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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
I find the mis-installed panels of the Cosmonaut a little more appealing than they would have been, done properly. The vista of the original design is certainly appealing in its symmetry - but the misaligned panels provide a narrative, rat
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
The cost of a single F35 could fund so much peace in the world. The only reason this isn't happening is because the people making sure the American people keep endlessly funding these programs have no intention whatsoever to make peac
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
It was a beautiful, sunny day when my tiBook, the first generation arrived. It was exciting, Apple were building decent hardware again, MacOS X was on its way. I unpacked it, plugged it in, and set up my Ricochet Modem. A few hours later,
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
Of course its true - we wouldn't have gotten to the moon, or been able to build world-encompassing highway and Internet systems, without the critical mass of people who built our academic and industrial institutions. To see the nature
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
Here's a random dungeon generator GAME (get potion, avoid snake, explore dungeon) that fits in 10 lines of BASIC [1] and would probably easily fit on a business card, too: https://bunsen.itch.io/the-snake-temple-by-rax
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
The Japanese electronics giants of that era had an alterntive to MIX, in the ITRON [1] initiative, which included plans for a system-wide virtual machine to be used for compatibility purposes .. Knuths' books, while popular among Japan
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
We took away the compilers so there would be generations of consumers instead of coders.
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
>airbags I really have to wonder if these are really gasbags, containing something like pure nitrogen or whatever .. but did we introduce Earth gas to Mars' atmosphere in this process?
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
I have multiple Macs in my house, a couple iPads and tons of iPhones .. what I really want more than anything is to be able to access any/all of them with virtual screens. If Vision Pro provides this experience - seamless displays of a
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
Portability and effectiveness. Sure, for you a dongle is great. But not if you're in the trenches covered in mud and you have to dig it out of a pocket somewhere ..
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
Technically, this is not necessarily knitting, its crocheting ..
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
A sailboat typically flies about 5 - 8 square meters of material in the sails, pulling 3 - 4 tons of material around the world ..
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
I'm reminded of the folks working on getting the Motorola M56k DSP emulator working so well that it can boot the firmware for many popular digital-analog synthesizers directly, and pretty much produce word-compatible output from factor
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
PC-Write. Bought the sources, too. PKZIP. Was pretty much required. Quarterdesk Desqview. Used it for 6 months, then switched to Linux. And of course, DOOM .. Wolfenstein .. Spectre VR ..
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
> the medications are safe to fly on Citation?
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
By exploiting existing long-established natural underground rivers and water basins ..
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
Right - is it not the case that this object is tracking Mode 1 CD-ROM physical (i.e. rotational) frames, not audio/video frames? That is .. a Mode 1× CD-ROM drive reads 150/2 = 75 consecutive sectors per second ... 150k/se
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
This has now become more confusing than Linux.
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
Get your finite non-linearity fix here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080010/ Great movie, well recommended ..
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
In since it was Chips 'n Dips. Still got my 3-number slashdot ID. Were definitely some crazy great days, refreshing slashdot back in the day ..
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
I use my recently acquired uConsole (clockwork Pi) with the RISC-V module to teach myself RISC-V Assembly and so on. Once I'm done with it in that capacity, I'm going to use it for email. All these mini-devices get evaluated on t
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
>Visual Basic allowed people with minimal knowledge of computers to write useful applications Over a weekend, I built a very useful application using only the `yad` [1] tool, sqlite3, and BASH scripts. Its a membership system with integ
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
The great thing about FM is that it is quite a digital technology .. Dexed: https://zynthian.org/engines/_engine-list/engine-dexed .. can be run on Zynthian ( http://zynthian.com/ ) And, there is th
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
>My point was that that does not scale. Thanks for the clarification. >Also, I didn't have a scheduler. The point of interrupts is that you don't need a scheduler. I think where we digress in position is that I do not think
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
>I've done real-time too. There is a case for signals in strictly real-time, strictly high-performance, and also strictly realtime+high-performance code. You have decided to go strictly for high-performance, for your well-argued r
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
Oh, there are many exploits in this example code which could be demonstrated. But this is not production code, and shouldn't be read this way. In my opinion the writer quite clearly establishes that this code and methodology is only
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
Stupid question: Is the math of the design of cup based on the math of the water? In other words, are the actual curves and angles of things derived from the surface tension properties of water in space? So, if one wanted to make a capilla
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
In my very early days with Linux, my side-distraction 386 had been running a hand-cobbled kernel, cross-compiled, no network access, and then with some rootfs and bin tools built by following some obscure thing I read on minix-list. And it
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
The recent Oric Atmos fan make is pretty nice, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC1cJGLGlxo
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by helpfulContrib 3y ago
I admit that I watched the video, and have followed octopus discoveries for decades now - having had my own youthful enlightenment on the subject in regions bearing blue rings - and found myself internally compelled to find some way that

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