spamatica

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by spamatica 2y ago
Any suggestion for a (reasonably) good and cheap one for new designs?
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by spamatica 2y ago
To me it sounds extremely unlikely a car with such heavy modifications would be allowed on swedish (or finnish) public roads. Very cool project though!
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by spamatica 2y ago
I must be checking the wrong forums. Never seen it.
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by spamatica 2y ago
Ben Heck has done quite a few that might fit https://www.youtube.com/@BenHeckHacks
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by spamatica 2y ago
Indeed. The local bus transit has a digital ticket system with QR codes for tickets. I haven't actually tried decoding the codes but just seeing them and interacting with them I can tell they have gone WAY overboard with either the amo
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by spamatica 3y ago
The second one is being completed (as far as I understand) by a team in germany at a music machine museum (Musikkabinett). Their channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Musikkabinett
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by spamatica 3y ago
True that. We are just incredibly spoiled on that part of freedom.
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by spamatica 3y ago
As I wasn't in the know (though I can guess), I did some googling as to why and found this old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24339298
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by spamatica 3y ago
And also incredibly small. Turbo Pascal 2.0 had an IDE with compiler and debugger in a binary less than 60kb (if the info I found googling is true). Of course nowhere near the capabilities of modern environments but state of the art at the
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by spamatica 3y ago
Been working with it for the last year or so and the looks are alright but I just completely loathe the way tkinter is designed... it just feels so old.
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by spamatica 3y ago
What exactly are you getting at? It is not original (but does not claim so either), the source seems to be here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/opinion/ai-sam-altman-ope...
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by spamatica 3y ago
As I was already familiar with Helm it didn't strike me that it is not easy to figure out what it is from that home page. It is a software based synthesiser mostly used as a plugin into a music creation application, usually called DAW
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by spamatica 3y ago
Although this seems the likely reason I prefer to think the previous comment is right. Jane has been reanimated and is in cahoots (was it?) with the HN management!
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by spamatica 3y ago
For instance Lenovo Thinkcentre. Checked now on ebay and there were several under 50 Euro. I gather all the manufacturers have similar offerings that are available dirt cheap on the used market.
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by spamatica 3y ago
It has always been OK to restrict distribution of source to your customers. From the GPL: "For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, you must pass on to the recipients the same freedoms that
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by spamatica 4y ago
I guess I wasn't very clear. It was issues with Pulse I wanted to know more about. Low latency is obviously not it's forté, otherwise it just works, for me that is.
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by spamatica 4y ago
Not to defend Pulse too hard but I use Linux every day and am specifically interested in audio and outside low latency work (where I use jack), Pulse has rarely been a problem since many many years. What exactly are the issues people experi