The baud rate is just sent to the USB device, so that if you were making a real USB-serial adapter, you'd know how fast to go :)
I always assumed this.
Readit NewsYesThatTom2 commented on Setting serial baud rate on ESP-IDF does nothing atomic14.substack.com/p/t... · Posted by u/iamflimflam1
YesThatTom2 commented on Court records reveal Sig Sauer knew of pistol risks for years smokinggun.org/court-reco... · Posted by u/eoskx
> maybe I just happen to be in a sane pocket of the culture
Same in my circle too. NRA is perceived as an embezzling joke that spends more on yachts than preserving the right to keep and bear arms, and Sig is an untrustworthy joke that is allergic to taking accountability.
Sure! Now you feel that way about the NRA.
I’m talking about early 1990s until their recent fall from grace.
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My Commodore 64 had a spellchecker. It was a separate program. I had to save my file, exit my word processor program, switch floppies to the spell checker program, wait for it to load, and all I got was a list of misspelled words… no suggested corrections.
Thinking back, how the heck did they do spell checking algorithms on a 6502? That’s a bit of code I’d like to see reverse engineered!
YesThatTom2 commented on Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment probablydance.com/2025/08... · Posted by u/ibobev
The best thing we can do for the environment is to tear down old houses and build modern ones in their place.
I say that even though I live in a historic house that I’d hate to see go away.
That said, I’ve spent a fortune bringing it up to modern energy efficiency standards.
YesThatTom2 commented on ACM Transitions to Full Open Access acm.org/publications/open... · Posted by u/pcvarmint
Cancelled my membership many years ago over their refusal to support open access.
Time to resubscribe! Show your support for this change with your wallet!
YesThatTom2 commented on Can an email go 500 miles in 2025? flak.tedunangst.com/post/... · Posted by u/zdw
> there was a university president who couldn’t send an email more than 500 miles, and the wise sysadmin said that’s not possible, so the president said come to my office, and lo and behold, the emails stopped before going 500 miles.
NO. NO NO NO.
How can you get SO MANY facts wrong when the freaking story is googlable?
Here's the original email: https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
Here's the FAQ that covers the ambiguous parts: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html
This annoys me because I know the original author and I remember when this happened (he told the story a few times).
Let's recap:
> there was a university president
NO! It was the chairman of the statistics department.
> who couldn’t send an email more than 500 miles,
True. Being in the statistics department he had the tools to make actual maps.
> and the wise sysadmin said that’s not possible, so the president said come to my office
Kind of true. There was an office involved.
> and lo and behold, the emails stopped before going 500 miles.
True.
> There’s a lot to the story that’s obviously made up,
NO! Zero of this story was made up.
ALL the people that were involved in the story are still alive. You can literally get them on the phone and talk to them. We're not debating whether or not Han Solo ever used a light saber. THIS SHIT REALLY HAPPENED.
Sheesh.
YesThatTom2 commented on The Power and Beauty of Incrementalism supernuclear.substack.com... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
I wrote about this a decade ago
YesThatTom2 commented on Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable ourworldindata.org/childh... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
No offense, I don't know anyone who died of leukemia or even had it.
I think you may be experiencing a bit of the "blue car" effect. Of course everyone who went to your school knew someone who died of leukemia. They all knew the same kid.
And once you get to college, I wouldn't be surprised if you had run into a few other people who also knew people who died of leukemia.
But it was not as common an occurrence as you seem to think it was.
What you’re demonstrating is called survivor bias.
YesThatTom2 commented on A Spiral Structure in the Inner Oort Cloud iopscience.iop.org/articl... · Posted by u/gnabgib
> The spiral structure was first identified by examining the simulation in the Hayden Planetarium in preparation for a new space show that describes and visualizes the Oort cloud.
That's a pretty cool way to discover something like this. Here is the simulation animation:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TuacHdAeZ5J8wNAJvlYv435x9Oj...
The ads for Hayden Planetarium show mostly highlight that it’s narrated by Pedro Pascal.
But, yeah, the spiral thing is cool too.