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by buescher 2y ago
The article covers everything I miss about desktop applications in a nutshell. Mostly that wild sense of discovering what you can do with a computer that you might not have tried to do at all or left to experts. But also not least that yo
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by buescher 2y ago
You can do almost all of what you might do in Simulink or System Modeler in the VHDL-AMS simulator that comes with the Siemens (formerly Mentor) pcb design and layout packages, plus you can directly use SPICE models, VHDL models, and linear
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by buescher 2y ago
Even in jellybean analog, almost everything you can do with a 555 timer you can do with a quad comparator. And more. Over a bigger voltage range, too. It’s usually a design smell to see a 555 used for anything in a professional design, e
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by buescher 2y ago
Pare parts stock down to a minimum. You are going to have to order parts for nontrivial projects anyway. Keep the leftover parts from a project in the labeled Mylar bags they came in, in one of the cardboard shipping boxes. Label the box
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by buescher 2y ago
A friend used lush as his “secret weapon” for a while. I didn’t quite warm to it and now regret not paying attention. It’s amazing how much is packed in “batteries included.” Apparently it didn’t make the transition to 64-bit machines we
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by buescher 2y ago
> But you now have a valid second rolling code that will work. Once. Note also that the same technique will work on other OTP schemes that are not time-based.
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by buescher 2y ago
I have a pi running birdnet-pi on my porch. https://www.birdweather.com/birdnetpi
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by buescher 2y ago
That kind of embedded work, like connect-the-dots pcb layout work, went overseas 15-20 years ago. The typical new embedded project in the US today has minimally a not-particularly-resource-constrained 8-bit processor with gobs of fancy per
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by buescher 2y ago
As long as I can keep this ship, I will keep bailing.
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by buescher 2y ago
Take a look at the Mac editor Alpha. It is arguably emacs-in-tcl and did a very nice job of balancing cua-style keybindings with emacs-style. Better, if I remember correctly, than things like cua-mode. It’s been literally decades since I’
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by buescher 2y ago
The flip side of course is that 84-85 give or take makes up the “golden age” of 8-bit computer gaming. (And now, because true amateurs have kept on, but that’s different) By ‘86 the attention was shifting to the 16-bit platforms - DOS, Amig
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by buescher 2y ago
Kinematic design for precision mechanics - optical mounts, machine tools, robots, etc - is well known outside of the Dutch literature. It would still be interesting to know who your guy was talking about. Here’s a neat page: https:/
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by buescher 2y ago
It's not really about lisp or even about vague reverse-snobbish ideas of "practicality" but about very specific categories of design compromises.
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by buescher 2y ago
Yeah, that's where we are now. What would even better look like?
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by buescher 2y ago
I'd guess that's actually more likely. Interesting bit of jargon.
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by buescher 2y ago
Yes, but they probably mean "the next 72 hours from right now given in UTC".
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by buescher 2y ago
Good martial arts instructors are very experienced at working with unathletic beginners who have never had much coaching before. “No, the other left.” Probably easier to find a class at level as a total beginner where you’re still expecte
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by buescher 2y ago
With image-capable terminals and funky enhanced cli utilities we are sort of slouching towards something like a CLIM listener or a notebook interface at the shell. What would something in that vein that was really, really nice look like?
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by buescher 2y ago
I liked awk and perl was even better where either more structured (I know, I know) constructs were comfy or I needed perl dbi (which was awesome, what do people use now?) but that was a while ago. Sort of nuts that awk is much faster on re
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by buescher 2y ago
This appears to be a pretty complete implementation of the Logo programming language with a web-based IDE. Logo is derived from Lisp and was intended for teaching programming to children. Typical Logo implementations include "turtle&qu
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by buescher 2y ago
Right plus that was the transformation that was happening that they didn't follow - electronics and gadgets out of the mall and into big box stores like Best Buy and Circuit City. Tough too to get by on small parts for minor repairs wh
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by buescher 2y ago
My recollection is that they got out of the computer business after a very serious embezzlement case left them kind of broke around 1990, and that was the beginning of the long tailspin, but I can't find a reference to the exact story.
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by buescher 2y ago
Ah, yes, a step-by-step method for creating comedy from a site called rpgadventures - complete with templates, diagrams, and tables - what's funnier than that?
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by buescher 2y ago
I don't prefer top sirloin, and I don't usually buy the packs of individual steaks at Costco - I'll break down a rib or strip roast instead - so it's kind of invisible to me, but you're right - right now here USDA P
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by buescher 2y ago
Generally America's Test Kitchen, Cook's Illustrated, Cook's Country, and descendant ventures like Serious Eats and Milk Street are mostly good and pitched at a beginner-to-intermediate level. I wish I'd had them when I
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by buescher 2y ago
Check the USDA retail beef price survey; you might be overpaying for beef. It does break things down by region. Vacuum sealed USDA Choice or other graded beef doesn't care if you buy it from Aldi or from a high end grocer. I can&#x27
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by buescher 2y ago
We could see it coming, right?, as usenet was taken over by spam and "binaries". https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/writing/rant.html "by God I KNOW what this network is for, and you can't have it&
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by buescher 2y ago
Try youtube without an account or history. Even worse, on the smart tv in a hotel room.
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by buescher 2y ago
This is going to be the tabs vs spaces argument of the 21st century.
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by buescher 2y ago
95% certainty is also, for a normal distribution, two standard deviations. Two sigma events happen very regularly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/68%E2%80%9395%E2%80%9399.7_r...

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