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by nickcw 4y ago
Here is my 5 line bash script which uses Fabrice Bellard's https://textsynth.com You need to sign up (with email address only) for an API key. You can pay for higher rate limits, but I haven't needed to while mucking a
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> LTE Band 53 is a part of the TDD (Time Division Duplex) LTE spectrum that requires only a single frequency band for both the uplink and downlink. LTE Band 53 has a frequency range from 2483.5 - 2495 MHz with a bandwidth of 11.5 MHz. Fr
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From the small print > The service will be included for free for two years starting at the time of activation of a new iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max. Which kind of implies it will be a pay for service af
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I did not know this, despite having used emacs for > 20 years - thank you!
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This made me smile! And also $ rclone help flags . | grep "^ *--" | wc -l 665 (yes rclone has a command to grep its flags `rclone help flags <regex>`!)
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> The counter-argument is that declarative configs inevevitably sprout programming-like features - and if they don't someone will write code to generate them. Ha! See the make manual for examples. Background reading: https:/&#
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Training a computer to listen and decode Morse code (2019)(ag1le.blogspot.com)
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30 years ago in 1992 I was working mostly with C for Acorn RISC OS machines, assembler for ARM processors (RISC OS and embedded) and various other assemblers for Z80, 64180, 8052 for embedded work (no C). For a general purpose glue language
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I haven't tried this site, but the most well known for learning Morse in your browser in Ham radio is: https://lcwo.net/ Which uses a similar technique. It also has quite a few more types of practice such as words, cal
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From the linked article > Under current legislation, across Europe fuel used for aviation is largely tax-exempt, with a small exemption for low-altitude recreational aircrafts. This has long allowed air freight companies, commercial airl
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If you want modern regexp syntax then forget egrep/grep -E and use grep -P for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions. PCRE is the most commonly used regex syntax for modern programming languages, eg Python, Go (mostly) etc and grep -P w
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I looked through the rclone code to see if I could use generics. In particular I looked at places where we use code generation and places where we use reflection - both good candidates for generics. Alas I found generics just weren't p
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I don't think this is a new phenomenon. It annoyed my Dad so much in the 1980s that he build an audio compressor for the TV which quietened the loud parts and amplified the quiet parts.
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Webb's First Deep Field (NIRCam Compass Image)(webbtelescope.org)
1 points by nickcw 4y ago|1 comments
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When all the cups and glasses have disappeared in our house, usually a trip via the teenagers bedrooms rounds up the missing vessels. We don't have strong teaspoon attrition though - maybe because the teenagers don't drink tea or
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I'm not too worried about stamps with barcodes, however making all the old stamps invalid from 1 February 2023 is going to cause several problems. I asked in the Post Office about this, and they said old style stamps would be treated t
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Just a reminder from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_nm_process > The term "3 nanometer" has no relation to any actual physical feature (such as gate length, metal pitch or gate pitch) of the transistors.
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Aargh - no keyboard shortcuts allowed! That's me knocked out in the qualifying rounds of the checkbox olympics ;-)
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I'll be forever grateful to djb for djbdns. In the early 2000s in the dot com boom I was CTO for a domain registration and hosting company. We had millions of DNS records to host and at the time we were using bind. It used to take 45 m
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Hacking Ham Radio: WinAPRS(coalfire.com)
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WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann’s carbon credit crypto project sounds like a scam(vox.com)
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I've used TinyUSB to turn a Raspberry Pi 2040 (the very cheap microcontroller) into a USB keyboard that you plug your morse key into and send morse which the RPI 2040 converts into key presses and sends to the computer. TinyUSB was ver
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by nickcw 4y ago
I used BBC Basic in my undergraduate thesis too. I designed and built a board with multiple Transputers on. We didn't have the Occam development software so I had to write an assembler, which I did in BBC Basic as the transputer board
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In my experience swap to zram works really well. I have 16GB of RAM in my linux laptop running Ubuntu and it isn't quite enough: Chrome, Virtual box, gopls and thunderbird regularly push it over the edge into swap death needing a reset
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by nickcw 5y ago
Seems like a nice follow on from https://ionathan.ch/2022/04/09/angzarr.html which was discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31012865
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Xkcd: Weird Unicode Math Symbols(xkcd.com)
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Google have been working up to this change for quite a while now. Rclone supports shortcuts from version v1.54.0 released on 2021-02-02. I've been impressed with the communication from Google and the care they've taken to keep thi
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Could gravitons be viable dark matter candidates?(phys.org)
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I'm an Emacs user and I've struggled with RSI throughout my career. I don't know whether I blame Emacs particularly, but the ctrl-letter chords aren't kind on the wrists. For me, switching the mouse to my left hand and u
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by nickcw 5y ago
When I was implementing rclone which implements a lot of rsync's functionality but for cloud storage, I deliberately didn't copy the trailing slash feature. This annoys people who know rsync well, but newbies are very happy with i

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