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by zh3 3y ago
Snap. You nixed the blue flash too? /* No blue swipe on tabs when loaded */ .tabbrowser-tab .tab-loading-burst { display: none !important; } Can't find the original reference, looks like plenty of others thoug
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by zh3 3y ago
Maybe it's just what you're used to - having got a Mac for the "premium experience", I found it sluggish and slow (albeit compared to a stripped down X11 system, rather than a full-on compositor experience)
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by zh3 3y ago
Totally with you; first thing on a new system is hit the "accessibilty" settings to disable features/improve latency. There's also the pointless visual distractions (e.g. firefox blue flash) even after killing web page a
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by zh3 3y ago
I was never a fan either (some VT100 compatibles did it better than others, always too slow for my taste though). The one thing I did use it for was to collapse a complex display with lots of line drawing characters - customers were super-i
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by zh3 3y ago
PSA: black acrylic is opaque to visible light, but transparent to IR - so a bit of that will nix the light but not the IR. It's actually pretty interesting to look at the world with an IR camera (e.g. Pi NoIR) - red wine looks like cle
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by zh3 3y ago
This point I thought was telling (the internet is not what it once was):- >"...what I write in public ends up being on the very defensible end of the things I think"
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by zh3 3y ago
Yes, heated pavements outside the shops, wind turbines on the hills, hydro, gravel roads and the sovereign wealth fund saving the money from oil for the future (check out https://www.nbim.no/ , it's about 10Nok to the d
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by zh3 3y ago
As long as the sample is representative, of course. 2000 does seem small enough that it would be hard to ensure no bias creeps in.
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by zh3 3y ago
For software that uses F-keys extensively - especially with shift/control/alt combinations - having f-keys on the left is hugely easier than awkward top-row-reaching. Plus having a 24 programmable F-keys along the top (MCK-142 Pro
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by zh3 3y ago
I bought a bunch of MCK-142's [0] years back, as my forever keyboard(s) - still using them to this day. 12 F-keys on the left, 24 programmable F-keys along the top and otherwise conventional except for the assignments in the cursor clu
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by zh3 3y ago
Worth noting that this sort of thing is actually taught at the kind of universities that produce politicians. What matters is winning the argument (irrespective of merit) for whichever side will give the best reward. For example, from [0]:-
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by zh3 3y ago
Common knowledge at the time (happened to mention it here a day ago [0]). MS just took a leaf from the mainframe makers, who slowed down their systems so they could charge a hefty premium for increasing performance when the customer was des
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by zh3 3y ago
Also in Obree's book "Flying Scotsman" [0] where his attitude to "medical assistance" makes him "not a team player", and recounts how he'd hear certain teams running through the hotel at night to avoi
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by zh3 3y ago
Having started my programming entering programs in raw hex (Z80) and Octal (PDP11), understanding memory indirection was second nature by the time I got to C - so there's something to be said for understanding how a CPU works from the
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by zh3 3y ago
There was some differences in the registry settings IIRC, the server version simply came with fewer restrictions on the IP stack (i.e. with a bit of regedit hacking, standard NT worked just as well as NT server). There might have been thing
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by zh3 3y ago
That RF remote control comes with a USB dongle; it appears as a HID device so essentially the buttons act as if they are keypresses on a keyboard (cursor keys, enter etc). So the code just receives the keypresses, and uses them to select th
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by zh3 3y ago
It's just a couple of buffers - the 10k/1k sets the gain at 0.1, shorting the 10k's would make it 1x. The two op-amps with outputs tied together with 1 ohm are just creating a virtual ground (effectively paralled to double th
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by zh3 3y ago
I use a Pi with an add-on sound board, mpd and a bit of custom code that effectively acts as a cut-down ncmpc (the protocol is really simple). The nice bit is using a cheap RF remote [0] to control mpd (sets volume, skip forward/back&#
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by zh3 3y ago
This is in fact where the expression "taking a header" comes from - see picture on link below. http://baurspotting.blogspot.com/2013/06/taking-header-origi...
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by zh3 3y ago
Seen the Morgan XP-1? [0] From the article:- "We want future electric Morgans to be the most analog EVs", Hole (Morgan's CTO) says. [0] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/12/throwback-sportscar-m
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by zh3 3y ago
Been there, done that. Bought one of the kids an axolotl after lots of pester-power and boatloads of "I promise I'll look after it, feed it and clean its tank every day". So it's come to pass that now I look after it, an
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by zh3 3y ago
Still using a P2015dn here :)
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by zh3 3y ago
Personally I'm on the wait list, mainly because it cracked a problem in seconds that one hour plus on stackoverflow hadn't solved. I didn't go to ChatGPT first because (erroneously) I figured the issue was too esoteric for i
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by zh3 3y ago
If you're using segger, a quick find-and-replace will take care of that (ditto GCC Makefiles). Must admit that when I started with nrf52 SDK, I too used thge embed-the-application-inside-the-SDK approach. Pretty soon that got cumbersom
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by zh3 3y ago
The simple hack is a softlink to the actual SDK. On the other hand, checking in the whole SDK as part of a project gives an impressive LoC tally ;) Link issue was possibly macro craziness? The scars of sdk_config.h etc.
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by zh3 3y ago
The security issues also cause inconvenience, e.g. the later revisions of the nrf52 needing either a recover operation or updated firmware (the hack of flashing a default bootloader in recovery mode that disables security is...interesting).
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by zh3 3y ago
For anyone who hasn't seen it, look up "The flying Scotsman" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472268/
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by zh3 3y ago
On linux I find it's usually necessary to enable WoL on boot with 'ethtool -s eth0 wol g' (you can check the current state of all most wakeup stuff with 'cat /proc/acpi/wakeup').
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by zh3 3y ago
I'd agree with that, to the extent that understanding how badly your tools can hurt you is an important thing to learn. Consider how a surgeon would respond if told not to use a scalpel because of the risk of accidental injury when usi
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by zh3 3y ago
Exactly so [0]. However, these days something or someone somewhere might object "to keep us safe from ourselves" Turbo-C used to check the zero location to see if it had changed and would issue a warning if so (in the real mode da

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