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by afandian 8mo ago
Maybe it was written by: > Grant Naylor is a gestalt entity occupying two bodies, one of which lives in north London, the other in south London. The product of a horribly botched genetic-engineering experiment, which took place in Manche
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by afandian 8mo ago
If you can't globalise without maintaining standards then don't globalise. If you do, that's your liability.
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by afandian 8mo ago
I don't know if you're a native English speaker, so apologies if this isn't appropriate. But the word 'grief' has more than one vernacular meaning. "Giving someone grief" means giving someone a hard time.
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by afandian 8mo ago
If you want a _real_ graphics mode in the spare bits of ASCII, check out MODE 7 (teletex) of the BBC Micro, page 488. https://www.bbcmicrobot.com/docs/BBC_User_Guide.pdf
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by afandian 8mo ago
This is surely possible. You need to find the monospace whitespace characters (seems there's a few [0]). Then encode a compressed version of the logical diagram in the white space, steganography style. Or do something with characters [
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by afandian 8mo ago
I claimed a few things. I never claimed I could read.
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by afandian 8mo ago
Pedantic note to people using 'ASCII' in this thread (although Monosketch tool does't (EDIT actually does) claim to be ASCII). It uses e.g. "◎" U+25CE BULLSEYE which definitely isn't. And the 'ascii-driven
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by afandian 8mo ago
Ditto Scotland.
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by afandian 8mo ago
Paperclip Maximizer but for GitHub accounts
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by afandian 8mo ago
People who don't live there, or are selling to people who don't live there? In the UK we use the phrase "American accent" and it's OK. It means "there exists an American who would use this accent" not &quo
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by afandian 8mo ago
I initially misremembered the age of the card, but it was about that old when I bought it. My hope was that they would find a higher-level place to modularize the render than llvmpipe, although I agree that was unreasonable technical choice
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by afandian 8mo ago
It was ASUS GeForce GT710-SL-2GD5 . I see some sources putting at at 2014. That's not _recent_ recent, but it's within the service life I'd expect. (Finger in the air, I'd expect an editor to work on 20 year old hardware
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by afandian 8mo ago
I have no problem with it squeezing out the last few percent using the GPU. But look at my CPU charts in the github link upthread. I understand that maybe that's due to the CPU emulating a GPU? But from a thousand feet, that's not
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by afandian 8mo ago
I had a relatively recent graphics card (5 years old perhaps?). I don't care about 3D or games, or whatever. So I was sad not to be able to run a text editor (let's be honest, Zed is nice but it's just displaying text). And s
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by afandian 8mo ago
Thanks! That's the approach I'm taking. Bellows airtight first. Then a period of reflection on the tuning before the next step. The good thing about harmoniums is that they have clearly defined layers, and each layer can be approa
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by afandian 8mo ago
That's exactly what I'm doing! Nothing grandiose. https://blog.afandian.com/tags/harmonium/ By 'repaired' you mean closing a fracture? I'm interested to hear your experiences! Electronics
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by afandian 8mo ago
Yes! Most important being calibrating what I should and shouldn't attempt yet.
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by afandian 8mo ago
Thanks, that's fascinating. I imagine they use a mask and large spread? Or a stepper? Fun video of 'metallization' on a coarser scale! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-QcseGvU5o
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by afandian 8mo ago
Wow! I'm working on something much, _much_ smaller than that! https://blog.afandian.com/tags/harmonium/
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by afandian 8mo ago
How are people sticking stuff to quartz? I know less than nothing, but the pieces of quartz you find in rock don't look like they'd take a solder bond. I'd assumed that with piezo crystals etc there was a mechanical connectio
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by afandian 8mo ago
I've just spent the weekend tuning brass reeds from an organ. It sounds like a very similar process, except you can grind both ends of the tongue to raise and lower frequency. And, if you're sneaky, you can add solder.
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by afandian 8mo ago
"Infant school" is a class of school in the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_infant_schools_in_G...
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by afandian 8mo ago
This is a thing for a child. The aim of such projects is to get it built before they grow out of it. I think given the duration and duty cycle of usage it will be fine.
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by afandian 9mo ago
I lost all my files to Time Machine in 2008. I don't remember exactly what happened. But since then I'll take a slightly slower, observable command-line copy over sparkly magic.
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by afandian 9mo ago
I’ve just set up a forum for up and coming bagpipe makers (not the loud Scottish kind). It’s been a real breath of fresh air seeing a community coalesce without the feeling of predators on the horizon (eg a hosting provider with misaligned
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by afandian 9mo ago
Curious why you went with a matrix over WS2812 or similar. That PCB looks like it was painful to route!
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by afandian 9mo ago
I was thinking 5¼ floppies actually. But the same applies to the voice coils in newer hdds.
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by afandian 9mo ago
They have visible pickups, which presumably have a permanent magnet core. But how are the resonators getting 'plucked'? Is it the same electromagnet as the pickup or a separate one? I can't imagine those two modes would work
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by afandian 9mo ago
And yet was an absolute marvel of engineering. I often used to wonder at the accuracy and reliability they got out of those stepper motors, trying to imagine the size of the tracks. Fun thought experiment. The 128 GB SD card on my desk coul
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by afandian 9mo ago
Yeah that's what I thought GP meant. It just seems like it should be so commonplace. It just seems ridiculous that it means > You have to reach a human

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