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by retrac 6mo ago
> So it's you to thank for porting Fuzix to Raspberry Pi Pico. No not me it was David Given over at the link I gave (not my blog). I have poked around Fuzix but I am not a major contributor. > So is it possible to compile program
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by retrac 6mo ago
Yes. It has Unix style processes. The basic memory model is similar to ancient Unix on the PDP-11 without paging. A process gets a flat memory space. Processes are swapped out in the background as necessary. How it is implemented varies
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by retrac 6mo ago
No I think Alan just moved where it's hosted: https://codeberg.org/EtchedPixels/FUZIX last updated 4 days ago Alan's currently putting most of his energy into the compiler. It's a C compiler in C which
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by retrac 6mo ago
Home distillation has been legal in New Zealand since 1996. I'm not from NZ, but from what I can tell from afar, it has not caused any significant problems. Stills are legal and can be bought in shops. There are commercially availab
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by retrac 6mo ago
I'm reminded of this recent Pew Research poll [1] about whether people believe their fellow citizens are moral. [1] https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/05/in-25-countr...
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by retrac 7mo ago
There's a poem carved into the stonework of Washington Union Station, part of the art installation The Progress of Railroading from c. 1909: the old mechanic arts / controlling new forces / build new highways / for goo
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by retrac 7mo ago
> I'm amazed they (or others) haven't rolled their own wireless audio standard by now. They have. Apple has AirPlay and MFi which includes their own proprietary set of codecs and protocols for media streaming over a link simil
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by retrac 7mo ago
Some style guides recommend the diaeresis over doubled vowels when they are pronounced separately. The idea is I believe from French: maïs, Noël, etc. I was taught to do it that way in public school here in Canada in the 90s; it is the tex
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by retrac 8mo ago
100 BTC might convince you otherwise.
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by retrac 8mo ago
> There's no way a sensor can tell if a signal was from its own origin? https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978ntc.....2...18F/abstra... https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA21
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by retrac 8mo ago
I know this sounds insane but I've been dwelling on it. Language models are digital Ouija boards. I like the metaphor because it offers multiple conflicting interpretations. How does a Ouija board work? The words appear. Where d
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by retrac 8mo ago
The ghost of Multics walks yet the page tables awaiting recorporealization.
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by retrac 8mo ago
Everything dies in winter. And then is reborn. Everyone who lives in a cold climate knows deep in their bones that cold and winter are death. Though if we're going to get stereotypical about national characteristics (a dangerous game
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by retrac 8mo ago
Just a month ago the American ambassador to Iceland recently made a joke that demanded formal explanation from the Icelandic state; the ambassador apologized for the "joke" and misunderstanding immediately. Anyone taking bets who
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by retrac 8mo ago
I recently skimmed a grammar of Faroese [0]. Not much has been written about the language in English; only a few books, and an English-Faroese dictionary was only first published in the 1980s. It's spoken by about 50,000 people in the
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by retrac 8mo ago
NASA launches and operates Earth-observing satellites for measuring the weather and climate.
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by retrac 8mo ago
The wage gap between black and white Americans is nearly the same today as in 1970.
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by retrac 8mo ago
Bandwidth between Los Angeles and New York, very approximately: 1915: 1 kHz - telegraph lines 1925: 10 kHz - a handful of voice channels 1935: 100 kHz - several frequency multiplexed carrier lines across the desert 1945: 200 kHz - a few mor
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by retrac 8mo ago
Opinion poll Dec 2025 Canada-wide: "How do you think the Canadian government should approach the following countries?" https://thehub.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/c9Enf-how-do-yo... Some is ju
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by retrac 8mo ago
It's a pile of rocks in the same way an apartment building is a pile of concrete blocks. It is a building. It could crumble in on itself. The interior rooms could be destroyed. It's a tomb. The Pharoah was buried in the very m
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by retrac 8mo ago
Sometimes what is on the page is ambiguous. Imagine a scan where the dot over the i is missing in a word like "this". What's on the page is "thls" but to transcribe it that way would be an error outside of forensi
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by retrac 8mo ago
I can't help but wonder if it's a bit of self-aware humour about "scientific looksmaxing". Symmetry is involved in attractiveness but symmetry alone can only carry you so far.
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by retrac 8mo ago
The new RP 2350 has an enhanced PIO that relaxes some of the constraints the author ran into here. Also the new HSTX (high-speed serial transmit) unit is really well suited for rapid line coding. Here's a different project that generat
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How Photos Are Cabled Across Atlantic (1926 Illustration)(commons.wikimedia.org)
5 points by retrac 9mo ago|2 comments
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by retrac 9mo ago
On 24 January 1926, the British ship SS Antinoe was damaged by a hurricane and was at risk of sinking. The American ship SS President Roosevelt assisted in rescue and docked in Plymouth, England. A photograph of the rescue was published i
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by retrac 9mo ago
There's a synchronous and instantaneous nature you don't find in modern designs. The image is not stored at any point. The receiver and the transmitter are part of the same electric circuit in a certain sense. It's a virtua
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by retrac 9mo ago
ambitions of encyclopedic scope, something like "hoping to cover all the domains of knowledge"; in the context of a photographer, to photograph everything worth photographing
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by retrac 9mo ago
4 MB of SRAM in the '80s would have been the main RAM of a supercomputer. We still use SRAM today. It's what level-1 cache and registers are implemented with - actual flip-flops, can be toggled with one cycle delay. Supercompute
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by retrac 9mo ago
Presence of trade is not necessarily a market in the modern sense.
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by retrac 9mo ago
Not quite the same analysis. The human is better, no surprise. But the NotebookLM output links back to the original book in a very useful way. If you think about it as fuzzy semantic search it's amazing. If you want an essay or eve

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