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#microcontroller #firmware #FPGA #SDR (SW Defined Radio)
#retrocomputing
#nonpareil HP calculator simulation at microcode level
CHM PDP-1 Restoration Team
Damned dirty ape
Call sign N2ES
he/him
Not a tame programmer
in #Colorado, not far from #Denver

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2024-10-24 04:43:41

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@npub1gnx…d5kh Showering is the third-best time of the day!

2024-09-11 18:03:04

When do I get my next instar? I feel like I'm ready

2024-09-10 05:05:27

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@npub1gnx…d5kh AFAICT, all filesystems in common usage limit filenames to one of:
* 255 bytes - Unix heritage
* 255 restricted Unicode code points, UCS-2 - Microsoft

2024-08-28 16:39:54

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@npub1ywy…cksd Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?

2024-08-20 03:19:13

I just bought a weed whacker. Having never used one before, I'm hoping not to lose too many toes before getting the hang of it.

2024-08-16 23:26:25

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@npub1q2t…jr8a
Perhaps; but is it not Tennyson who has said: "Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have lost at all"?
– Samuel Butler, _The Way of All Flesh_

2024-08-09 04:21:09

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@npub18yv…xxyn Change from nine digits to 36 digits?

2024-08-08 20:34:33

And you may find yourself maintaining a large codebase
And you may tell yourself, these are not my beautiful data structures
And you may ask yourself, who wrote this crap
And you may ask yourself, how did I get here

2024-07-23 05:51:48

I've invented a new feature for car stereos to improve convenience and safety! I'm willing to license it to auto and car stereo makers for a very low per-unit royalty.
Instead of having to navigate through menus or use a touchscreen to select one of your favorite radio/satellite stations, the stereo will have a plurality of PHYSICAL BUTTONS, each of which, upon being pressed, tunes to a user-selected station.
In the preferred embodiment, there will be six such buttons in a horizontal row.

2024-07-13 14:26:37

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@npub17vj…g088 Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is starting to sound like a better basis for a system of government than the others we've tried.

2024-07-04 05:50:04

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@npub1l3g…vu48
You got hummus on my lettuce!

2024-06-22 07:20:44

No one could possibly have predicted that bee and butterfly population decline might be related to insecticide use!
The new marketing slogan for humans should be, "Killing the biosphere many species at a time."
How long until all that's left is humans, cockroaches, tardigrades, and plankton? I don't think we even know what a minimal biosphere that can support human life would have to include, but I fear that we'll find out the hard way. Maybe the Fermi.Paradox isn't actually so paradoxical.

2024-06-15 03:07:12

The most difficult problem in computer science isn't naming things, or proving that P=NP or the converse. It's printing. Maybe computer scientists will eventually prove that printing is undecidable.

2024-06-11 21:44:07

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@npub1su4…a0dw The big print giveth, and the small print taketh away.

2024-06-07 09:05:17

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@npub14zy…2z57 Thanks for explaining!
Professionally, I've developed embedded systems of both types, but I've only used a traditional RTOS on the non-MMU type.

2024-06-07 03:33:35

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@npub14zy…2z57 What does "apps" mean in the context of an RTOS? Is it something that's dynamically linked?

2024-05-27 20:52:48

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@npub1q63…uucj No wonder I have so much trouble with my PC. The little people are missing, so I have to operate it all by myself.

2024-05-13 01:55:14

The real monsters were the people we were along the way.

2024-05-09 01:17:13

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@npub1gnx…d5kh
Whoever said "easy as pie" must have meant, easy as _eating_ pie, not making it.

2024-05-08 06:39:44

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@npub1j7a…p393
OBEY

2024-05-07 10:57:18

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@npub1l3g…vu48 Interlace is just as problematic for 625 line 50 Hz, though it can provide 288 lines non-interlaced, vs 240 lines non-interlaced in 525/60.

2024-05-07 09:46:52

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@npub1l3g…vu48 So that you don't get flicker from interlace.

2024-01-09 03:19:30

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@npub186s…54uq I assume you're not talking about the UTS that was Amdahl's Unix. What is your UTS?

2023-11-27 03:42:43

I use Qt, from either C++ or Python, for most of the GUI programs I write, because it has good cross-platform support. I do my development on Fedora Linux. For win32 and win64 targets, I cross-compile using the mingw suite, and out pops an EXE file. Then the EXE needs to be bundled with required DLLs, and an installer built. In the past, I used NSIS to build an installer EXE, and the spec contained a static list of DLLs. Now I use wixl from msitools to build an MSI installer.
1/

2023-09-03 20:17:27

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@npub178h…hyhr
When in question
Or in doubt
Run in circles
Scream and shout!

2023-08-30 19:09:02

I buy my self-loathing in bulk from Costco. That saves me a huge amount of money.

2023-08-20 22:39:57

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@npub178h…hyhr If it doesn't reference Gaffigan, James, how interesting could it be?

2023-08-20 19:57:26

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@npub1l3g…vu48
I told my doctor I wanted to stop aging. He gave me a gun.
– Rodney Dangerfield

2023-08-16 18:32:31

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@npub1ept…jcl3 monetized logorrhea

2023-08-15 21:01:51

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@npub1su4…a0dw The lists already exist! They're in the billing system. They don't want to admit that what they're actually opposed to is transparency.

2023-08-11 22:36:06

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@npub18yv…xxyn doesn't do it on my Galaxy Tab S6 Lite, but possibly it's configurable in settings or something

2023-07-13 02:14:23

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 Cool!
In August I'm planning to put up a 2m/70cm J pole. I want to try measuring it with a NanoVNA to see whether it has low enough SWR to also be usable at 1.25m. I suspect not, but it seems worth checking.