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Comment · 11 days ago
What math error with the building's height? Assuming it's what you quoted, 164 ft converts to 49.9872 m so "50 m" seems excellent as the value to present?
Comment · 11 days ago
It's weird to people familiar with real German, since 'V' in German is pronounced like 'F' in English.
It's like they took a word already from German ("wiener" as in hot dog) and then broke it while trying to make it more German, or something.
Comment · 17 days ago
Uh you're not mixing up Linuses, are you? Haven't watched anuthing from LTT in a while but it sounded suspicious. :)
Comment · 18 days ago
More obvious problems with the code as shown:
- The macros doing arithmetic (KiB, MIN etc) don't put their arguments in parentheses, that is very dangerous.
- The code assumes that int and i32 are the same size.
- Don't cast the return value of malloc(). Please Google this.
I appreciated the use of structs by value, that's a nice design.
I agree there's a risk of overflow in the arithmetic around sizes/alignment, but with a 64-bit `usize` that should be mostly theoretical.
Comment · 1 month ago
Meta: I think the word "Bike" in the title would be helpful, for those few not into 80s kids' things.
Comment · 1 month ago
Fire hydrants don't exist, they're just part of that cool media-pushed picture of some mythological place where things are ... weird and different.
Comment · 1 month ago
Big Clive (a Youtuber from Scotland) often reverse-engineers circuits, resulting in him drawong the schematic in purple sign marker, often while commenting on the virtues (or lack thereof) of the design.
I was just starting to think "doesn't Big Clive visit Edinburgh periodically?" and then OP's suggestion scrolled into view. :)
Sounds like a great video idea for him, really.
Comment · 1 month ago
Awesome, thanks!
Comment · 1 month ago
* [...] some bumpf [...]*
Uh, as in "excessive paperwork", like brochures/leaflets [1] about the new products? Not a native speaker, had a parse error I'm just trying to resolve ...
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/EnglishLearning/comments/1hlbxv7/co...
Comment · 1 month ago
Do note that this very cool project does not run on the "default" MiSTer hardware. This board is $250 from AMD.
Comment · 1 month ago
I like your idea of a wild night out!
Note to others: that tester board looks fairly passive, i.e. I don't see (mention of) a microcontroller to talk to the chip that high-powered cables must have. So I guess it's somewhat limited in the number of things it can check?
Comment · 1 month ago
Meta: isn't it still 2026 pretty much globally? When did we switch from only labelling older articles with their year?
Comment · 1 month ago
Meta: the loss of the word "up" from the title also does not help in its parsing.
Comment · 2 months ago
Very cool, even though it's limited to Makita LXR at this point.
I think the home page is LLM-aided, the design looks very familiar and wording like
[...] no software to install, nothing to set up. Plug in an Arduino, flash the firmware [...]
gives me pause. I am an actual embedded software engineer, and I would not classify finding, wiring (with resistors!) and flashing a microcontroller board as "nothing to set up".
Comment · 2 months ago
As someone without musical ear but a healthy respect for makers of instruments of all kinds, this was a great article!
I tend to think that the bar for building e.g. a small synth is like those by mitxela [1], with a tiny microcontroller running C on the metal.
Then the author here uses multi-threaded Python to schedule notes and do millisecond-length powering of 30+ solenoids and make thousands of people feel it's a proper instrument?! Wow!
I hang out a lot on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/28169/unwind, mainly answering questions about C. I love C.