phs2501

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by phs2501 4mo ago
Probably the closest thing I remember existing to this was (in its "modern"-ish form) https://github.com/autc04/executor Not quite what you're looking for I think but it was a Wine-style reimplementation
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by phs2501 5mo ago
Yes but the math (which happens in the receiver, so can be replicated by a user with an open source receiver) would be very different. You actually wind up with a 3D position relative to the Earth's center, which then needs to be math
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by phs2501 5mo ago
More annoying is when you use something like SoundSource (a paid app which adds per-app volume control and input/output redirection to macOS... a feature that by all rights should be built in in any reasonable OS) you get a permanent p
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by phs2501 7mo ago
Not really. It's certainly intended for the basic "fan out m tasks to n workers, and the fanout producer wants to know when they're all done" and can be abused for some more, but I don't think it does anything to h
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by phs2501 7mo ago
For one thing, static vs dynamic RAM. Static RAM (which is what's used for your typical CPU cache) is implemented with flip-flops and doesn't need to be refreshed, reads aren't destructive like DRAM, etc.
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by phs2501 7mo ago
The one thing I wish stock python queues had an option for (async or otherwise) was some kind of explicit termination. e.g. be split into producers and consumers, and have consumers indicate iteration complete when all producers have finis
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by phs2501 10mo ago
I highly doubt (and some quick checks seem to verify that) any of the tiny CC implementations will support the cleanup extension that most of this post's magic hinges upon. (Agree on your other points for what it's worth.)
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by phs2501 1y ago
That's what I get for stopping at the front page after it looked just like I remember. :/ Thanks for the other link.
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by phs2501 1y ago
It still exists at https://archive.org/details/music_202007 .
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by phs2501 1y ago
Usually that means the record was mastered differently (because you literally physically can't make a record as "loud" as a CD). It's not the CD's fault, it's the mastering engineers.
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by phs2501 1y ago
That's... fine, and a cool trick I guess, but I don't actually want that behavior.
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by phs2501 1y ago
Does anyone know of a Wayland WM/compositor that does multi-screen like XMonad? Preferably out of the box but I'll take configurable. For those unaware, though I doubt you're reading this thread if so, I want n desktops that
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by phs2501 1y ago
I just taught myself to look at the end of the UUID, rather than the beginning.
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by phs2501 2y ago
I believe Synology runs btrfs on top of regular mdraid + lvm, possibly with patches to let btrfs checksum failures reach into the underlying layers to find the right data to recover. Related blog post: https://daltondur.st/
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by phs2501 2y ago
For something that's literally designed to sit on a desk, yes... it's ridiculous to make it thinner in a dimension you never see vs one that you see all the time.
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by phs2501 2y ago
Why does this still have the ridiculous iMac chin? Surely they can fit everything behind the screen at this point.
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by phs2501 2y ago
Yeah it was specifically the (presumed) lack of Rust's "fearless" concurrency that I was referring to... i.e. we can ram this data through a parallel map, but is it actually safe to do? (And of course the flip side of Rust he
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by phs2501 2y ago
Rust is a step sideways if anything. Yeah, you don't have manual memory management headaches in .NET, but you also don't have Rust's fairly strong compile-time guarantees about memory sharing and thread safety. Which enables
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by phs2501 2y ago
A local station had (I think past tense, though it made it a lot less likely for me to go there to check) their pumps playing ads in "attract mode" when nobody was using them. So going there late at night and filling up involved
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by phs2501 2y ago
Same, which is one reason I'm dreading the eventual Xpocalypse, as I have not found a drop-in replacement for Xmonad in the Wayland universe. (Particularly, the way Xmonad deals with multiple monitors and desktops just makes sense to
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by phs2501 2y ago
CMUCL's interpreter evaluated IR1 (the first intermediate representation of its compiler) IIRC, so it wasn't possible to have a truly compilerless CMUCL _and_ a functional EVAL. I believe this IR1 interpreter was dropped from SBC
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by phs2501 3y ago
I had my own take on this concept[1], though with considerably less language magic involved. I imagine there's a lot of these kind of things running around. My criteria were: a) let me write actual SQL, not a python DSL that generate
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by phs2501 3y ago
Pretty sure residential 3-phase in Europe is 400V phase-to-phase, it's 220V phase-to-neutral.
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by phs2501 3y ago
This is how traditional Emacs undo is implemented as well. I like it but it seems to be not the norm; it does take a little bit to get used to. (There's plenty of packages to transform Emacs undo into something more like a tree struc
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by phs2501 3y ago
A naive translation (not checking facts in any way): Converting 100% of power generation in the US to (deuterium-tritium) fusion would result in 200,000 cubic meters of helium generated per year. But the US currently consumes 40,000,000 cu
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by phs2501 3y ago
Nitpicky: for a lot of parts that would have actually been 70Hz (from the 320x200 VGA mode 13h), and having run the demo back in 1993 it definitely was not as smooth as in the video above on my 486/66MHz (and the Pentium had only been
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by phs2501 3y ago
Is this an AltGr thing? On my (US, in Linux) keyboard right-alt-left-arrow works fine, and I'm pretty sure I do the same thing in Windows (again, US keyboard layout).
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by phs2501 3y ago
What? That's not how Git works, even ignoring packfiles. (And yes I have no idea what Github's backend does, but I can't imagine "duplicate all data for every commit" would be a feasible implementation strategy.)
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by phs2501 4y ago
They (digital calipers) are also a lot more convenient in mixed-unit environments (e.g. PCB layout, which is why I purchased mine) than analog ones. Granted since I live in the US everything is mixed unit whether I like it or not. :)
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by phs2501 4y ago
> I don't know a ton about low level performance, but I'd find it surprising if it's not true. How can interpreted bytecode outperform direct machine instructions? No production Java/.NET runtime directly interprets b

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