mikejmoffitt

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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
The amount of potentially different experiences male and female adolescents have had by the time they take the SAT make me believe SAT results are not good references for this subject.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
Are you referring to the BBC Micro, or the Commodore 64?
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
It's interesting and fun that Terry's odd but impressive project is getting a little cult traction. This is kind of neat, though the physics and animations could use some work.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
For me, a big irritation with Python - intermediate bytecode or not - is that foolish small mistakes in formatting, or missing symbols, etc. will only make themselves apparent when the interpreter (or bytecode interpreter) actually tries to
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
Alternate fields have an offset, but only if the horizontal sync timings make it so. If a machine is built to output a progressive image, there aren't really "fields", or you can consider them "all odd" or "all
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
No, this isn't correct. The image isn't "progressive" or "interlaced" until the output stage. Whether or not they are identical is secondary to the timings, which is all that matters. If every frame has an inte
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
The difference in signaling is that in an interlaced mode, the final scanline is half-length - Vsync begins halfway through the line, causing the next frame to be offset by half a line vertically. The monitor doesn't "know",
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
That isn't quite correct. The C64 outputs a progressive-scan image, which is a hack on top of NTSC or PAL. In this configuration, there are only even or odd fields, which double-strike the same area. Thusly, it is 60 fields per second,
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
Asking because I really don't know: How are fluctuations in water level dealt with safely with this sort of thing?
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
Yeah, that's a bummer - but that's not the caltrain ticketing UI. That's using Clipper on the caltrain.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
What sucks is that every smooth-scroll implementation is just another copy of "the most popular one" - a simple S-curve, where it accelerates up to a point and then begins to slow down at the midpoint. If they were implemented wit
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
"And their explanation might show another habitat that dies hard" Another... habitat?
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
One thing that shouldn't change is the Caltrain ticketing UI. The interface is simple enough to use, and it responds to user input instantly. I can select the ticket I want with four taps in about a second, where the only slowdown is t
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
My Panasonic CF-RZ5 weighs 1.6lbs, and sports VGA, HDMI, Ethernet, 3xUSB3, a headphone jack, a power socket, a 1920x1200 IPS display, and a removable battery. It is from 2016, and makes the idea of all of these features compromising portabi
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
Even the oldest CRT televisions have a "brightness" control, and it's supposed to be used to set the black level to black, not grey. The face of the tube has a grey color while it's off because that's how the surfac
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
> a "black" that is grey... I hear this a lot. Why is an incorrectly biased monitor's bad black levels so widely considered the way it is supposed to be?
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
Risk doesn't cost money in the way payment processing costs money.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
I won't vouch for the productivity savings from moving your hands less, since I think that's an absurd micro-optimization. Rather, I prefer it because I find it to be quick and accurate. After a week or so of getting used to it, w
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
I don't buy it as the main problem. 60fps is not asking for very much from a terminal emulator. VGA text modes can handle it, my old 486DX laptop can handle it, and XTerm can handle it (even fully software rendering everything to a buf
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
* ADC enable register? * Reference level set? * Giving it ample time for a signal to settle? * Are you testing with a known input source? I would test first with a variable PSU and verify with a voltmeter externally to eliminate a possible
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
Zero. I use iTerm2 when I have to use a Mac, where I act as though it's Xterm. This is just out of the box behavior. Older versions had an adjustable refresh rate slider.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
A great junction of all of these things is creating games.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
Is there still no way to make iTerm2 refresh faster? When doing quick scrolling or output, it's so noticeably choppy compared to Terminal.app, or even Xterm.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
Context is everything. Profanity and hyperbole are as far from the aloof and stuffy professional language one uses with unfamiliar people or those in higher positions. It's something that becomes appropriate in personally close and com
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
I like the principles behind its design, but not supporting scrollback and saying "that functionality should be provided by tmux or something similar" is baffling when it's done in the name of removing bloat and complexity. N
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
This is one effect I discovered when I was working on getting around the anti-piracy effects of an arcade game[1][2] in order to run it on similar hardware. I think it is a more clever copy defeat mechanism than stopping the game from booti
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
A small micro or DSP processor can sit in the data path and solve this problem "in software, in hardware". It's unusual for software to be able to damage hardware for a consumer product.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
It has always been possible to set those keys to default to F-key functions instead of media functions. The difference here is that the position may not be constant, and you can't feel with your fingers what you're over before you
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
I also make good use of the F-keys, as well as the pgup/pgdn/home/end/del block. I use both Linux and Windows.
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by mikejmoffitt 10y ago
Worth has a low-pass filter. The effect of change takes time to determine.

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