linuxlizard

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   by linuxlizard 4y ago

   Several years ago I worked for a company that made a usb+network and usb-only skew of their product. The usb-only boards were the same as the usb+network boards with a few parts not populated. We started getting tech support complaints when
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   by linuxlizard 4y ago

   "What is it with you kids? Every other day it's 'Food, food, food'" -- Bender
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   by linuxlizard 4y ago

   My bird feeder does pretty well. https://morebirds.com/collections/caged-squirrel-proof-bird-... Outside my office last winter: https://imgur.com/gallery/LTVz9t0
4. 64.▲
   by linuxlizard 4y ago

   I can't remember, sorry.
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   by linuxlizard 4y ago

   I _just_ ripped out our ~10yo heat pump at home, installed a fully gas furnace. The accursed thing was so loud and it sat right outside my office. When working from home over the winter, it would fire up and drown out any conversation in my
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   by linuxlizard 5y ago

   I've been having very good experiences with my Lenovo P15v dual booting Fedora/Windows. Intel graphics aren't speedy but are reliable. Absolutely gorgeous 4k screen. The usual nice Thinkpad keyboard.
7. 67.▲
   by linuxlizard 5y ago

   As another long time user of Linode, I have had nothing but good experiences with them. I hope their quality stays up.
8. 68.▲
   by linuxlizard 5y ago

   Please continue to contribute to Wikipedia. It's one place in the internet I can go and not be bombarded with ads.
9. 69.▲
   by linuxlizard 5y ago

   But this time is different!
10. 70.▲
    by linuxlizard 5y ago

    I wrote a toy Ada compiler for my master's thesis. It's a very fun language. I miss using it. I was attracted to Python because of exception handling which I learned from Ada.
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    by linuxlizard 5y ago

    I have a .com domain with 'test' in the name. I was mildly DNS spammed because Microsoft admins would create that thing with test in the name. I'd get 10-20 DNS packets a day. I moved it to an external DNS provider just to gi
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    by linuxlizard 5y ago

    I loved Tcl way back before I switched to Perl. So cool seeing Tcl and HTML combined like this!
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    by linuxlizard 5y ago

    Nice to see my home state/town making cute national news for a change (as opposed to our usual cringe-worthy coverage).
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    by linuxlizard 5y ago

    This is some great stuff. Thank you! I'm definitely going to lean into chocolatey. My daily driver is Linux but I still need a Windows machine around.
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    by linuxlizard 5y ago

    You should take a look at tiff (also on their list for some reason). I used bmp in my imaging work because it's lossless and uncompressed (I got tired of waiting for 500M png files to open). But tiff is quite simple to understand and
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    by linuxlizard 5y ago

    When I was doing imaging, tiff was my go-to. It's uncompressed so huge images would pop open quickly (compared to loss-less png). I could store 16-bit CMYK images in tiff which no other format (except maybe PSD) would do. Several year
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    by linuxlizard 5y ago

    Another great use of an FFT and filtering. https://www.edn.com/buenos-notches-the-filter-wizard-vs-the-... Filtering out vuvuzela noise. Same sort of idea, targeting the frequency peak of an obnoxious interference.
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    by linuxlizard 5y ago

    I think I remember reading somewhere Larry Wall was inspired to create Perl in order to combine awk+sed functionality. He was sick of awk+sed being almost powerful enough to do what he needed. (I can't find a reference to this though.)
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    by linuxlizard 5y ago

    I use awk to auto-generate C header files from other header files. I work with $vendor's huge complicated kernel driver codebase. I need small pieces of $vendor's interconnected header files in order to make kernel calls to their
20. 80.▲
    by linuxlizard 5y ago

    Intel sold off their X-Scale/StrongARM to Marvell in 2006. https://www.theregister.com/2006/06/27/intel_sells_xscale/ I was with Marvell at the time and we were pretty excited to get it.
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    by linuxlizard 5y ago

    Ditto. I'm learning D3 and the examples and the d3 source itself has been a boon to a new learner like me.
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    by linuxlizard 6y ago

    Why didn't they just do what the US Gov did? Snoop but not tell anyone. Certainly would have saved them some grief. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(...
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    by linuxlizard 6y ago

    Latitude / Longitude coordinate as floating point. https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/211796/if-degrees-is... I made the above post due to a bug in the GPS on our routers. We had a customer close to the
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    by linuxlizard 6y ago

    I very briefly encountered MUMPS in grad school and its eldritch horror has remained seared in my brain.
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    by linuxlizard 6y ago

    I did Ada back in university. I wrote a toy Ada compiler for my master's thesis. I was so enamored with Ada's exception handling at the time! When I discovered Python and its similar exception handling, I jumped onto Python in a
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    by linuxlizard 6y ago

    I enjoyed Fortran/FORTRAN. Is a nice succinct language. "Lovecraftian hieroglyphics of Fortran" <-- the author never programmed in Perl, I presume.
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    by linuxlizard 6y ago

    Was hoping someone would mention Ada. It's the most Pascal-y of all Pascal's children. I enjoyed my brief time doing Ada. I should look at Nim.
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    by linuxlizard 6y ago

    I liked CompUSA. The employees I interacted with were great. Boise, ID. Was sad when they closed.
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    by linuxlizard 6y ago

    if this were reddit, I'd be throwing gold at you.
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    by linuxlizard 6y ago

    Same here. I still remember the days of XF86Config. X.org was a great step up. And now I've never even noticed the transition to Wayland. Everything still works great.