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#microcontroller #firmware #FPGA #SDR (SW Defined Radio)
#retrocomputing
#nonpareil HP calculator simulation at microcode level
CHM PDP-1 Restoration Team
Damned dirty ape
Call sign N2ES
he/him
Not a tame programmer
in #Colorado, not far from #Denver

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2024-08-09 06:21:09

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@npub18yv…xxyn Change from nine digits to 36 digits?

2024-07-23 07:51:48

I've invented a new feature for car stereos to improve convenience and safety! I'm willing to license it to auto and car stereo makers for a very low per-unit royalty.
Instead of having to navigate through menus or use a touchscreen to select one of your favorite radio/satellite stations, the stereo will have a plurality of PHYSICAL BUTTONS, each of which, upon being pressed, tunes to a user-selected station.
In the preferred embodiment, there will be six such buttons in a horizontal row.

2024-07-13 16:26:37

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@npub17vj…g088 Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is starting to sound like a better basis for a system of government than the others we've tried.

2024-07-04 07:50:04

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@npub1l3g…vu48
You got hummus on my lettuce!

2024-06-22 09:20:44

No one could possibly have predicted that bee and butterfly population decline might be related to insecticide use!
The new marketing slogan for humans should be, "Killing the biosphere many species at a time."
How long until all that's left is humans, cockroaches, tardigrades, and plankton? I don't think we even know what a minimal biosphere that can support human life would have to include, but I fear that we'll find out the hard way. Maybe the Fermi.Paradox isn't actually so paradoxical.

2024-06-15 05:07:12

The most difficult problem in computer science isn't naming things, or proving that P=NP or the converse. It's printing. Maybe computer scientists will eventually prove that printing is undecidable.

2024-06-11 23:44:07

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@npub1su4…a0dw The big print giveth, and the small print taketh away.

2024-06-07 11:05:17

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@npub14zy…2z57 Thanks for explaining!
Professionally, I've developed embedded systems of both types, but I've only used a traditional RTOS on the non-MMU type.

2024-06-07 05:33:35

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@npub14zy…2z57 What does "apps" mean in the context of an RTOS? Is it something that's dynamically linked?

2024-05-27 22:52:48

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@npub1q63…uucj No wonder I have so much trouble with my PC. The little people are missing, so I have to operate it all by myself.

2024-05-13 03:55:14

The real monsters were the people we were along the way.

2024-05-09 03:17:13

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@npub1gnx…d5kh
Whoever said "easy as pie" must have meant, easy as _eating_ pie, not making it.

2024-05-08 08:39:44

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@npub1j7a…p393
OBEY

2024-05-07 12:57:18

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@npub1l3g…vu48 Interlace is just as problematic for 625 line 50 Hz, though it can provide 288 lines non-interlaced, vs 240 lines non-interlaced in 525/60.

2024-05-07 11:46:52

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@npub1l3g…vu48 So that you don't get flicker from interlace.

2024-05-04 23:50:24

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@npub17vj…g088
🎶 Thyme keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into my dinner

2024-04-19 06:53:29

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@npub1elx…gtay The 6502 has outlived the Z80 CPU.

2024-04-09 07:39:18

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 Confirmed. We are.

2024-04-05 12:03:54

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@npub178h…hyhr 1973 > 2024

2024-04-03 07:05:25

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@npub1y4h…t26u Make mine with extra S100, please. Oh, and don't forget thr sudo!

2024-03-28 02:17:29

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@npub1r37…xrlz s/sometimes/almost always/

2024-03-24 08:58:36

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@npub1kpw…xzz4
Ketone test strips for urine can be useful, but don't distinguish between ketosis and ketoacidosis.

2024-03-24 08:58:21

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@npub1kpw…xzz4
[You may know all this better than I do. I'm not trying to mansplain it to you, but explaining for the benefit of other readers.]
Did you urinate more than usual? If it's not water loss from sweating, the main way you lose body weight is by fat broken down into ketones (lipolysis, ketosis), excreted by urination.
The other alternative is muscle tissue being broken down (ketoacidosis), which is very bad, but shouldn't notmally happen.

2024-03-21 05:32:05

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a electrical engineer in possession of a non-working circuit, must be in want of an oscilloscope.

2024-03-19 04:36:55

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@npub1uw8…88kr
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all
– Ogden Nash

2024-03-18 20:57:23

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@npub1xzm…eykm Natural Stupdity is still allowed, and even encouraged.
:-)
I like the new rule.

2024-03-14 01:35:31

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@npub1k4q…3lsq There's a baseline level of respect that I'll afford everyone, unless and until they prove that they don't deserve it. But there's also additional respect that they can earn through their actions.

2024-03-08 10:26:52

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@npub132h…f594 how Boeing would explain it
https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?si=0DFi38rGJkIPgqgI

2024-03-07 07:40:23

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@npub1r37…xrlz The Mother of All Demos
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

2024-03-05 00:21:02

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@npub1te6…zc4l Probably had the MC68090 CPU.

2024-03-03 18:18:28

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@npub1y4h…t26u I like a few movies that I previously disliked.
I like foods that I disliked in my youth, and dislike some that I liked back then. But that's just because children have no taste.

2024-02-29 01:26:06

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@npub15x4…3p3l Definitely scary. I hope she doesn't cause you additional problems beyond what she already has.

2024-02-23 06:08:19

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@npub1khx…geyg There are superheroes living among us, and most people never notice!

2024-02-21 03:26:18

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@npub1lrv…tth9 The playbook hasn't even changed. They wrap themselves in a veneer of patriotism, and claim that all major problems are caused by immigrants. Entirely too many people were gullible enough to buy into that then, and again now.
:-(

2024-01-30 18:26:16

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@npub1r37…xrlz time travel

2024-01-28 21:14:39

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@npub1r37…xrlz nostalia

2024-01-20 01:11:55

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@npub1su4…a0dw "... repent at leisure."

2024-01-15 21:02:57

(void) scream();

2024-01-09 04:19:30

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@npub186s…54uq I assume you're not talking about the UTS that was Amdahl's Unix. What is your UTS?

2024-01-05 12:03:53

"The universe of low-stakes, high-dollar applications for AI is so small that I can’t think of anything that belongs in it."
– @npub1hyk…3p33
(after explaining why the only viable business case for AI is low-stakes, high-dollar applications)
https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/

2023-12-29 22:13:23

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@npub1az9…swru You're too young to tell dad jokes. Please wait until you have groan.

2023-12-24 04:17:42

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@npub1r37…xrlz [image], for MFer meaning the year 2023.
2023 was an awful year for me, and for quite a few people I know. Here's hoping for a better year ahead.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/633/210/952/904/152/original/cd79ecf0b810cdf2.jpeg

2023-12-12 05:19:24

The first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club.

2023-12-06 02:04:02

@npub1ulm…hweg Don't worry. Microsoft will merge LinkedIn with GitHub and Hotmail, and make all three worse.

2023-11-22 08:03:40

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@npub1su4…a0dw What did people think would happen when they switched to a web browser developed by an advertising company?

2023-11-11 14:15:24

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@npub1rml…xa6t getting ever closer to the poisoned donut, I mean, int32 rollover
https://youtu.be/wwib3SZRkQo?si=Zdue9ll6xQecupLa

2023-11-11 11:26:33

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@npub178h…hyhr Neighbors. It always seems to be neighbors. I recommend moving.

2023-10-29 12:25:14

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@npub1lrv…tth9
Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way."
"Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?"
– Joseph Heller, _Catch 22_

2023-10-27 22:20:48

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@npub1efv…4jx2 It would have been $45 billion, but they spent $1B on modifying the code to give you the ability to use _ and -

2023-10-27 02:20:57

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@npub1r37…xrlz
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/304/117/662/712/557/original/5230b4bd85fdab7e.png

2023-10-23 02:18:14

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@npub18yv…xxyn
It's only
Beer can
Waistband

2023-10-16 16:31:04

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@npub1yyx…qa5g Once at Waffle House, an elderly employee told me she was under the weather. I said I was sorry to hear that, and hoped she was better soon. She said that no, it was a good thing; if she was over the weather, she'd be an angel.

2023-09-28 23:53:42

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@npub1uw8…88kr When you scream into the void, the void screams back into you.

2023-09-21 01:50:25

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@npub1r37…xrlz Maybe it's common in our reality, and we're just not in the "in" crowd.

2023-09-16 21:59:15

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@npub1hvz…mle9 My sister was given a loaner.

