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   by afandian 11mo ago

   "read-only-ness" is much more of a mouthful than "immutable"! Generally immutability is also a programming style that comes with language constructs and efficient data structures. Whereas 'read-only' (to me) is
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   by afandian 11mo ago

   The excellent Mike Harrison has a couple of good videos on YT tearing down modern headlamps: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fRjMHtnShs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZJoPbk53ug (all his videos are g
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   by afandian 11mo ago

   Yes, it's definitely a word from a 1990s geography textbook.
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   by afandian 11mo ago

   > I didn't work on the Chunnel. That was mainly a British guy named Henry The British guy named Henry might have named it after another feat of engineering completed around the same time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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   by afandian 11mo ago

   I think idioms that are synonyms of close concepts must be the hardest to learn in a second language. Can you trade any French examples?
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   by afandian 11mo ago

   Thanks! Reading the code again, looks like I was filling up buffer of 256 x 16 bit samples. I think the issue with looping at arbitrary points was word alignment. You need to give it a whole buffer. So you'd have to do some nasty bit-s
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   by afandian 11mo ago

   Thanks! This was just some playing round years ago, so I don't remember much about it. I don't remember if calculating sin() at runtime was too slow, or I wanted to avoid polyphonic O(n) inside the buffer loop, or what. I bet it u
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   by afandian 11mo ago

   What distinction do you draw between “flight” and “fleeing”? To me they are synonyms. From Cambridge.org: > (an act or example of) escape, running away, or avoiding something: > They lost all their possessions during their flight from
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   by afandian 11mo ago

   Thanks for sharing! I did some similar playing around with an ESP32 and I2S a few years ago (lockdowns were an odd time). Where I seem to remember getting stuck was how to get the phase to line up, so that each sample looped at a zero-cross
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    by afandian 11mo ago

    Amazing the things we do for our little ones. I built a toddler-friendly keyboard for my son. He's still playing some form of piano 6 years later, no longer with his fists or feet. https://blog.afandian.com/2019/09
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    by afandian 11mo ago

    One day, when I get enough spare time, I will make the thing. I even have some components ready. Until then I daydream of how I will make it and how it will fit together. If I never get round to it then that time will have been wasted. But
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    by afandian 11mo ago

    I'd invite you to step away, pause, and think about this subject for a bit. There are many shades of grey to human existence. And plenty of people who are vulnerable but not yet suicidal. And, just like people who say "advertising
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    by afandian 11mo ago

    What a shameful comment. Look at the ages of some of these people. You may [claim to] be of sound mind, and not vulnerable to suggestion. That doesn't mean everyone else in the world is.
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    by afandian 11mo ago

    Thanks. I had wondered if it meant some kind of thermoset / epoxy cure-in-a-mold, to set it apart from injection-molded thermoplastic. Weird wording. What other kind of plastic is there than 'molded'?
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    by afandian 11mo ago

    I’ve always wondered what “resin” means on watch ads. Presumably it’s a kind of plastic, why not say that?
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    by afandian 11mo ago

    > passengers will no longer be able to download and print a physical paper boarding pass
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    by afandian 1y ago

    I have strong nostalgia for the eMate. Yes, it had a nice keyboard (at least comparable with the era); smaller pitch than standard keyboards. And, of course, resitive pen-based touch screen. It _was_ a PDA with a keyboard though. It had a g
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    by afandian 1y ago

    Perhaps, but isn't the contemporary tech stack orders of magnitude more complicated? Doesn't feel like a strong motivating argument.
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    by afandian 1y ago

    TFA mentions polyfills and libraries.
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    by afandian 1y ago

    Flash-backs to dial-up and making sure I had my list of websites written down and ready for when I connected.
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    by afandian 1y ago

    Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44952185
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    by afandian 1y ago

    It was Second Technician Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSc., SSc. all along.
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    by afandian 1y ago

    I was brought up on the refrain of "aren't computers silly, they do exactly what you tell them to do to the letter, even if it's not what you meant". That had its roots in computers mostly being programmable BASIC machin
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    by afandian 1y ago

    > Is curl "autonomous"? Only when you supply -L
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    by afandian 1y ago

    More like "the farmer was sent to live on the farm"
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    by afandian 1y ago

    I wasn't clear from the article if it was entirely disabled. It says: > Like with all animations, we should make sure to respect user motion preferences. I'm out of date with modern CSS, so I wasn't sure from the syntax if
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    by afandian 1y ago

    And the stuff in "~/Library/Application Support/" and/or "/Library/Application Support" . It's a well-defined place.
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    by afandian 1y ago

    It's like we never learn from history. Remember "The Grouch" Mac OS extension, and the parents who found that their children had deleted precious files because they enjoyed the little song? https://apple.fandom.com
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    by afandian 1y ago

    These are fun decorations. Maybe there's a practical benefit. But please, if someone has set 'prefer reduced motion' then just don't animate anything.
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    by afandian 1y ago

    The test prefix for test or example DOIs is 10.5555, following the American phone number convention. I have 10.5555/12345678 seared in my muscle memory.