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by aa-jv 7mo ago
I once worked for a mainstream headphone manufacturer who added a volume control to a product that was so widely despised that a special firmware release had to be done to disable it completely, or else the returns bin would overflow almost
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
>scaffolding The purpose of scaffolding is to create persistent memories. >claim "persistent memory" Just look at it as a build product. >abstractions that don't work Look at this as a testing problem.
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
This is exactly what I have wanted for a while, so thank you very much! Disclaimer: I haven't dug into axe enough yet, just going on first impressions. >No daemon, no GUI. I love the world we developers live in right now. ;) >Wha
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
>common issues that arise when you buy a niche product from a tiny company thousands of kilometers away. Sorry, this is just negative - but anyway, have you played with both? I have. There are differences but they are minor and you can
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
Well, Deckards Dream comes pretty close to attaining a modern analog manifestation of the CS80 ideal: https://black-corporation.com/shop/ And, well, its a lot more feasible to gig with, by comparison.
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
Native builds are always a safer/more reliable path to take than cross-compiling, which usually requires solid native builds to be operational before the cross environment can be reliably trusted. Its a bootstrapping chain of priority.
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
I don't care as long as it keeps my soldering iron hot.
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
Laughs in uucp!bangpath.
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
I last used this menu about 20 years ago when a dialup modem was the only way to roll, and have pretty much forgotten about it since the days of always-on direct to the desktop TCP/IP ..
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
$ man -k <whatever>
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
But its also true that many, many man pages have extremely valuable information that no enterprising hacker should overlook, too ..
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
Sounds classy.
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
What do you call a regime which protects cannibal pedophiles?
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
I want a lunchbox formfactor laptop that can be integrated into a Eurorack or used stand-alone.
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
>Pray This kills the democracy.
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
Alchemist Owl got there already: https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ POC||GTFO is one of those things that, once you dive in, you will never regret taking the effort to fully grok. ... AI-Generated summary of issue
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
>You can do a lot of crazy things with fonts. My favourite crazy font thing is Chartwell - a font which can be used to add many sophisticated chart types to your document, using discretionary / rare ligatures: https://www
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
This looks great - how viable would it be to use as a USB Audio class device, perhaps as a synthesizer or effects unit? It'd be simply amazing to be able to add audio/synthesis processing capabilities in such a form factor ..
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
Do you review every package in your package manager for back doors/trojans - or do you rely on the social circle upstream to do this work for you? How is this any different than running some random .sh script? The assumption is tha
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
Yup, thanks for the advice, definitely leaning towards something with just a little bit more power ..
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
I've been holding back to find a suitable machine for a bit of XCode development, web browsing and mail, and I'm pretty close to concluding this'd be good enough, but I'm pretty sure I'd be better off with something
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
It came from an elite Western imperial group which has the blood of millions on its hands, anyway, which anyone looking at Nobel as a propaganda mechanism can see quite clearly. Other countries were, indeed, bullied into accepting the US&#
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
The Novel prize was a classic act of duplicity designed to booster his PR while he massacred innocents at a heinous rate. The rest of the world saw this Novel prize for what it is: a fallacy. And, more to the point - both Ukraine and Iran
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
Americas reputation was ruined by decades of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and violations of human rights at massive scales - and the American peoples' utter inability to reign in their own very, very real war criminals. Trump
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
This is nice, but I yearn for the day I can run it on my watch. ;)
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
Thanks for that - I've tried it off and on over the years and it looks like its turning into quite an effective tool these days - so I'll give it another try. I've considered building my own tools to manage these files, but
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
They have the datetime they were saved, and the filename is usually derived from the page title - this often needs a bit of manual tweaking on my part if the original author hasn't named it something sensible, but its a minor action to
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
I simply print to PDF, anything interesting I've read online. So now I've got 30+ years of my own private offline Internet experience. Some 80,000+ files in a directory represents an awesome database of knowledge. "$ ls in
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
Ah, this is delightful - as a life-long collector of old machines, having kept every computer I've used personally/professionally since 1978, the Speccie is one of the greatest ways to spend an afternoon - and even though there ar
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
Following the notion that one needs force to get things done is rather a tempestuous path to take. The rights are there for all of us, and indeed they are generally aligned along natural human phenemonen, specifically for the purpose of al

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