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by eichin 1y ago
200kloc is what, 4 reams of paper, double sided? So, 10% of that famous Margaret Hamilton picture (which is roughly "two spaceships worth of flight code".) I'm not sure the intuition that gives you is good but at least i
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by eichin 1y ago
The innovation here is that the step function didn't traditionally go down
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by eichin 1y ago
Do you mean calendar-year-major version numbers? (ubuntu aspell-en is "2020.12.07-0-1") I like the name, but google only found this comment mentioning it :-)
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by eichin 1y ago
We've known for decades that self-reported time perception in computer interactions is drastically off (Jef Raskin, The Humane Interface in particular) so unless they have some specifically designed external observations, they are
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by eichin 1y ago
It might be a lot easier to check the ratio "by hand" (by counting rotations etc) if it's numerically simple. (IIRC in some earlier videos he noticed that the pulley size ratio wasn't producing the expected movement r
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by eichin 1y ago
No problem calling it parsing, but yeah, "compilation" feels like a huge stretch. And they didn't do recursive descent - just tokenizing for compactness (when you only have 4k or 16k of RAM you do things like that) - you c
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by eichin 1y ago
TurboDOS was a contemporary one - had multiprocessing (as in, you could have multiple Z80 CPU boards in a single card cage that passed messages over a bus) and was delivered as linkable objects, so you could customize the OS for your hardwa
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by eichin 1y ago
> necessary to compile Um, no? your experience is probably at least two decades after the time period in question.. The more advanced versions of, for example, the TRS-80 BASIC (part of this "microcomputer BASICs that all share a c
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by eichin 1y ago
Not exactly. The human hand is really advanced within the constraint of "you can't just arbitrarily replace damaged parts". If you can swap in replacement fingers, 3 of them is fine (and much easier to model and perform gras
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by eichin 1y ago
Also, there was at least one scientific graphics package from the late 1980s (I used it under BSD4.3 on microvaxen[0]) that not only had a crayon-based color picker, but used it for a simple calibration mechanism, since you could just buy a
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by eichin 1y ago
Isn't this also better from a Fitts' Law perspective (for sighted mouse users) - simply because more text makes the "target" larger? (Not that I've seen a desktop browser doing anything sensible with artificially b
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by eichin 1y ago
Yeah, this rendering is Just Wrong - moon phase is viewing a half-lit sphere from different angles, no external shadows are involved. Maybe look at https://github.com/chubin/pyphoon instead, which claims a history inc
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by eichin 1y ago
If you haven't solved the near-far focus problem, you don't actually have AR in the first place?
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by eichin 1y ago
Plus the varied taboos about even talking about it; my mom had stories of having had a brother (in the early 1940's) and then just... not having one, "and noone talked about it". (Some of that is the vagaries of childhood me
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by eichin 1y ago
We had a "smart display" that was a wall-projector that someone was throwing out, a raspi zero and some python code that used SDL to display some numbers (in a huge font) from a requests fetch of a csv file. Once we moved out of
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by eichin 1y ago
I had friends in MIT's computational linguistics group back in the 1980s who did a casual get together where they'd take turns handing out spectrograms of human speech and for the rest of the group to try and interpret. Apparentl
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by eichin 1y ago
Of interest: > Sound ID is trained on audio recordings that are first converted to visual representations (spectrograms), then analyzed using computer vision tools similar to those that power Photo ID. Yeah, the spectrogram scrolling by
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by eichin 1y ago
I haven't used one for food yet, but I picked up a cheap ($35) kyocera as a workshop knife and it's been great; dropped it on concrete and knocked a 1mm² chunk off of the very tip, but the edge is still great after six months of
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by eichin 1y ago
Hmm, it feels like there'd be some interesting crossover between this and https://seattleultrasonics.com/pages/knife-database but while the "Quantified Knife Project" has a lot of numeric test-result dat
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by eichin 1y ago
Back in 2018 when this dropped (I backed the kickstarter) I got a code and used it to download an mp4 from vimeo.
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by eichin 1y ago
As a python and markdown user, the triple-quoted strings never ending bugs me, or am I misreading the examples?
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by eichin 1y ago
From my perspective, anubis (and iocaine etc) is about keeping misbehaving load generators from suppressing small-scale "classic internet" sites. So yeah, it's exclusionary, like keeping semi trucks from taking shortcuts thr
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by eichin 1y ago
With a catchphrase like "reclaim the public internet" I expected they were funding Anubis https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/anubis/ (don't get me wrong, they've got a neat list of projects, I&
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by eichin 1y ago
And Ubuntu ESM got used as an excuse/"life support" for python 2 via 16.04 until horrifyingly recently. (With a layer of "you can still get ESM for 14.04, we're not that far behind" :-)
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by eichin 1y ago
heh, will this become the equivalent of "in mice" for bio papers?
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by eichin 1y ago
But now at least the language has the necessary rope (and an opportunity for a cultural push to insist on it.)
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by eichin 2y ago
Samsung Note (9 and 24 at least) has an "NFC and contactless payments" toggle (and a UWB one) on the page with wifi and bluetooth (Settings → Connections) but I don't know if it's "doesn't emit" or just &q
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by eichin 2y ago
> cut at a more or less arbitrary point Cut literally - I worked on a student newspaper (with professional phototypesetting gear, comparable to the city papers - AKI Ultrasystem) and second-tier "filler" content was just set
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by eichin 2y ago
It's amused me for years that among all the songs I listen to that "can't possibly be that old", the album leadin track is self-documenting: "our brand new record // for nineteen ninety"...
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by eichin 2y ago
Ah, that makes more sense than anything I could find on the page (version only appeared as a substring of conversion.) Having only used blender for "minor tweaks to a collision model of a robot workspace" which got managed in git,

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