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by wkjagt 3y ago
Tangent: I love that this includes a list of frequently asked questions in the literal sense of questions that are asked frequently.
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I have an old iPad Mini (2nd or 3rd gen, can’t remember) that would make a perfect controller for my Sonos speakers. Its hardware is more than capable enough. Except the Sonos app requires a version of iOS that this iPad can’t run. Sometime
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Actually, it’s looking more like 6 days. No wait, 30 seconds.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
He never actually said that though. It’s attributed to him a lot (on “inspirational” quote sites, printed on mugs etc) but apparently there’s no proof he actually said that.
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My cheap tablet doesn't want to smoothly render the linked site but going by the comments, it doesn't answer its own question. I was, however, asking myself the complete opposite question the other day, when browsing Aliexpress. W
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Another great YouTube math guy is Eddie Woo. They’re recordings of him teaching high school math, and he does such a great job at engaging his class (and viewers).
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Schools are a hot topic these days where I am (Quebec) as we're going into the fifth week of schools being closed in our area because of strikes. Someone I was talking to the other day wondered how the schools would catch up this huge
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by wkjagt 3y ago
For those just seeing noise: click somewhere in the noise.
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Even though it's way more powerful than my first computer, it uses only a fraction of the energy. So yes, in a way maybe you're abusing a pretty powerful computer to do some silly gadget thing, but there's no real negative im
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I find it amazing to think that your Christmas lights are now way more powerful than my first computer.
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I was hoping to do a similar thing recently, hoping to be able to reverse engineer an LCD screen from a digital picture frame I got at a thrift store for a couple of dollars. I thought I might be able to use it as a screen for my 6502 homeb
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Oh nice! I may put this one under the Christmas tree for myself :D
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I am Dutch, and I agree the Dutch complain a lot. For example, when travelling, and looking for the right gate at the airport for the flight back home, it’s often easiest to look for the area where people look like they’re discussing the st
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I’m glad I’m no the only one put off by this. I’ve been thinking of making a simple browser extension to hide all the “eeeermmm no”’s from HN.
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I rarely carry my cell phone. I often even don’t know where it is. For telling time, I have an F-91W. It does a great job at that (except for when it’s dark, the silly light only barely illuminates the left side of the screen). I don’t know
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I do quite a bit of 6502 assembly (hobby only). And the only types of multiplications I’ve needed were either multiplying by a power of 2 (often if I’m using a data table where an entry is 2 bytes long and I need to calculate the index into
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I’ve read a couple of texts by Paul Lockhart. His opinion (which I support) is that what is taught in high school as math isn’t math, as in what a mathematician does. As an example: Pythagoras proved the relation between the lengths of the
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Reminds me of the classic joke: “I’ve been using VIM for over 10 years. Mostly because I don’t know how to exit it”.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I’m using my original iPhone SE (2016). I replaced the battery a couple of weeks ago, and I’m often at 80% by the end of the day. For regular phone use, I find this phone is perfect. So small you don’t feel it in your pocket, and still does
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Isn’t that also where Burnt Face Man is from?
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I was recently following along with a video tutorial (on FreeRTOS) where the person was live coding in VSCode, which is what I also use. He would type in code while also reading the code out loud. I was switching between the video and my ow
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by wkjagt 3y ago
One thing I really disliked when I was still in a job where I had lots of remote meetings was the awareness that a video stream of my face was constantly being broadcast to all participants, and I couldn’t say anything without it being full
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Aren’t WAI and STP only on the 16 bit versions? EDIT: just looked it up, and you’re right! The 65C02S has them. I thought I saw in the WDC programming manual that it was on the 16 bit version. I’m going to play around with those a bit :-)
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by wkjagt 3y ago
The CMOS version (at least the one from WDC, which he uses) does have it.
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It’s a really rough experience. I saw my grandfather go through something similar 9 years ago. I built him an audio book reader and it made a big difference for him. The problem was that he had never been into technology, so getting him a s
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Apart from the actual thing being impressive, I think I’m even more impressed that this runs smoothly on my 2016 iPhone SE.
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Cyber Monday
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Would you mind sharing the lofi mixes you’re listening to? I love lofi music when concentrating on something.
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The author briefly talks about the HP-16C. I’ve been looking at buying one for a while, but never managed to convince myself I need it enough to spend a couple of hundreds of dollars on a used calculator. I do a lot of 6502 assembly, so it
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For me two’s complement started making sense when I realized that for example when you subtract 1 from 0, regardless of using signed or unsigned, you get 11111111 (assuming 8 bits). Using two’s complement, we just interpret it as -1, but th

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