2023-09-14 05:11:02

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@npub1su4…a0dw Contrary to @npub1yyx…qa5g 's law, the answer to the headline "Is no software safe?" is yes, no software is safe.
Stored program computers have existed for more than 75 years, and the internet has existed for more than 43 years, yet for the most part we still do not know how to write reliable and secure software. There has been a large amount of research, and it is ongoing. Ther have been some positive results, but they have seen little adoption outside academia.

2023-09-06 19:05:55

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Welcome to hell. Here's your accordion.

2023-09-06 17:42:49

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 It was inevitable that a browser developed by a company with a business model consisting almost entirely of advertising revenue would do this, but when you dangle shiny new software in front of most users, they don't spend much time thinking about the deeper ramifications.
You can't keep dancing with the devil and ask why you're still in hell.
– Kynna Claire

2023-09-04 15:43:39

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@npub1efv…4jx2 I don't understand how it justifies cutting coverage AND raising premiums. Cutting coverage should REDUCE premiums.

2023-09-03 22:17:27

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@npub178h…hyhr
When in question
Or in doubt
Run in circles
Scream and shout!

2023-08-30 21:09:02

I buy my self-loathing in bulk from Costco. That saves me a huge amount of money.

2023-08-21 00:39:57

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@npub178h…hyhr If it doesn't reference Gaffigan, James, how interesting could it be?

2023-08-20 21:57:26

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@npub1l3g…vu48
I told my doctor I wanted to stop aging. He gave me a gun.
– Rodney Dangerfield

2023-08-16 20:32:31

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@npub1ept…jcl3 monetized logorrhea

2023-08-15 23:01:51

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@npub1su4…a0dw The lists already exist! They're in the billing system. They don't want to admit that what they're actually opposed to is transparency.

2023-08-12 00:36:06

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@npub18yv…xxyn doesn't do it on my Galaxy Tab S6 Lite, but possibly it's configurable in settings or something

2023-08-06 02:32:02

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@npub189n…satx
And learning that when adults told us, "you'll understand when you're older", the point was NOT that we couldn't understand it at the time, but that the adults didn't want to admit that it was bullshit.

2023-07-19 20:52:24

Ministrone? No, I'd prefer a full-sized strone please.

2023-07-18 04:39:57

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@npub1l3g…vu48
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/732/770/768/350/567/original/1938d9e18ebf79f4.png

2023-07-13 07:16:30

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 My transceiver isn't rated for 10:1, though. I'll have to look up the specs. If the measured SWR exceeds to transceiver specs, at least I'll know not to try it.

2023-07-13 04:14:23

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 Cool!
In August I'm planning to put up a 2m/70cm J pole. I want to try measuring it with a NanoVNA to see whether it has low enough SWR to also be usable at 1.25m. I suspect not, but it seems worth checking.

2023-07-08 21:18:11

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@npub18yv…xxyn I'd be fired if that were my job

2023-07-07 01:28:59

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@npub1ept…jcl3 They just want to give you _many_ months of advance notice.

2023-07-06 23:43:39

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@npub1pfe…e2dm @npub12fn…v63r What software do you use for that measurement?

2023-07-05 04:57:22

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 Disappointing. I wanted to see it wrap from 63 to 0. Or from 31 to -32.

2023-06-16 19:05:44

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@npub1su4…a0dw If they're not honoring the amount of renewals purchased from Google Domains, then customers should sue. Possibly class action.

2023-05-20 05:34:38

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@npub16gl…syzj It's the "embrace, extend, extinguish" plan. Sometimes it works, unfortunately. Hopefully not this time.

2023-05-15 21:45:44

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@npub1q2t…jr8a needs more cowbell

2023-05-08 20:11:14

A contract with a new client will require me to have Workers Comp insurance and Commercial Auto Liability insurance. My premiums for auto insurance are basically going to double. The liability limit will be 1M vs. my currently 250K/500K coverage.

2023-05-07 02:08:05

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@npub1rzy…zpg7 @npub143w…pykj It would be great if it was only half, but I'm very doubtful that's the case.

2023-05-02 09:27:21

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@npub1dm5…5sqe From the film _The Court Jester_, starring Danny Kaye. A musical comedy.

2023-05-02 03:43:33

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@npub1dm5…5sqe Listen carefully. The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.