FLT8

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by FLT8 10mo ago
It's not' impossible', it's economically unviable. There's a difference. We really should be mandating that companies that don't pay fair market prices for the data they use to train their models must open sour
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by FLT8 11mo ago
I have a (completely unscientific) theory that my tinnitus is a result of early exposure to CRT TV's and my brain trying to compensate for the noise. The reason I say that is that it's roughly in the same frequency band as the PA
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by FLT8 1y ago
I can't help but wonder whether the solution here is something like building a multi-resolution understanding of the codebase. All the way from an architectural perspective including business context, down to code structure & layo
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by FLT8 1y ago
If the tariffs are able to act as a sustained source of revenue then they're not working to bring manufacturing back to the US. If they work to bring manufacturing back then they're not going to raise much revenue (long term). Eit
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by FLT8 2y ago
- Error correcting codes (viterbi, reed/Solomon, ...) - cryptography in general - data compression - a lot of DSP stuff is pretty magical in it's various applications - digital filtering, modulation/demodulation, recovery of
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by FLT8 2y ago
I think it's probably about the timing. I'm not an expert, but I believe that opening the side borders requires cycle exact timing at both edges of the screen, and when you have characters enabled on the screen, the VIC-II graphi
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by FLT8 2y ago
> The amount of effort to do a single 30 minute video of this sort when scaled out to a half or full year math class is significant. This is true if Grant is the only person doing the work, however having a well educated and scientifical
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by FLT8 2y ago
Start paying attention to the things that bog you down when working on code, and the things that your users (ought to) expect to be easy but that are inscrutably difficult to achieve with your existing codebase. Find high quality open sourc
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by FLT8 2y ago
Kung Fu flash is probably all you need, with a few caveats (eg. With KFF the drive is "emulated" by intercepting kernal vectors rather than acting as a 1541 on the serial bus, so some software that eg. uses fast loaders or relies
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by FLT8 2y ago
I credit the C64 that I had as a kid and magazines like COMPUTE! / Compute's Gazette for my career in software. I taught myself 6510 assembler and started writing some simple demo-like things on that machine, and got hooked on th
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by FLT8 2y ago
This reminds of the corporate adage: "You can choose to invest in your people and run the risk that they leave, or you can choose not to invest in your people and run the risk that they stay". It seems to me that the smartest peop
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by FLT8 2y ago
Only you can decide where your moral compass points, and how far you're prepared to go in an opposing direction for wealth and/or fame. I think most people will feel better working in a position that is aligned with their values,
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by FLT8 2y ago
I'd love to hear about your recovery journey.. it seems like quite the gravity-well to have escaped from. Would you consider writing a blog post or sharing here?
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by FLT8 2y ago
There are a lot of weird and wonderful tax breaks in Australia likely helping to drive up the sales of utes*. I don't think it's necessarily that Aussies love driving them as much as Aussies dislike handing over more than they nee
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by FLT8 2y ago
> You never add abstractions until you can’t avoid them. Whilst I accept that bad abstractions can really hold a codebase back, good abstractions and layering are what make code clean, understandable, and maintainable. I don't thin
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by FLT8 2y ago
20 years ago I worked on a mainframe system that, at the time, was said to have "18 months to live". Fast forward to today, the system is more entrenched than it ever was, and still has "18 months to live".. I'm c
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by FLT8 2y ago
> Monoliths are problematic because they are too large and unweildy; The idea that something could become less unwieldy or overall "smaller" by splitting it into separate codebases and introducing RPC and dealing with all the o
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by FLT8 2y ago
> even just updating the dependencies might sometimes be impossible (in a reasonable timeframe). Consider the situation where you have a proliferation of micro-services all using a similar but slightly divergent stack, and you're no
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by FLT8 2y ago
It's 1000x easier to refactor the monolith into a more modular form when it's in a single repo. Wait until you want to try to refactor across service boundaries in a u-services world because you got your boundaries wrong. Addition
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by FLT8 2y ago
And anyone not on iOS stuck with webkit.
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by FLT8 2y ago
They couldn't be, realistically, any more closed without being an essentially infinite money sink of the kind even nation states would struggle to fund long-term. It's the public using it that's helping offset costs and also
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by FLT8 2y ago
Maybe they're working to tweak the chain-of-thought mechanism to eg. Insert-subtle-manipulative-reference-to-sponsor, or other similar enshittification, and don't want anything leaked that could harm that revenue stream?
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by FLT8 2y ago
Feel free to reach out, a few people from this thread seem to be doing similar things, including looking at the protocols involved and interop requirements. It would be good to combine efforts if you're that way inclined. As far as HA
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by FLT8 2y ago
The main trouble I have with mongo or document databases in general is that using them effectively requires a lot of design thinking up front. You need to really understand your domain model, in a DDD sense. This isn't usually made c
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by FLT8 2y ago
Also, Postgres. It has built in support for json data types, can index on json fields, and do most of the stuff you'd want to do in mongo while not locking you into that paradigm for the parts of your app that don't need it.
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by FLT8 2y ago
I have reached out to your email address (as described in your profile) with some additional information that I've been putting together. Let me know if you didn't receive my mail.
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by FLT8 2y ago
Interesting, not sure what's going on there then.. how recently was your system installed? Maybe they have updated the pinout on newer models? I'll go back and check though.
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by FLT8 2y ago
This is from my earlier notes, hope it helps some. Pin 1: RS422 +/B Pin 2: RS422 -/A Pin 3: ? - appears to be unused; connected to unpopulated pad on PCB Pin 4: GND Pin 5: ~14.2v DC unloaded Pin 6: GND Pin 7: ? P
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by FLT8 2y ago
I've got one of these systems too. Mine hasn't died yet, touch wood, but I was concerned enough about the possibility that I went as far as documenting the comms protocol and starting to design a pi hat to talk to the main control
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by FLT8 2y ago
Reasons not to do this: - you don't really understand the full complexity of the domain or regulatory environment yourself - you don't have the funding available to commit to not only the development team but also the infrastruct

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