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by whartung 3y ago
Honestly this unreasonably scares people off. This apparently very large loo loo of a first step, setting up all this infrastructure just to get started. The tooling is nice, but it’s not what defines CL. The language has ample benefits jus
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by whartung 3y ago
Arguably when compiling/assembling is "free", outside of using precompiled code without source code, there's little reason for the linking phase. Ostensibly it was faster to link precompiled code than to constantly recom
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by whartung 3y ago
To a point. There's an entire culture of software and processes around building up container images from scratch for deployment. There's a term of art that I forget, "Pets vs XXX", with XXX being disposable VMs, in contr
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by whartung 3y ago
My early FreeBSD moment was when I had a cable modem, and you were able to download one or two boot floppies. After you booted them up, you could install the entire OS from the network. No CD needed. I assume it just downloaded everything s
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by whartung 3y ago
Be interesting how this contrasts with the cc65/ca65 tool suite, which is pretty complete I think in terms of assembling, linking, and libraries. (Discounting the actual C compiler part.)
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by whartung 3y ago
There's also a lot more room, heat, antenna routing, and power budget in a laptop. They can have something functional, but just generally less efficient (for assorted values of "efficiency") that will work fine in a laptop, b
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by whartung 3y ago
I don’t recall the details but as I understand it there was a bit going around about how modern phones actually have a built in FM radio but none of them had them enabled or accessible through the software. There was buzz of making that acc
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by whartung 3y ago
I’ve actually been casually looking for a Carson City dollar to carry around, just as a keepsake. Trick is finding one in bad enough shape to lose much of its numismatic value (since my intent is to carry it in a pocket with keys and other
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by whartung 3y ago
> saying these are rule of thumbs they're not always taken this way by young programmers. The important thing to learn about all “rules of thumb” and “best practices” is the WHY behind them. Programmers especially should not copy&#x
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by whartung 3y ago
I don’t know, it’s not my field, but the applicability of an LLM in a lot of current AI fields such as motion control, vision, planning, etc. That is classic AI stuff, I don’t think LLMs are appropriate yet. Too big, too slow, too much reso
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by whartung 3y ago
I’ll give it a look when I get off my phone. I’m trying to bootstrap some fundamentals for a personal project. Currently working through some chapters of “AI. A modern approach “ book.
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by whartung 3y ago
Friend of mine did this in the heyday. He’d have, like a dozen games going. Hunting and playing “soft players” (as the GP calls them). I don’t know how long he played, he certainly didn’t mention a grind as described here. But, he netted en
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by whartung 3y ago
There may be an interesting space in "right to drone" (or however you want to put it). Simply, considering the one mention how they used drones to monitor protests, it may be fair to assume that these drones were being used in way
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by whartung 3y ago
Story I heard for that job was the city offered a $1M early completion bonus. The contractor that won the bid was confident they would beat the deadline and they underbid everyone by the $1M and got the job. And, yes, they beat the deadline
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by whartung 3y ago
Grocery stores used to be the king of cash. It was not uncommon for someone to show up with their paycheck to do their weekly shopping, handing it over to the cashier and taking the rest in change. The amount of cash that worked through a b
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by whartung 3y ago
We need better “cash” today. Perhaps bring the $50 back. It’s easy to go through several hundred dollars a week. But since the $100 is barely legal tender, if you want to carry that much money, it’s a stack of $20s. And, it’s a big stack, i
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by whartung 3y ago
I always liked the anecdote that Mel Brooks couldn’t write music, so he hummed all the songs from “The Producers” into a tape recorder and those recordings formed the basis of all the arrangements.
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by whartung 3y ago
I don’t know about any actual data, but out on the road, in the wild, my wife and I comment on “BMW” drivers for their driving styles. We comment on the pony cars for their loud exhausts, but for lane changes, darting through traffic, blowi
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by whartung 3y ago
A ballot summary says this: > These laws require manufacturers to provide the same diagnostic and repair information to vehicle owners and independent repair businesses that authorized dealerships receive. They also seek to prevent manuf
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by whartung 3y ago
ChatGPT is my goto destination for tech questions now. It's (mostly) far more efficient than Google and I can actually have a (limited) conversation with it, rather than arguing with StackOverflow mods. Similarly with IRC. ChatGPT resp
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by whartung 3y ago
When we switched to the 4 from the 3, the 3 used to have a "photos of the day" screensaver, filled with an ever changing, curated selection of photos. For whatever reason, they dropped that in the 4. All of the screensavers (as fa
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by whartung 3y ago
I'm pretty sure (but I don't know) that high up there's no real "airspace" issue, but I'm curious where the missile was intercepted. Was it over water? Or one of the intervening countries (I'm guessing wit
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by whartung 3y ago
Typically, at my school, the decks were standalone. They included the program, the data, and any control cards (like actual commands). For a COBOL class, your deck was the commands to compile and execute the program text that followed, and
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by whartung 3y ago
A testament to modern control systems in cars. When the 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee was released, it was an early release in mid-2013. And, yes, it was an early release. The first month or so of models had all sorts of problems. And one of the
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by whartung 3y ago
> That's why it's critical motorcycle riders practice emergency braking. You have to practice it enough to make it muscle memory. Indeed threshold braking (which is what this is) is a very important skill to practice for a moto
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by whartung 3y ago
The KIM-1 was my first computer, my Dad got it for me in my Junior year of High School. I had great fun working through the First Book of KIM. I tried my hand at assorted electronics experiments, but managed to shove 9v into one of the PIO
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by whartung 3y ago
Trivia bit. For those that don't know, the Cal Poly Universities at Pomona and San Luis Obispo collaborate on the annual Rose Parade Float. Back in the day, they would win awards for their motion control and animation work. Much of tha
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by whartung 3y ago
So, is this an issue of credit, a recognition thing? Or more an issue of just sharing with the “right” people? I share what I do freely. If someone integrates that trivia and shares it with someone else, so much the better. I offer a fracti
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by whartung 3y ago
Now that's interesting because every set of instructions I've seen is to not over mix the batter. That it should be even a bit lumpy. I guess it builds up the gluten. I do suggest letting the batter sit for some time (10-15 minute
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by whartung 3y ago
A particular feature of LA and SoCal is that it was well settled and the car culture was in full swing before the freeways really arrived. An artifact of that is the freeways were, mostly, essentially laid on top of all the existing transpo

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