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Probably the closest thing I remember existing to this was (in its "modern"-ish form) https://github.com/autc04/executor Not quite what you're looking for I think but it was a Wine…

Yes but the math (which happens in the receiver, so can be replicated by a user with an open source receiver) would be very different. You actually wind up with a 3D position relat…

More annoying is when you use something like SoundSource (a paid app which adds per-app volume control and input/output redirection to macOS... a feature that by all rights should …

Not really. It's certainly intended for the basic "fan out m tasks to n workers, and the fanout producer wants to know when they're all done" and can be abused for some more, but I…

For one thing, static vs dynamic RAM. Static RAM (which is what's used for your typical CPU cache) is implemented with flip-flops and doesn't need to be refreshed, reads aren't des…

The one thing I wish stock python queues had an option for (async or otherwise) was some kind of explicit termination. e.g. be split into producers and consumers, and have consumer…

I highly doubt (and some quick checks seem to verify that) any of the tiny CC implementations will support the cleanup extension that most of this post's magic hinges upon. (Agree …

That's what I get for stopping at the front page after it looked just like I remember. :/ Thanks for the other link.

It still exists at https://archive.org/details/music_202007 .

Usually that means the record was mastered differently (because you literally physically can't make a record as "loud" as a CD). It's not the CD's fault, it's the mastering enginee…

That's... fine, and a cool trick I guess, but I don't actually want that behavior.

Does anyone know of a Wayland WM/compositor that does multi-screen like XMonad? Preferably out of the box but I'll take configurable. For those unaware, though I doubt you're readi…

I just taught myself to look at the end of the UUID, rather than the beginning.

I believe Synology runs btrfs on top of regular mdraid + lvm, possibly with patches to let btrfs checksum failures reach into the underlying layers to find the right data to recove…

For something that's literally designed to sit on a desk, yes... it's ridiculous to make it thinner in a dimension you never see vs one that you see all the time.

Why does this still have the ridiculous iMac chin? Surely they can fit everything behind the screen at this point.

Yeah it was specifically the (presumed) lack of Rust's "fearless" concurrency that I was referring to... i.e. we can ram this data through a parallel map, but is it actually safe t…

Rust is a step sideways if anything. Yeah, you don't have manual memory management headaches in .NET, but you also don't have Rust's fairly strong compile-time guarantees about mem…

A local station had (I think past tense, though it made it a lot less likely for me to go there to check) their pumps playing ads in "attract mode" when nobody was using them. So g…

Same, which is one reason I'm dreading the eventual Xpocalypse, as I have not found a drop-in replacement for Xmonad in the Wayland universe. (Particularly, the way Xmonad deals wi…

CMUCL's interpreter evaluated IR1 (the first intermediate representation of its compiler) IIRC, so it wasn't possible to have a truly compilerless CMUCL _and_ a functional EVAL. I …

I had my own take on this concept[1], though with considerably less language magic involved. I imagine there's a lot of these kind of things running around. My criteria were: a) le…

Pretty sure residential 3-phase in Europe is 400V phase-to-phase, it's 220V phase-to-neutral.

This is how traditional Emacs undo is implemented as well. I like it but it seems to be not the norm; it does take a little bit to get used to. (There's plenty of packages to trans…

A naive translation (not checking facts in any way): Converting 100% of power generation in the US to (deuterium-tritium) fusion would result in 200,000 cubic meters of helium gene…