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by sandwell 6mo ago
It sounds like a Ventian Snares track. Love it.
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by sandwell 11mo ago
That might have been me! There were one or two M stations there. I heard a couple of stations calling CQ. Very difficult to pick out signals without any filtering. 73 de G4IYT :)
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by sandwell 11mo ago
Very cool. It does get a bit chaotic when there are a number of people keying. If there was the ability to add a narrow filter then it could be usable for a QSO (radio contact)! There are some other apps designed for having QSOs - VBand[1]
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Redis Inc seeks control over future of Rust redis-rs client library(devclass.com)
124 points by sandwell 2y ago|65 comments
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by sandwell 2y ago
> The problem was that Emine's cell phone was not localized properly for Turkish and did not have the letter <ı>; when it displayed Ramazan's message, it replaced the <ı>s with <i>s. So it was the wife's
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by sandwell 3y ago
Also a Nix/NixOS user/contributer. I feel like Nix+nixpkgs could become the universal packaging solution adapted to build deb, rpm, etc packages. Through nix-env it even already has the idea (albeit discouraged) of imperative pack
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by sandwell 4y ago
Agree with the final part of this article that "programmable" configuration languages like Nix and Dhall are the way forward. I've spent a lot of time writing YAML for Ansible, Cloudformation, k8s, Helm, etc. Some of the issu
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by sandwell 4y ago
Kodi and Plex provide a way to play pirated content, but Netflix and their competitors still dominate. They have an incentive to provide easy access to their media, so pirating is always going to be more complex, which will be a barrier to
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by sandwell 4y ago
Yes, Kodi and Plex have got that covered, and no risk of bricking your TV.
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by sandwell 4y ago
> Maybe the space is just more fragmented? Android is pretty darn fragmented though. I expect that aftermarket firmware would be an issue for content providers. For example, is Netflix going to allow third party firmware developers to cr
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by sandwell 4y ago
It's on the roadmap, can't do pinball machines without legs >.>
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by sandwell 5y ago
I wonder if it is possible to generate a ROT8000 quine, that is a phrase like "hello world" which yields a semantically matching phrase in some other language?
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by sandwell 5y ago
Nothing to do with me >.>
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by sandwell 6y ago
I love that effect. My JS changed a lot once I grokked LISP, and I finally understood why there was a Haskell course on my degree track. One of the most rewarding training experiences was giving my old Haskell textbook to a junior team memb
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by sandwell 6y ago
Makes sense. I have a ZX Spectrum on my workbench and a copy of Sinclair Forth somewhere, maybe it will click for me in a more restricted environment.
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by sandwell 6y ago
> People claim that once you learn Forth, you start programming Forth-style in other languages like C, Python etc. Sounds very much like my experience with LISPs. Probably just need to dive in and try it. Thanks for the detailed response
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by sandwell 6y ago
I've seen a lot of embedded Forth stuff recently but I don't get the appeal. Clearly there is some benefit over writing assembly, but why is it preferred over portable C, or even higher level languages such as Python on more power
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by sandwell 7y ago
> Is the core issue that council websites are using real-time bidding for their ads? Yes. These websites are used to support a variety of public services, e.g. disability, poverty, drugs, or alcoholism services. Brave believes that sendi
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by sandwell 7y ago
Especially since they are publicly funded, so UK citizens are paying to have their data transmitted to unknown parties and advertised at. Oh, and if you don't pay it? Fuck you. The government will send bailiffs to seize your property t
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by sandwell 7y ago
Disappointed that there is no easter egg revealed for dialing 8675309.... But cool nonetheless.
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by sandwell 8y ago
Strange hobbies indeed. The latter part of your comment is reminiscent of the goal of the MAME project: > MAME's purpose is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents t
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by sandwell 8y ago
The most insidious cases are those where bad processes are developed around bad software, leading to a vicious cycle of co-dependency. I once worked for a reasonably large business that ran all of their invoicing and stock management throug
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by sandwell 8y ago
Wow, I switched to Emacs earlier this year and have not encountered dired mode before. This is fantasic!
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by sandwell 8y ago
Project looks great, have yet to try it out but it's more or less exactly what I have had an itch to build for the last couple of weeks after having an unsatsifactory experience trying to automate lighthouse across a bunch of sites. Wh
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by sandwell 8y ago
Dijkstra met Mike Fellows (who co-authored the original CS Unplugged with Tim Bell) early in Michael's career, who originally quoted this, but it's often misattributed to Dijkstra as he is slightly more famous! Tim Bell was on Cha
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by sandwell 9y ago
You don't need a strong math background. I got through a few books (PDSH included) and a couple of MOOCs on data sci/ML over the last couple of years with high school level math skills + some extra reading. Not everything is expla
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by sandwell 9y ago
And by extension, QBasic's PRINT statement. 0/10.
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by sandwell 10y ago
This is a great post, and overlaps somewhat with a project I'm working on (scraping and classifying large amounts of text). I know it's not the focus of the post, but was there any particular reason why you went with the MultiNomi
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Understanding startup option pools(thepathforward.io)
1 points by sandwell 10y ago|0 comments
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by sandwell 10y ago
I completed Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course on Coursera over this summer and thoroughly recommend it. The course is free unless you pay for the optional certificate. Andrew's course makes extensive use of GNU Octave which is a

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