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bwigfieldon Converting a fisheye image into a panoramic, spherical or perspective projection

I just got stable-diffusion running and thought the title of this would make an amusing prompt.

bwigfieldon Reading your DVDs the RAW way (2007)

RIP RAW

bwigfieldon The Backbone of VHF Amateur Radio May Be Under Threat

I think I'm going to disagree with that. Because I had to take the test in person I meet the guys in the local club. Their personal invite to club meeting and lent gear got me on the air quickly. If I just took the test online I would probably have just put my license up on the wall and moved onto something else.

73's KC3SOL

bwigfieldon Cypherpunks Tapping Bitcoin via Ham Radio

Absolutely. Its a blast and a great way to meet other technical minded folk or aren't necessarily the same you'd run into just doing programming type stuff.

bwigfieldon 9M American men in prime working age can’t find jobs. I’m one of them

I grew up in a similar situation and thus gained the same sort of skills. However the area I grew up in is pretty depressed (Cumberland, MD for thoses who care https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-14/in-trump-...). What I'm seeing is that now we are at a point where so many people do things themselves that the service industry is also struggling. Contractors are no longer doing good business in the area as there has been a race to the bottom. If people don't fix it themselves most turn to a low cost do-it-all 'handy man'. Because everyone is trying to save a buck money doesn't really move around much and we're in a downward spiral.

bwigfieldon Show HN: A Multiplayer Geography Game Using WebSockets

Did anyone else see this and want to cheat?

http://imgur.com/a/l4n85

Method:

- grab cites.db from repo and dump cities to file with sqlite

- use perl to convert data to json

- use dev console to import cities object

- one quick js function to get called when websockets gives us a 'new_turn' message that sends a 'answer' message with data from our lookup table

I know I cheated, but for me this was super fun. (I never make it to the top of a score board in videos games without some sort of hackery involved).

bwigfieldon Ask HN: What are the latest and greatest books on your favorite language?

Modern Perl - http://modernperlbooks.com/

bwigfieldon Interview: Larry Wall

http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/1757/updated-visualizing-p...

This have gotten much better and perl 5 has great momentum these days. There was sort of a changing of the guard as a lot of the old guys moved on to perl6 or other things. However nowadays there is lots of fresh blood moving the project alone real nice like.