wycx

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   by wycx 23d ago

   MAXS? As far as I can tell, it is broken by newer versions of Android.
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   by wycx 7mo ago

   I have been having a good time getting Claude to code in the unfashionable choice of Object Pascal/Lazarus. Fast compile times, native cross-platform support, and small statically-linked binaries that should work for years to come in o
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   by wycx 7mo ago

   I have been getting claude to us free pascal/lazarus to write cross-platform (linux qt & gtk, windows and cocoa) apps as well as porting 30-year old abandoned Windows Delphi apps to all three platforms using precisely because I can
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   by wycx 7mo ago

   I have settled on a way to do append only notes by having a "journal" user on my xmpp server, and I take notes by sending them asciidoc formatted messages. I have been too lazy to do it so far, but I could extract the messages fro
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   by wycx 8mo ago

   I had a very convenient setup using linked files stored in Dropbox that worked very well for 15 years. The Zotero 6 to 7 upgrade completely broke this, and modified the database so that rollback is not possible. There was no warning that th
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   by wycx 2y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huf_Haus Construction of a Huf Haus in the UK featured in the 2004 series of Grand Designs.
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   Ten Years of JMAP(fastmail.com)

   103 points by wycx 2y ago|80 comments
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   by wycx 2y ago

   In this context energy=wavelength=frequency, and hard x-rays means x-ray with energies > approx. 5 keV. I am assuming properties they are after in their particular context are <i>tunable</i> hard x-rays with with relativ
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   by wycx 2y ago

   Lots of interesting experiments with solar collection here: https://www.youtube.com/@sergiyyurko8668/videos
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    by wycx 4y ago

    Including one of the hardest of them all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allocasuarina_luehmannii
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    by wycx 4y ago

    McMaster-Carr seems to have done it OK
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    by wycx 5y ago

    I have progressed from Dokuwiki -> Tiddlywiki -> Gollum. I can now write everything in asciidoc.
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    by wycx 5y ago

    The core itself (Xtensa) is from a US company, Tensilica. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensilica
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    by wycx 6y ago

    I have also found this useful: http://brettbeauregard.com/blog/2011/04/improving-the-beginn...
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    by wycx 8y ago

    Radioactivity of rocks is caused by only a few elements so is useful to consider the minerals in which those elements are hosted. i.e. the radioactivity is not evenly distributed among the minerals that comprise granite. The elements that c
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    by wycx 8y ago

    https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Status_Matri...
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    by wycx 8y ago

    Does anyone have a reference for 'cutting it out and weighing it'?
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    by wycx 8y ago

    From the link, on economic complexity [1]: Where does Australia rank on the global scale? Worse than Mauritius, Macedonia, Oman, Moldova, Vietnam, Egypt and Botswana. Worse than Georgia, Kuwait, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and El Salva
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    by wycx 8y ago

    There is hardly any water and the cities were designed around cars far more than any city outside Los Angeles. As a past/present resident of both LA and Melbourne, I would modify that to say that Syd/Mel are as dependent on cars
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    by wycx 8y ago

    5 years and 7464 references later Zotero has become an integral part of my workflow. The combination of Zotero and the custom renaming of Zotfile lets me store all my pdfs in Dropbox, but sync all database by Zotero such that I can add refe
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    by wycx 8y ago

    I feel the exact same way. Codeine has been working for me since 1990, turning hours of pain into ~30 minutes of blurred vision. Is codeine abuse really a problem in Australia, or more than it has been in previous decades?
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    by wycx 8y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medipix After much searching I found the energy resolution here [1], stated as <2 keV. For comparison, a modern silicon drift diode fluorescence detector will have an energy resolution
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    by wycx 8y ago

    Mediatek is Taiwanese.
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    by wycx 8y ago

    Both major parties have enthusiastically consulting but never quite getting around to passing second tranche of anti-money laundering legislation [1]. Some people say no one is interested in passing it because it might reduce flows of money
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    by wycx 8y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synroc
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    by wycx 8y ago

    I am not sure if it does solve NIMBYism entirely. I note on the map of tunnels they would like to build there is no link between Santa Monica/UCLA/West LA and downtown LA. I assume that is because such a tunnel would involve deali
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    by wycx 8y ago

    The post linked in the post is a better read: http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex...
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    by wycx 8y ago

    Given that pillow lavas can be recognised in some eclogite facies rocks, I think a porcelain toilet would stand a good chance of remaining recognisable at all the way to granulite or eclogite facies, as long as it is not too deformed.
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    by wycx 8y ago

    The article refers to ancient surface, as in, the oldest place that we can find that has continuously been an exposed surface. The take away is that most areas don't remain stable at the surface, either they erode away, or get buried v
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    by wycx 8y ago

    including: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaparral_Cars#2J