exDM69

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by exDM69 7y ago
I think the point is in that there are so many z80 chips out there for scavenging and that there are plenty of consumer devices that can be used (like TI calculators). Even if they stop making them today, the supply will last long.
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by exDM69 7y ago
It might be that reaching expert level in human echolocation requires some "musical talent" to hear the differences. The Wikipedia article on human echolocation has some links to research groups and programs, maybe their publicati
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by exDM69 7y ago
I have normal eyesight but I have practiced echolocation for fun. I can gain some situational awareness and navigate familiar spaces with eyes closed. What you should hear is similar to tweaking a reverb effect in an audio software. With re
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by exDM69 7y ago
The related article about using CPU alignment checking for "type checking" tagged pointers is quite interesting. I wonder if this technique has been used before (in lisp machines or something?). I'd be interested in hearing a
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by exDM69 7y ago
I don't prefer being at the office. After 5+ years of predominantly remote work, I'm not going back to regular office hours. It's not even the commute, it's being at the office in an environment that does not promote get
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by exDM69 7y ago
If there is a political bias here, it's not major and mostly affects non-news items like columnists and opinion pieces. The news reporting is mostly pretty neutral. In comparison to American commercial news outlets like Fox News, it is
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by exDM69 7y ago
I'm not fluent at all. I had several long vacations there as a child, visit every now and then and have some exposure to news and culture. And I'm pretty good in getting a superficial understanding of a language, good enough to re
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by exDM69 7y ago
No it isn't :) As a Finnish speaker with some exposure to Estonian language, I can understand written and spoken Estonian better than any other language I've had such little exposure to. I'm not very good in speaking Estonia
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by exDM69 7y ago
I absolutely hate advertising on the radio. But thank goodness in "socialist" Scandinavia I have several ad-free radio stations to choose from. We've got a tax-funded national broadcaster (used to be a fee on radio ownership,
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by exDM69 7y ago
> Working with raw audio seem like the wrong abstraction layer for music I do kinda agree with you, but I wish I could find the classical music audio clip I mentioned. It was generating a fairly convincing clip of audio complete with an
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by exDM69 7y ago
I predict that streaming, listener analytics and metrics will have a much bigger effect on music production by removing the human producers for mass consumption pop music in the next two decades. The writing is on the wall. We're alrea
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by exDM69 7y ago
Even on a fast PC, Kerbal Space Program audio is choppy because of GC pauses. It's successful in spite of that, but that doesn't make it any better.
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by exDM69 7y ago
Drinking sugary liquid like coke causes very rapid rise in blood glucose levels and will require excessive amounts of injected insulin to maintain glucose in reasonable limits (which may lead to dangerous drop later). Eating something with
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by exDM69 7y ago
Some groups like T1 diabetics can not have the amount of sugar in "normal" fizzy drinks. That amount of sugar can cause issues from nausea to messed up glucose levels needing hospitalization. Hamburgers and fries are not a problem
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by exDM69 7y ago
Yes, farm work has periods of non stop work in spring and fall for a few weeks. And then some if there is livestock. But the annual work time was lower for a pre-industrial farmer compared to an American office worker making ads for the web
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by exDM69 7y ago
In modern farming, the hard part is not sitting in the tractor working on the fields. The struggle comes from running a business, taking care of financials and keeping the tractors running and cash flow positive in a very competitive, globa
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by exDM69 7y ago
Sound advise for general purpose programming but not for (high end) games. Especially these days with multi-threaded game engines, a call to malloc() (e.g. from vector resizing) may attempt to grab a contended mutex and end up waiting until
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by exDM69 7y ago
> On an unrelated topic, I wonder how KSP 2 will make multiplayer work with timewarp This is what I'm wondering too. I have had a "multiplayer space simulation with time warp" game design brewing in my head for quite some
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by exDM69 7y ago
> Pretty damn frustrating that Google doesn't have any unpaid inbound support _AT ALL_. Frustrating? Yes. Surprising? No. Afaik, there isn't even any paid support for individual customers unless you have some sort of business a
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by exDM69 7y ago
This video was (someone else?) flying a moon landing in a simulator with an FPGA emulated Apollo Guidance Computer. CuriousMarc's series is about restoring a real AGC.
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by exDM69 7y ago
Solar sails are intended for interplanetary travel in heliocentric orbit. Providing a continuous radial low thrust, resulting in an expanding spiral trajectory. In this application, the wind is always favorable. This is a proof of concept t
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by exDM69 7y ago
Uh, I don't mind if getting to the doctor or dentist for a non-urgent problem takes a week or so. I also don't mind if you have to pay a nominal fee (we've got a flat fee of about 20€ for a doctors visit, regardless of what t
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by exDM69 7y ago
> What if the initial values of the members are just constants In idiomatic rust impl Thing { fn new() -> Self { Thing { ival: 13, fval: 42.0 } } Another option is to use Default::default if approp
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by exDM69 7y ago
I'm assuming the "reading assembly" part is verifying compiler output matches what the programmer thinks and signing it off as a "blessed binary". Some safety critical areas of software are done this way, in aerospa
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by exDM69 7y ago
Even though grafting does not increase crop yield, it does reduce time to first harvest and improve resistance to certain kinds of pests and plant diseases, particularly at the root. In commerical wine production, most if not all vineyards
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by exDM69 7y ago
~~Note that the article mentions Pb-210 not Po-210, ie. lead not polonium. Pb-210 was known as Radiolead.~~ (edit: it actually contains both) Po-210 is deadly when ingested but not very dangerous when outside the body. It also has a very sh
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by exDM69 7y ago
Wow! Thanks for linking this. I do arts & crafts and I use some animal protein based products, leather and other non-vegan stuff and I am looking for vegan alternatives. As for TFA, I'm aware of a product called "Cactus juice&
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by exDM69 7y ago
No, I do not. According to the strength tests I've seen (and my experience with joinery reflects this), there is hardly any difference in strength between a box joint and a dovetail when done with equal precision and glued with modern
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by exDM69 7y ago
Watch enough of hand tool videos and soon you will be hand planing and scraping instead of finish sanding. Buying the sander and dust collector would probably be cheaper than all those hand planes, but there is something in that fine smooth
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by exDM69 7y ago
It usually is, but that depends on the additives used and the gram strength of the flakes used to cook the glue and the quality of the glue job. E.g. I cooked a batch of 192 gram strength glue with 50% table salt additive to keep it liquid

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