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by zwieback 4mo ago
In other words: nothing has changed since Henry James wrote about Americans in Europe.
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by zwieback 9mo ago
Very cool. Can this be used to make a better quadrature encoder multiplier? The ones we get in our programmable rotary encoders are pretty crappy when the input frequency wobbles.
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by zwieback 11mo ago
As a former Swabian I'm a bit hurt that those beautiful Brezeln get such a low score
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by zwieback 1y ago
Generally Aethelstan gets pretty good coverage on TRIH and the episodes on that era are some of my favorites. Also, the VIP membership tier is called "Athelstan" if I remember correctly.
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by zwieback 1y ago
Learned from this post that Gmail web had POP! Now I'll be mourning loss of a feature I never even used.
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by zwieback 1y ago
I find AI coding assistants useful when I'm using a new library or language feature I'm not super familiar with. When I have AI generate code using features I'm very familiar with I can see that it's okay but not premium
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by zwieback 1y ago
Not sneering in any way, I love those groups and visit when I get a chance. Also a big fan of our local university's tree collections, they are on a mission to preserve variety of specimens.
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by zwieback 1y ago
Sounds intriguing, want to try one now. This is the kind of thing Home Orchard Societies wet their pants over. Probably grown right next to their pawpaw tree.
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by zwieback 1y ago
Maybe for the DB domain author is talking about but the nice thing about a bool is that it's true or false. I don't have to dig around documentation or look through the code what the convention of converting enum, datetime, etc. t
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by zwieback 1y ago
The real vibe coding is when you hear the core memory vibrating
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by zwieback 1y ago
I'm glad to hear that but only if the buttons, wires and connectors are high quality. Pretty sure one of the reasons for everything touchscreen is cost. My mom's BMW has a sort of joystick/knob/button that controls what&
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by zwieback 1y ago
What happened, did you just get stranded and they came and replaced the car?
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Hamming Codes(nayuki.io)
1 points by zwieback 1y ago|0 comments
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by zwieback 1y ago
Of all the many source control systems I've used git has the worst usability yet it's my favorite
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by zwieback 1y ago
Windows is a good OS and Visual Studio (not Code) is the best IDE. Also, I really don't like marine mammals at all. Possible exception for otters
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by zwieback 2y ago
For hobbyists that's enough, for engineers often okay (I find myself in that situation) but for scientists "good enough" means nothing. Optical metrology relies on accurate equations how a physical object maps to the image pl
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by zwieback 2y ago
Haribo
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by zwieback 2y ago
wait a while and there will also be advertising every time you boot up and at random other times
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by zwieback 2y ago
I wonder how many "traditional" engineers are Mac coders. I work at hp so not many Macs around but in our R&D and especially in manufacturing and test&measurement Mac-only would be a problem.
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by zwieback 2y ago
Everyone here seems to thing GDB is awful. It's been a while for me but I remember using front-ends like Eclipse's CDT or similar and didn't find that experience so bad. Do most people use GDB straight-up? I haven't done
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by zwieback 2y ago
Oh yea, we used both SoftICE and Periscope. I loved the pushbutton to fire off an NMI directly on the ISA bus. It was sad when your device driver crashed but it was a fun experience to push that button.
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by zwieback 2y ago
That's very cool. In Oregon we have an electric ferry across the Willamette but it has overhead power lines, like a train.
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by zwieback 2y ago
Good to know, must have gone up since I moved away in '92
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by zwieback 2y ago
I grew up in Germany where iodized salt and flouridated water aren't the norm. Now I have bad teeth and can't wrap my head around the latest changes in the C++ language...
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by zwieback 2y ago
I've only used Github desktop briefly so I can't say much about it, was commenting on the web UI. I suppose if I was using a lot of GitHub functionality vs. just using github.com as a repo things might be different and I'd gi
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by zwieback 2y ago
Github is the worst of the web GUIs I use regularly. Started bad and only got worse, luckily 99% of my gitting is via PC based tools. Maybe this is the kind of app where the GUI should be modeled on client side developer tools and not moder
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by zwieback 2y ago
No idea how the e-bike guys here did it but Schwinn had a bike for a while (my wife owned one) where the freewheeling was in the bottom bracket, it was called "FFS". It's pretty freaky and wasn't popular. You can see it
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by zwieback 2y ago
If I remember correctly, Liskov didn't talk about inheritance but subtyping in a more general way. Java, C++ and other, especially statically typed, compiled languages often use inheritance to model subtyping but Liskov/Wing weren
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by zwieback 2y ago
What she says makes sense: “It is about returning people to a state in which parting with things feels natural.” That's the whole problem, if you're a hoarder it doesn't feel natural. Maybe you can step through the process an
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by zwieback 2y ago
Also PNW, Willamette Valley, I've had standard compost pile forever and for a few years I had a few chickens. It was amazing how well the poop worked and I had such absurd amounts of worms in my compost that I fed some back to the chic

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