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by wowczarek 8d ago
Yes. https://alexwlchan.net/2026/glancecast/ Edit: same link, just fixed itself.
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by wowczarek 24d ago
...sorry, not HP/Tek/R&S/Lecroy ;)
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by wowczarek 24d ago
There are exceptions to the "Winscopes" from the same era in the 1 GHz+ space (RTOS like VxWorks but with Ethernet and modern goodies) that are not HP/Tek/R&S, but I'm not listing them because I'm out on an
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by wowczarek 25d ago
> I found the 32 screws of the TDS7104 less of a pain than the dismantling the Agilents which had less screws. Yeah sliding the whole thing out of the shell and the (curses) front panel ribbon that gets in the way, and the best part is t
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by wowczarek 25d ago
I went through a similar process recently with an HP/Agilent 54845A scope (1.5 Ghz, 8 Gsa combined) - a great tool if you need reasonably fast rise times and a reasonably fine time base resolution - the only issue is that it has an aby
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by wowczarek 29d ago
So is HL3 out yet?
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by wowczarek 29d ago
>> The projects need to apply repeatingly for funding. > Still better than no funding at all. Exactly, plus no grantor I know operates on a blank check basis, its always budgeting, prioritisation, and new applications and grants ar
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by wowczarek 1mo ago
It's a great collection and exploring it is fun, but it misses on titles / names of the given linkage or movement. It makes sense when you are reading the book [0], but on a site like this where you see the individual item in isol
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by wowczarek 1mo ago
Good times. Ever played Sid & Al's Incredible Toons [0]? Same same concept, from the same people (Sierra / Dynamix), but with a slightly different take and an emphasis on silliness / humour. A sound card was a must thou
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by wowczarek 1mo ago
> If we had a cross-platform usable GUI framework I could swear there once was a (n)curses or otherwise text based GTK+ implementation / backend. It didn't do everything of course, and this was, I don't know, about 2003-20
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by wowczarek 1mo ago
Oh is's never about who did what, it's about who considers whom worth suing at a convenient point in time.
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by wowczarek 1mo ago
Nothing to do with Rust as a programming language, but meanwhile in the world of [language without a package manager], a monkey puppet glances awkwardly to the left.
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by wowczarek 1mo ago
This is the vibe I'm getting from this project and an example of how AI can be used in a "proper" way - intentional and supervised by someone who knows their sh*t. "Slop" seems to have turned into a generic way to d
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by wowczarek 1mo ago
Oh I know this, but [0] and [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf#Hallmarks - a brief explanation [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzvXWl2UxXc - a compilation of all smegs in Red Dwarf
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by wowczarek 1mo ago
One anecdote about a piece of Logitech hardware: My once top of the range Brio USB 3.0 webcam produces so much high frequency EMI that GNSS receivers in its vicinity completely fail to operate across all bands (1.1 - 1.6 GHz). I had to disc
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by wowczarek 1mo ago
Ever since I heard this song, it now always plays in my head whenever IKEA comes up - have a listen while reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4si8w8WMFc (Rob Paravonian - Particle Board) - of Dr. Demento, etc., fame.
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by wowczarek 1mo ago
And then, unbeknownst to what the Sci-Fi future might bring, an Italian home appliance manufacturer names themselves SMEG.
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by wowczarek 1mo ago
In 2013-14 or so, one person, Adam Magyar, did a similar thing with a hand-built line scan / slit scan camera and made quite interesting portraits of NYC subway cars and passengers: https://medium.com/matter/einste
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by wowczarek 1mo ago
Nothing public yet, it's an odd case, there is no contact with the author, but he apparently expressed to someone that he doesn't want the ROM shared. It all borders on the "five monkeys experiment" by now. There is a co
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by wowczarek 1mo ago
Small machines eh? How about a Casio PB-2000C, in all its pocketable 910 kHz glory, up to 64k RAM shared between heap, stack, code and RAM filesystem. 192 x 32 LCD and a piezo buzzer. Serial and parallel ports available and a FDD. It also h
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by wowczarek 1mo ago
The name sounded familiar to me for a different reason, there's a Jungle track, Dillinja's remix of Funki Porcini's King Ashabanapal: https://youtu.be/FXeMO-Iaa_g
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by wowczarek 2mo ago
This is actually a good idea for a HN dataset toy: replace all plausibly confusable words in HN headlines with the names of programming languages.
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by wowczarek 2mo ago
All I know is that when I finally buy that Zodiac RIB, I'm naming it SANGAMON'S PRINCIPLE.
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by wowczarek 2mo ago
More conservative if you understand how the term is used. In my experience and observing Poland today, "freedom of expression" is the term favoured by the right wing, denoting that it is OK to spew racist / nationalist nonsen
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by wowczarek 2mo ago
As a child of an entomologist turned botanist and another naturalist, who grew up in our home library full of assorted atlases, monographies and other odd books, I often learned the Latin names together with the respective common names, and
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by wowczarek 2mo ago
I was recently facing a real issue with audible phone notifications. For those that I do have enabled, I needed to quickly distinguish what just came in, and possibly from whom, because I need to react to some of them immediately, and I may
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by wowczarek 3mo ago
>> How is THAT legal > Why shouldn't it be? Companies are free to set prices to whatever the market will bear. Those are the rules of a free market, I'm not contesting this in general, but we're practically talking d
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by wowczarek 3mo ago
A diplomatic mission established for the sake of establishing it and staff making the best out of their time there I can somewhat understand, but not tourism into DPRK for the "curious" and leaving money in that state. Going there
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by wowczarek 3mo ago
I get that the discussion here focuses on doubtful decongestants, but just the mention of acetaminophen makes me think of pharmaceuticals and people's relationship with them in the US. It's a strange world to me, especially how de
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by wowczarek 3mo ago
You know what a turtle is? Same thing, Leon.

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