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by _benj 2y ago
I wrote a CHIP 8 emulator using C. At the time I wanted to learn C but it led down a rabbit whole of algorithms and graphics programming (I used raylib and later SDL) and some immediate mode GUI (nuklear and another one I can’t remember) an
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by _benj 2y ago
It is so exciting to see material like this being made! Browsers seem like mysterious, undecipherable black boxes, which is very likely how G wants them to be perceived, but that is cracking by seeing the efforts/results of such projec
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by _benj 2y ago
There are too many… But I’ll pick The Psychology of Money. There are few books that have so drastically changed my view of reality and affected my behavior. (Bonus because I couldn’t help myself: Getting things done, Man’s search for meanin
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This Month in Ladybird – September 2024(ladybird.org)
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by _benj 2y ago
I tried some time ago GnuCash after getting tired of plain text accounting. I’m not sure what it was but I couldn’t get it working for me. Tried HomeBank afterwards and was blown away by how accessible it is in comparison. I might give anot
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by _benj 2y ago
That is really cool! I haven't tried hot plates because I didn't really have faith that solder would actually pull the component down and align it. I think this video might have improved that faith :-)
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Makes sense… my note taking is more like highlighting and such, since I later get those out into my project documentation
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by _benj 2y ago
I had an iPad Air, which I changed for a reMarkable 2 and I couldn't be happier! I see a lot of people here commenting about the limitations of it, and I get it. For me personally those limitations are features. My needs are mostly not
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by _benj 2y ago
I like this idea. I'm guessing that it might be trying to learn math from proofs? or from first principles? I'm trying to figure out how could I find where to learn math in this way?
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I’m curious about what that “preliminary knowledge” is? I’ve read stuff like a mathematician delight and the Joy of X and it’s such a beautiful, attractive but seemingly unattainable realm of knowledge. As an example, this is the math that
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by _benj 2y ago
I use workspaces in Vivaldi and they are pretty much a set of tabs that I can switch as a set, but all under the same profile. As an example, in my dev workspace I have GitHub, localhost, and a few other things I might need. In another work
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by _benj 2y ago
Just the fact that they did such an amazing job with their documentation is as huge win for me! I really liked Lite XL but back when I looked at it it was a challenge to understand it’s API and functionality. Looking forward to give this a
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by _benj 2y ago
adding a few fun ones that I've used in the past: TextAdept. The API is fully open to Lua and a bunch of stuff can be scripted in it. The author is super responsive on github and has a nice small welcoming community. Lite XL is mostly
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by _benj 2y ago
To add a few less popular options, I really liked working with TextAdept. Almost the whole API is accessible via Lua and you can script the heck out of that editor. The challenge with that is that you don't get a lot of items out of th
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World smallest bike [YouTube](youtube.com)
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This is such a cool tool! I wonder if the developer audience might me a bit of a misfit when we have stuff like jq or duckdb. But here's a use case I had a few years ago. I was working with this system that needed occasional calibratio
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by _benj 2y ago
I have a story about engineer vs technician. In my very first technology job (title was web assistant, so, very much technician) we updated our online education platform and suddenly all our course were breaking. After some investigation we
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by _benj 2y ago
The UX team recommends to make it infinite scrolling… improves user “engagement”.
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by _benj 2y ago
I’ve been leaning towards using windows server for the few use cases that I need windows. The performance of it running on libvirt/qemu is indistinguishable, for me, to baremetal. License is a bit of a challenge but with the 180 trail
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by _benj 2y ago
Thanks for sharing! Looks just like what I need :-)
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I was considering doing something like this just the other day. It had a gnuplot script and it seemed to me that it would be so much more versatile if I could use #ifdefine and #include in it. I ended up using a Perl preprocessor, but it se
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by _benj 2y ago
I’ve started using Perl a couple of months ago and I’m quite impressed, specially with all the “bad” stuff I’ve heard about it. It is incredibly flexible and productive and is very intentional in getting out of the way (what is it, Multiple
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Perl 5.40(perldoc.perl.org)
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I don’t remember having used a debugger with these, so I couldn’t tell you how was that experience
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by _benj 2y ago
I have worked with DD and have some DA laying around. The UPDI is a very nice and simple programming interface. All that it takes is a USB-UART and a diode or a resistor (I used a diode) to connect between RX/TX. I didn’t used ATmega a
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Wow! I just what a high a security researcher would feel while performing this research and keep finding open doors! I wonder if it’s a mix of exhilaration and being terrified!
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There’s also part of, good designs don’t depend on high precision components. I think TAoE emphasized that. For high precision one can use trim potentiometers or maybe even digital potentiometer with an ADC at the other side to measure and
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Companies need AI services revenues, not cost savings(ft.com)
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Microsoft's emissions jump almost 30% as it races to meet AI demand(ft.com)
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by _benj 2y ago
> Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to. I find this definition interesting because it seems to me there’s a very prevalent portrayal in media

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