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retroencabulato··on FPGA and Xeon combined in one socket
A good time to know Verilog.
retroencabulato··on New scientific markup language
That was hard to read.
retroencabulato··on New York’s Single Test for High School Defined My Life
No one. Ever.
retroencabulato··on Share: The Icon No One Agrees On
Agreed. I always mess up the android text actions.
retroencabulato··on Cross-platform Rust Rewrite of the GNU Coreutils
Or, say, C?
retroencabulato··on Cross-platform Rust Rewrite of the GNU Coreutils
Simply comparing the two based on GC is very superficial.
retroencabulato··on Python, Pitch Shifting, and the Pianoputer
Rate conversion in the time domain is fine, but the "proper" way would smooth the lower pitch tones with a low pass filter, not simply zero-order hold.

Furthermore, the "proper" way would pass the sound through an anti-alaising filter before creating a higher pitch tone. However, at 48kHz (as in the post), this isn't really an issue for audio.

retroencabulato··on Skybox Imaging + Google
Because they are more concerned with satellites.
retroencabulato··on I hate stacked area charts (2011)
Print still exists, you know.
retroencabulato··on Trashing Chromebooks
I suspect the latest smartphone SoCs would be as powerful as a Chromebook.
retroencabulato··on Tailspotting: Identifying and profiting from CEO vacation trips
That would require broadcasting in restricted bands.
retroencabulato··on Tessel: A microcontroller that runs JavaScript
I really don't see how that homepage example is any simpler than Arduino.

http://playground.arduino.cc/ComponentLib/Servo

retroencabulato··on Arista, Uber, Silicon Valley
Microsoft buys their gear..?
retroencabulato··on [dead]
I fail to see a good reason to request an invite to this service.

Sell it to me.

retroencabulato··on Experiment: Eliminating Toast Sweat
Can't you just use an rack?
retroencabulato··on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 makes it clear: we need to rethink black boxes
Actually there is a large body of people looking to use cubesats as ADS-B receivers: http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~bklofas/Presentations/SummerWor... (PDF Warning)
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