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peter_d_sherman
18,476karma·5,708submissions·September 16, 2014
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Programmer, Student Of Law, Entrepreneur & Comedy Writer.
Open Source, Open Hardware, Transparency & Free Speech enthusiast.
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"The true knowledge consists of knowing that one knows nothing..."
- Socrates
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"At 36 kHz, the wavelength shrinks from roughly 8,327 m (27,320 ft) in air to just 170 m (558 ft) in freshwater..." Yes, waves apparently compress or expand depending on the medium they ar…
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Related: https://www.coreboot.org/ https://www.linuxboot.org/ https://u-root.org/ …
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>"...tools like SerialICE which runs the firmware in QEMU and forwards IO and MMIO to the actual hardware ..." I never knew about SerialICE prior to reading this article, or that it …
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Interesting! Yes, there's probably a market for vibe-coded software, but if there is, then there's also a market for fixing other companies' vibe-coded mistakes ... Phrased anoth…
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An interesting OS: >"The desktop stack features Niri 26.04 and Noctalia v5 alpha, built on Qt 6.11. Additional components, including cliphist, brightnessctl, ddcutil, pavucontrol-qt, qt6ct, an…
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Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages
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I like the following x86 assembly real-mode to protected-mode bootloader a lot: (Taking a quick glance, it seems to be very well written and robust -- at least as far as "old-skool" (should …
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>"In the framekernel OS architecture, the entire OS resides in the same address space (like a monolithic kernel) and is required to be written in Rust. However, there's a twist---the kern…
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Related: https://www.heidisql.com/
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I personally like this article, its concepts, its charts and its graphs... Observation: There probably is a market for documenting all of a business's processes and workflows (which business owne…
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I like this table in the page very much: https://www.wiisfi.com/images/wifi-phy-table.jpg Basically, it shows how a different encoding scheme/modulation is used based on dis…
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It would be tremendously interesting, I think, to learn all of the Chemistry involved in carpet manufacturing, both historical and current-day, both for carpets which are manufactured domestically and…