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by buescher 5y ago
I picked up a couple of these when they were being closed out, thinking I would find an interesting use for them later, or at least something for the 900MHz modem module. Never did. Gave them to a thrift store when cleaning out for a move
842.
by buescher 5y ago
It's the receiver, so it's more like, you're asserting your right to leave your door wide open on a street that is suddenly much more busy. De facto possession of spectrum was heavily litigated in the early days of radio. Th
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by buescher 5y ago
Doesn't the SWEET16 make it straightforward to drop in and out of straight 6502 machine code? Making it more like a library or virtual coprocessor? Did anyone ever target it with a compiler? Yes, though, cool stuff!
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by buescher 5y ago
How about things that used to be easy and now are hard? Or things that used to be hard, and now are intractable?
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by buescher 5y ago
This is basically why there are all these Commodore firmware ports - because the kernal doesn't provide all that much and the BASIC has no substantial hardware dependencies.
846.
by buescher 5y ago
What fun. I was an Atari guy but I could get into something like the Apple II firmware running on something from the era with more interesting graphics and sound hardware.
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by buescher 5y ago
Ironically, I upgraded my Sansa clip+ to Rockbox so it could play ALAC.
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by buescher 5y ago
Hah. A late friend who got mixed up with those folks had horror stories of Stephen Wolfram calling him in the middle of the night with ideas. I still like the product, though.
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by buescher 5y ago
I thought by 2000 I'd be able to, for example, get paid to noodle with Mathematica on a laptop or VR deck on the beach. I wound up living near the beach in Santa Cruz in 2000 and almost bought a Ricochet modem, but never quite got arou
850.
by buescher 5y ago
You don't get a ground plane with perfboard, unless you submit yourself to the pain of working with vectorboard, and perfboard construction is inherently more fragile than dead bug. If you get good at dead bug construction, you can mak
851.
by buescher 5y ago
It looks the way it does because: 1) First and foremost, the board or box the components are soldered to forms a very good ground plane 2) The parts are organized so that the circuits fit the enclosure 3) The part leads are used to provide
852.
by buescher 5y ago
Atari TOS under the hood of GEM was also a lot like DOS, in some ways more like DOS than it was like CPM-68K.
853.
by buescher 5y ago
If Access had straightforward (ideally one-click), rock-solid tools for web deployment, it would be the killer no-code app.
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by buescher 5y ago
Also, whatever happened to zope and plone? [2006] https://archive.org/details/SeanKellyGettingYourFeetWetwithP...
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by buescher 5y ago
I'd love to see a good non-trivial example of a CRUD app --- something like the old Northwind Traders thing for Microsoft platforms --- in tcl, sqlite, and tk. Not that I would recommend you try this at work or for your career or anyt
856.
by buescher 5y ago
Why, I'm an emotional wreck I guess to notice these things! Maybe when you calm down you can examine the assumptions behind the method of examining p-values in the paper you cited.
857.
by buescher 5y ago
Oh I miss HalTed, Haltek, and Weird Stuff Warehouse. I managed to drop in to WSW on a business trip just weeks before it closed... it had barely changed in a decade, which was a little sad. I would have liked to see newer surplus!
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by buescher 5y ago
Before OO programming was going to fix everything, and agile methodologies were going to solve all our problems, structured programming was the universal cure. Between the remaining religiosity about it and everyone's embarassement ab
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by buescher 5y ago
Dynamic analyzers are really cool. I'd like one. Too bad they go for silly prices. Yeah, the niche seems to be filled by software and either sound cards or equivalent USB acquisition hardware.
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by buescher 5y ago
Yeah, the papers you cite both basically start "Look, we know you all abuse the heck out of p-values and you really should stop (wink wink nudge nudge) doing that" and go on to "gee, if you start with much more optimistic ass
861.
by buescher 5y ago
A fair criticism of Ionnidis would be "statisticians always knew this about every field that reports statistical significance with p-values, but no one was going to listen, I don't know what that guy's got". I'm no
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by buescher 5y ago
They make ‘em for secure key storage. The kind of drm scheme you’re describing, though, is not going to be too challenging for someone to subvert who’s already willing to use any of a number of methods to have firmware read off a protected
863.
by buescher 5y ago
It doesn't matter how much money they have - if they don't have butts in the seats, schools won't (generally) offer the course. If you want a huge course catalog to choose from, with appropriate courses for every at least se
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by buescher 5y ago
I didn't find it, you did!
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by buescher 5y ago
What Schaum's Outlines would be relevant here?
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by buescher 5y ago
Berkeley is almost an order of magnitude larger than Princeton and so can support a bigger range of courses.
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by buescher 5y ago
I am not a mathematician or math teacher and I would not call myself a maths enthusiast, but what were you trying to learn? For the usual undergraduate courses, there are Schaum's outlines, which are cheap and usually OK for self-study
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by buescher 5y ago
The old joke about sufficient "mathematical maturity" is "write a lowercase zeta".
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by buescher 5y ago
There's such a thing as a manual pick and place machine. I agree, though, it would fascinating to know how these were assembled.
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by buescher 5y ago
I first saw surface mount parts in a camcorder viewfinder - flea market find - I picked up in 1985 or 1986. I don't think I even read about them until the 90s otherwise. I was surprised the first time I found out how far back they we

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