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by diydsp 11y ago
Ugh! Single buffered UARTS are catastrophic and outdated. sorry you had to go through that. ADI is more about raw processing power in base station apps; they don't seem to be interested in embedded, sigh. Thank you for getting back t
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by diydsp 11y ago
Any details you can share? I mostly don't use ADI due to closed compilers, but I had many fond experiences with 21xx and made one epic project with an early Blackfin.
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by diydsp 11y ago
Hi, Joe! > increasing loudness. Intriguingly, it hasn't been a continuous upgrade, like computers, etc. There was at least one major stratum in this evolution when patronage for music shifted from the church to the court. With lar
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by diydsp 11y ago
I have been reading and re-referring back to these articles for, well, 17 years! One important point about them is they emphasize creating familiar instruments such as guitar, flute, etc. That is a bit different - and rarer and more valuabe
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by diydsp 11y ago
I am strangely relieved that their perception of power is this basic: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh an
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by diydsp 11y ago
Yes, there are two great things about it: 1. It's free in PDF by chapter or you can buy it. 2. It has every example in BASIC. Now, BASIC obviously stinks, right? The idea isn't to use the code from the book, but the fact that it
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by diydsp 11y ago
Hiya, I posted my main website elsewhere in this thread, but this link in particular: http://diydsp.com/livesite/pages/home#DSP_Theory contains links to documents Gilbert Strange and Rick Lyons. These two are muc
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by diydsp 11y ago
DSPGuru.com is an excellent resource. If you want to learn more Digital Signal Processing, go and check out the website I've been running for a few years where I collect all the free online courses, introduction videos, FAQs and text
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by diydsp 11y ago
My lawyer friend echoes the same concern. A contract is two-way.
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by diydsp 12y ago
Just to be clear, does embeddable have a specific meaning here? I'm a firmware developer, often writing code for small CPUs and microcontrollers. Does this apply? It seems like here "embeddable" means it can be compiled in
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by diydsp 12y ago
I am sorry for whatever pain you're feeling. I don't feel the ethics of open-source apply here or to any works of art. Programs like Microsoft Word, which have a near-monopoly on the work that literally billions of people do every
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by diydsp 12y ago
Yes, a private citizen couldn't do this, because a private citizen can only spend so much time and money taking pictures, storing them and providing database access. If a group of private citizens were to pool their efforts, it would b
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by diydsp 12y ago
Congratulations! Beep.js works well enough to be added to my list of Great Online Music Tools: http://www.diydsp.com/index.php?title=Great_online_music_thi...
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by diydsp 12y ago
Your idea is interesting feedback. There is a legacy associated with this pattern, though: Going back to at least 1989 (Amiga Protracker family), people have been using this layout because it allows two simultaneous octaves, one at qwertyu
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by diydsp 12y ago
I was seated at the restroom at work yesterday morning when I noticed a strip of plastic had been added to the gap between the metal stall and the metal stall door. It was branded Privacy Cover (patent pending). Welcome to the future where
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by diydsp 12y ago
Offtopic, but I'm glad I discovered that Saleae scope. I haven't found any other economical way to sample a number of analog inputs in parallel. $219 for 8 analog inputs over USB is great value and I just ordered one. I didn&#
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by diydsp 12y ago
It's a totally fair question. It definitely doesn't make sense to nail it down to a single year... However, the same facts convince and persuade diffrent people through different aesthetics and contexts. This is especially true
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by diydsp 12y ago
Yes! Just in case anyone doesn't know, when you install joe, it adds a soft link to /usr/bin/jmacs. When you run 'jmacs', joe checks argv[0], and if it's jmacs, it binds all the functions to familar emac
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by diydsp 12y ago
I just read the article on In College and Hiding From Scary Ideas and made a connection to this one. It led me to wonder if a working population with more time on its hands would look like these college campuses...
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by diydsp 12y ago
yeah if the pages stored hashes of the script, it could be pre-executed before you even visit the page. or common libs like jquery could be pre-parsed into binary structs in RAM.
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by diydsp 12y ago
Yes, appending "in browser APIs" or something similar to the title would be less clickbaity.
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by diydsp 12y ago
FWIW, it's the age we're in. The previous generation's culture is just grist for today's commerical engines. Consider the implications when a publication informs us: "For any true fan of cartooning, it is a must-r
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by diydsp 12y ago
George Orwell, 1984 (1) (1) http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/540674-the-problem-was-how-t...
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by diydsp 12y ago
> implying the goal of fighting the war is to "win" it. The purpose of fighting the war is to motivate the mining and weapons development industries. If a constituency receives $50 million dollars to produce a type of ammuniti
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by diydsp 12y ago
> ISA->PCI->VESA->AGP->PCIe That's one way to look at it. Another is that we might have gone ISA->PCI->PCIe in a shorter overall timeframe b/c there were no distractions to get short-term stuff to market.
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by diydsp 12y ago
SAE J1772 is a North American standard for electrical connectors for electric vehicles maintained by the Society of Automotive Engineers and has the formal title "SAE Surface Vehicle Recommended Practice J1772, SAE Electric Vehicle Con
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by diydsp 12y ago
Exactly. And not even just in hobbyist space. There is a long-established history of running homes off of solar power using lead-acid batteries in professional installations. And not even just in homes; many, many businesses have investe
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by diydsp 12y ago
Note that this article claiming online video streaming needs to be saved is on a WebRTC marketing site "Powered by Technology Marketing Corp" advocating a competing technology. I don't think online video streaming needs to be
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by diydsp 12y ago
> The complete lack of food safety regulations and/or enforcement. There have been some major recalls due to food safety in the last 5-10 years(1). In the last 5 years, the Food Safety Modernization Act was passed (2). In the last
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by diydsp 12y ago
For ~50 years, Radio Shack rode major trends in consumer electronics quite well. Amateur radios, walkie-talkies, CB radios, home stereos, home computers, cell phones, they did it all (except interestingly PCs they didn't do so great).

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