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by markrages 3mo ago
I can't be the only one whose memory is so bad that I am like this in my own code base.
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by markrages 4mo ago
Faster than some, slower than some. PCBs come in all different levels of complexity.
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by markrages 4mo ago
RFCOMM is old Bluetooth, not BLE. Nordic has a serial-over-ble profile, but it is not standard like RFCOMM.
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by markrages 6mo ago
GP is talking about seeing the string oscillations alias against the 30 Hz camera frame rate. I've never tried it.
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by markrages 9mo ago
Why not? It's been a decade away for the past 20 years.
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by markrages 11mo ago
"defining them right before the dependency is actually used"
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by markrages 11mo ago
You have always been able to do the same thing in Python. This PEP isn't needed for that functionality.
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by markrages 11mo ago
ChatGPT doesn't run commands, does it?
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by markrages 1y ago
Vacuum people have been trying to normalize high prices for a long time... From the old Internet: https://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/kirby/kirby.html
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by markrages 1y ago
I think a lot of real reviews are written by ChatGPT. People are lazy!
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by markrages 1y ago
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt
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by markrages 1y ago
The Loudness War has come to Slack. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
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by markrages 1y ago
...for now.
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by markrages 1y ago
ULN2003 is not DIP8 And I would assume for pedalogical purposes a bare transistor would be preferred rather than the '2008 with its extra diodes and base resistor.
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by markrages 1y ago
Of course the comments section is going to be full of war stories about everyone's hardest bug. This is how humans work, and this is why I am reading the comments.
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by markrages 2y ago
Thanks. What a weird API.
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by markrages 2y ago
shouldn't it be var actualSize = 1 << Integer.highestOneBit(approxSize - 1); ?
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by markrages 2y ago
> The statistical likelihood is that other civilisations will arise. There will one day be lemon-soaked paper napkins. > ‘Till then, there will be a short delay. Please return to your seats.
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by markrages 2y ago
> Is there any precedent to car carriers dedicated to one manufacturer? General Motors helped design the Vert-A-Pac. https://chevyvega.fandom.com/wiki/Vert-A-Pac
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by markrages 2y ago
> I am sure is not a fundamental but is the reality for the currently available chipsets. It is pretty fundamental. Ant has an inverted master/slave (or whatever we're calling it nowdays) relationship. In Ant, the sensor dete
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by markrages 2y ago
Ant also broadcasts a unique(-ish) identifier. This was enough to end Nike+. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike%2BiPod#Wireless_protocol_...
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by markrages 2y ago
The Amazon preview included a page advocating for systems Hungarian in naming variables. I am no longer interested in the book.
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YouTuber repairs audiophile preamp, gets copyright strike [video](youtube.com)
8 points by markrages 2y ago|1 comments
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by markrages 2y ago
In the 90s I worked for a company in Kansas City designing pagers. We rented space underground for RF testing. There are no radio signals in the caves, at least back then. I'm sure that's different now, especially with manufact
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by markrages 2y ago
Yes! Code is for people to read, not computers. Beautiful code uses the full expressiveness that the language allows.
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by markrages 2y ago
For integer values, just subtracting bytes is enough to allow much better compression ratios. See the table at https://opensource.quarq.com/zfit/zfit.pdf
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by markrages 2y ago
Does the output work with patch(1)? Or does this use a different patch?
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by markrages 2y ago
Even with these in place, the output of the LLM is not trustworthy. In the sense that it doesn't care what it true, only what is plausible.
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by markrages 3y ago
For problem with mechanical interference, the old school trick was to stack a few DIP sockets together and plug into those. These would space the adapter up off of the reader. (We used to use extra sockets to save wear on the chip pins du
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by markrages 3y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19008109

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