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by sdk77 11y ago
I'm in China and streaming youtube videos is mostly out of the question, due to the very unpredictable and usually too slow nature of connectivity (I gave up on VPN long time ago and use a number of strategically placed cheap virtual s
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by sdk77 11y ago
Capitalism can't be communism because one is a financial / economical system and the other is a political system. The two are related but not always in the same way. European countries, especially the Scandinavian ones are very So
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by sdk77 11y ago
It's still popular in Holland and accessible via internet as well ( http://nos.nl/teletekst ). I've been thinking about a sort of 'internet magazine' broadcast on old analog TV channels using a mechanism s
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by sdk77 11y ago
"Visiting moo shows us a curious image of a cow." That image isn't so curious. Try 'apt-get moo' on any debian based box.
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by sdk77 11y ago
Actually, after first getting to really know gin at 37, I did some research and found this great article: http://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Mothers-Ruin/ Introducing me to the works of William Hogarth (see link
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by sdk77 11y ago
>It's hard to imagine why the U.S. ever had a single lead water pipe, let alone huge numbers of them. I always supposed that that's where the word 'plumber' came from, or 'loodgieter' (lead caster, Dutch). B
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by sdk77 11y ago
I watched the videos and those are absolutely amazing. Ordered a PO-20 'Arcade' unit. Can't wait to start playing with it.
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by sdk77 11y ago
Nice, I will give it a try. I've installed templeOS in a VM before and played around with it. I really like the concept of a graphical console, being able to literally put images right into source code and the C++ like shell that uses
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by sdk77 11y ago
I did a quick search on google patents: https://www.google.com/patents/US9084035 - it uses a combination of AC and DC methods.
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by sdk77 11y ago
In my opinion as an EE there would be some reasonably reliable ways to detect either a line or headphone connection. Headphone impedances are typically between 16 and 600 Ohms, and line impedance is typically in the 10's of kOhm range.
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by sdk77 11y ago
The style of the article reminds me of my all-time favorite book about DSP, by Richard G Lyons: http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Digital-Signal-Processin...
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by sdk77 11y ago
It's normal. Actually the part mentioned that wraps around the power supply is not only a heatsink but also a shield for reducing radiated noise. PSU like this are very noisy and without (a.o.) this shield it may not be possible to get