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by wkjagt 3y ago
My daughter is into K-pop (Korean pop), and has a BTS (a music group) light stick. Apparently most BTS fans have such a light stick. My daughter even has multiple versions. It has RGB LEDs inside that are controlled over bluetooth by an app
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by wkjagt 3y ago
The simplest thing missing in iOS is multiple downtimes per day. My old router is able to do it, but Apple still hasn't done it. I don't want my kids on their phones during bed time and during a large part of the day (school!). Bu
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by wkjagt 3y ago
If the first time you run the production build is after launch, and you only do it because a customer told you it doesn’t work, you just learned a valuable lesson the hard way.
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They deliberately a word
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by wkjagt 3y ago
It’s time for a new book with a cartoon elephant on the front. “The Accidental Schemer”.
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How the Apple 2 works inside
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The Leica Q has a leaf shutter that goes up to (down to?) 1/2000s.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I've always liked working in legacy code bases. It's like doing archeology. Seemingly bad code maybe didn't start out as bad code, but was made bad over time because of historical reasons (last minute product changes, time pr
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It won't be available in the US so they're not needed.
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I think it's what was called the Hilux elsewhere, and Top Gear did a fun part about it showing how indestructible it was (spoiler: very).
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This is good advice. Whenever I'm trying to recreate something that exists, I often run into what feels like forced decisions that make my reimplementation closer to the original. And then some seemingly random thing in the original be
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Would it be possible to do a similar thing in a similar size for, for example, the 6502? I would love to give that a try, even though I probably lack the skills to make it that small. Or maybe it's even impossible.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
The only ones I can remember are A9, 20 and 00.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
When driving my Miata, the size of the other cars on the road is getting scarier every year. I'm in a somewhat rural part of Canada, so there are many oversized pickups. An additional consequence of higher vehicles is that their headli
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Not my comment, but maybe support isn't the right word. One person I watch on YouTube says something like "if you enjoyed this video, give a thumbs up. If you didn't, give a thumbs down. It helps me understand which topics yo
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by wkjagt 3y ago
This, and "Understanding the Apple II" by Jim Sather are two of my favorite books. It's a lot of fun to open up my Apple 2 (it's a clone but the motherboard is 99% identical), and imagine all the different ICs doing thei
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by wkjagt 3y ago
How early would they need to be? I still have an original Canon 5D (2005) and in a way I prefer the output of it over even my Leica Q. I wonder if the reason is related to what you are saying.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Oh wow, seems like you encountered all the possible problems! Good thing you had two C64 so you could swap components. Do you have an idea why so many things had failed? Bad power supply blowing up chips maybe?
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by wkjagt 3y ago
This is why I absolutely love my 1993 Miata. Every control is physical/mechanical. Whenever I use my wife's 2017 minivan, I'm reminded of that. Even changing the radio station requires going through a menu. The one I listen t
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Do you remember what the failures were? What did you end up replacing?
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I feel almost the same about my oscilloscope but it did help me debug an i2c implementation that would have been very painful to debug otherwise. I could have done that with a much cheaper logic analyzer though. Most of the time the oscillo
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by wkjagt 3y ago
> Well, if neither of them can differentiate between Ruby and Ruby on Rails, please bear with me; I might mix a few things up as well. This made it sound like this was going to be a pretty detailed text, but instead it didn't say mu
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by wkjagt 3y ago
It's like the observer effect. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)
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by wkjagt 3y ago
You can buy a lot of food, and still don't waste it. I buy a lot of food, but waste almost nothing. With three school going kids, our schedule is packed, and having a stocked fridge that lasts Monday to Friday saves time in our daily s
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Something you won't be able to under: Nespresso logo, and NFC logo.
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I still have mine. And it still powers on. Beautiful device. I wonder if there's a good way to use it as a kind of feature/detox phone.
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In Commodore BASIC there's already SYS, which lets you jump to an arbitrary address anywhere in the 64k address space, including ROM. You can even include raw bytes in a BASIC program and have the CPU execute them as machine code.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Do you think you'd be able to find that 2 line breakout? I'm currently doing a breakout implementation on my Commodore 64. In assembly though, so definitely more than two lines ;-) Nevertheless, a two line breakout in Basic would
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I still turn my lights on with a switch on the wall. I always wondered why people wanted to turn on their lights with an app, but maybe there's some life quality thing I'm totally missing out on?
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by wkjagt 3y ago
My more local fun fact: I live on the North Shore of Montreal, and I have friends that live on the South Shore, but they actually live more north than me.

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