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Re:Vim Anti-Patterns That Cause Beginners To:Quit
on Friday October 08, 2021 @09:32AM (#28799098)
Re:Spacewar 1 and the Beginnings of Video Game Aesthetics
on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:51PM (#27002905)
Nice reference. Gonna have to binge some Twilight Zone now. I can't find the exact quote from Highlander (TV series, not the movie) where Duncan has a friend, the "best swordsman in Europe", but he says something like, "don't ever be the best... God forbid you lose your nerve but they keep coming." Found the episode at least [0].
Re:Logica, a novel open-source logic programming language
on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @12:42PM (#26809575)
Just want to put a very strong second on this recommendation. Three chapters in I knew enough to prototype something for work that reduced a mess of C++ to a couple pages of rules.
Re:Talking with your hands alters the perception of your words
on Monday March 08, 2021 @09:46AM (#26386298)
Totally relevant commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNCrMEOqHpc
Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @09:42PM (#26162016)
When one of the pumps on my aerobic system died a few years back it was less than 24 hours before the drains were backed up. If your soil won't pass a perc test I guess you can just go with aerobic which allows you to build pretty much anywhere. The final stage sprays effluent on your yard.
Re:Filling the Void of a Physical Whiteboard
on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @09:40PM (#25513836)
Lowes calls it "smooth white wall panel"
Re:Digital sound processing tutorial
on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @10:01AM (#25046697)
Crazy. I was just shopping for this book last night but got hung up on different editions. This one[1] also claims to be the 3rd Edition but looks to have an early publish date. I guess go with whatever's newest?
[1] Discrete-Time Signal Processing (Prentice-Hall Signal Processing Series) 3rd Edition
Re:Ultimate Guide to Switch Debounce
on Saturday April 18, 2020 @09:21PM (#22912656)
When I saw the title I thought it would be the old Jack Ganssle article which is also worth a look if you're interested in this topic: http://www.ganssle.com/debouncing.htm
Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers
on Friday July 05, 2019 @08:53AM (#20362139)
Had to fire up Eagle quick and take a look at my latest design (first time using USB-C). Looks like I got lucky this time.
Re:Ask HN: Best place to start learning about Markov Chains?
on Thursday April 11, 2019 @08:55AM (#19633919)
I thought this recent post: 'Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track'[1] had a good beginner-level write up on Markov Chains.
[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19490832
Re:The Calculus Trap (2005)
on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @10:28PM (#19508626)
I read that "Java School" bit as being in the Joel Spolsky sense. As opposed to a more SICP approach.
Re:Making My Own USB Keyboard from Scratch
on Sunday February 17, 2019 @12:36AM (#19182842)
> 7. Solder in order of cost and success rate.
Thanks for this. I guess I've always gotten lucky here but now I'm imagining the frustration of getting done with all the discretes on a board just to blow it all on the uC. Great advice, thanks again.
Re:Guidelines for keeping a laboratory notebook
on Sunday February 10, 2019 @02:37AM (#19126758)
I've been using the big grid+ offering from Vela Sciences for my daily work. Only use pencil though, Graph Gear 1000. Recently switched from 0.5mm to 0.9mm. Have only been keeping "good" notes for a few years now and so far pencil hasn't been a problem. Was just rereading Jan 2017 this morning and even in 0.5mm, looks as good as new. I'm not in a real lab setting though so I just go with what feels good. If I was forced to use ink, I probably wouldn't take as many notes.
Re:The true power of regular expressions (2012)
on Sunday October 14, 2018 @04:28PM (#18215133)
Have you tried using an XML parser instead?
Re:Remains of the murdered Romanovs 'authentic'
on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @08:56AM (#17557920)
My son asked me the other night how long we were going to live which took me down the Oldest_people[0] rabbit-hole on wikipedia. On the page for Jeanne_Calment[1] I found this interesting line:
"She considered the most important historical event in her lifetime to have been the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the execution of the Russian imperial family, a view shared by many fellow centenarians."
