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by unwind 4y ago
I'm a bit saddened by this news, since making their products flimsier/lighter will surely make them feel worse. Anyway, the very first paragraph has this: ÄLMHULT, Sweden—Amid IKEA’s colorful staged living rooms, piles of umlaut-
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by unwind 4y ago
Yeah, haven't seen much about it but it looks and seems really cool! Buy why oh WHY doesn't the fscking landing page have the tech specs? I spent way too long trying to navigate their maze of documentation without finding a basic
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by unwind 4y ago
I don't think that is correct, my understanding is that it always terminates when possible. FreeBSD's man page [1] has a pretty clear description: The snprintf() and vsnprintf() functions will write at most size-1 of the characte
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by unwind 4y ago
I came here to post exactly that; I think using snprintf() is the proper solution to the "I need to build a string out of many parts in C" problem pretty much every time. Especially since these functions' return values make i
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by unwind 4y ago
The Commander X16 [1]? [1]: https://www.commanderx16.com/
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by unwind 4y ago
This is awesome in (for me) at least two dimensions at the same time: it's a very interesting way of visualizing the actual math concept going on, by making the equation 3D to match what it's modelling. At the same time, it's
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by unwind 4y ago
Slightly edited definition from NOTAM [1]: A Notice to (Airmen|Air Men|Airman|Air Missions) is a notice filed with an aviation authority to alert aircraft pilots of potential hazards along a flight route or at a location that could affect
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by unwind 4y ago
To me, a long-time sci-fi reader but hardly a hardcore space nut, your argument reads a little like "I don't understand why people are discussing horseless carriages, I mean what would the street sweepers do without all the manure
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by unwind 4y ago
There was the Intel Edison [1] back in 2014-2017, it turned out to not be a great success. The initial version was based on a dual-core Intel Quark x86 clocked at 400 MHz [2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Ed
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by unwind 4y ago
That is pretty cool! Swedish (also picking a lot from German, of course) has the same word ("lä", and no I'm not going to try to describe the pronunciation) but our usage is wider in scope. In Swedish lä is simply "out o
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by unwind 4y ago
As always, very informative and a perfect "snippet" size to quickly read and learn a new thing or two. Thanks! Meta: I think the very first sentence is the victim of some drive-by editing, and needs one more pass. I'm not a n
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by unwind 4y ago
I think is has value for code to be idiomatic. It's a very dynamic goal post for sure, which is a problem in a rule but not in a principle like in the article. To me, code that is not idiomatic sounds wrong, which is at least a cogniti
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by unwind 4y ago
Of course, here "clean themselves" means To activate the system, a simple electrode passes just above the solar panel’s surface, imparting an electrical charge to the dust particles, which are then repelled by a charge applied to
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by unwind 4y ago
But how would that work in practice? You load the machine say in the afternoon/evening after work etc, and then it decides based on historical data that 02:35 is the local minima and starts. You run the quick 1-hour program because it&
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by unwind 4y ago
This is just insane, and I'm completely blown away by the technical know-how (both depth and breadth) and flippant stuff like: I also did not find any good emulators for Cortex-M class chips. At this point, I took a two-week-long brea
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by unwind 4y ago
This is almost a cliche among many C language lawyers and/or Stack Overflow answer-rich people and I know you mean well, but: arrays are not pointers. In some contexts, the name of an array decays to a pointer to its first element. Tha
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by unwind 4y ago
Also I clearly had problems counting all the way to two. Darnit.
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by unwind 4y ago
I thought this was cool, and I really appreciate the low-level bottom-up description/introduction of how MutexProtected helps keep things safe. I would have loved also getting a disassembly showing the resulting code, it's very ha
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by unwind 4y ago
Quite neat, but I had two problems: 1. The naming is confusing, a web interface that lets you browse a particular database is not generally called "a web browser" for that database. A web browser is the actual software you use to
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by unwind 4y ago
I'm glad I've only seen this product in media, seems to not be a thing here in Sweden. I feel sorry for the people who have been hurt, of course. What crap.
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by unwind 4y ago
So it seems that PWA means progressive web application [1] and if my very cursory scan is correct it obviously has nothing to do with progressive loading. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app
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by unwind 4y ago
Very cool post by, uh, the European Commission. Yay casual-tone governance. Does anyone have a link to some reputable third-party explaining the actual issue?
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by unwind 4y ago
Cool. So on that platform CHAR_BIT was 16. I still wonder if those statements should use the plain non-typed sizes, or if no such were available. I can live with sizeof(char) == 1 sizeof(short) == 1 sizeof(void *) == 1 all
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Totem construction system with cuttable parts(totemmaker.net)
49 points by unwind 4y ago|20 comments
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by unwind 4y ago
This is called a rotary encoder [1] and is still common in various control knobs on electronic devices. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_encoder
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by unwind 4y ago
That lacks a "theoretically", then? If an algorithm is optimal but still out-performed by something that is not, then the definition of "optimal" is not so helpful and might need revision. I do not follow the computer sc
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by unwind 4y ago
Thanks. Meta: the title should be changed, in my opinion.
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by unwind 4y ago
I believe the context makes it clear what is meant. Obviously you can lift the pen, move it a bit, put it down and so on, and create a dotted/dashed line on a whiteboard. The things here is that there's a technique to make the cha
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by unwind 4y ago
I love how the page gives an actual value to the volume of an Olympic-size swimming pool: 2,500 cubic meters! That goes straight into long-term memory, for me. I hope ... my memory sometimes feels differently.
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by unwind 4y ago
According to Wikipedia [1] there is no proven medical effect to curcumin (the yellow substance from turmeric): Laboratory and clinical research have not confirmed any medical use for curcumin. It is difficult to study because it is both un

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