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by unwind 6d ago
I like your idea of a wild night out! Note to others: that tester board looks fairly passive, i.e. I don't see (mention of) a microcontroller to talk to the chip that high-powered cables must have. So I guess it's somewhat limited
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by unwind 6d ago
Meta: isn't it still 2026 pretty much globally? When did we switch from only labelling older articles with their year?
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by unwind 7d ago
Meta: the loss of the word "up" from the title also does not help in its parsing.
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by unwind 14d ago
Very cool, even though it's limited to Makita LXR at this point. I think the home page is LLM-aided, the design looks very familiar and wording like [...] no software to install, nothing to set up. Plug in an Arduino, flash the firmwa
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by unwind 15d ago
As someone without musical ear but a healthy respect for makers of instruments of all kinds, this was a great article! I tend to think that the bar for building e.g. a small synth is like those by mitxela [1], with a tiny microcontroller ru
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by unwind 15d ago
Presumably small FPGA boards, like the $47 one in the linked article Small boards have less I/O pins than larger boards typically, and small/cheap FPGA chips on small boards are also more limited than larger, more expensive part
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by unwind 19d ago
Cool! Couldn't see an obvious publishing date, but the Github repo and comments imply this lacks a "(2015)" tag. Edit: syntax.
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by unwind 29d ago
I'm firmly in camp dad joke, but since Ü is a German letter that is not part of the Swedish alphabet, may I suggest you learn how to say RÄKSMÖRGÅS and update the joke? The patched version might even work on some Swedish-speakers if yo
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by unwind 29d ago
To reiterate on another comment that would make no sense to Swedish speakers. Å is a distinct letter, with a different and unique vowel sound. It is in no way "a slightly different kind of A". Your suggestion sounds a bit like spe
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by unwind 2mo ago
Wow this is really cool! Epic to see that it has "No Man's Land" [0] and really really weird feeling to read the readme. No idea why it's listed as a "17 Bit" title though, perhaps they distributed it at some p
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by unwind 3mo ago
Nah I'm still against repeating the type name all over the place, and the cast adds nothing good imnsho.
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by unwind 3mo ago
Meta: a space is missing in the title. Since this is one of the bugs, I always recommemd writing game->boardPieces = swAlloc(sizeof(ThingHandle*) * row * column); Like this instead: game->boardPieces = swAlloc(sizeof *g
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by unwind 4mo ago
Meta: confusing typo in title. Mods , please fix penciN -> penciL. Thanks.
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by unwind 4mo ago
Can you elaborate on how it detects and signals if it runs out of output buffer space? I couldn't see how the amount of available space was even communicated to `fc_enc()`. Also there some "C icks" (to me, I'm very picky
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by unwind 4mo ago
Probably [1], from 2025. [1]: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/31374/pinocchio-by-collodi-c...
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by unwind 5mo ago
Meta; typo in title, should be "learNEd".
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by unwind 5mo ago
This is fantastic, thank you for doing this. I hadn't thought of the poor Jaguar in ages! Heh. Found a tiny typo, this sentence from quite early (page 17): Notice how apparently wasteful this file format is: some of the triplets conta
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by unwind 5mo ago
Fun post! Very happy to see a 20-something year old find and fix bugs in an X11 wm from before they were born. Gives me hope. There was some kind of editing snafu though, the loop header in the big (first) code block reads: for (i = 0
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by unwind 7mo ago
How about "R, G, B Mars" [1], then? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy
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by unwind 7mo ago
As a ultra noob in the art of knotting, I liked this when I stumbled over it a few weeks back. I agree that for newbies it would be even more instructive with smoother flows, I guess they're held back by the animations being photos and
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by unwind 8mo ago
Meta: This is a very messy title, it should just be "The minichord: a pocket-sized musical instrument" or something like that. We have the github info in the auto-generated blurb right after the title, after all. Thanks.
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by unwind 8mo ago
Reasonably, that language is MicroPython [1] which is the special pared-down version of Python for memory-constrained embedded targets. [1]: https://micropython.org/
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by unwind 8mo ago
Just a few months back I worked in embedded development on a project and there was a physical dongle to unlock the compiler, which was surprising during on-boarding as I've spent years doing commercial embedded work relying on GCC. :
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by unwind 8mo ago
“The historical significance of JUMPSEAT cannot be understated,” said Dr. James Outzen, NRO director of the Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance. I'm no native speaker but that is backwards, right? Shouldn't it be ov
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by unwind 8mo ago
Me too, from Firefox in Linux and no (!) blockers. Weird. Maybe geo-fenced for not being in the US, sometimes companies do that which is ... weird.
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by unwind 8mo ago
Uh that piece of horror was not in the post. Phew.
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by unwind 8mo ago
Brown in German is actually, wait for it, "braun".
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by unwind 8mo ago
Cool! I love seeing new games for "retro" machines, it's awesome that people keep pouring time and love into them after all these years. I'm not super familiar with 8-bit Atari machines, and found the designation "c
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by unwind 8mo ago
Very cool, nice effort and a good write-up! If my math is right it seems the cost in material for the printed part is around $5 which seems ridiculously cheap for a custom-designed and adapted solution like this. Nice! I wish the author had
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by unwind 8mo ago
That sounded fascinating as a rather large difference in world view stemming only from using different languages. It turns out that there are various models for the number of continents, and that is (phew) known in Spanish, too. See the Wik

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