Goes to show just how impactful this act must have been.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_people [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment
Re:Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2013)
on Saturday December 24, 2016 @09:57AM (#13249992)
Racket has an SICP plugin that makes everything from the book work.
Re:Intro to modern hardware prototyping
on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @10:07PM (#12083511)
I always had good results with Advanced Circuits out in Colorado, but this is over a decade ago now.
Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist any...
on Saturday May 14, 2016 @02:56AM (#11694832)
Iguana labs 8051 burner
Re:Self hosted C – breakdown
on Friday December 04, 2015 @08:45AM (#10676240)
Holub's 'Compiler Design in C' is out of print, so he gives it away for free: www.holub.com/software/compilerDesignInC.pdf
Probably not exactly what you're asking for, but hey, free book.
Re:Tesla’s Model S Gets “Ludicrous” Mode, Will Do 0-60 in 2.8 Seconds
on Friday July 17, 2015 @10:04PM (#9906324)
I always thought it would be cool to play an on-rails first person shooter where the "rails" matched the road you were travelling at the time.
Re:UART Receive Buffering
on Thursday June 11, 2015 @05:46PM (#9702663)
Important to remember for each data byte in the buffer to also store the LSR along with that data. Windows serial port driver fails to do this, meaning you can tell there was (for example) a parity error on a byte in your fifo, you just don't know on which byte.
Re:Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?
on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @12:27PM (#9612468)
Thanks for this. I was happy to see 'Patterns for Time-Triggered Embedded Systems' on your list, though the link appears broken - new link: [1]. I remember working through that book and porting everything from C to Assembly (my boss at the time was too cheap to buy me the nice Keil compiler). Once I had that library in hand, I was knocking out his projects in days instead of weeks.
Re:Python on Android
on Sunday May 03, 2015 @08:37PM (#9483713)
Wonder if some of the work from here [1] could be leveraged to fill that hole faster.
Marc Culler and Tk-Cocoa
Re:“I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in l...
on Friday January 23, 2015 @10:05AM (#8935141)
I remember having that same feeling playing Road Rash after attacking Natasha during a race.
Re:The Beard That Wasn't: Abe Lincoln's Whiskers
on Saturday October 25, 2014 @01:09AM (#8507278)
I wear one. I'd never hear the term "wreath beard" before reading this article. Terms I've seen for it are: tauferbard[1], chin curtain, donegal, lincoln[2], alaskan whaler[3], shenandoah, and spade beard[4].
[1]http://earofthesoul.blogspot.com/2010/06/my-spiritual-journe... [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chin_curtain [3]https://www.facebook.com/TheAlaskanWhaler [4]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenandoah_%28beard%29
Re:A Simple Guide to Five Normal Forms in Relational Database Theory (...
on Monday September 29, 2014 @10:30AM (#8382971)
First normal form excludes variable repeating fields and groups
What are the definitions of "variable repeating fields" and "groups?"
What would violating records look like?
Re:A scientist stole my root beer
on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @09:32PM (#8333194)
The renaissance fair in Muskogee always has Bud's Homemade Root Beer in from Alton, IL. The stuff is amazing and unlike any commercial root beer I've tried. http://www.budsrootbeer.com/
Re:Deterministic, bit-identical and/or verifiable Linux builds
on Saturday July 12, 2014 @02:10AM (#8023845)
For jurisdictions that don't have their own state-run labs (so not NV, NJ, PA, etc.) everybody uses one or a mix of GLI[1], BMM[2], and Eclipse[3] Note: I'm only familiar with US gaming.
We do have a tool to zero these parts of the executable files out, but in our testing we still had unexplainable differences unless we were on the same machine working from the same sync.
The VirtualBox was generated once (installed Windows, Visual Studio, .NET, some others) and we just continue to use the same base .ova.
The package has to be sent to the lab on physical media where it gets loaded onto an offline machine that we've supplied.
[1]http://www.gaminglabs.com/ [2]http://www.bmm.com/ [3]http://www.eclipsetesting.com/