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by crb3 7y ago
For creativity, get used to running a fan nearby. If you're like me, your inbuilt pattern-matcher will autocomplete and drag up 'ghost impressions' while you're otherwise occupied. A fan is better than an electronic nois
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by crb3 7y ago
> When did using "+" instead of "&" become acceptable in proper English? I understand this is a tech blog and I have no problem with "+" used in a tech context, the use in a virtue signalling piece on th
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by crb3 7y ago
IRC lacks backscroll. Even if you park a bot in your channel to act as recording secretary, there's no low-friction means of getting at that history without going out of band. This means that spam doesn't persist... but neither do
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by crb3 7y ago
Chrome already ignores OS-level name-resolution in favor of phoning home directly to Google DNS unless you block their IP#s at your border. I see it daily in etherape. Side-effect: Chrome users on my LAN have to type in IP#s to browse local
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by crb3 9y ago
I suggest, on completion of a major task, you switch to cleaning up after the task. If possible, get up out of your chair to do this -- I find that the transition to physical movement helps this along. It's easier if it's a hardwa
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by crb3 9y ago
Post the results on http://ww.gredforge.net ?
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by crb3 9y ago
Fill out the comment-header first, then; that's what I do. That informal-prose chatty summary of what the code does and why, what it takes in and what its output is, becomes in my mind the spec for the code while I'm writing it, e
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by crb3 9y ago
16 isn't a good size according to the Rosenberg paper ( http://www.cs.miami.edu/~burt/learning/Csc609.022/random_num... ) but 15 and 17 are sizes you could program an ATtiny45 to generate if you just wante
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by crb3 9y ago
> I'm not sure what exactly is different between the two The 76477 ( http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/images/4/40/SN76477_-_Manual.pdf ) has more pins and uses them to bring out more of the controls. The
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by crb3 9y ago
Did you happen to notice how many shift-register stages made up the PRNG for the white-noise output? I'm sure I've got one of the chips on hand, so (eventually) I can 'scope the output for a good guess, but it'd be good
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by crb3 10y ago
In my assembler and technician days I stayed alert to visits by distributor reps: older but good databooks were likely to be found in the trashbins shortly thereafter, ready to be fished out and taken home. These days, for a given part-numb
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by crb3 10y ago
Not with your proposed marketing mechanism, but there's https://www.fictionpress.com/ -- a spinoff of https://www.fanfiction.net/ .
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by crb3 10y ago
> I always thought it should be called USRT when strictly synchronous, but indeed, everyone else called it USART, so I called it the "USART controller" Because the chips that do synchronous serial IME also do asynchronous, henc
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by crb3 10y ago
Yep, it was just the fever that knocked it out.
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by crb3 10y ago
I'm so much the other way that it's scary, because it's a vulnerability, one I didn't know about until it happened. Musical/artistic family, multi-talented all around me. I'd keep my suburban-bicycled paper-rou
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by crb3 11y ago
> Use the Bible. That's something a third of the world agrees on, and the whole west is founded upon it. http://www.haaretz.com/grounds-for-disbelief-1.10757 Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus. Sorry, that authority
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by crb3 11y ago
> makes it impossible to just plug in some perfboard with headers on it and make your own shields Not so. You just have to drill ten holes, using another piece of tenth-inch perfboard as a drilling guide. I've done it; it works.
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by crb3 11y ago
> Unfortunately, I don't know any good english books on the subject Absent a better recommendation from someone else, I'll suggest "Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit" by Adelle Davis. I regard it as a databook on the c
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by crb3 11y ago
> With InkWell we’ve tried to explore writerly creativity in a creative way—by letting the program emerge from a haze of half-known ideas The half-known ideas (templates) presented were not the author's own, instead they were borrow
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by crb3 11y ago
As does having a machine-level visual debugger for at least one of those architectures. Being able to switch to the CPU pane and see how C-function call and return were handled at the register level in Borland's Turbo Debugger was prof
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by crb3 11y ago
Maybe they got an NSL.
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by crb3 11y ago
> Surely the reproduction of an ancient hardware drum sequencer in today's software should be perfect. CD-quality is 44.1KHz sample-rate 16-bit stereo. That's 22us per sample. That's a lot of perceptible quantization error
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by crb3 12y ago
It can and did happen, as the afflicted chip was the SMPS controller. At last, a use for all those write-protect stickers we collected for floppies...
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by crb3 12y ago
> Worse, people who still pay any attention to paper mail are likely to send you back a reply on paper or call you. Now you need a mail room, a data entry operation, and a call center. I'm not all that happy about paper spam either,
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by crb3 12y ago
One bit/pin can be more than enough if you can code some state behind it. On one embedded MCU job, I ended up with just one port pin free. I tied it to a piezo-oscillator and played short Morse strings through it; that was my printf. (
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by crb3 12y ago
IIRC 7-bit refresh. Good for 4116's; 4164's needed extra logic.
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by crb3 12y ago
Like I said, it's a visualization technique, and it works better if you have some experience with pushing your mental energies around. Practice in Wiccan grounding, centering and shielding helps (Google that or start with http:/&
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by crb3 12y ago
That's not universal. I've read that infants / small children tend to like sleeping while wrapped / confined. This adult: not so much. (Part of that is probably the Minuteman attitude I've adopted since becoming a s
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by crb3 12y ago
How do you drink your coffee? If you sugar it, you're not dealing with just the caffeine.
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by crb3 12y ago
Two techniques from my experience: - 'walk back' in your mind to center yourself away from forebrain activity and visual activity (this is a visualization technique) - cover your back with something insulated and/or warm. The

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