olskool | 7 years ago | on: Modifying the Python object model
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olskool | 7 years ago | on: Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues (2015)
This is truly a favorite of mine.
olskool | 7 years ago | on: Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
So did they actually fix anything? On 16.04 on my HP EliteBook the sound fucking dies every single time I do a resume. Not to mention the random times the terminal stops printing characters.
olskool | 7 years ago | on: A giant 360 LED clock
Beautiful!
I had not heard about this kind of addressable LEDs but now I'm inspired to think of my own projects.
olskool | 7 years ago | on: The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines (1995)
Best blinking light machine I ever saw was the Nanodata QM-1. More than a thousand LEDs. It had a program called 'tsq' which was short for 'Times Square' which would display a scrolling message.
olskool | 7 years ago | on: A home-made lithographically-fabricated integrated circuit
If he could get feature size down to 10 microns someone might have a shot at making a microprocessor.
olskool | 7 years ago | on: Python Assignment Expressions (PEP 572)
A use case not mentioned:
print (x := <something>)
olskool | 7 years ago | on: Displaying Weather on a 32x16 LED Matrix
By "west coast" OP probably means CA. Despite popular belief there are other states on the west coast of North America. The weather in OR, WA and AK is much more variable.
olskool | 8 years ago | on: Police extracted fingerprints from WhatsApp photos to convict drug dealers
Opens the possibility of framing someone by Photoshopping their fingerprint into a photo.
olskool | 8 years ago | on: Why doesn’t the IRS send me a tax bill based on the info they already have?
The tax preparation companies such as H&R Block and Intuit spend a lot of money lobbying Congress to keep this from happening.
olskool | 8 years ago | on: Qt for Python is coming to a computer near you
I was using PyQT with good success at a major aerospace company a dozen years ago. Is this post promising some major improvement or just a rebranding?
olskool | 8 years ago | on: Ryzen Boards Reign at Embedded World 2018
The original IBM PC used an Intel 8088 FWIW.
olskool | 8 years ago | on: The “Oh-My-God Particle”
Interested to know what the kinetic energy of a near Planck particle would be.
olskool | 8 years ago | on: What Made Lisp Different (2002)
LISP - Lots of Irritating Silly Parenthesis
olskool | 8 years ago | on: Guide to Take-home Coding Challenges
Agree
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Is a feature not a bug. It makes things like NumPy, SciPy and Pandas possible.