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by stevefolta 3y ago
And where the document talks about SSI, it essentially means SPI (just with differential signalling etc.)? In other words, is it this SSI?: < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_Serial_Interface >
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by stevefolta 3y ago
The language isn't the problem, it's the structure (if you can call it that) of Nixpkgs that makes it so difficult. And no, flakes are not the answer, they may solve composability but they create other problems.
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by stevefolta 3y ago
In a way, this is _better_ than the C++ standard library, 'cause it's not missing fundamental operations like string::trim() and string::split().
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by stevefolta 3y ago
> Received wisdom from KVR Audio (and in fact, most online forums) is worth less than the distance than a flea could throw it. Depends on the forum, I guess. Lately I've been following the developer subforum of KVR, where folks tal
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by stevefolta 3y ago
I’d like to see that “how Wayland ended up worse than X11” post, but I’m afraid I wouldn’t understand it any more than the other Arcan writings.
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by stevefolta 3y ago
Szilard and Einstein would later collaborate on a letter that had a far greater effect on the world than their refrigerator did...
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by stevefolta 3y ago
I've been using pipe() lately (along with poll()) to tell threads to quit, and other simple inter-thread signalling. Super easy, very little code needed. I guess socketpair() would work just as well.
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by stevefolta 3y ago
How can titanium be both a "streetwalker" and "incredibly corrosion-resistant"?
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by stevefolta 3y ago
His first example -- "mv -T" -- is not POSIX, and is not available, eg., under Busybox.
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by stevefolta 3y ago
> I thought GCC (or C itself) has good backward compatibility, but it's not sufficient. Ha! It's been a long time since GCC was even able to compile older versions of _itself_.
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by stevefolta 3y ago
I remember hearing that for a few years, the LaserWriter (or was it the LaserWriter II?) was the most powerful computer you could buy from Apple.
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by stevefolta 4y ago
The big thing about on-screen text is to _proofread it_. I'm surprised by how often there are typos in the overlaid text of videos that are otherwise quite professional. The quickest cuts I've seen are in the AudioPilz "Bad
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First Impressions of the VisionFive 2(earth.li)
50 points by stevefolta 4y ago|21 comments
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by stevefolta 4y ago
Indeed. I wouldn't have a strong preference between snake_case and camelCase, but I use snake_case for new code because it's closer to kebab-case.
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by stevefolta 4y ago
This oddly fails to mention a certain very popular variable-length instruction encoding that LLVM already supports. The Gist linked at the bottom of the article does explain how that works, though.
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by stevefolta 4y ago
Never mind. It's that hyphen in its name. Mona Sans is called "Mona Sans", but Hubot Sans is called "Hubot-Sans". And FontConfig requires that the hyphen be quoted, eg.: "Hubot\-Sans-16.5:weight=60".
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by stevefolta 4y ago
Is Hubot-Sans.ttf working in XWindows for anyone? Mona-Sans.ttf is fine for me, but not Hubot.
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by stevefolta 4y ago
Blinkenlights go all the way back to ENIAC, where ping-pong balls were used to make them more prominent.
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by stevefolta 4y ago
It’s not a question about this release, I guess, but are there any plans to support CLAP?
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Clap: The Clever Audio Plugin(lwn.net)
4 points by stevefolta 4y ago|0 comments
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by stevefolta 4y ago
Wait, is "match" gonna be a reserved word now? 'Cause I use it as a variable name all the time when dealing with regexes.
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by stevefolta 5y ago
I got a second or two of warning once (also a fairly nearby quake). It's really odd to know in advance. Also used MyShake for a DYFI report just last night.
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by stevefolta 5y ago
> Using git itself is a little problematic because it is very line-oriented and most project file formats for DAWs are not. Ardour and Reaper use plaintext project formats that work well with Git, at least for basic versioning. > Rega
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by stevefolta 5y ago
"nix-shell" is exactly how I first tried ripgrep. Of course, I installed it permanently moments later.
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by stevefolta 5y ago
You can also use ^VuXXXX to insert characters by the hex Unicode value. I find that handy sometimes.
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by stevefolta 5y ago
> I was a bit surprised that I didn't see something like "we're working with Facebook to delete any copies of the data Facebook may be storing". The email they sent to affected users says this: > Facebook is obliga
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by stevefolta 5y ago
I tried using Nix to build the Node version ("pkgs.dockerTools.buildImage"). That brought the image size down from 943M to 205M. Using a musl64 "crossSystem" (which required rebuilding everything) brought it down to 18
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by stevefolta 6y ago
Thanks! It seemed confusing, but I didn't know enough about the terminology of silicon doping to know if it was correct. I probably should by now, I've been enjoying your teardowns for quite some time!
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by stevefolta 6y ago
In the "How CMOS logic is implemented" section, the text about the NMOS transistor says the source and drain are "P+ silicon", but the diagram labels them as "n+ diffusion". Is "P+ silicon" somehow t
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by stevefolta 6y ago
Or it's India's canonical non-hotdog.

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