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Two fish with direction help a tar splice. (11)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Like it!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I'm out. Too many possible substitutions and combinations for me.
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OK - I'll take it ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Two fish MARLIN,PIKE
with direction S
help a tar splice.
MARLINSPIKE
(A maritime tool used for rope work, including splicing two ropes together: Beginner Friendly Splicing - How To Splice 3 Stranded Rope Together - YouTube[^] - you need a Marlinspike for the thicker sheets they used on Tall Ships.)
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Spot on! YAUT.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Never even heard the word.
Thanks for saving me some time. I was about to revisit it starting with COD...
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I learned splicing, using a marlinspike, at college but failed to get the answer today. Just another example of my creeping senility.
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Well, better luck tomorrow!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Sir, I bow to you. Marlinspike? that's just nuts.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I looked at the linked article Dissipative Kerr Solitons.
Trying to read a couple of paragraphs of it made me realize, yet again, that there is so much in this world I will never understand before my time runs out.
Though if I did understand it as written, I probably would not be able to enjoy Doctor Who. Even a little bit.
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Hi,
Sorry about that, I've updated the link and replaced the link with the equivalent on the Nature website. The paper is mostly irrelevant and covers alot of their experimental setup. The target audience for the paper would be their peers looking to duplicate the experiment. Not really worth reading.
The speaker in the MSR video (Tobias Kippenberg) works at the K-lab/EPFL[^] and if you are interested they have a YouTube channel that covers the research in-depth.
K-LAB Videos[^]
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Not enough time.
Tx for the links
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The last paragraph of the 2nd article is a classic.
I'm still grinning and chuckling now, an embarrassingly long time after reading it.
Nice find.. the three of 'em.
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Regarding the first; this does mean that literally I have an old head on young (relatively) shoulders.
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Those are interesting articles. The one about time being quantized actually doesn't surprise me given that space is quantized.
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We need to vibrate faster in order to be in tune with the universe.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Science & engineering really do go hand in hand
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I built an IoT graphics library called GFX which does things like alpha-blending, jpg loading and truetype/opentype font drawing.
It's miles better than what we're using right now - the same thing most IoT major systems run for graphics, and it leaves a lot to be desired.
The only tricky bit is I have yet to code a driver for the RA8875 yet and I need one but I may cheat and create a driver that drives the other graphics library for now, since that one can talk to the RA8875, which is a weird controller and very timing sensitive (I actually had to hand modify the driver that ships with it due to timing issues between the RA8875 and the ESP32)
Real programmers use butterflies
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Intrigued. Picture of sample displays?
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I don't really have much yet, as everything I've been doing WRT to GFX has been test code, although the GFX demo does include truetype font rendering.
Bottom line is I haven't made anything pretty with it yet, but since we had to change our device to work with the display in portrait instead of landscape I have to rewrite all the graphics code. That afforded me an opportunity to upgrade our presentation to something more slick and modern, although we're moving to a slightly more expensive version of the ESP32 to support the extra fluff. GFX *can* do truetype without the extra ram, but it's slow.
Real programmers use butterflies
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