chris_st

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   by chris_st 4y ago

   I really wish I'd typed "36mm" due to knowing what mauvehaus et al. wrote, but it was just a typo on my part... TIL!
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   by chris_st 4y ago

   If I understand the article, the author says that the camera, instead of filling the full 36mm frame on each shot, only fills half. Regular processing, then, takes these pairs of half photos and prints two on each "regular" print,
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   by chris_st 4y ago

   Thanks saiya-jin -- great insights. I think it's amazing how strong opinions can be on tools!
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   by chris_st 4y ago

   For whatever it's worth, my wife's (fairly small) project is still on Eclipse since before 2010. They know it and like it.
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   by chris_st 4y ago

   I used to have a script name ".ase" (meaning "as someone else") that I'd source when I was doing something for someone else, and had become root. I was very careful to make sure it just had safe aliases there.
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   by chris_st 4y ago

   Something that would be REALLY useful would be to have indications of food allergy ingredients found in the menus of restaurants. It's really disappointing to hear about a great restaurant, and then find out that they have something th
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   by chris_st 4y ago

   Reminds me a bit of the poem, "The Last Bug", possibly best read here with links and all: https://everything2.com/title/the+last+bug
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   by chris_st 4y ago

   I got to work on a (very) brief project -- I had two weeks to add features to a product to demo at a trade show. The person who had written the code I inherited had done a really good job of setting up a nice architecture, and used a libr
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   by chris_st 4y ago

   Bunnie Huang [1] has written/spoke on this topic. I think he mentions it in the Shenzen documentary [2]. Quote from the documentary page: > We examine the unique manufacturing ecosystem that has emerged, gaining access to the world’
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    by chris_st 4y ago

    No. I loved Calvin and Hobbes when it first came out, and all through its initial run. When it came back after his time off, it had changed. The initial Calvin was just a random force in the universe, and he happened to irritate/puzz
11. 161.▲
    by chris_st 4y ago

    Looks interesting! Might be nice to have some basic songs to learn.
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    by chris_st 4y ago

    I could have worded it better -- the funny bit to me, is that an article that's all about how these algorithms are questionable at best decided to side with the algorithm against my word! And, yeah, no one has ever accused me of being
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    by chris_st 4y ago

    I see this, and it just makes me think that if they had, we'd be seeing posts that say, "Apple's greed (in maintaining the egregious 10% commission for so long) is going to undermine their entire ecosystem. If Apple moved vol
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    by chris_st 4y ago

    I think it's hilarious that it decided, based on the AI algorithm, that I lied about my age!
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    by chris_st 4y ago

    Not entirely AI-generated, but one of the two folks on this project used an AI music generator (called "Jukebox", IIRC, but it's not on the page) to generate snippets based on the other's musical ideas, and then the two
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    by chris_st 4y ago

    I like iClip [1] for this purpose, for one substantial reason: You can use the "left-arrow" icon on each history box to past the unstyled (that is, plain text with no fonts, colors, sizes, etc.) version of whatever text is in th
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    by chris_st 4y ago

    Really enjoyed her "Visit from the Goon Squad". Highly recommended.
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    by chris_st 4y ago

    https://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com
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    by chris_st 4y ago

    I found one.
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    by chris_st 4y ago

    Thanks for the clarification -- interesting to know!
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    by chris_st 4y ago

    There was a variant of GCC (called GCC*, of course) that compiled the C* dialect into "ordinary" C that would run on ordinary computers. You might be able to track that down.
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    by chris_st 4y ago

    Cool, thanks for the update. Yeah, the LEDs were cool -- legendarily good for debugging, but I never heard or saw any way to do that.
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    by chris_st 4y ago

    Aka "Slice-wise" mode. The FP units were optional (the project I was on didn't need FP, so we didn't have them). IIRC slice-wise mode was only available via their parallel FORTRAN compiler.
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    by chris_st 4y ago

    One of their mottos was, "Building a machine that will be proud of us."
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    by chris_st 4y ago

    Minor clarification -- the CM1 was the 4096-processor machine. The CM2 had (well, those delivered to customers, anyway) a minimum of 8,192 processors, and up to a maximum 65,535. I worked on one for a number of years. I heard (but never saw
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    by chris_st 4y ago

    This comment reminds me of the meme that floats through the guitar groups I'm on. It goes something like: - Person 1: Wow, you're an incredible musician! - Musician: Thanks, it's taken a lot of work. - P1: How i
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    by chris_st 4y ago

    > There's probably more content uploaded to YouTube in a single day than I could watch in my lifetime. "500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute worldwide (Tubefilter, 2019). That’s 30,000 hours of video upload
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    by chris_st 5y ago

    Good points, thanks!
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    by chris_st 5y ago

    Unfortunately, in today's job market, the first (seemingly only, sometimes) gate is what keywords are in your online resume/CV for the software to find, and hand to a human recruiter. And, in my experience, the human may not know
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    by chris_st 5y ago

    Recently found out that BPAP/VPAP [0] is a thing. It locks onto your breathing and has one pressure for in-breaths, another for out-breaths. Friend with one says it's great. My apnea is not bad enough to require such intervention.