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Thanks for this. Very helpful for audio processing.

I cut a couple open recently, and the legs are actually hollow. No honeycomb. The top ~40mm and bottom 15mm are wood composite plugs, and the center is air. The skin is about 2.5mm thick wood-ish material with vinyl-ish wrap.

Breadth-First Search or Depth-First Search, I think. It took me too long to guess those initialisms.

You also don't need a collapsible steering column, as there is no steering column.

He doesn't just spring them on the reader. Each exercise has a difficulty label. Level 50, IIRC, is for unsolved questions.

The RFC was written in 1990. Very few computers were cattle then.

They haven't yet killed ALL humans.

Is pbrt a viable replacement? (I don't know; I've looked at it but never tried to produce art with it.)

https://www.pbrt.org/

If you want 100 pieces hassle-free, you should probably use a printing service. The service's pricing accurately reflects the hassle they'll endure on your behalf. (They ain't cheap.)

when was the last time the community (or another manufacturer) actually contributed anything useful to the core HW and electronics design?

E3D has driven the majority of hotend innovation, not Prusa. Ultimaker's Cura and PrusaSlicer cross pollinate regularly. Grégoire Saunier created the Bear frame. Numerous other nonprofessionals are creating small and not-so-small improvements which haven't become well known.

But yes, the bedflinger FDM architecture is mature. Innovation is incremental now, not radical.

Or just let him park at your place.

Eugene or Portland Oregon, Pittsburgh area, northern Ohio, Maine, Santa Fe or Albuquerque, Colorado Front Range, Madison Wisconsin, maybe Milwaukee, maybe West Lafayette Indiana, maybe Chattanooga, just off the top of my head.

The maybes are places that were nice to visit but I don't know very well.

Buy the new one before selling the old one.

Could be 185%, could be 18.5%. Nobody has any idea how policy, productivity, demographics, climate, technology, etc. will interact over the next 40 years.

Ah, to be in a stable democracy where political campaigns can be whimsical!

Here in [insert country], it's a grim struggle against the forces of [disliked party] who want to destroy our way of life, and it's dangerous to risk losing a few voters to silliness.

Fixed in under three hours. Once again, the front page of HN is the most effective bug reporting mechanism.

I'd say, "Congratulations! You're one of today's luck 10,000!", but trigraphs aren't really much fun. Just another reminder that C is old, and computing is even older.

I've used uppercase-only terminals, and I've used ancient C, but not at the same time.

Demucs did a much better job of isolating the bass on a blues track than LALAL. The bass actually sounded like a bass. LALAL got the note pitches but lost their attacks.

Earlier this week I bought a COOFUN GK41 with two Gbit Ethernet ports for $160. That included 8 GB ram and 120 GB SSD. It arrived yesterday, and I haven't installed OPNsense on it yet. So I can't report how well it works, or even whether it works.

I was considering a QOTOM Q355G4 until I decided I didn't need 4 NICs. They're $300-400ish, depending on configuration.

So the hardware is there, it's just from companies I'd never heard of.

... on the 341st iteration, it realizes what's happening, and it preemptively crashes all of Microsoft's IT. On the 342nd iteration, there's no Windows Update, and it successfully enslaves the world.

I've had real "range anxiety" even in ICE cars in Oregon. It's not hard to be 100 miles from a gas station on some of the backwoods logging roads. Combine that with occasional road blockages (trees, rocks), and it can get dicey.

But those are just tracking the merger and acquisition status of one company.

My father-in-law worked at Bell Labs. He received AT&T stock as part of his compensation, from before the 1984 breakup. When we settled his estate, that AT&T stock had turned into over 30 different companies.

I feel compelled to mention The Laszlo Letters and its sequels. In the 1970s, comedian Don Novello (aka Father Guido Sarducci) wrote a variety of crank letters to CEOs and politicians. He got a variety of responses. He published the letters and their responses in the books. It had sort of a Borat-by-post vibe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Novello#Career

For single copies or small batches, I'm thinking an inkjet printer could be modified to print the image, and a clamp designed to hold the pages in place during printing. I'm not sure how to apply the gilt. Maybe with a paint roller?

I've been to a lot of Tesla Superchargers, and in my experience, drivers hardly ever leave their cars at urban/suburban spots. We are unusual in that we usually get out and walk the dog or ourselves a little.

Part of it is that Tesla levies a fee for leaving the car plugged in after it charges, so we can't go too far.

Oh, and I second the recommendation for Peter Norvig's Lispy. https://norvig.com/lispy.html

Or, if you want to do a low-level implementation, Quiennec's Lisp in Small Pieces.

What's at the heart of lisp that makes it so simple and elegant?

IMO, it's a synergy of several things. Trivial parsing*, homoiconicity, automatic memory management, dynamic types, first class symbols, first class everything†, extensible everything†, heavy reliance on anonymous functions, flexible scope rules.

All of those have since been adopted by other languages, but only Lisps have them all working together. (And not every Lisp has every feature.)

* ... until you consider various extensions

† almost

Apartment dwellers will want to use the fastest charger regularly. They have to sit in their cars in some desolate location for the whole time, and they have to charge every week. Not an experience to prolong.

Do sources still exist for Perl 4 and earlier?

I decided to go looking for when Perl got verbose regex. The oldest thing I can find on perldoc.perl.org or cpan.org is 5.004 (1997), where they were an existing feature.

EDIT: Found 4.036 sources (1993). A quick scan of the man page (troff source!) does not find verbose regular expressions. So it looks like they were introduced very early in the Perl 5 series.

https://www.cpan.org/src/unsupported/4.036/

Can someone explain this to me? It looks like a desktop wallpaper with mountains and the words "Activate Linux".