smingo
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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 9 months ago
https://www.anquotes.com/charles-bukowski-quotes/ has some similar themes.
“Writing about writer’s block is better than not writing at all.”
Comment · 11 months ago
I got on very well with Van der Linden's Deep C Secrets. It's from 1994, so misses out on the newer versions, but aside from that it's aged well, IMHO.
And good news: it's been open sourced: https://freecomputerbooks.com/Expert-C-Programming-Deep-C-Se... and its well regarded on Hacker News https://hackernewsbooks.com/book/expert-c-programming-deep-c... .
Comment · 1 year ago
The entire device is tiny: 20mm x 5mm x 5mm approx. It looks to work using a small laser and a lens which focuses the beam about 5mm above the device. The sensor unit contains a photodiode(s), and algorithms count the particulates. It looks to need a heat sink.
Comment · 1 year ago
There are quite a few examples of very misguided educational strategies.
Whole Language[1] failed so many students, but had significant funding and guru-level support for decades. Brain Gym[2] is regarded as pseudoscience. Even Discovery Learning has had serious detractors.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_language 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Gym_International
Comment · 1 year ago
Commodore release a new variant of their C64 computer, with a '99%' faithful recreation of the original hardware on an AMD Artix 7 FPGA, along with some more up-to-date specifications. Suitable for retro gaming.
Comment · 1 year ago
Chinese New Year falls between 21 January and 20 February. This would be somewhere between week 3 and week 8.
Some ISO 8601 week numbers for CNY:
2022 CNY fell on Feb 1 , which is Week 5
2023 CNY fell on Jan 22, which is Week 3
2024 CNY fell on Feb 10, which is Week 6
2025 CNY fell on Jan 29, which is Week 5
Comment · 1 year ago
Skirrow was significant in the Nobel-winning discovery of H. Pylori, has an Agar gel named after him, and championed public health.
Comment · 1 year ago
USA has increased its export controls on advanced process node chips, with an act that comes in to effect today, and will get published in a few days' time. The preview is available at https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2024-28270... .
Comment · 2 years ago
Barber's Adagio for strings, although it gets referenced enough; Khachaturian's Spartacus and Phrygia, especially the brass version; Holst's planets, esp Uranus; Beethoven's 7th; Gorecki's 3rd.
Comment · 2 years ago
indeed, with an incoming Teams meeting invite, it should be determinable from the sender's context which account should work on the meeting. Instead there is 2 minutes of waiting, and what seems like pot luck with the account.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil