jacqueline

jacqueline, 10 months ago to random

spent all afternoon dealing with what i thought was a qfn soldering issue, it was actually a short to ground elsewhere, broke a connector and pulled up a trace when trying to debug that.

i scream.

ve7fim, 10 months ago to random

Guess what this little bastard does:

jacqueline, 10 months ago to random

why do places like the firefox start page do some kind of weird visit-count-based algorithm for what to show, when we know that LRU caches are usually the best for this sort of application?

whitequark, 10 months ago to random

will everyone on fediverse love this or hate this? nobody knows https://mastodon.social/@Iris@scholar.social/110720634075166858

jacqueline, 10 months ago to random

i made a speaker amp

the back of the box. it has an iec power connector, two speaker outputs, and three rca inputs
the inside of the box. it’s primarily an enormous toroidal transformer, and a huge spaghetti mess of wires
the box in a tv cabinet. the led is on and it a wonderful Audio Blue

jacqueline, 10 months ago to random

weekend project time

the back panel of the enclosure. it has a fused and switched iec connector, and rca ports
the inside. there’s a huge toroidal transformer, a power supply pcb, a volume adjustment pcb, and two power amplifiers

jacqueline, 10 months ago to random

i think that javascript does not count as programming. html and css both do count though

scy, 10 months ago to random

So I recently learned about the family of algorithms called reservoir sampling

and it made me look up whether the bulge at the tip of condoms is called a reservoir only in German or in English, too (it’s the latter)

I mean, maybe it’s just me, but I would’ve named the algorithm differently. Something that doesn’t invoke images of sommeliers and wine sampling maybe?!

jacqueline, 10 months ago to random

it's not as glamourous as ui, but i wrote something cool today.

it's a shuffler. for shuffling your songs.

it can shuffle playlists of arbitrary size, without repeats, using a relatively small + fixed amount of memory

irenes, 10 months ago to random

we're writing the code style guide for work (as a way of letting out frustration about, you know, code)

and we really need to work hard on not actually letting the feelings show up in the document, and just letting it be to-the-point advice. it is surprisingly hard to do that.

mntmn, 10 months ago to random

upgraded my personal/daily driver laptop MNT Reform to A311D processor and can keep my installed system and data, just everything is faster now

jacqueline, 10 months ago to random

if they made pacific rim today they’d have to call the robot ‘twink’ bc of gender left wing

gsuberland, 10 months ago to random

a weird aspect of Microsoft making certain common desktop utility apps (e.g. Calculator) open source is that every so often I remember I had a PR accepted on that repo and now my code is running on a billion computers.

horrifying.

jacqueline, 10 months ago to random

i think the problem with the really fancy modern ‘dumb’ phones is that they try to strip down features to the bare minimum of what a phone is, without considering that that’s changed since 1998.

if you don’t live in the US you don’t care about sms. i don’t even care about calls. what i care about is being able to get a map or work out when my bus is

jacqueline, 10 months ago to random

jrr tolkien would've loved wikis

jacqueline, 10 months ago to random

there should be a linux phone vendor that isn’t sketchy. that would be cool.

ve7fim, 1 year ago to random

Day 95 of #PCBs - Yet another spacer board. My PCB fab must hate me for these.