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by jlarcombe 4y ago
The time/frequency response graph ("waterfall") is incredibly good on the NS10; in layman's terms, it stops sounding as soon as the input stops, right across the frequency spectrum. Some much more expensive monitors are
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by jlarcombe 4y ago
what?
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by jlarcombe 4y ago
I am now that parent
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by jlarcombe 4y ago
Yeah. I do this, though I sometimes use an extra monitor depending on what I'm doing. The screen on the 16" Mac Book Pro is much nicer to look at all day than any reasonably priced external screen, and I find I tend to get a bit &
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by jlarcombe 4y ago
laptop stand + external keyboard / mouse / trackpad
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by jlarcombe 4y ago
Apsley House famously has (or had?) the address "Number 1, London".
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by jlarcombe 4y ago
Hmm maybe "smaller" but there was more stuff that just didn't exist (or work properly) for a year and a half in the 5->6 transition as there was in the 4->5 transition. I went through both transitions and this one was m
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by jlarcombe 4y ago
Never quite sure why people are so fixated on moc. It's by no means the most annoying thing about Qt and it works well in practice. The signals/slots mechanism is one of the best things about Qt.
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by jlarcombe 4y ago
The disassembly and analysis itself is impressive enough but the things he's done with it since are simply incredible for anyone who grew up playing the game... i mean a teletext version!! just ridiculous
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by jlarcombe 4y ago
Heh, "a" cathedral, St. Paul's! He didn't do many with a dome, St. Stephen's Walbrook the only one I can think of apart from St. Paul's. Most of his City churches are less grand, but no less interesting. https
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by jlarcombe 4y ago
I was there earlier. It's always great, even when busy (which Parliament Hill very much was this afternoon).
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by jlarcombe 4y ago
ha ha!
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by jlarcombe 4y ago
Tangentially related (they would technically have been motorways, I believe) but don't miss the Ringways history section on that excellent website: https://www.roads.org.uk/ringways
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by jlarcombe 4y ago
And dotted around the rest of London too! A lovely man, Muswell Hill legend.
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by jlarcombe 4y ago
This is a wonderful, wonderful book, and the Louth church is of course in it: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fifty-English-Steeples-Medieval-Eng...
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by jlarcombe 4y ago
Didn't feel much stiffness for a while after that then
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by jlarcombe 4y ago
Yes I saw the same thing countless times in London, lycra heroes on expensive bikes whizzing past me on the flat then I'd overtake them again on the way up the next hill! Happened particularly often in January after everyone had got th
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by jlarcombe 4y ago
Saw Horse Lords again last night, absolutely incredible band with microtonal guitar and bass, highly recommended. https://horselords.bandcamp.com/album/comradely-objects-2
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by jlarcombe 4y ago
About five or six years ago there was a single packet of 5.25 inch floppy discs for sale in the window of a strange shop near my office in London. It was one of those weird shops that never seemed to actually open or have anyone come throug
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by jlarcombe 4y ago
Yes and it was common for the player to tune (and presumably retune) fixed-intonation instruments like the clavichord... Bach famously had his own tunings that "sounded good". You still see this today with e.g. hurdy gurdy players
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by jlarcombe 4y ago
An interesting and fun-looking synth, though not really much in common with the real hurdy gurdy (not that there's anything wrong with that!) For those curious about something closer to the real thing, here's a laser-cut / 3D
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by jlarcombe 5y ago
they're super great, their software is ace. we used to work with them at my old company and they're lovely people too!
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by jlarcombe 5y ago
totally different back then, I suspect (just like Islington)
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by jlarcombe 5y ago
...and of course it was simple to interoperate with Objective-C in C++, in a way that it isn't for Swift, sadly
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by jlarcombe 5y ago
Go for a walk along the canal... I enjoyed working in Kings Cross for a year or so, but it is a slightly odd place. There are some nice small pubs and restaurants etc (better than the ones near Old Street, though less numerous) and loads of
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by jlarcombe 5y ago
The A3020 (and the consumer version, A3010, with green function keys!) was notable for having the first ARM system-on-chip; the ARM250 contained the ARM3 core (though cacheless) together with the support chips used on the earlier Archimedes
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by jlarcombe 5y ago
Amen. About once a year I spend an entire day reopening bugs in the Qt bug tracker while somewhere in Finland someone is sitting there closing them, like a sort of really annoying game. The process consists of (a) downloading the minimal te
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by jlarcombe 5y ago
Dont know about Netflix but I believe the BBC archive uses Martin Weston's adaptive 3-field deinterlacer. I think it's out of patent now and is available in ffmpeg and similar...
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by jlarcombe 5y ago
yeah it's Autechre and a load of their mates isn't it?
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by jlarcombe 6y ago
Hah I never noticed that those were those notes! I believe that's just a remarkable coincidence because the first, lower note is just the result of the SN76489 sound chip being powered up but "uninitialised", as it were. In t

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