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by qiqitori 3y ago
I have an answer, but I'm not sure you'll find it particularly fulfilling because it is quite hypothetical. The average user just needs to be able to ask the question in a decent place. E.g., Hacker News or a fitting Stack Exchang
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by qiqitori 3y ago
Maybe flamebait, but here is my honest opinion, which I believe is aligned with the hacker ethos: maybe if you were using an open-source operating system you could, with a little experience, write a simple tool that deletes a couple files w
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by qiqitori 3y ago
Lattice Semiconductor's iCE40 sort of qualifies, no? (Maybe getting a little old now?) Cheap and fully supported by an open-source toolchain and really easy to use. (Unless a GUI is needed.)
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by qiqitori 3y ago
> Notably, on Tuesday, Jun 27, 2023, we see two commits: 23:38:32 +0800 and 17:27:09 +0300. If we do the math, there is about a 9-hour difference between the two commits. Isn't 17:27:09 +0300 == 22:27:09 +0800, making the commits ju
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by qiqitori 3y ago
Aspergillus oryzae (koji) is eaten raw in Japan, every day, since a long time ago. It's used to make miso. When making miso soup from raw miso (which is made using raw koji), you shouldn't bring the soup to a boil after putting in
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by qiqitori 3y ago
There are a lot of comments saying that the situation is clear-cut and the guy is commiting a crime. But that's BS, this situation isn't a normal situation at all. Also, intent matters. If I delete some old code that I think I no
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by qiqitori 3y ago
The thing is... most small or medium-sized channels are idle most of the time. Some then unidle for a bit if you wait e.g. a couple hours or even days. Even if there's no activity for months, if someone says something, someone may resp
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by qiqitori 3y ago
Last year when I did a lot of sound-related projects, I implemented the YM3012 DAC on a Pico: https://blog.qiqitori.com/2023/03/raspberry-pi-pico-implemen... I used PIO to read the digital input and used PWM for t
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by qiqitori 3y ago
Love it! I liked the Solitaire implementation. The terminal seems very lacking, "ls" worked but e.g. "ls *" or the "find" command didn't work.
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by qiqitori 3y ago
The ZX Spectrum has this sound chip (or almost, for the pedants) and there's a lot of interesting music composed for it. Mostly from Eastern Europe apparently? Here's a good selection: https://zxart.ee/eng/mus
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by qiqitori 3y ago
I have an old MSX including its box. The box is of course dirty/moldy, and I derive zero value from it. I think most retro nerds wouldn't derive any value from it. Am I wrong? I mean, if I wanted to (I don't) I could take a
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by qiqitori 3y ago
You could rip those streams if you really wanted to. Even an analog rip could have better quality than a DVD. (Analog rips don't really circumvent the DMCA and would be legal at least in Japan (my jurisdiction), where copying stuff (in
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by qiqitori 3y ago
I "preserved" a (probably somewhat lost) sokoban-like game (from the makers of Sokoban in fact) from the early 1980s as a JavaScript game about a year ago. https://blog.qiqitori.com/tnt_bomb_bomb/ Check it ou
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by qiqitori 3y ago
A while ago I was a little into controller hardware hacking and did almost the same thing but for an MSX! Even wrote a blog entry, but unfortunately in Japanese (with pictures though): https://blog.qiqitori.com/2022/09&
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by qiqitori 3y ago
Here's another question with an answer that blew my mind just the other day; not nearly as long though: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/283546/does-hagrid...
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by qiqitori 3y ago
Maybe off-topic, but having recently repaired a cheap-ass toaster, maybe some insights: When you get a cheap toaster, they will probably have a design flaw: when the toaster pops up, there will be arcing. This means that the toaster will on
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by qiqitori 3y ago
This is obviously not the case in general. There are a few things that may be correlated with the age of a computer though -- full SSDs are often slower; newer programs/sites require more memory and CPU; thermal throttling due to dried
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What Bizarre IT Setups Have You Seen? (2007)(slashdot.org)
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by qiqitori 3y ago
I've had excellent results with ant bait containing hydramethylnon. Just placed a couple bait containers in the room I had them; they were gone the next day and it's been almost three years.
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by qiqitori 3y ago
Commodore's UNIX machine also ran Coherent ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_900 ). That machine didn't make it to market, but its video chip found its way into the C128.
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by qiqitori 3y ago
The Commodore 128 had a bodge wire that was added very late in the development cycle, and it was there to get rid of an instance of signal reflection. Bil Herd mentions it in his book, and I think this video of his goes into more depth: ht
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by qiqitori 3y ago
To me at least that's an _extremely_ rude thing to do. (Unless one person is asked to do it this way, the other one that way, so people can compare the outcome.) (Especially if they aren't made aware of each other until the end.)
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by qiqitori 3y ago
These are the nicest clothes hangers I have in my possession, i.e. they can be used with a lot of different stuff: https://www.topvalu.net/items/detail/4549741790529/ Now I wish they had a hinge too. (Hmm, we
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by qiqitori 3y ago
If it uses Bluetooth you're theoretically on the hook for thousands of dollars if you want to sell your ESP32 project as a product. (IANAL; it may take a lawyer to truly understand if you have to pay or not.)
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by qiqitori 3y ago
I don't want to pick a fight, but here's my rando opinion on that: Almost all electronic devices end up as e-waste after a few years. If a couple % fail prematurely, that doesn't create a massive amount of additional ewaste,
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by qiqitori 3y ago
Are there places that use SnBi for production devices? I know Bismuth alloys are used to desolder stuff (and they work amazingly well for that), but the general rule is that you should clean it up before soldering something new. (And keep i
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by qiqitori 3y ago
The problem is that they are using Macbooks. They should be using real computers instead!
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by qiqitori 3y ago
Upvoted from a super fast downvote; same here.
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by qiqitori 3y ago
> Oil doesn’t just leak out of the ground anywhere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_seep
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by qiqitori 3y ago
Currently sitting on the Yokohama line to Hachioji, a little before Hashimoto station. Looking at the map the train had already reached Hashimoto. Seems like we're running 30 seconds or maybe 1 minute late.

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