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   by wkjagt 3y ago

   I spent weeks practicing dovetails with a Japanese pull saw until they fit just right. It was very satisfying. A kind of feeling I could never achieve writing code.
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   by wkjagt 3y ago

   Oh good tip, I’ll check that out! At the risk of getting stuck in the rabbit hole again…
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   by wkjagt 3y ago

   I went down the fountain pen rabbit hole a while back, at the same time I started improving my handwriting, especially cursive. It was a very nice combination of things. I was doing this with my daughter, often when she had to write her hom
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   by wkjagt 3y ago

   I’m in Montreal area and I don’t know anyone with natural gas.
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   by wkjagt 3y ago

   Most Canadian houses (at least around where I live) are like this. And it often gets to around minus 20 Celsius here.
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   by wkjagt 3y ago

   First thing I did was relive a moment almost 10 years ago when I had a Show HN on the front page :-)
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   by wkjagt 3y ago

   The Amiga was such an impressive computer for its time. I remember having an A500 when it was still fairly new, and compared to anything else out there it was way ahead in terms of graphics and sound. I had mine hooked up to an old amp and
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   by wkjagt 3y ago

   I tried VR twice. And both times I felt disoriented after taking the thing off. And not just for a second, but for a good five minutes. As if my brain suddenly no longer trusted anything to be real anymore.
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   by wkjagt 3y ago

   This is the next generation: artificial artificial intelligence
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    by wkjagt 3y ago

    The Weather Network has an IA bot now that you can ask “do I need to wear a coat tomorrow” or “should I bring an umbrella”. It really feels like a “how can we use AI for _anything_”, but only really shows that looking at a weather forecast
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    Drawing on buildings with laser pointer and projector (2007) [video](youtube.com)

    2 points by wkjagt 3y ago|1 comments
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    by wkjagt 3y ago

    Very old video (16 years old!) but still one of the most inspiring projects I've seen.
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    by wkjagt 3y ago

    Same here. The title reminded me of that time when someone turned their dead cat (and apparently various other animals since) into a drone. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36954689
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    by wkjagt 3y ago

    Very cool project. This hits two of my nostalgia vectors: 8-bit computers and teletext. I remember as a kid (growing up in The Netherlands), I could spend a lot of time typing in page numbers in teletext, waiting for the counter to reach th
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    by wkjagt 3y ago

    There are quite a few examples in there of “the bad guy” trying to find files (like .env) that are accidentally left somewhere. From my PHP days I remember that indeed Apache/PHP just serves up any file from anywhere as a static file i
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    by wkjagt 3y ago

    I also got a rotary encoder with the plan to use it with a wind up clock. So maybe one day!
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    by wkjagt 3y ago

    I am 46 and I don't hear it, not even when I am sitting right next to it. But others who I've show the computer to have noticed the noise as well, so I know it's there. I'm actually kinda happy about not hearing it mysel
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    by wkjagt 3y ago

    Oh good point, I hadn't even considered posting a photo of the clock itself. I'll add a picture of it to the post later. But to answer you question: no custom made clock case. The wood you're seeing is the wall. And the clock
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    by wkjagt 3y ago

    Ha, even cooler! Very nice to see :-)
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    by wkjagt 3y ago

    Oh wow, he uses the 60hz signal from the video circuitry. That's way more convenient than a big wall clock ;) And he even uses the same interrupt gating idea for the interrupts by using the game port.
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    by wkjagt 3y ago

    Yeah I think nothing actually uses interrupts by default. But they're accessible through the expansion ports. Not sure what the problem would be though.
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    by wkjagt 3y ago

    Thanks! And I forgot I still had that site linked there. I'll remove it.
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    by wkjagt 3y ago

    Thanks :D
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    by wkjagt 3y ago

    Oh cool I didn't know that existed. In my case I don't have to re-energize it because I use an existing mechanical clock.
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    by wkjagt 3y ago

    Thanks! I liked the inductive sensor, because it meant I didn't have to change the physical clock in any way. And they were only like 5 CAD each.
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    Show HN: Apple II clock using interrupts from physical pendulum clock(github.com)

    157 points by wkjagt 3y ago|29 comments
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    by wkjagt 3y ago

    Yes this is true. But I don’t think you need electronics for that. Or maybe for opening and closing the door, but not for locking?
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    by wkjagt 3y ago

    I’m not disagreeing. This is exactly how it is. I’m just saying that this way of thinking (not yours, but the one you describe) is depressing.
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    by wkjagt 3y ago

    I don’t thinks so. It’s a bit like in a breakout game where the ball gets “stuck” behind some blocks and clears a ton of them by bouncing back and forth between them.
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    by wkjagt 3y ago

    Now I want to try this on my Commodore 64. I should already have some code I could reuse as I was already working on a breakout type of game. So the “clearing a block and bounce the ball back in the right direction” should be somewhat reusa