peterburkimsher
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Comment · 10 days ago
Suppose you've remotely accessed a Windows computer with no icons in the menu.
You've figured out how to access the Start menu, and figured out where the Power menu is through the icon, but now have a choice between 關機 and 重新開機.
Which one is shut down, which is reboot?
You have one chance, otherwise it requires an embarrassing trip to the server farm.
That specific case led me to make the following table of Windows strings in other languages:
https://peterburk.github.io/i2018n/windowsStringsTable/index...
Although icons in every menu is too cluttered, please don't remove them entirely. At the very least, keep an icon on every menu item that needs to be clicked until the Language setting menu. Oh, and please don't translate the languages in the menu: the user needs to be able to read their own language button.
Comment · 14 days ago
If you want to make romaji, I built Pingtype:
https://pingtype.github.io/japanese.html
It also supports line breaking, so that words don't get cut in half when wrapping text.
Comment · 1 month ago
Congratulations on figuring out the NAND upgrade! I tried soldering another flash chip onto the Nano 1G, but gave up when it didn’t detect:
Comment · 4 months ago
Not to mention supplying astronauts with food and managing their waste for 6+ months.
Comment · 4 months ago
Another Hackaday reader here. I think that the RPi shines in projects where GPIO are needed, yet the developer needs a full Linux OS (usually to run Python).
I agree that vibe coding microcontrollers will increase the use of embedded systems instead of RPi devices. Seems like a good move for them to have built the RPi Pico.
Comment · 5 months ago
I sometimes use a Raspberry Pi at work, and found the miniKVM to be a useful tool for controlling it:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/techxartisan/openterface-mini-kv...
Comment · 7 months ago
That’s what I’d like to use it for as well, but it’s difficult to do so because there’s no way to edit the disk image.
Any advice on how to create a JSLinux clone with a specific file pre-installed and auto-launching would be much appreciated!
Comment · 8 months ago
Related: PTT BBS is a popular Telnet-based forum in Taiwan, still actively used these days.
Comment · 9 months ago
Thanks for your long and thoughtful reply!
Matrix is just a visualisation tool, I never actually found a practical use for it other than looking cool.
The decomposition feature is at the bottom of the page below the generated HTML. It's the text box with "隹" and a Search button. Clicking Search will show the 2 parts of the character, and all characters that contain that radical (䧶, 䳡, etc), and all multi-character words containing that character.
Clicking any of the related characters (or numeric codes for radicals that don't have a Unicode representation) will then show the genealogy for that character.
See "copying from images" in http://localhost/pingtype/docs/docs.html
If I ever come to Berlin then your meetup sounds fun! I'm pretty far away though; I live in New Zealand now.
All the best with your learning, I hope you keep making progress!
Comment · 9 months ago
I made a parallel literal translator for Farsi:
https://pingtype.github.io/farsi.html
Paste in some parallel text (e.g. Bible verses, movie subtitles, song lyrics) and read what Farsi you can on the first line, looking to the lower lines for clues if you get stuck.
The core version of Pingtype is for traditional Chinese, but it supports a few other languages too.
Comment · 9 months ago
Good to see that there are others learning and creating! Another shameless plug for my translator site: https://pingtype.github.io
It takes text, adds colours for tones, pinyin, literal, and parallel translations.
There’s also a character decomposition tool at the bottom of the page which can be helpful if you’re able to recognise half a character but can’t remember the pronunciation for typing it.
The YouTube channel has some song lyrics, movie subtitles, and audio Bible that might help with learning.
Comment · 9 months ago
Nice work! I’ve been using CamTwist for effects:
It makes a virtual camera device that can integrate into any other app, not just the browser.
Comment · 10 months ago
Résumé: http://peterburk.free.fr/Peter_Burkimsher_CV.pdf
Website: https://peterburk.github.io