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by csirac2 12y ago
That's fascinating. But what was the modulation scheme? What was the printing mechanism? Achieving this, stand-alone without user intervention in a 100% analogue system sounds like a story worth a bit more technical detail..
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by csirac2 12y ago
It was a bespoke build system but this aspect of it was similarly "wrong". IIRC pre-build commit, yes, was version-number related. It also gathered issues fixed in the release being built and updated change logs/release notes
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by csirac2 12y ago
Thanks for sharing, that sounds great. Do you have a GitHub/bit bucket/etc. account I could follow? I've found myself automating Debian/kernel/boot loader/libs/app stack packages for some ARM hardware for
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by csirac2 12y ago
I'm interested! I actually have had to work around the /etc/{passwd,group} shenanigans for other reasons, interested to see what you did there.
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by csirac2 12y ago
Ah, I should've thought twice about that - I'm not even attempting reproducible builds in my own work, but I've often seen my Dockerfiles have apt-get-induced shenanigans due to the particular day or half-broken mirror I happ
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by csirac2 12y ago
That's a cool story! I've also had "are you sure you're qualified to do that" conversations when working in remote areas on drilling rigs... certainly character-building thinking you've only further permanently
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by csirac2 12y ago
It can be surprisingly difficult. Funnily enough moving from svn git in one project I know of probably did a lot of the necessary work to achieve this, by having to remove reliance on $SVN tags and pre/post-"build commits" wh
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by csirac2 12y ago
That was my reaction too, but given all the reading of late I've been trying to do in order to understand WTF GamerGate is, I am reminded to start out by saying that we should be careful not to come across as questioning the validity o
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by csirac2 12y ago
Cool! I've actually had a Virtex-6 ML605 eval board for quite some time now, gathering dust... I always wondered what the Synflow toolchain looked like, it seems quite expensive - perhaps I can dust it off for Cx :-)
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by csirac2 12y ago
It's been 10 years since I did much FPGA dev, but at the time I had a lot of fun in Celoxica Handel-C. Sadly I could never quite synthesize my project to the size I could achieve with Verilog. I seem to recall having the Virtex-II data
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by csirac2 12y ago
virtualenv appears to be a giant, epic work-around for... what exactly? Somehow, perl managed to achieve the same thing with the PERL5LIB envar. And did it in a far more portable, reusable and repeatable way.
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by csirac2 12y ago
I was invited to interview with Google in Sydney (site reliability engineer), but the salary range was less than I was already making in a much cheaper town (Canberra). Arrogance is the right word... I got the impression they would prefer c
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by csirac2 12y ago
Well, I'm sure the creators of JSON weren't thinking of XML use-cases at the time. When it comes to solution-agnostic, self-describing, self-validating semantic markup, I'm not sure JSON-LD buys you much over RDF serialized t
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by csirac2 12y ago
A few years ago they mandated the inner-most 5mm or so of the active pins be insulated for that reason, so that by the time you have enough of the plug out to reach exposed conductor with your fingers it's disconnected. At least that&#
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by csirac2 12y ago
I think woz is perhaps staring at a big bank of 3, 5, 10 and 20A fuses though. As mentioned in my other comment, experimental aircraft have a few different instrumented electronic circuit breaker solutions such as http://vertical
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by csirac2 12y ago
Well, amateur experimental aircraft have something like this available: http://verticalpower.com/ - but there's a lot of negative reactions to this kind of technology, because it introduces new failure modes where none
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by csirac2 12y ago
It's been a few years, but the plant geneticists I used to work with until 2012 seemed to have to solve a lot of problems to get reliable full-genome sequences of de novo species (these have no reference assemblies to go by). Includi
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by csirac2 12y ago
No kidding; even my 2010 X61s had 8GB and my 2 year old X230 has 16GiB.
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by csirac2 12y ago
Typically I would agree with you, but I've worked on a lot of old codebases with extensive testing for deep scary private parts. A good example is some public method which does something seemingly innocent and useful, but in its guts c
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by csirac2 12y ago
For what it's worth, the perl object system was actually borrowed from Python, so perl code is full of $self (or $this) too.
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by csirac2 12y ago
Solr is something you can implement faceted search with , but I'm not sure what you'd want from emacs integration... Faceted search typically helps you drill down to find a set of objects or other discrete entities; not really fo
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by csirac2 12y ago
Wow, that's new - there didn't seem to be any low volume pricing info at all until now.
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by csirac2 12y ago
What a great list; I used this holiday season to build a similar list actually. Genode's potential is really understated in the post - it can apparently run a number of different microkernels including the formally verified seL4 which
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by csirac2 12y ago
And accessibility to small business.
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by csirac2 12y ago
An amazing write-up. Although I am using my EE training a lot more at work these days, and I've designed my fair share of MCU (and USB, FPGA, analog...) projects I've never found the time to dip into learning even a fraction of th
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by csirac2 12y ago
As a type 1 diabetic I can tell you that eating fat requires insulin commensurate with the energy it has. My own mental model of fat elevating my blood sugar level compared to other forms of energy is the rate at which it happens: somewhat
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by csirac2 12y ago
Ah, so a little more arbitrary than I assumed. I initially hated perl when I first started with it, for what it's worth. I guess you've progressed beyond the point of finding [1] helpful (even if the perl looks a bit strange to me
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by csirac2 12y ago
The thing about kerberized ssh that I've wondered, do you really want your kerberos session to open up ssh access to all the boxes in the enterprise you have an account on?
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by csirac2 12y ago
Why are accept headers next-to-worthless? I'm not heavily involved in front-end stuff these days but it's something I've relied on for years by now - admittedly not for image/media content, but still I'm curious.
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by csirac2 12y ago
In this specific use-case wouldn't plain old content-negotiation/accept headers work?

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