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When I was starting out in electronics I found the easiest way to build an oscillator was to build an amplifier and the easiest way to build an amplifier was to build an oscillator. I guess the trick …

It got killed because it was submitted by five people, the first is still alive.

You only need to make it 40 or 50 pages before Formalized Music comes up. I am not sure I would say they are about the same subject; Formalized Music is about single aspects of Xenakis' music, it…

I click on "threads" once a day to see if there is anything I should reply to.

The last thing I want out of retirement is maintaining my current lifestyle. Which is not to suggest that my current lifestyle is lacking (or not lacking) just that the last thing I want in life is co…

Rereading this for the first time in 20 odd years, I think what we lost with the death of David Foster Wallace is the loss of the friendship between David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen. It is e…

Disclaimer: Internet is not working well for me tonight so I could not watch the video. C3 seems to be building on the faults of C and not fixing much, but maybe I just drank the the Zig Kool-aid? Giv…

In my experience Intel and AMD Thinkpads of that era are about the same for battery life but Intel always needs some kernel parameters set. Where I notice the biggest difference is Intel's integr…

ChromeOS with the Linux VM is a surprisingly nice setup, I bought a Thinkpad Duet 3 so I could use Linux apps on a tablet and it seriously has me considering getting a Chromebook for my next laptop. E…

That assumes they have a sense of sight similar to our own. What if their only well developed sense is smell; their equivalent of writing is depositing scent onto paper and their "non-verbal"…

The only piece of software I can recall buying is Myst, took awhile for me to save up that cash with just my allowance. Seem to recall it cost $56 in 1993 dollars, that was a great deal of money to a …

Aurora is going pretty strong here in northern Minnesota, filling most of the sky. A jet is going over way up there right now, they must be getting a hell of a show.

Back around the turn of the century my wifi card died when I was reinstalling my system and I had no money for a new wifi card, no internet at home so I ended up with a very a basic console only Arch …

I am quite impressed, even if it was not completely right and provided a few rather humorous charts, it is close enough assuming you are following along with the code. A great improvement over the alt…

>The aliens change colors when they descend to a new level (whoops). That is how Space Invaders originally worked, used strips of colored cellophane to give the B&W graphics color and the alien…

It looks like they need to turn down the ink flow on the press or the plate is a bit past its prime. I like it.

I can't recall the last book I read where the main character or anyone "wins." I watch a couple movies a year and those also tend to lack the hollywood ending. HN is probably the closes…

>contempt for everything that's not Forth. I have never seen that, most in the Forth world seem resigned to obscurity and content living in their own world. If you could point me to the people…

>together with Lisp Lisp has a lot in common with Forth in that people often reduce it to a trick and miss the lesson it has to teach; people implement their six words from the bare metal and use t…

>but they will try to convince you to scorn all other viewpoints How is that not what you are doing? Lay it all out and back up what you are claiming, some of us are willing to hear you out.

We all get hung up on such things on occasion, realizing it is probably better than never doing it.

Here is the COLREG order: Not under command Restricted maneuverability Constrained by draft Fishing (actively dragging) Under sail Ignoring not under command; in the open sea only the f…

Small sail boats do not need to go around wind farms, they can just sail right through them assuming the weather is agreeable. The problem is more that if you are caught up in a storm anywhere near a …

If hit just right it would destroy the boat but that is a one in a million hit. The shape of displacement hulls and their need to part and push the water aside so they can move through the water will …

Why do my beliefs require anything to prove them? My beliefs are not fact and I never represented them as such, I said plainly that I have mixed feeling and that society should not bow to me. The exch…