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by kbob 5y ago
> Namely, consider a huge exchange like Binance, which could technically run off with everyone's money. > I bet it won't though, precisely because it's SO BIG Quoth the Wikipedia: Mt. Gox was a bitcoin exchange based in
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by kbob 5y ago
The semiconductor fabs didn't shut down last year, did they? If we've run out of so many chips, there must be a glut of some other chips that nobody wants? Are distributors holding zillions of unsellable obscure level shifters or
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by kbob 5y ago
IIRC (I did this in 2018-19), the image updates at ~58 frames per second. There were numerous difficulties in making video of these. The LEDs' duty cycles are actually very short. HUB75 lights at most one row in 32 at any given insta
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by kbob 5y ago
The new iMac has lower resolution (4480x2520, 218 dpi) than the old 27" iMac (5120x2880, 218 dpi).
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by kbob 6y ago
Is Eagle a viable alternative to KiCad these days? I stopped using it around KiCad 4. (2015?) At that time, they seemed to be feature-equivalent, but KiCad has been improving fast since then.
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by kbob 6y ago
I wonder whether this work could eventually enable a native Vulkan port for MacOS on this GPU.
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by kbob 6y ago
Are there Latin- or Greek-derived words for base 64 and base 256?
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by kbob 6y ago
To this day, I have a subconscious desire to use postfix increment and prefix decrement because of the PDP-11's addressing modes. "p++, --p"
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Music Theory and White Supremacy [video](youtube.com)
4 points by kbob 6y ago|7 comments
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by kbob 6y ago
> As an analogy, imagine a music professor claiming that classical music is the only form of music, and then proceeding to use Western classical music notation and scales to transcribe Indian ragas. It's probably not a coincidence t
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by kbob 6y ago
> beige and grey Windows Vista era software and shitty enterprise software That's not my image of Oracle at all. I think of a shark feeding frenzy.
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by kbob 6y ago
> If you went back a few decades and suggested people would be strapping supercomputers on their wrists, you'd likely be committed to an institution. Either the funny farm or the funny pages. https://dicktracy.fandom.com&
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by kbob 6y ago
This looks a little like the NDLR from Conductive Labs. The NDLR is a hardware box. While you can enter chord progressions into it, it's intended for live performance where you enter chords as it plays them. My issue with the NDLR is
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by kbob 6y ago
Has everyone forgotten /usr/bin/units ? $ units furlong/fortnight c * 5.5474886e-13 / 1.8026175e+12 It's been there since the 1970s...
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by kbob 6y ago
Make is not just a build system; it's also an interactive development tool. It's useful to be able to build parts or variants, run tools such as static analyzers, build and run unit tests, flash embedded devices, etc. Make can o
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by kbob 6y ago
GP might be referring to "make -j 4" which allows controlled parallelism.
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by kbob 6y ago
I came here to say this. College towns are my favorite places to live. I think a big part of it is that the faculty and staff both create and demand culture more than average people. They also appreciate and support public schools and lib
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by kbob 6y ago
I was 18 the first time I saw a computer. Before that, I gathered info from books, newspapers, magazines, libraries. I stored info on papers in notebooks, and on film. I communicated in person, on the phone, and via mail. And in gener
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by kbob 6y ago
I believe the Tesla Models 3 and Y's LCD screens were a cost cutting measure -- one LCD replaces dozens of smaller screens, switches, buttons, and indicators, as well as the PCBs and metal chassis to support them and the molded plastic
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by kbob 6y ago
Macropy transforms Python's AST. So it doesn't allow anything that Python can't parse. I spent some time earlier this year looking at tapping into the Python compilation process before the AST is generated, in order to allow
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by kbob 6y ago
Not just the last few years. Bay area mortgages have been jumbos for decades. When I bought my first house in San Jose for $325K in 1994, the conforming loan limit was $200K.
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by kbob 7y ago
Did he calculate the value in decimal? The record would probably be a lot easier to achieve if he'd gone with, say, base 14. Everybody does decimal, even though there's no theoretical advantage, and no practical advantage since
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by kbob 7y ago
Is the High Line a question that needs answering? The one time I visited it, it was crowded shoulder-to-shoulder, and getting through the people was distracting enough that I barely saw the scenery.
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by kbob 7y ago
My default audience is myself before I started working on this problem. I assume general and technical knowledge, but little domain-specific knowledge and no knowledge of how the solution works. Sometimes I'll target specific team mem
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by kbob 7y ago
From that chapter: > If a function only transforms data, we should avoid verbs wherever possible. This is a rule I use, but was not aware of until just now. Thank you.
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by kbob 7y ago
Contrariwise, I try to keep my code under 72 columns wide, and impose a hard limit at 80. Long lines are hard to read, no matter what screen they're on.
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by kbob 7y ago
> list comprehensions Yes. Very much yes. My personal rule is to _always_ use single-letter names for Python comprehension indices, because line length is the biggest enemy of readability there.
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by kbob 7y ago
Here's my somewhat obfuscated version of same. https://gist.github.com/kbob/f46776fdc950e6a948b04c76bc23e87...
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by kbob 7y ago
There is a Maps app on MacOS. It can send locations to your phone (or your friend's phone).
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by kbob 7y ago
What's the best privacy-respecting way to attach comments to a static site? I've got a 'blog on github.io, but have never set up comments. I've never enabled analytics either. I just assume I have 100 million readers.

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