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by blippage 4y ago
> slightly changing constants As a maths lecturer once said: some of the problems will be similar with some of the numbers changed. Pi, however, will remain the same. ;)
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by blippage 4y ago
I think the problem so far is that no RISC-V chip has offered any USP (Unique Selling Point), other than it's licence-free. For example, Raspberry Pis exploded in popularity because they were incredibly cheap and had a lot of support.
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by blippage 4y ago
Seems interesting. I've long held the view that DNS is no longer fit for purpose. It made sense back in the day, but what is the real point of TLDs these days? It means many folk have to register their name multiple times and there&#x2
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by blippage 4y ago
An Arduino Uno is ready to go out of the box with IDE and cable. I recommend that people buy Elegoo starter kits, which also come with components and instructions for projects. The ecosystem is unsurpassed. It's also one of the simple
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by blippage 4y ago
Scientists have been futzing around with fusion energy since I was a schoolboy in the 70's, and undoubtedly before. Maybe they'll be a breakthrough, but I think the odds are heavily against them. Fission, OTOH, seems an interestin
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by blippage 4y ago
"The amount of pressure this robot applies is totally adequate for its normal operating environment which is far away from humans." it's interesting to watch some of the Boston Robotics videos. They're mostly supposed to
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by blippage 4y ago
Seems like a nice addition. Much better than futzing around with xxd and suchlike.
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by blippage 4y ago
Forth is great fun to play around with. I love the way you can extend the language to create new constructs. They're like Lisp macros with the safety catch off. I found it difficult to reason about how immediate words will be executed
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by blippage 4y ago
Yeah, I think a karma-based system is about the right way to go. One system I thought of was that the karma propagated outwards, as it were. So I award A with +1 karma because I like their content and trust them. If A awards B with +1 karma
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by blippage 4y ago
I think, ultimately, there's no easy way to do it. How do you stop spammers and bad actors in general. > the ability to claim a unique username Which would require a centralisation, presumably. We have things like OpenID, but that h
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by blippage 4y ago
The more that time passes, the more reality resembles a Philip K Dick novel, where you have to pay money to open a door and cereal boxes and newspapers (read "internet") had animations that tried to push product. PKD's satire
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by blippage 4y ago
I agree. The word "appropriation" heavily connotes an interpretation as theft, and therefore bad. But cultures never exist in a vacuum, there's always cross-pollination, inspiration and adaption of ideas. I see this as a good
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by blippage 4y ago
There was a great saying by Ajahn Chah, who always seems to be quotable. He said "How come everyone says Buddhism is old-fashioned and needs to be adapted? No-one ever accuses the defilements as being old-fashioned and outdated; no, th
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by blippage 4y ago
> In an industry where 70+ hour workweeks are normal, Well, there's part of your problem right there. I have great scepticism about businesses getting involved with things like Buddhism. From what few anecdotes I've heard, it e
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by blippage 4y ago
Not to take anything away from Linus, but Linux was also in the right place at the right time. The BSD licensing issues were up in the air at the time and Microsoft had Windows 3.11, which was hardly a technological tour de force. There was
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by blippage 4y ago
I recently found www.gopher.com, which has a different feel to than Google or DuckDuckGo.
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by blippage 4y ago
This seems like an interesting idea for microcontrollers, where you're often wrestling with state and concurrency. I'm guessing it's too heavyweight, though.
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by blippage 4y ago
Many moons ago, someone on Reddit said "Facebook requires registration in order to view content, which tells you all you need to know." I never forgot that remark. So that's a thing that I'd recommend to Mastadon: make i
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by blippage 4y ago
There's a line in one of Douglas Adams' books where he says something along the lines that things like VCRs were invented to watch TV programs so that you don't have to. Who would have thought that one man's joke would b
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by blippage 4y ago
I tried Raku a few times, but thought it to be too slow for me. Grammars seemed kinda nice, but somewhat frustrating. One good thing about Raku is that I thought it had what I called "a programmers mindset". To put it another way,
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by blippage 4y ago
> Along with this ruling is a decision to examine the creation of an open (third) category for everyone, which I think makes sense. The general public are unlikely to take this seriously. Who is going to compete in this third category? W
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by blippage 4y ago
Indeed. I run my gemini capsule off of a Raspberry Pi 3 using FreeBSD. The one thing about Pi's is that they sip energy. I was using about 2.4W, so I estimated running costs at less than £7pa. I've no doubt that one could serve go
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by blippage 4y ago
It's surprising just how good plain text can look. The site is also available as a Gemini capsule: gemini://rawtext.club/ and gopher gopher://rawtext.club/
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by blippage 4y ago
You might be interested in Project Gemini: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ It is gaining momentum, and I'm getting increasingly invested in it. Gemini is a new internet protocol which: * Is heavier than gopher *
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by blippage 4y ago
My main desktop is Debian Stable. A few years ago I tried FreeBSD, but its desktop didn't work properly. A couple of weeks ago I decided to try it again for an amd64 server and a Raspberry Pi (model 1), headless, without desktop. The p
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by blippage 4y ago
"The mic and speaker in the 90s Iskra payphones are far superior" Someone made an interesting observation the other day: it used to be that you rented the phone from the telephone company. Those phones never broke. Now that you bu
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by blippage 4y ago
Around the mid 90's I bought the Dice C compiler for the Amiga. I think it came with a book(?) I was really happy with the price. It was on a special markdown price. I counted it as one of the best purchases I ever made. I was doing a
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by blippage 4y ago
I discovered Gemini about a week ago, too. The couple of clients I first tried didn't work. Someone suggested Lagrange, which is a very nice client. Bombadillo is pretty good, too, if you just want to work from the command line. I thin
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by blippage 4y ago
"Hello, technical support. You say your lightbulb isn't working? That's odd, our reference lightbulb is working perfectly."
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by blippage 4y ago
Thanks for that. I found an AppImage, and hey presto, it works. It's so beautiful, too.

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