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by peatmoss 7y ago
What’s the max bitrate for recent bluetooth standards? I hate the idea of layering compression on top of compression. I just haven’t found anything that compares to a modest pair of cans with any kind of okay DAC/amplifier.
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I’ve sort of wondered if there isn’t a possibility for ML driven decompilers that produce idiomatic source code from a given byte code.
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Oh yeah, I did listen to that one. It was a perfect venue for Carmack because I could listen to John speak about anything for as long as John wants to speak about it. Rogan didn’t need to do much prompting for Carmack to spill his solid-gol
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Oof, I mostly only ever listen to Rogan on long flights and then choose episodes based on whether I have any interest in the person interviewed. I was excited to listen to Nick Bostrom, but came away from that episode wanting to scream. I f
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Yes, it was mind blowing to me to learn that, because the night sky is dark, the universe can’t be both infinitely old and infinitely sized. I’ve heard some nuances there too... we could be living in a finite pocket of an infinite universe.
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Is there a substantive difference between something like the cheapo TCL with integrated Roku and a dumb / unconfigured smart TV with an external Roku? Genuine question—I mean, is TCL+Roku likely to share different telemetry due to manu
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I see so many big, cheap smart TVs on the market, and I feel like there should be some way to lobotomize the smart features away. Maybe there is some underground community of smart TV hackers that has just eluded my web searches.
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by peatmoss 7y ago
What OS? I do this in Linux and X11, but was unable to figure out Wayland. Also, macOS was no joy for me.
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by peatmoss 7y ago
> Logitech TrackMan Marbles, which have a smaller ball, but their main problem is the lack of scrollwheel/ring. In X11 you can use an EmulateScrollWheel option by holding the little button with your thumb. I cannot for the life of m
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I think she shoots in JPG because of memory budget. A family friend talked her into buying some kind of photo management / photo touch-up application (can’t remember its name), but I think it mostly just makes her angry because it took
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I think she went that route mainly because of cost rather than preference. She’ll obviously use what she wants to use, but she seems pretty unhappy / frustrated with status quo, so I don’t think helping her explore options is unreasona
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Anyone here familiar with photo management know what the likely implications of the new USB storage support are? My elderly mother has gotten into photography in the past few years and shoots with what I assume is a prosumer camera (high-is
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I recommend a pressure cooker for making stock rather than a slow cooker. Superior results in a fraction of the time and energy. I use a stovetop pressure cooker, which tend to cook at higher pressure than Instapot style cookers, but the In
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by peatmoss 7y ago
“Optimize for OUR experience” is my assumption in this instance where Google is saying it.
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Oh, definitely Chicken as well. The library story with Chicken is also pretty decent.
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I love the language. I’ve never found a language where I found the learning curve so shallow for being able to do so much. That said, I do find myself pining for the ability to easily compile a static executable (maybe with a small embedded
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by peatmoss 7y ago
What are the likely implications for Space Junk? Will all these objects passively de-orbit if they fail (i.e. failsafe)? Are thousands of new orbiting objects enough to be a complication for new launches?
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I’ve been looking at Gerbil lately, which seems to add some creature comforts, has some opinionated views, and is built atop Gambit: https://cons.io/
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I would write a CLI in Clojure if it were a reasonable option. Something like Gambit or Chicken but for Clojure would be a dream. I guess there’s Ferret, so maybe I should give that a try.
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by peatmoss 7y ago
How big are the resulting binaries these days? It’s been some time since I tried this, but I decided that the size of the compiled code didn’t fit my use case (a serverless function IIRC)
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Most of the Schemes (Chicken, Gambit / Gerbil, Chez, Racket at least) have a way of distributing executables that are small. I’ve used Chicken in the past to create static binaries that were on the order of hundreds of kilobytes.
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Yes, this is my observation as well. Put another way, statistics is primarily concerned with understanding the mechanisms behind something. Predictive power can and will often be sacrificed if it aids explanatory power or conceptual eleganc
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by peatmoss 7y ago
No, to be clear, the commotion that has me concerned about Racket’s future is the substance of the proposal that was signaled on the list, not any sort of flamewar fatigue. One of the nice things about the Racket community is how thoughtful
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by peatmoss 7y ago
The mailing list traffic on this topic took the wind out of my sails for wanting to spend my tinker time in Racket. On the one hand, it’s probably overreacting for me to throw in the towel on Racket at just the suggestion of this change. On
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Most times I wouldn’t say it’s important that you go through exactly the same formal process that you’d do if you were planning to publish your own peer-reviewed article. However, in a software engineering context, let’s say that you’re imp
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I wish more projects would start with the old grad school approach of doin’ the literature review. Swashbuckling your way into a project usually means falling short of prior art. At a minimum it’s good to know what pitfalls are waiting for
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I don’t think about moving back maybe once or twice a month! ;-) Thank you for the tip—it’s been some years since I’ve been back, and I’m sure the coffee has only gotten better. When I was there, I was even hearing isolated reports of hobby
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by peatmoss 7y ago
That was my experience as well. When I moved from Auckland to Seattle, I found isolated pockets of better espresso, but I had to work to find the gems that were better than the average in NZ.
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by peatmoss 7y ago
We tend to see differences and fit an explanation. - For some, the differences are explainable by completely benign reasons (“girls just aren’t interested / girls have a comparative advantage in non-STEM fields”), - others see a conspi
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by peatmoss 7y ago
As Racket moves to Chez Scheme as its back-end, I believe it’s not JIT but natively compiled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chez_Scheme EDIT: it should also allow Racket to be ported to more backends because the move t

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