Not unlike New York City. But, how about Finland? They also ride bikes a lot more than most US cities, and Finland definitely has harsh winters. Edit: As for summers, I've regularly biked in Texas throughout the summer over many years
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
It'd be more popular if it were safer/easier. Which is true pretty much everywhere. Some of the places where biking is the most common also have quite harsh winters (e.g. Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, etc.).
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
"Identical" is a really strong word. The original Gameboy had all sorts of quirks due to the low price target of the device and the technical limitations of the time. The way the bits are tossed around inside will be very similar
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
That's awesome! Though, I'd rather have LSDJ than Nanoloop (Nanoloop is cool, but I found the tracker interface of LSDJ more comfortable)...but, I guess since it's compatible with Gameboy games, it's compatible with LSDJ
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Ruby is also quite slow. The last benchmarks I saw makes it pretty clear Raku has closed the gap with Ruby (at least the mainline C implementation of Ruby) on a lot of fronts, and is likely to be faster for many things in another year or tw
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
This is not entirely unlike that. Somewhere along the way, everybody realized Perl 6 was not the path forward from Perl 5, and so Perl 6 never really took the place of Perl 5, just like PHP6 never took the place of PHP 5. It looks like a pr
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
While I agree that WikiPedia is unnecessarily restrictive in their coverage (particularly with regard to how to do things), I think there's a lot of value there, too...especially in a world that has lost access to anything more in-de

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