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rcarmo
31,678karma·6,896submissions·July 17, 2013
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I remember when 8-bit machines ruled the Earth, IOS was a Cisco thing, and e-mail bounced around via dial-up, back before the first AI winter.
I'm now enjoying the new AI spring and doing all sorts of fun stuff.
Profile and secondary social links at https://carmo.io, blog at https://taoofmac.com, @rcarmo@mastodon.social.
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recent activity (6,896 total)
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Apologies, I've definitely spent too long in big corporates :( (like many folk, I sometimes feel Scott Adams is drawing Dilbert while watching a live feed from our office)
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They can pry my stack of paper magazines from my cold, dead hands. Seriously now, I read Abrash's stuff on Dr Dobb's, and it was that magazine (above all others) that instilled in me the ide…
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We all want a better computing model for Christmas, I guess.
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Very neat, and it led me (again) to pyrsistent ( https://github.com/tobgu/pyrsistent ), which does persistent data structures and which I've been pondering using with Hy ( htt…
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You should check the ODROID forum for newer graphics drivers. The bleeding edge versions are released every now and then as separate binaries/images.
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I'm thinking of upgrading my Pi cluster ( http://github.com/rcarmo/raspi-cluster ) to a set of these boards. Mostly waiting for some benchmarks to come in and the holiday seas…
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This should run most of the existing Ubuntu and Android images without any hassle. Having owned an ODROID-U2 for a long while now, I can tell you that these things run Ubuntu 14.04 like a dream (excep…
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The power socket is on the side, and the HDMI connector is now a micro. There will be some adjustment required...
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Also Teleport for Mac: http://www.abyssoft.com/software/teleport/ (requires a little tweaking to work with Yosemite)…
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Oh, and for those of you wanting a relatively recent Linux that looks and feels like the NeXT, I just found out http://wmlive.sourceforge.net/ was updated this September!…
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I used a Cube for a year or so when I was in college. Ironically, we were working on instrumenting NFS, which we couldn't do directly, so it was mostly a thin client (and an excellent mail/e…
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I used WindowMaker for years because of those very menus. Of course, these days it looks a bit dated... And Étoilé seems to have died off, too..
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That is an _amazing_ story.
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It's great for kids, too (might need some filtering, though).
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Source is here: http://sourceforge.net/p/previous/code/HEAD/tree/ Tried to build it on an ARM machine, but ran up against a few missing dependencies - trying …
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There's a fair amount of info about it in this forum thread: http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2642&pos... ...and on this wiki (inc. screenshots): htt…
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Some background on the Orleans computing model: https://orleans.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Getting%20Starte... Feels like a distributed Actor system. Anyone worked with it?…
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I honestly don't get why they got that much flak over a few bill items. Would it have been any better for them to hide how much they paid for various parts of their show? (So what if they paid X …
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Anyone know of anything comparable for SSDs?
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I had a friend in college who once coded an entire lotto program ("graphics" and all) into 380-odd bytes. Utterly insane.
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I agree with this. Even though I've used my Struct thing for a long while now _and_ subclassing dict directly in my case, I've been bitten by similar issues. The syntactic sugar is very nice…
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Didn't mean to come across as mean, merely factual. There are plenty of similar implementations around, in fact, and this is the kind of thing I've also seen as part of ActiveState recipes.…
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That (use as a config object) is exactly why I did my Struct thing. But if I were to do it again, I'd certainly make it immutable (although that would complicate the implementation somewhat)
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I've been using a similar thing I call Struct for ages, as part of my utils package: https://github.com/rcarmo/python-utils/blob/master/core.py Can't rea…