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by jah 4y ago
Savoir-Faire ( https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=p0cizeb3kiwzlm2p ) is another incredible game of hers.
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by jah 4y ago
I'm a huge fan of the base16 color schemes - not for their appearance (though most look great), but for their ease of integration within the shell and vim. Just clone the repos below, drop a few lines in your shellrc/vimrc, then u
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by jah 5y ago
This mapping is the new default in Neovim 0.6 ( https://github.com/neovim/neovim/commit/5a111c1b02bbfbc2b42d... )
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In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing(github.com)
247 points by jah 5y ago|107 comments
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by jah 5y ago
You're absolutely correct about RF noise. In the US, the FCC limits the power of all spurious emissions to be at least 43dB below the power of the fundamental frequency. Typically transmitters use a low pass filter (e.g. Buttersworth o
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by jah 5y ago
You can also use the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) as a test bed for chess engines. The interface is telnet-based, so it's pretty easy to experiment with and learn. There's also "zippy" mode in xboard that allows you
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by jah 5y ago
Maybe it has to do with the start of solar cycle 25? Expect to see improving HF propagation over the next 3-5 years. It's an exciting time for radio nerds.
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by jah 5y ago
If you have one of the popular RTL-SDR's you may be able to pick up the HF bands by enabling the direct sampling mode (allows tuning between 500kHz - 28.8MHz). https://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-blog-v-3-dongles-user-guide
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by jah 5y ago
I ran into two problems when trying to switch to a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB as a desktop replacement in mid-2020: - A noticeably laggy screen update when running urxvt. Any action which caused large amounts of text to scroll on the screen (e.g. a
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by jah 5y ago
There's code in the Linux FTDI driver that correctly handles the bricked FTDI clones: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/usb/se...
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by jah 5y ago
I've been running urxvt with tmux in a tiling window manager for the last decade. What features from these new terminal emulators am I missing out on?
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Tracking Pico Balloons Using Ham Radio [pdf](harc.net)
95 points by jah 6y ago|33 comments
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by jah 6y ago
How many months until Github only renders in Edge?
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by jah 6y ago
Here's a video of the Mercury-Redstone 1 "launch": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O4V7JfeTSU
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Nethack: Rename the Scroll of Genocide(github.com)
1 points by jah 6y ago|0 comments
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by jah 7y ago
Here's an interesting variation that uses RTL-SDR's: https://dopplerfish.com/passive-radar/
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An FM Radio Passive Radar System from Two RTL-SDR Dongles(rtl-sdr.com)
1 points by jah 7y ago|0 comments
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by jah 7y ago
For those interested in the 6502, Ben Eater is starting a new YouTube series in which he builds a computer around a 6502 chip. https://eater.net/6502
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by jah 7y ago
Sure, but they're probably only available by car.
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by jah 7y ago
One of my favorite quotes from Joe: “Make it work, then make it beautiful, then if you really, really have to, make it fast. 90% of the time, if you make it beautiful, it will already be fast. So really, just make it beautiful!”
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by jah 9y ago
I feel that Erlang adoption is probably the most realistic growth path for most serious Elixir developers. All of these topics you mentioned (breakers, message routing, etc) have been discussed and developed in the Erlang community for yea
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by jah 10y ago
That's an April Fool's Day prank. The King's Gambit has not been solved.
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by jah 11y ago
I built a system that scraped projections off http://apps.fantasyfootballanalytics.net/projections and joined them with weekly salary information from DraftKings. I then ran that data through a genetic algorithm that maxim
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by jah 12y ago
His story is featured on NPR's new Invisibilia podcast: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=370...
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How to Orbit a Comet(youtube.com)
1 points by jah 12y ago|0 comments
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Random Chess Moves in JavaScript(creative-co.de)
20 points by jah 12y ago|3 comments
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by jah 13y ago
Om and React are cool, but this comparison is disingenuous. The author should have compared the Om implementation to a native (JS) React implementation. I recently converted a React project to Om and found it to be a very enjoyable exercis
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by jah 13y ago
Yes, it contains an implementation of maps ... although variable keys aren't yet supported.
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by jah 14y ago
Threaded page loading. Mosaic needed to download all text and graphics before displaying any part of a web page. This was painfully slow over modems. Netscape's huge innovation was to partially render pages while resources (mainly images
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The Evolution of Cheating in Chess(grantland.com)
4 points by jah 14y ago|0 comments

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