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   by wdfx 7y ago

   I bought a pair of esp8266 off Amazon for about £10 recently; they both look like some sort of knock-off, the PCBs are unbranded and the soldering looks somewhat less than perfect in places - however, both devices function perfectly. (WIP m
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   by wdfx 7y ago

   In my last job I was doing something like this, and over time it felt that I was in an important role - being senior and able to attend meetings apart from the rest of the team to make the occasional decision. Now I'm back at coding 80
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   by wdfx 7y ago

   I was doing the same, precisely timing work activities: https://doug.pacifico-hammond.co.uk/software/hardware/2018/0... Though I haven't had the need to use it since I changed jobs and now spend a lot mo
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   by wdfx 7y ago

   Interestingly a transfer from Earth to Jupiter ends up with Jupiter coming up on the ship from behind at twice it's velocity - I would never have guessed that to be the case, one always imagines a ship arriving at a somewhat relatively
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   by wdfx 8y ago

   I took the approach of recording the type/category of work I am doing, and time it exactly using a tool I created for the purpose: https://doug.pacifico-hammond.co.uk/software/hardware/2018/0... As a lea
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   by wdfx 8y ago

   Not a tutorial, but I've been building one. One version of the software is here: https://bitbucket.org/doughammond/simpleseq
7. 277.▲
   by wdfx 8y ago

   You can apparently make a suitable antenna from a wire coat hanger or aluminium rod as such: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/simple-noaameteor-weather-satellite-... I tried this and whilst I could detect the signal carrier, I did n
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   by wdfx 8y ago

   I'm currently writing a hobby project in c++ for esp8266. I'm using about 35% DATA and 40% PROGRAM according to the compiler... seems to be ok so far (though my application does not need to allocate arbitrary memory right now, alm
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   by wdfx 8y ago

   haha, I built an almost identical tetrahedron for my first prototype with tiny capsules :) for the larger capsules I had to use more parts for the frame (small pieces of bent brass) to correctly mount the capsules.
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    by wdfx 8y ago

    https://imgur.com/a/5LN5fjW
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    by wdfx 8y ago

    I actually built two of my own 1st-order ambisonic mics and the decoder plugins about 6 years ago. I shelved the project since I couldn't (and still cannot) afford a playback system beyond stereo :( It was pretty cool to rotate the sou
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    by wdfx 8y ago

    I have built a little box of buttons which I can use to record the time I spend on each activity at work. Mostly just for my own amusement. I’ve open sourced the entire concept, software and physical designs.
13. 283.▲
    Show HN: The Task Switch(doug.pacifico-hammond.co.uk)

    2 points by wdfx 8y ago|2 comments
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    by wdfx 8y ago

    I have built a little box of buttons which I can use to record the time I spend on each activity at work. Mostly just for my own amusement. I’ve open sourced the entire concept, software and physical designs.
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    Show HN: The Task Switch – time tracking gadget(doug.pacifico-hammond.co.uk)

    2 points by wdfx 8y ago|2 comments
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    by wdfx 9y ago

    I also have an Atmos. It is inaccurate to the tune of hours per day :( I have not yet taken measurements to find out which way it needs adjusting.
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    by wdfx 9y ago

    and https://github.com/EliasOenal/multimon-ng
18. 288.▲
    by wdfx 9y ago

    Hello! Long time no see - Glad to hear you guys are still in business and by the sound of it still enjoying it :) (At the risk of blowing my HN "anonymity" I'm the person who (re)wrote large portions of the Blender plugin a f
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    by wdfx 9y ago

    This happens at my employer too, although the developer has full resources during work hours but outside of that the machine is a compute node
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    by wdfx 9y ago

    But the springy animation was/is sooo amusing! (Not least because audio cables are completely non elastic)
21. 291.▲
    by wdfx 9y ago

    Gotcha. I agree non scalable 'photorealistic' design on audio plugins and apps in particular do hinder usability. And yes, rotary knobs on screen are not always great.
22. 292.▲
    by wdfx 9y ago

    Your comment on skeuomorphism no sense. All of the modules shown there are replicas of real hardware ??
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    by wdfx 9y ago

    A large proportion of the workstations at the company I work for are using Teradici (I'm not affiliated with this company at all) to implement the machines-in-the-machine-room idea you mentioned. They basically are remote units for pro
24. 294.▲
    by wdfx 9y ago

    That a great concept. I'd vote for that :)
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    by wdfx 9y ago

    as for using comments to disable code - you probably should have the active code in source control and then you are free to simply delete it.
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    by wdfx 9y ago

    I was just thinking about some kind of code side-car file format which stores comments/docs separately. You'd then have a vertical split view with code on one side and the linked comments/docs on the other. You could select s
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    by wdfx 9y ago

    I bought an RTL SDR just a few weeks ago off the back of getting interested in listening in on various web SDRs (furthermore, the first of which I visited was linked to a HN thread about a Russian numbers station). Now I can pick up local s
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    by wdfx 9y ago

    :O Never thought this would happen
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    by wdfx 9y ago

    Did you not see The Jungle Book (2016) ?
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    by wdfx 9y ago

    They plan to release the spec like that, but I'm certain on this update most studios will be lagging due to the vast amount of 2 to 3 migration work that needs to be done.