yangyang

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by yangyang 3y ago
Part of it is the prevalence of "pop and bang" maps, modified ECU configuration which changes timing and allows unburnt fuel to enter the hot exhaust and explode. There is a purpose to this in turbocharged cars in motor racing - a
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by yangyang 5y ago
I wrote a PostgreSQL extension years ago that visualises pages (as text): https://github.com/hollobon/pagevis
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by yangyang 6y ago
There have been negative electricity (spot) prices already - https://www.montelnews.com/en/story/sweden-finland-see-negat... .
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by yangyang 6y ago
Sounds very familiar - they probably knew each other.
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by yangyang 6y ago
Ha. My father worked for Norsk Data in the UK during the late 1980s and early 1990s after they bought Wordplex. They had incredible offices at a stately home near Newbury.
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by yangyang 8y ago
Under £500m. Still a huge amount but considerably less than £9b. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26954482
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Speak and Spell History(tedium.co)
2 points by yangyang 8y ago|0 comments
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by yangyang 8y ago
I've used it for about that long, with no real problems at all. We have probably a hundred or so migrations, and have added support for various things not supported out of the box (triggers, functions, exclusion constraints and a few m
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by yangyang 8y ago
This looks interesting. If you're using SQLAlchemy, Alembic is a good migration management / generation / application tool: http://alembic.zzzcomputing.com/en/latest/ , and works with most (all?) the
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by yangyang 9y ago
Only seen it done with ones removed from old keyboards. On at least some (including the IBM SpaceSaver IIs that I have), it's on a separate little board. I believe the outputs are pretty simple to decode.
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by yangyang 9y ago
I guess with practise it may well have improved. I just didn't find it comfortable enough to persevere.
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by yangyang 9y ago
I've got one of the thumb keys on the left of the Kinesis mapped to shift; never quite got used to it though and I'm always mistyping when holding it.
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by yangyang 9y ago
I've been meaning to hack a trackpoint into my Kinesis. It's been done before, mounted where you can control with the thumb so you don't need to move your hand at all.
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by yangyang 9y ago
The trouble is tuning it so that you don't need to actively hold your foot to prevent it actuating, and also having enough feedback on actuation. I felt that some kind of wireless, in-shoe, toe-activated device might be the best option
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by yangyang 9y ago
I converted a set of pedals for a dictation machine to work with my Kinesis keyboard. It wasn't as useful as I expected. Having to keep my foot in the same place all the time became quite uncomfortable, and I found that synchronising m
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by yangyang 9y ago
IIRC the other shot is somewhere south of the river. I worked it out at the time. I was near Tower Bridge on the north side.
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by yangyang 9y ago
Oh yeah, I don't deny it isn't insanely improbable. Still, finding same strike in a newspaper, shot from a very similar angle, was quite surprising.
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by yangyang 9y ago
I had the same thing happen with one of my photos of lightning in London. I actually thought my shot had been ripped off at first glance, then realised it was from a different angle. Mine: https://www.flickr.com/photos/
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by yangyang 9y ago
I found this post about latency of input devices very interesting: https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/
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Paperclips(decisionproblem.com)
257 points by yangyang 9y ago|112 comments
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by yangyang 9y ago
Love this sort of thing. I did a Tetris game for a led-matrix clock I got from Banggood: https://github.com/hollobon/jy-mcu-3208-tetris
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by yangyang 9y ago
Porting an ancient 6502 Forth to Z80. Nobody will ever use it and there are already loads of Z80 Forths around, but it's fun and forces me to learn exactly how a language that's always interested me works. Not on Github yet.
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by yangyang 9y ago
Agreed, and it's become common on many more cars than supercars to add valves to make exhausts noisier. I suspect these valves are not triggered in regulatory exhaust noise tests. From Jaguar's website: Every F‑TYPE is fitted
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by yangyang 9y ago
We use ZFS (on Linux) clones to instantly fork a read-only replica of our production database, to create r/w copies. We also currently have these upgraded in-place to 9.6 (we're still on 9.5) for testing. Docker-compose and a make
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by yangyang 9y ago
This is cool. Always worth spending some time setting up psql. In my psqlrc I also have a bunch of "macros" (unfortunately no parameters in psql) for common stuff like transaction handling and SET ROLE / RESET ROLE, lock moni
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by yangyang 9y ago
I did too, but I thought it was going to be a mail client ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_(email_client) )
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by yangyang 9y ago
The biggest selling cask ale in the UK (Greene King IPA), is 3.6% abv
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by yangyang 9y ago
> The average beer is stronger than it was 20 years ago I very much doubt this. High strength lagers are much less popular than they were 20 years ago, not least because of beer tax that scales with strength. http://www.telegr
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by yangyang 10y ago
We used this in production at my previous role and it was fantastic. There are a few rough edges but it became markedly more reliable over the 2 years or so we used it. It handled huge (well over 100KB) queries generated by SQLAlchemy with
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by yangyang 10y ago
An old HP Touchpad Bluetooth keyboard. It works fine though not having a meta key on the left is a bit of a pain.

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