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It sounds like a Ventian Snares track. Love it.

That might have been me! There were one or two M stations there. I heard a couple of stations calling CQ. Very difficult to pick out signals without any filtering. 73 de G4IYT :)

Very cool. It does get a bit chaotic when there are a number of people keying. If there was the ability to add a narrow filter then it could be usable for a QSO (radio contact)! Th…

> The problem was that Emine's cell phone was not localized properly for Turkish and did not have the letter ; when it displayed Ramazan's message, it replaced the s with s. So it …

Also a Nix/NixOS user/contributer. I feel like Nix+nixpkgs could become the universal packaging solution adapted to build deb, rpm, etc packages. Through nix-env it even already ha…

Agree with the final part of this article that "programmable" configuration languages like Nix and Dhall are the way forward. I've spent a lot of time writing YAML for Ansible, Clo…

Kodi and Plex provide a way to play pirated content, but Netflix and their competitors still dominate. They have an incentive to provide easy access to their media, so pirating is …

Yes, Kodi and Plex have got that covered, and no risk of bricking your TV.

> Maybe the space is just more fragmented? Android is pretty darn fragmented though. I expect that aftermarket firmware would be an issue for content providers. For example, is Net…

It's on the roadmap, can't do pinball machines without legs >.>

I wonder if it is possible to generate a ROT8000 quine, that is a phrase like "hello world" which yields a semantically matching phrase in some other language?

Nothing to do with me >.>

I love that effect. My JS changed a lot once I grokked LISP, and I finally understood why there was a Haskell course on my degree track. One of the most rewarding training experien…

Makes sense. I have a ZX Spectrum on my workbench and a copy of Sinclair Forth somewhere, maybe it will click for me in a more restricted environment.

> People claim that once you learn Forth, you start programming Forth-style in other languages like C, Python etc. Sounds very much like my experience with LISPs. Probably just nee…

I've seen a lot of embedded Forth stuff recently but I don't get the appeal. Clearly there is some benefit over writing assembly, but why is it preferred over portable C, or even h…

> Is the core issue that council websites are using real-time bidding for their ads? Yes. These websites are used to support a variety of public services, e.g. disability, poverty,…

Especially since they are publicly funded, so UK citizens are paying to have their data transmitted to unknown parties and advertised at. Oh, and if you don't pay it? Fuck you. The…

Disappointed that there is no easter egg revealed for dialing 8675309.... But cool nonetheless.

Strange hobbies indeed. The latter part of your comment is reminiscent of the goal of the MAME project: > MAME's purpose is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic t…

The most insidious cases are those where bad processes are developed around bad software, leading to a vicious cycle of co-dependency. I once worked for a reasonably large business…

Wow, I switched to Emacs earlier this year and have not encountered dired mode before. This is fantasic!

Project looks great, have yet to try it out but it's more or less exactly what I have had an itch to build for the last couple of weeks after having an unsatsifactory experience tr…

Dijkstra met Mike Fellows (who co-authored the original CS Unplugged with Tim Bell) early in Michael's career, who originally quoted this, but it's often misattributed to Dijkstra …