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Commodore 64 Ultimate gets released

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smingo
·6 माह पहले·discuss
https://www.anquotes.com/charles-bukowski-quotes/ has some similar themes.

“Writing about writer’s block is better than not writing at all.”
smingo
·8 माह पहले·discuss
I got on very well with Van der Linden's Deep C Secrets. It's from 1994, so misses out on the newer versions, but aside from that it's aged well, IMHO.

And good news: it's been open sourced: https://freecomputerbooks.com/Expert-C-Programming-Deep-C-Se... and its well regarded on Hacker News https://hackernewsbooks.com/book/expert-c-programming-deep-c... .
smingo
·12 माह पहले·discuss
The entire device is tiny: 20mm x 5mm x 5mm approx. It looks to work using a small laser and a lens which focuses the beam about 5mm above the device. The sensor unit contains a photodiode(s), and algorithms count the particulates. It looks to need a heat sink.
smingo
·12 माह पहले·discuss
There are quite a few examples of very misguided educational strategies.

Whole Language[1] failed so many students, but had significant funding and guru-level support for decades. Brain Gym[2] is regarded as pseudoscience. Even Discovery Learning has had serious detractors.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_language 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Gym_International
smingo
·पिछला वर्ष·discuss
Commodore release a new variant of their C64 computer, with a '99%' faithful recreation of the original hardware on an AMD Artix 7 FPGA, along with some more up-to-date specifications. Suitable for retro gaming.
smingo
·पिछला वर्ष·discuss
Chinese New Year falls between 21 January and 20 February. This would be somewhere between week 3 and week 8.

Some ISO 8601 week numbers for CNY:

2022 CNY fell on Feb 1 , which is Week 5

2023 CNY fell on Jan 22, which is Week 3

2024 CNY fell on Feb 10, which is Week 6

2025 CNY fell on Jan 29, which is Week 5
smingo
·2 वर्ष पहले·discuss
indeed, with an incoming Teams meeting invite, it should be determinable from the sender's context which account should work on the meeting. Instead there is 2 minutes of waiting, and what seems like pot luck with the account.