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In other words: nothing has changed since Henry James wrote about Americans in Europe.

Very cool. Can this be used to make a better quadrature encoder multiplier? The ones we get in our programmable rotary encoders are pretty crappy when the input frequency wobbles.

As a former Swabian I'm a bit hurt that those beautiful Brezeln get such a low score

Generally Aethelstan gets pretty good coverage on TRIH and the episodes on that era are some of my favorites. Also, the VIP membership tier is called "Athelstan" if I remember corr…

Learned from this post that Gmail web had POP! Now I'll be mourning loss of a feature I never even used.

I find AI coding assistants useful when I'm using a new library or language feature I'm not super familiar with. When I have AI generate code using features I'm very familiar with …

Not sneering in any way, I love those groups and visit when I get a chance. Also a big fan of our local university's tree collections, they are on a mission to preserve variety of …

Sounds intriguing, want to try one now. This is the kind of thing Home Orchard Societies wet their pants over. Probably grown right next to their pawpaw tree.

Maybe for the DB domain author is talking about but the nice thing about a bool is that it's true or false. I don't have to dig around documentation or look through the code what t…

The real vibe coding is when you hear the core memory vibrating

I'm glad to hear that but only if the buttons, wires and connectors are high quality. Pretty sure one of the reasons for everything touchscreen is cost. My mom's BMW has a sort of …

What happened, did you just get stranded and they came and replaced the car?

Of all the many source control systems I've used git has the worst usability yet it's my favorite

Windows is a good OS and Visual Studio (not Code) is the best IDE. Also, I really don't like marine mammals at all. Possible exception for otters

For hobbyists that's enough, for engineers often okay (I find myself in that situation) but for scientists "good enough" means nothing. Optical metrology relies on accurate equatio…

Haribo

wait a while and there will also be advertising every time you boot up and at random other times

I wonder how many "traditional" engineers are Mac coders. I work at hp so not many Macs around but in our R&D and especially in manufacturing and test&measurement Mac-only would be…

Everyone here seems to thing GDB is awful. It's been a while for me but I remember using front-ends like Eclipse's CDT or similar and didn't find that experience so bad. Do most pe…

Oh yea, we used both SoftICE and Periscope. I loved the pushbutton to fire off an NMI directly on the ISA bus. It was sad when your device driver crashed but it was a fun experienc…

That's very cool. In Oregon we have an electric ferry across the Willamette but it has overhead power lines, like a train.

Good to know, must have gone up since I moved away in '92

I grew up in Germany where iodized salt and flouridated water aren't the norm. Now I have bad teeth and can't wrap my head around the latest changes in the C++ language...

I've only used Github desktop briefly so I can't say much about it, was commenting on the web UI. I suppose if I was using a lot of GitHub functionality vs. just using github.com a…