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Why do electronic components have such odd values? (2021)(digilent.com)
444 points by mtm 2y ago|157 comments
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Medley Interlisp Project, by Larry Masinter et al.(youtube.com)
3 points by mtm 3y ago|0 comments
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by mtm 4y ago
On the job training. Entry level pin setter mechanic training is fairly basic (Lock out tag out procedures, basic machine operations, simple trouble call resolutions (ball returns, re-spotting pins, that sort of thing)). Usually you'l
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by mtm 4y ago
After working full time in a wide variety of tech since 1983 (embedded systems work on medical equipment and commercial fire alarm systems, hotel reservation systems, ramp and fuel delivery systems in aviation, multiple startups in Silicon
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MNT Pocket Reform(mntre.com)
3 points by mtm 4y ago|0 comments
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by mtm 4y ago
One of my favorite examples of a literate-style program is "cl-6502, A Readable CPU Emulator" by Brit Butler
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by mtm 5y ago
Yep, I got the FORTH cover a few years ago, looks great: https://x0r.be/@mtm/106310373200174194
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by mtm 5y ago
https://plaintextaccounting.org Not sure about receipt scanning though.
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by mtm 6y ago
Regarding the "camera viewfinder remote view thingy" I've used it to: * point my phone at a TV while I aligned an outside VHF antenna * point my phone at a security flood while I figured out which breaker in the garage contro
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by mtm 6y ago
Any plans to support movable keycaps? I'd love to actually have the physical keys match my Colemak layout
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by mtm 6y ago
I'm hoping the ReMarkable 2 closes that gap even further.
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by mtm 6y ago
I've added mini-clover to my back yard. It's only been 2 months but the yard is already much healthier.
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by mtm 6y ago
Will there be a RESTish API available? Or really any well-documented API. Will Quill play nice with federated systems?
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by mtm 7y ago
Instaparse is excellent ( https://github.com/engelberg/instaparse ) if you are using Clojure
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'Apply Concat' and Friends(chouser.n01se.net)
1 points by mtm 7y ago|0 comments
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by mtm 7y ago
how about like this: # cp [existing-thing] [new-thing] # mv [existing-thing] [new-thing] # ln -s [existing-thing] [new-thing]
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by mtm 9y ago
Interesting, I’m doing the same but using WWVB 60khz radio signal for my time source
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by mtm 9y ago
I've always been partial to 'restclient-mode': https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el So nice to capture a flow of commands and notes in a single plain text file
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by mtm 9y ago
I was a user of a very early version of Zortech C++ (one of the first native C++ compilers (late '80s); no running through cfront) and ran into a very subtle bug in the math routines: sometimes when doing math with 8 bit values the ans
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by mtm 9y ago
A real shame that Forth wasn't included in the tested languages. Chuck Moore has been an advocate for more energy efficient computation for a while now.
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by mtm 9y ago
It seems well thought out: * malloc/free (ref counting GC) * memory pooling (no heap, stack-based for memory constrained systems) * third party allocators * third party GC Details here: http://ferret-lang.org/#sec-4-2
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by mtm 9y ago
I'd also highly recommend "NASA Voyager 1 & 2 Owners' Workshop Manual" https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0857337750 It goes into amazing detail on the history of the spacecraft and the ev
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by mtm 9y ago
For github I crafted together this little bookmarklet to ignore whitespace on diffs (use it daily for our code reviews): javascript:(function()%7Bopen(location.href+'?w=1');%7D)();void(0);
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by mtm 9y ago
I just installed GuixSD 0.12 last week on a Dell 13 7000. Went mostly smoothly (had to use Grub BIOS instead of UEFI, that's been fixed in 0.13) after I replaced the Intel WiFi card with an Atheros based one. My needs are simple: emac
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by mtm 9y ago
Actually, assuming about 2000 RPM at 60 mph in a 4 cylinder car you are getting more like 17 detonations/second
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by mtm 9y ago
52 and I started with a KIM-1, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1 (mowed lawns to save up for it, still have it, still works). Been programming ever since and rarely use SO (most of the time I just read the code when
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by mtm 10y ago
Perhaps something like the Eigenharp ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenharp ) with some tweaked software.
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by mtm 10y ago
https://pinboard.in - an awesome bookmarking service
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by mtm 11y ago
There's a great podcast where Einar Enevoldson talks about the Perlan Project: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/airplane-geeks-podcast-podca... He goes into some detail about how they have to design around the low
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by mtm 12y ago
I really like the "markdown" aspect of this. Trello and Hipchat integration would be awesome (actually, how about a nice plugin system or a way to fire off REST calls (and receive them as well))

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