@hef

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hefSep 10, 2019
Luci RocksSep 3, 2019
thinking about how many sensors you can make using just an infrared led/light sensor, and clever mechanical designs.
a microphone by attaching the LED to a drum skin.
a rotation sensor by the wheel progressively obscuring the LED as it rotates.
a bend sensor by putting the LED in a straw.
an orientation sensor by putting a metal marble in a cage and bouncing light off it.
a compass sensor by sticking the light on a compass needle.
Show threadhefSep 10, 2019
@zensaiyuki What are you doing to get 500x500 resolution with an led and light sensor?
hefSep 9, 2019
z14zSep 9, 2019
render, don't go getting all out of sorts now, y'hear?
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@wizard How is this still a thing?
Show threadhefSep 8, 2019

@zensaiyuki @unspeakablehorror

Not wanting to ever have to burn a weekend configuring hardware is a big factor in me deciding to get a mac. iterm2 being really nice is another.

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@unspeakablehorror @zensaiyuki

I think I'm seeing more of this in windows land too. The "Advanced feature" menus in windows seem to keep changing or getting buried further. a "copy and paste" solution is starting to seem elegant.

hefSep 8, 2019

I wonder if doing things in the terminal in linux is just the easiest way to communicate how to do something involved over the internet.

A lot of features a user could use the terminal for could probably be done through a UI, but there is such a proliferation of UI solutions that the terminal is easiest and most consistent to explain in text.

Show threadhefSep 8, 2019
@zensaiyuki @unspeakablehorror I remember being able to do both of those things in ubuntu a few years ago without difficulty.
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@zensaiyuki What would be a better model?
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@zensaiyuki I suppose that's the cost of never breaking backwards compatibility.

I've been impressed with golang's synchronization primitives being "goroutine" aware. porting that kind of system into c/c++ would be challenging to get working with old code