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by pkkm 3y ago
It's a fully software-based VHS decoder. It takes the raw signal from a VHS tape, captured with a high speed sampling device, and reconstructs the video on your computer. In theory, this approach should allow higher quality digitizatio
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by pkkm 3y ago
Reminds me of Idris: https://gist.github.com/chrisdone/672efcd784528b7d0b7e17ad9c... Recently though, I've been wondering whether advanced type system stuff is the right approach. It usually becomes pretty complic
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by pkkm 3y ago
There are multiple unofficial fan remasters based on tracks extracted from Guitar Hero, and now a Mastered for iTunes version too. Try these, they sound far better.
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by pkkm 3y ago
Anecdotally, I can confirm. I remember listening to a vinyl rip of Opeth's Blackwater Park because the CD version's dynamic range has been butchered enough that it more than made up for vinyl's technical inferiority. However,
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by pkkm 3y ago
Interesting. I found this blog post implementing your idea: https://artefact2.com/b/20220408-pipewire-loudness.xhtml
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by pkkm 3y ago
Related question, since we're on the topic: does Linux have a way to split a single wide monitor into smaller "virtual" monitors?
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by pkkm 3y ago
That one was more of a nitpick, so maybe I shouldn't have included that. What I had in mind was that I would like a bit more symbols instead of words, for example value IN [1, 10] instead of value BETWEEN 10 AND 10 . Some operations
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by pkkm 3y ago
"Disaster" may be an exaggeration, but I think the syntax could be better, proper layout or not. In particular, I find that complex SQL queries often need to be read in a "spiral" order due to SQL's attempt to resem
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by pkkm 3y ago
Agreed, I wish that SQL was more concise and organized more left-to-right, like shell pipelines or the F# pipe operator. But what are the alternatives? The only one I know is PRQL, and that doesn't seem to be getting popular (correct m
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by pkkm 3y ago
Can you elaborate on the issues you've seen? Was the code haphazardly thrown together, or did it follow the usual modern practices (pip-tools or Poetry, dataclasses, type checking, Pydantic, etc.) and still suffer the problems?
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VHS-decode project could help archival efforts (2022)(hackaday.com)
15 points by pkkm 3y ago|1 comments
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Building a realistic artificial sun (for dark winter days) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by pkkm 3y ago|0 comments
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by pkkm 3y ago
To be honest, I'm still not sure what practical usage scenarios you have in mind. Is it protecting your money from terrible economic policies if you live in a country like Venezuela? Or are you envisioning a whole new financial sector,
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by pkkm 3y ago
How so? It's pretty easy to see how economic value can be created via stocks and bonds: they're basically indirect ways to give companies or governments money for investment. That money can then be used to hire more/better pe
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by pkkm 3y ago
So it's a mix of pattern matching and Lisp? That looks pretty useful, I'm going to give it a try.
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by pkkm 3y ago
lsblk accepts a --json flag and can give you a lot of information (try lsblk --json --output-all ). Very useful if your script needs to check what disks and partitions there are in the system.
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by pkkm 3y ago
CBOR? It's based on JSON, so it should be pretty easy to add to a tool that already has JSON serialization.
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by pkkm 3y ago
Cryptography yes, but are you sure about parsers? As far as I can tell, there's some kind of U-curve there. Beginners code them by hand, intermediate-level programmers and intermediate-scope projects use parser generators, and people m
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by pkkm 3y ago
Any advice on how to find these quality shops and this quality knowledge? Any particular things to look for, or particular books/courses you recommend?
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by pkkm 3y ago
> companies engineer food to exploit our senses This is just a maximally edgy way to phrase "companies are making tasty food". Which I don't disagree with - like Stephan Guyenet and (apparently) you, I blame the fatness pr
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by pkkm 3y ago
If the code is fairly short, there is https://codereview.stackexchange.com/
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by pkkm 3y ago
> Perhaps the 'evil motives' might be more subconscious or even class conscious than overtly articulated in the minds of the actors, but the goal is the same. So you're going to claim that you know people's true motiv
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by pkkm 3y ago
This is the kind of "political mind reading", where you confidently attribute hidden evil motives to anyone who disagrees with you about what is a good policy, that has made Reddit unbearable to read and, I suspect, increased poli
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Pipeworld: Spreadsheet Dataflow Computing (2021)(arcan-fe.com)
81 points by pkkm 3y ago|12 comments
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by pkkm 3y ago
Make sure to also watch this guy's Rust "interview". It's really good.
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Intel's power play: Hands-on with ATX12VO (2020)(pcworld.com)
2 points by pkkm 3y ago|0 comments
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by pkkm 3y ago
The Arcan display server is a really cool idea. Even if it doesn't manage to get popular, I think there are ideas here that we could mine to use them in popular programs. - https://arcan-fe.com/2022/10/15&#x2F
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by pkkm 3y ago
Well, the money is theirs to spend, plus it's exactly on-brand for a religious organization to put traditional aesthetics over economic efficiency. I doubt that their donors are dissatisfied. If it was a government doing this with taxp
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by pkkm 3y ago
In other words... you made it up to confirm your bias?
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by pkkm 3y ago
What is your evidence for this grand conspiracy theory?

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