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by kbob 7y ago
Thank you. That page's few simple examples did a lot to clarify my understanding of waveguide synth.
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by kbob 7y ago
This reminds me very much of 1970s Unix. Unix was also an research exercise into OS and userland minimalism and a new, streamlined language (yes, C) that created a new niche in the "like asm but better" space. In other words, it
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by kbob 7y ago
Keep in mind that the printers are getting regular upgrade cycles. A 2019 i3 MK3S is nothing like a 2015 i3. Firmware upgrades are released every couple of months. So continuous testing is still valuable.
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by kbob 7y ago
Many studios and many musicians are not wealthy enough to throw out a roomful of working equipment just because it doesn't conform to industry trends.
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by kbob 7y ago
Silicon availability has recently been solved. There are FPGA dev boards available for under $50. They're low-powered but great to learn on. One, the FOMU, actually fits inside a USB type-A port.
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by kbob 7y ago
Only 0.0003% of the organizations who tried it could make it work.
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by kbob 8y ago
Find the video '50 in 50' by Steele and Gabriel. 50 programming languages of the last 50 years, illustrated in 50 minutes. It includes all the popular languages, but also covers some truly weird ones.
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by kbob 8y ago
The car on the list would be a 2004 model.
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by kbob 8y ago
It's interesting that in 1983 global warming was not on Asimov's radar. He mentioned overpopulation and pollution, but nothing about CO2.
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by kbob 8y ago
Interesting stuff. Can anyone explain what "pair projection" mentioned in section 4.6 is? I've not heard the term, and neither has DuckDuckGo.
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by kbob 8y ago
Check out FloobyNooby. The 'blogger dissects many films' cinematography in great detail. Here is FN's article on the original Incredibles movie. http://floobynooby.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-cinematog
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by kbob 8y ago
I don't think you can skim DFW. Ne says as much in the linked interview: "I think the sort of work I do falls into an area of American fiction that, yes, that is accessible, but that is designed for people who really like to read
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by kbob 8y ago
intmain() { r etu rn0; }
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by kbob 8y ago
Fortran IV came close. You could put spaces in the middle of identifiers, keywords, and numbers, and the compiler ignored them. The language did not require spaces as separators anywhere. Spaces were only significant in Hollerith constan
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by kbob 8y ago
> C++ for example, is a hard language, but the learning curve is ... progressive (rise bit by bit). Except that you've always got a footgun in each hand, with no safeties and no trigger guards. Rust keeps its footguns locked in the
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by kbob 8y ago
"Consume" literally means "eat". So eating out is definitely consumerism.
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by kbob 8y ago
It's been my default browser on MacOS for about a month. I signed up for BAT payments about a week ago. For the most part, it's just another browser. Pros: + I can disable Javascript per-site and reload the page in two clicks. I
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by kbob 8y ago
How much does aero matter on a 4100 lb. car? (1850 kg)
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by kbob 8y ago
The ugly wheels actually have ugly plastic covers. If you take the covers off, they're nice spoked alloy wheels underneath.
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by kbob 8y ago
@ was actually the try driver's default kill character through 7th Edition or thereabouts. It was changed to ^U when CRT terminals became common, since those could actually erase the input, and there was no need to leave a visible mar
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by kbob 8y ago
Or use the GPS to disable face ID near customs checkpoints and police stations.
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by kbob 8y ago
The infrared emitters can "see" through the non-bone parts of a thumb, I think, but it would be hard to capture a valid face scan.
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by kbob 8y ago
You've never encountered a citizen flagging down traffic because of an obstruction just past a blind hill or curve?
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by kbob 8y ago
Because it is open. Things like wildlife, children, drunks, falling trees, snow, ice, flood waters, rock slides, and unsecured cargo can enter the road at any point.
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by kbob 8y ago
Is it because they're all cheap cars? The auto industry is good at price discrimination.
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by kbob 8y ago
To me, the state of development of open source FPGA tools feels about like the GNU project in the late 1980s. gcc 1.x and 2.x targeted several Unix platforms and produced working code some of the time. It would work with gas or the vendor&
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by kbob 8y ago
https://stratechery.com/2018/data-factories/
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by kbob 8y ago
I started playing the sax in fourth grade (age 9). I took lessons and played in school band. By ninth grade, I could usually play back what I heard. When I heard a melody, I heard specific notes and intervals. I think learning to hear t
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by kbob 8y ago
Another genuine question: What is the appeal of streaming live coding? Why would you want a bunch of strangers watching you write? Does an audience help the process in some way, or is it a way to feel less lonely, or what?
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by kbob 8y ago
Would you enjoy spending several hours of your vacation hanging around auto dealers' showrooms?

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