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by camtarn 5y ago
As a queer HN'er - thank you for writing and compiling this! It's quite some amount of work. Like you say, it's so important for a community to know its own history.
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by camtarn 5y ago
At work, I use Windows Subsystem for Linux extensively, but I need to run Windows for a proprietary IDE. I'd probably consider switching over if it weren't for that. At home, I use music programs which only run on Windows. I also
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by camtarn 5y ago
Hehe, yeah. We run B&R PLCs which are fairly beefy Atom processors under the hood.
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by camtarn 5y ago
We're a bit of a weird case in that we log data at 20Hz and 100Hz for prototypes, so we need custom queries and/or aggregation to reduce that down for display. We had a good chat with Inductive earlier this year, but even they sai
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by camtarn 5y ago
Yes, agreed. This is basically what we do at my work: plot stuff from PLCs onto Grafana, while coping with intermittent connectivity. I'd love to buy a ready-made product that could do it, but there's literally nothing out there t
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by camtarn 5y ago
I was curious, so I looked up the actual law in the US. It doesn't fall under fair use, as that only covers the use of small portions of a work for a very limited set of uses. But you might be right. It really depends on whether playin
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by camtarn 5y ago
> This is the equivalent of playing a record over the phones to my friends Yeah, that's against copyright law too. It's just that if you were doing that yourself, it would be on too small a scale for the record industry to figh
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by camtarn 5y ago
Monte Carlo simulation? Have your CI server run millions of games in fast forward, and collect as many statistics as you can. When you make a change, check that the stats that you expected to change did change, and that others stayed the sa
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by camtarn 5y ago
Holy crap, I haven't heard that name for a long long time. I played the heck out of M.A.X. back in the day. I'll check maxr out!
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by camtarn 5y ago
Haha, yeah - many years later, finding the .IT files in the original Unreal Tournament and downloading a tracker was what got me into composing music on the PC. It was wonderful having the music available in such a reverse-engineerable form
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by camtarn 5y ago
The notes were already encoded as frequency and duration. The Huffman coding was required to get that down to an even smaller size. RLE might have helped for repeated notes - but I guess Huffman coding kinda compensates for that anyway, in
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by camtarn 5y ago
Both the companies I've worked for issued a desktop, for primary development, and a laptop, for WFH and on-call.
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by camtarn 6y ago
"If you express nuance ... There is no room for thought or reason in this movement unless it points to a narrative that white men are evil oppressors." The irony of this juxtaposition - bemoaning lack of nuance, then immediately f
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by camtarn 7y ago
Amazon does have vendor and seller managers who are allocated to specific vendors/sellers. I'm surprised that for a $2.4M/year AWS customer (presumably with the highest support level) that they wouldn't have a similar se
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Speed kills: are police chases out of control?(theguardian.com)
6 points by camtarn 7y ago|1 comments
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Kodak Park, New York State, Had a Nuclear Reactor(eu.democratandchronicle.com)
1 points by camtarn 7y ago|0 comments
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by camtarn 7y ago
Plenty of cobbled streets in old European cities, some of them open to vehicle traffic - here in Edinburgh, for instance.
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A live map of marine traffic(marinetraffic.com)
171 points by camtarn 7y ago|72 comments
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Interpreting Hip-Hop for the Deaf (2017)(pitchfork.com)
14 points by camtarn 7y ago|1 comments
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Climbing into the hub of a wind turbine, from the outside [video](youtube.com)
2 points by camtarn 7y ago|0 comments
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by camtarn 7y ago
This one, I reckon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piQpLL5nD18
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Chicago's largest pipe organ – an instrument the size of a building [video](youtube.com)
1 points by camtarn 7y ago|0 comments
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I'm a retired bank robber – ask me anything (2015, summary)(reddit.com)
14 points by camtarn 7y ago|0 comments
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by camtarn 7y ago
The Far Cry world generation talk was incredible - thanks for the link!
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Controlling an Epson Print Head from an FPGA(techref.massmind.org)
1 points by camtarn 7y ago|0 comments
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Direct to PCB InkJet Resist Printing (2006)(techref.massmind.org)
68 points by camtarn 7y ago|40 comments
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How to Salvage Useful Parts from Printers and Scanners [video](youtube.com)
3 points by camtarn 7y ago|0 comments
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Arduino-Based MIDI Expression Pedal(codeproject.com)
3 points by camtarn 7y ago|0 comments
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by camtarn 7y ago
The rest of the answers to this question can be found here, for the curious: https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-coders-worst-nightmare/
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by camtarn 7y ago
Part of it might be the reason I've never particularly gotten into Maker culture. It's very easy to make a little beginner project which is fun but doesn't do anything particularly useful. However, more advanced projects eith

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