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by dognotdog 6y ago
I did kind of make the assumption that you'd have a code editor that has some form of paren highlighting, at least, though I've never actually found this to be a bigger problem in Lisp than other languages.
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by dognotdog 6y ago
Maybe you don't need to spin at all because reducing air pressure would allow evaporating all the water at low enough temperatures?
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by dognotdog 6y ago
I think you can use whatever to do Lisp. I'd start with something simple like Scheme, and definitely by watching and doing the SICP lecture recordings from now 34 (!) years ago: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electric
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by dognotdog 6y ago
> I think once CAN bus started becoming ubiquitous beyond OBD-II compliance [...] OBD has always been a small subset of what's happening on the CAN bus, or rather busses, nowadays. Some of the vendor specific things are necessarily
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by dognotdog 6y ago
Is there a way to get Windows to behave better? I was sorely disappointed by how things look in HDR mode, especially the fact that gamut seems to be abysmal compared to the same display in SDR mode, not even considering the terrible black l
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by dognotdog 6y ago
I, too, am on 2014 hardware. The real step that would move me to update would be more RAM with the Apple Silicon. The last gen Intel hardware did offer 32GB of RAM, but not much else to justify the cost over a 6 year old precursor.
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by dognotdog 6y ago
I'd second that, Elixir does away with the sometimes vexing comma and dot syntax used for scoping. Also, it does have mutable variables. You do have to get to grips with pattern matching and processes as objects being such core concept
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by dognotdog 6y ago
The CoreMediaIO DAL plugin path is very fraught because of GateKeeper/SIP mechanism all trying to stop 3rd party code from being loaded into apps. The macOS kernel does have, in theory, the possibility to create a .kext that emulates a
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by dognotdog 6y ago
I do use a D800 with a 50/F1.4 lens for video conf calls. A lot of the current generation DSLRs do provide XGA, 1024x768 sized preview images when tethered, as, surprise surprise, that is the resolution of their viewfinder/screen.
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by dognotdog 6y ago
FaceTime, Safari, and on Big Sur, apparently even QuickTime Player can no longer use 3rd party CoreMediaIO DAL plugins due to codesigning/sandboxing/SIP issuess. The short of it is that generally within the SIP (system integrity p
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by dognotdog 6y ago
Those observations resonate with me. This does sound a lot like the now almost ancient dream of Prolog/Smalltalk where you'd have this much more semantic and malleable environment to work with and shape to the specific purpose it
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by dognotdog 6y ago
Oh, I've had the joy of working with Perforce, Jazz / Team Concert, etc. /s Git is widest adopted, period (EDIT: because of how it blossomed out of linux dev, essentially). I was able to stick to bzr or fossil for a lot of th
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by dognotdog 6y ago
I do find this mildly amusing – and sad – as git is possibly one of the worst SCMs for non-programmers because its command set is so bottom-up, and therefore doesn't align with a naive mental model of how version control should work,
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by dognotdog 6y ago
Is it only me, or does this sound pretty empty? Except for narrowing of the `specialty occupation` moniker, all the rest seem like things that are already part of the H1-B program?
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by dognotdog 6y ago
Applying ferrites is definitely a little bit of a dark art, I'm glad to see this article. What I did miss is showing what simple turns of the wire without a core do to the signal :)
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by dognotdog 6y ago
I'm a big fan of Fossil, but I've sadly not used it in a while for new projects, as when stuff has to go on gitlab or github it is just too inconvenient. Even though one-way pushes to github/gitlab via --fast-export / --
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by dognotdog 6y ago
IMO, the problem with Arduino in production is not necessarily one of quality, but the fact that is geared towards getting the first prototype up and running as fast as possible, but is difficult to use for production where eg. real-time an
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by dognotdog 6y ago
I think that's the crux of good design :) It doesn't mean to unnecessarily expose implementation details, but I take it to be the other way around: implement things in a way that things work consistently without having to know the
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by dognotdog 6y ago
I've recently tried to get a simple webpage snappier replacing hi-res images with appropriate sizes and including heights -- not only widths -- to prevent re-layouts was easy enough, but then… The single biggest offender in both downlo
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by dognotdog 6y ago
I came to say exactly the same thing! An API should guide a user to form a mental model that is consistent with the actual inner workings to avoid frustration and making errors (the importance of this cannot be overstated for critical funct
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by dognotdog 6y ago
Interesting doesn't even begin to cover Ashgabat. It is positively surreal. It looks as if somebody was playing Sim City in cheat mode. And getting through the beaurocracy, crossing the border by car was very much akin to https:/
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by dognotdog 6y ago
The sensor size does make a huge difference. Images from an APS-C or Full-Frame sensor do stand out.
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by dognotdog 6y ago
I had to LOL, this is so true. For one project I've spent considerable time trying to get the Azure IoT SDK going on a low-cost Wifi chipset, only to find out that it ended up not working after all the platform glue was in place becaus
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by dognotdog 6y ago
> A big risk here is that it's very easy for refactoring you make a codebase worse. That seems to happen when refactorings are infrequent and random, vs. a well-groomed codebase. Of course the well-groomed codebase is a mythical cre
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by dognotdog 6y ago
I have never, in the past at least 15ish years of working daily on a mac, triggered this accidentally. But, I have needed to perform it a handful of times.
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by dognotdog 6y ago
There's also https://earthtime.org/ which shows the same satellite imagery PLUS all kinds of additional data layers (disclaimer: I work in the lab that created it)
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by dognotdog 6y ago
That is interesting. It might be a semantic difference between actually recording a movie stream via PTP, vs. using Live View, which is what I am doing. Libgphoto2 seems to support both, but I haven't tried the former, as the setup see
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by dognotdog 6y ago
Canon does have something , but it does have problems. E.g., it cannot get around the Library Validation problem with Zoom and Skype (they tell you it can't be used with those, which isn't quite true), plus you cannot change came
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by dognotdog 6y ago
Very nice, definitely give it it's own repo! I would've gone with libgphoto2, too, if the Mac didn't already have all this half-baked PTP infrastructure in place, and if libgphoto2 would've been easier to integrate into
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Show HN: Nikon DSLR as video conf webcam on Mac
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