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1970: Gyro Camera – No More Shakey Pictures? (BBC Archive) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by jope12 11mo ago|0 comments
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by jope12 11mo ago
I cannot work productively with Linux because there are no Linux alternatives to the following Windows tools (and the 'alternatives' people tell me about are a sad joke): * AutoHotkey * Voidtools Everything * Agent Ransack * Irfan
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Unix: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan (VCF East 2025) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by jope12 1y ago|0 comments
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by jope12 2y ago
Malaysia is a Muslim country. Pornography is illegal. Homosexuality is illegal.
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by jope12 2y ago
Interview with a VIM Enthusiast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n1dtmzqnCU
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by jope12 2y ago
>If Google was really existing in service of its employees rather than its investors But then it wouldn't make that kind of profit.
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An artist fights Midjourney(garymarcus.substack.com)
41 points by jope12 3y ago|93 comments
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Windows at 1000 Frames per Second: The Raymond Chen Interview [video](youtube.com)
1 points by jope12 3y ago|0 comments
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David Beazley – Dimensional Shifting [video](youtube.com)
1 points by jope12 3y ago|0 comments
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The Impact of ChatGPT on Physics Research and Education [video](youtube.com)
2 points by jope12 3y ago|0 comments
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by jope12 4y ago
This is not a book for beginners.
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by jope12 4y ago
Thunderfoot's take on this nonsense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB_X5ZUcZlE
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by jope12 4y ago
The price per ticket was 9 Euro, but the cost for the taxpayers was billions. This ticket was pure subsidization.
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by jope12 4y ago
It's not in print anymore. Your link is a used book.
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by jope12 4y ago
For people liking this book, this here might also be interesting: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2001502/Book/Its_Behin... Direct link: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/zxdb/sinclai
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by jope12 4y ago
Depends on what you mean with 'career'. Brian Kernighan doesn't do this because he needs money, but because he would get bored otherwise.
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by jope12 4y ago
Teacher unions don't want higher standards.
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by jope12 4y ago
People get what they pay for. If you want industrial-strength stuff, you have to pay, a lot. People also forget or don't know how expensive things were back then.
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by jope12 4y ago
Read until 'Taleb', then stopped reading. The value of not reading articles from people who talk and write mostly garbage.
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by jope12 4y ago
>I really do hope this finally pushes the open source community to create a viable and enjoyable to use 3D CAD modelling software. What incentive do people have to invest years of their life to do this and then not get a dime back? There
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by jope12 5y ago
Yeah right, as if anyone in France would have to starve...
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by jope12 5y ago
The whole point of creating Stack Overflow was to not have subscription access like Experts Exchange. Doing that would be suicide for SO.
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by jope12 6y ago
>Deep hierarchies of inheritance need to be carefully designed or they become a mess. Deep hierarchies of anything need to be carefully designed.
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by jope12 6y ago
So the taxis look different. So what? How knowledgeable and smart do you have to be to still know what the correct solution is?
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by jope12 6y ago
If I understand correctly, the rats smell TNT? What are the problems in building artificial TNT detectors working like the olfactory systems of animals?
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by jope12 6y ago
An "optical rotary encoder"? I doubt it. I bet it's a mechanical rotary encoder. And that it randomly jumps means their code for reading the encoder sucks. Something like that should not happen if properly implemented. I will
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by jope12 6y ago
I noticed it in my first Sony walkmen 30 years ago and it really pissed me off.
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by jope12 6y ago
Qmtech on Aliexpress have the best price/performance when it comes to FPGA boards.
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by jope12 6y ago
The question is rather, How does it compare to the Qmtech Wukong board? And the answer is: you get way more bang for your buck with the Wukong board. No Symbiflow, though, if that's what you're after. Link to board: https:/&