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by drivers99 6d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac-b6dRMSwY&t=34s
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by drivers99 9d ago
Didn't realize you could zoom in until I saw this. It looks really cool when you zoom in and it replaces the boxes with actual building shapes.
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by drivers99 9d ago
It looks like I misinterpreted the bottom of this page[0] where it says: > A seaside scene: a white pelican in a blue helmet pedals a red bicycle along the beach, one wing gripping the handlebar, its big orange beak and pouch out front,
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by drivers99 12d ago
It's a different prompt. It says his prompt was "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" but one I saw earlier this week specifically talked about the blue helmet and fish in a basket.
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by drivers99 12d ago
That's over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570643
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by drivers99 14d ago
> Turn off your YouTube watch history Just to add to that, it's a two step process: disable saving new history, and then clear all history I estimate my watch time dropped by half per day the first time I did that. Then I started cu
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by drivers99 24d ago
It's kind of funny, but AI can also use an oscilloscope. My friend vibe coded a software synth on a Raspberry Pi Pico. When he realized his oscilloscope had a network interface, he had Claude figure out how to connect to it over the ne
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by drivers99 26d ago
Oh yeah, this is right up my alley. I've been thinking about making a Forth on bare metal for a while (made a Forth interpreter in C last summer, and a tiny amount of testing stack manipulation in hand-assembled machine language on a
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by drivers99 26d ago
update for the record: I did get them within a few days
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by drivers99 26d ago
What makes you say that? I didn't get that feeling at all, and found it pretty interesting as well.
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by drivers99 1mo ago
2600 Magazine
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by drivers99 1mo ago
pretty interesting etymology connecting Dios, Jupiter, Zeus, etc. (Sky Father) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Dy%C4%93us
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by drivers99 1mo ago
If it looked like the one on the left then it was probably an ENIAC decade ring counter. It could store 1 digit from 0 to 9 and could selectively count pulses to increment the value, with carry to the next one. The 10 tubes on the right (ou
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by drivers99 1mo ago
I recently read a fascinating book I found in the library by an engineer who worked under Mauchly and Eckert and talks about working on ENIAC, BINAC, EDVAC, LARC, and UNIVAC. The book is "From Dits to Bits" by Herman Lukoff.
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by drivers99 1mo ago
I wonder if they're having problems. This reminded me I need to get some 5.25" DS/DD 360KB floppies, so I ordered a pack of new ones. After paying at Paypal, it redirected me back and I got a 400 error. I hope I still get the
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by drivers99 1mo ago
I might have to try it out. I have an 8088 IBM PC (my first computer) on a desk. I need to swap out some bad RAM (I've been getting Parity errors and other strange behavior), but it says it works with 256KB so I could remove the AST Si
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by drivers99 1mo ago
alphabetical order by title in ASCII terms instead of section At any rate, the videos just say "Video unavailable" / "This video is unavailable" although there are transcripts.
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by drivers99 2mo ago
Very cool. No surprise when I saw Ben Eater acknowledgement at the bottom. I'd humbly suggest including the CAD (KiCad?) files to go along with the gerbers.
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by drivers99 2mo ago
I created a new account there and have the same thing. There are some posts about it on /r/github
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by drivers99 2mo ago
In Firefox, I didn't see a reader view available (I wonder what determines that), but I was able to right click, Inspect, change the <body bgcolor="#CCFF33" ...> background to #ffffff Personally, I liked the design when
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by drivers99 2mo ago
What's doomcoding? (It's not mentioned in the article and it doesn't appear to be a related term when I google it.) It sounds negative ("doom" + "we should limit ourselves" from it) but everything you said
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by drivers99 2mo ago
I used to be a fan of Zebra Sarasa (retractable, not one of the variations) which I thought was better than the G2, but it wasn't always reliable (maybe they changed something), was more expensive, hard to find in stores (G2 are everyw
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by drivers99 2mo ago
I'm a convert to the idea of just having a cup full of Bic Cristal (cheap, ubiquitous, reliable, replaceable, 76 year old design) ball point pens. Whenever I temporarily misplace one, I just grab another from the cup as I find them. Wh
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by drivers99 2mo ago
Good points. I'm leaning towards keeping it original. For example, I recently got an 8-bit VGA card for it and did some VGA assembly code on it, but then I put the original CGA card back in, even though I have to use a couple external
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by drivers99 2mo ago
All good points. One caveat is that this PC only has a full height 5.25" (double sided, double density, 360K) floppy drive. When I got a 486 (Gateway 2000) in 1993, I had them add a 5.25" (as drive B:) to it so I could still at le
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by drivers99 2mo ago
Well, this computer is too old for IDE (but see below). :) Looks like it's something called MFM, driven by an entire expansion card that hooks up to the hard drive. But I get what you mean. My oldest tower is running Windows 2000 (sinc
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by drivers99 2mo ago
I have my IBM PC set up (to go through a Peter Norton assembly language book again) but I got a file read error for the first time recently on the 20 MB (Seagate ST-225) hard drive and parity errors from the RAM (again). I have chips (prett
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by drivers99 2mo ago
I do it one type of pointer or another for tracking my reading position continuously. I even highlighted some words in your comment while I read it. In a book, I typically put my finger (or the corner of my bookmark) under the 3 words or so
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by drivers99 3mo ago
It's a weird coincidence to me I just remembered Henry Darger again today, within the last hour actually. I had watched "In the Realms of the Unreal" (2004 documentary) in the theater when it came out. (I know it's only
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by drivers99 3mo ago
Does that not lead you to situations where you have to guess the last letter on each round? Or do you choose words to avoid getting trapped in that situation in the first place?

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