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They’ve been testing since at least June. That’s when I saw the first reports that they were rolling this out to random users. I just started seeing the notice but I have friends that still don’t see it. It also does not appear when I’m logged in to an alternate account. I suspect they may be showing it to users who they’ve detected using adblockers for a while but that’s just my speculation based on my non-scientific testing.

If anyone is interested in a 4-track cassette recorder on steroids, check out the Akai MG614, which has a 6 channel mixer and a lot more I/O possibilities. They are fairly expensive on the used market but built like tanks.

Another less expensive alternative, and more similar in design and feature to the Tascam offerings, would be the Yamaha MT4X and MT8X. The latter having an 8 channel mixer. Of course these still record down to only 4 channels on the tape.

There’s also the Yamaha MD8 digital minidisc recorder with an 8 channel mixer, if you’re feeling adventurous.

So much amazing dedicated audio recording gear came out in the 90s.

I’m a big fan of the Roland VS digital multi-track recorders from the early 2000s. I used to have a Roland VS840 8-track recorder, with which I recorded some guitar and vocal songs back in around 2006. I’ve been looking at picking up another VS recorder lately, probably the 1680, 1880 or 2480. The 2480 was really cool, with VGA out and mouse control. The Roland VM7200 Video Mixer came from that era as well and shares some of the architecture.

Yamaha had a smaller competing series of digital multi-track recorders around that time. The AW4416 being the last one made, and the AW1600 before that. I know little about their usage but I am a big fan of the Yamaha O2R and DM1000/2000 digital mixers from that time period.

This era of digital recording tech really deserves a blog post or YouTube video going into the history and development. Perhaps this is a long shot but I’d love to hear from anyone that may have worked on those series of hardware products, about the dev process and the technologies involved in creating the hardware and software.

Hey, that’s the same way my company wrote a ton of code in the past.

I highly encourage folks to check out a new DAW called Blockhead. It upends a lot of typical ideas of how a DAW should work. There’s no MIDI events and no global tempo.

Everything is represented as blocks of samples on rows of timelines which are then effected by transforms placed on the rows above the rows containing samples. Edits and transform adjustments all happen in real time, and everything is continuously rendered to a scratch buffer that can also be dragged in to the project as a new block of samples.

It is truly a very creative approach and when you see it you will be wondering why nobody tried this approach before. The developer, Colugo, has a new video on YouTube showing how it’s main features work.

Oh man, FrontPage. I haven’t heard that name in 20 years. I got started learning how to make web pages in FrontPage and then branched out to editing HTML in notepad, aided with my trusty copy of HTML for Dummies.

We do this internally at my company with Qt5.15.2. We built Qt from sources for both Apple Silicon and Intel first and used those outputs in our app builds. The tl;dr is that you have to build your Apple Silicon binary with Qt for Apple Silicon, build the x64 binary with Qt for Intel, and then use the Apple "lipo" tool to stitch the two together. This can all be accomplished on an Apple Silicon Mac.

The tricky part for me was figuring out that I had to switch the shell to x86_64 to run the compiler tools for the Intel build, after running the compiler for the Apple Silicon build under an arm64 shell.

I used to read the OBS classic code base before it was replaced by OBS Studio. The original OBS was monumental when it came out. Yes, it was a Windows-only code base, with the GUI coded in straight Win32, and didn’t support the extensive array of sources that OBS Studio now does. But it opened instantly, and had the best D3D and OpenGL capture performance available. To my mind OBS Classic single-handedly boosted Twitch streaming to the stratosphere. This happened despite existing and new competition in live streaming apps (primarily Wirecast and XSplit). OBS Classic was just that good for its time. OBS Classic even enabled shared texture capture of Direct3D9 contexts, via a hack to d3d9.dll which had to be maintained for every new major Windows update that came out. OBS Studio carries the torch with a much cleaner cross-platform core library written in C, and better performance and stability, which itself is an achievement.

Since OBS Classic is now gone, I’d recommended anyone interested in programming video, audio and cross platform native apps to read through the current OBS Studio code base on GitHub.

I believe you’re referring to the HP 16C which has hex/bin/oct.

And increase drag, resulting in lower fuel economy/range.

macOS is not based on the Linux kernel, it's based on BSD.

Does Quake 3 also use a linked list for the console commands? That game even has command completion, whereby pressing tab after typing a couple of characters, the console fills in the command you most likely wanted. The console in Q3A is extremely fast IME.

I second the recommendation for Axis cameras. They have LAN only streaming options built in.

You can find older used HD resolution Axis cams fairly inexpensively on eBay. They have a lot of different chassis/lens configurations and a lot model numbers so some research might be required to find the right camera configuration for your desired use case, especially if searching through the used market for models that have been discontinued by Axis.

