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by masspro 3y ago
QA M , a pretty core piece of radio tech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrature_amplitude_modulatio...
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by masspro 3y ago
People taking SSRIs are familiar with it having effects in other organs, lolsob…in the human gut excess serotonin induces diarrhea and vomiting
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by masspro 3y ago
There was a Konami arcade cabinet that (tried to) use bubble memory! It was considered a failure. Also from Wikipedia[0]: > It was considerably more expensive than ROM chip-based boards and extremely sensitive to electromagnetic fields t
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by masspro 3y ago
> hacking on a separate unique UUID for public use is also bad. Is it bad just because of the extra bytes used, or something else?
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by masspro 3y ago
> Having different categories and words for food and poison is useful. The distinction is not arbitrary. A very hot pepper has features of both food and poison. Most things are not perfect binaries, and if you put a dividing line on a sp
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by masspro 3y ago
Are viruses alive? They’re pretty close. That pretty-closeness is evidence that the definition of ‘living’ is arbitrary. In high school biology, ‘living’ was a list of five points to be memorized, and those points were definitely made up by
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by masspro 3y ago
This looks really nice. But then should `j` alias to `just` or to `jobs`? Non-starter. /s
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by masspro 3y ago
Quasi-tangent: I was once hit by a coworker doing first code review on a new repo with "hmm...I'm not familiar with using Makefiles as a project management tool. So something something [don't remember] we should replace that.
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by masspro 3y ago
Very fair. You just exposed a part of my brain to me, where I put “bad profit-driven motive” into a separate bucket that I consider less severe than “direct evil desire for harm”, and now that I see that I’m not sure how bad that thought pr
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by masspro 3y ago
> i also like algorithms but i decided it was not for kids Yeah, I’ve only ever heard negative things about video suggestions for kids. I guess the key search term for those who don’t know is “Elsagate”. Normal looking videos that draw i
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by masspro 3y ago
I remember in the early 2010s sometimes excitedly checking the MIDI Manufacturers Association's blog for updates on MIDI 2.0 and seeing things like "great news! At this year's NAMM, industry partners agreed to consider agreei