I don’t know what we’d do without the InstantPot. We literally have this thing going every night making veggies, beans and lentils, soups, and stews for the family. It really takes a ton of stress out of mealtimes, particularly with a toddler in the house. Even before we had a kid we were using the thing constantly, and telling all of our friends and family to buy one.

Our first Instant Pot unit had a faulty pressure release seal in the lid and so Insta replaced and shipped a brand new lid to us free of charge.

Have you compared the Sensirion SEN55 against the Plantower sensors? I ask because I’ve recently picked up both and have played around with them each individually but haven’t compared them for accuracy yet. The nice thing about the SEN55 is that it contains all of the sensors in one unit (PM1.0 to PM10.0, temperature, Relative Humidity, NOX and VOC).

They do cost a little bit more than the Plantower units, about $30-40USD. For anyone looking at the Sensirion sensors, be aware that the SEN5x products span a range, and only the SEN55 has all of the above sensors in one unit. I’ve found the Sensirion software to be pretty nice to work with. I was able to port their embedded i2c example repo to ESP32 with little trouble.

SDI->Thunderbolt “converters” are capture cards, they just use TB as the physical connector. Also, not all capture cards have the same feature set. Some of these cards have SDI capture and/or output, sometimes simultaneously and some with up to 8 SDI IO connectors. Some cards also do HDMI capture and/or output of the same or different feeds as the SDI signal(s).

The landscape of capture cards (not just SDI) is pretty diverse. It all depends on the kind of workflow you’re dealing with. Live productions in particular will often demand many connections, to be able to capture multiple camera angles, as well as to output to confidence monitors and/or backup recording devices, frame syncs, switchers, SDI routers and more.

AJA makes a couple of Thunderbolt 3 external SDI capture/output devices with 4x bidirectional SDI I/Os. If you want more than that you need multiple devices or a PCIe card. AJA and Blackmagic both make 8x SDI cards, as do a couple other vendors.

Memories of seeing my Dad’s boxed copy of “Doctor DOS” sitting on the bookshelf next to his 286 PC are forever burned into my brain. Using DR DOS and XTree on that computer was my first taste of PC usage. Prior to that I’d only been allowed to use the family Atari 800. Years later, when Wolf3D hit the scene, I finally managed to convince him to let me upgrade it to MS-DOS 6, install a VGA card, and upgrade to 4MB of RAM.

Gentoo was the second Linux distro I tried, after Slackware, around 2005 or so. I too feel like playing with Gentoo taught me a lot about Linux, computers and how software is built, and set me up for a successful career in tech. I often get a twinkle in my eye thinking back to getting Gentoo up and running, compiling my kernel and booting into Fluxbox for the first time.

My manager and I have been doing some pair programming in VSCode’s “multiplayer” mode (can’t remember what it’s called). The implementation is pretty well done.

IBM released a typeface a couple of years ago with much marketing fan fare:

https://www.ibm.com/plex/ https://github.com/IBM/plex

On another note, are there any notable examples of AI-generated mono-spaced programmer fonts?

I’m in Nevada City, CA (~2.5hr northeast of SF) and saw the notification maybe 3-5 seconds prior. Everyone in my workplace stepped out of their offices and said they all saw the notification before the building started shaking.

I spent an hour looking through the GitHub repo for the Tamagotchi core and disassembler. That you accomplished all this in just seven months is very impressive, for someone like me just starting out learning Verilog on Xilinx FPGA in Vivado.

I’ve managed to make the 4 LEDs on my Digilent Arty board ping-pong back and forth like the power indicator on the Nintendo Switch Joy-Con controllers, debounce the buttons and switches and set up clock division to produce different frequencies from the hardware clock. That’s taken me a handful of days in my spare time.

I work for a company who for a very long time was strongly opposed to employees using any cloud-based infrastructure, including OS or programming language package managers (eg. apt-get, Pip for Python, etc), opting to host their own instance if possible and disallowing usage if not possible. IT did finally cave and switch to Office365, which has been slowly opening the floodgates to other services being allowed.

I first programmed a computer in high school Computer Programming 1 class, in Turbo Pascal, running on a 486. But then I stopped programming for many years until I was around 35. I took up the pursuit in earnest and landed a QA engineering job at a hardware company which turned into a software engineering position. I’m doing a majority of Programming in C and C++ currently, as well as Python for writing test scripts.

Is there anything special about the camera focusing tech required to capture that image of Deimos? It looks extremely well focused.

The Sensirion SEN5x series is very nice to work with. I’m using the SEN55 in my own air quality monitor project. It measures Humidity, NOx, Particulate Matter, Temperature, and VOC. I’m interfacing this with a LilyGo ESP32 T-Display-S3.

Just today I used ChatGPT to turn our existing batch scripts into PowerShell, and convert the existing environment variables into command line options. Worked flawlessly and saved a ton of time.

Vehicles in production for mass market consumption.

Now the Meat-a-verse is something I could get behind.