Just amazing. I had a need for something like this but wound up building it out in Mathesar. That, too, is an amazing project, but my business logic has to remain separate. Jeepers, you're even getting into labor accounting - well done!
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uint8_t commented on A modern 35mm film scanner for home soke.engineering/... · Posted by u/QiuChuck
Seems like an obvious question, but why not sandwich it between panes of glass?
Newton's Rings. Anti-newton glass is frosted, loses resolution.
Professional drum scanners would immerse the film in mineral oil. Epson used to ship a kit for their flatbeds. Popular with 8x10 photographers.
The film is set (but not actually entirely filmed) in my home town of Camden. It still is a bit like that here - there's a guy I see occasionally walking around in a suit with a cat lying across his shoulders. Walking past, for example, the Dublin Castle which does feel like the type of place where someone might call you a 'perfumed ponce'. Also the final scene where they sit on a bench in the Regents Park is just by the old -lion- (edit wolf!) enclosure.
"Throw yourself into the road, darling, you haven't got a chance!"
There is a scene near the end where their dealer/friend/squatter rolls an enormous, conical joint, which he calls a "Camberwell Carrot."
I'm not from the UK and have been dying to know if there's more cultural nuance to that slang than name dropping a neighborhood.
See also these internet-historical gems from everything2:
Uberman's sleep schedule - every 4 hours, sleep 20 minutes.
https://everything2.com/title/Uberman%2527s+Sleep+Schedule
Everyman sleep schedule - per above, with an additional 3-hour nap each 24 hours.
https://everything2.com/title/Everyman+Sleep+Schedule
Of course, the surest way to experiment with an alternative sleep schedule is to simply take care of a newborn, something humans have gotten pretty good at over the millennia.
uint8_t commented on 'I'm running a Mud so I can learn C programming ' (1993) raw.githubusercontent.com... · Posted by u/DyslexicAtheist
Amazing that they wrote this wonderful, detailed rant without mentioning Windows at all. VMS was certainly not the most popular OS or even most popular non-UNIX OS.
I mean, this is 1993 and they did mention DOS. But reading this, you would not know that most of those DOS machines were running Windows and that they were far, far more numerous than either UNIX or VMS. And Windows NT was already released when that was written.
Not that I am a Microsoft apologist. My main machine was OS/2 back then, I was already using Linux, and ( if I had the money ) NeXTstep would have been my dream platform.
Diku and most (all?) other MUDs were "BSD" socket-based. Windows did not even ship with a sockets layer (winsock) until 1994, with Windows NT 3.5, and it made its way to consumers with Windows 95.
Merc did allow for compiling on Mac and MS-DOS, but in this mode reads and writes to the console, without a socket implementation. No multiplayer.
See: https://github.com/alexmchale/merc-mud/blob/master/src/comm....
Hi folks! Love reading all the feedback. I originally released Morsle on April 1, 2023 as sort of a joke, but I’m glad that folks are still enjoying it.
The original idea was to make it more accessible to non-hams, which is why it has no Farnsworth spacing, visual aids, alphabetic keyboard, etc., but over time it’s become clear that really it’s just hams that are playing. So I should probably add more settings and proper training modes.
Thanks for playing!
Hee hee. But it is Farnsworthed, the default 40 WPM is quite spaced out!
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uint8_t commented on The rich history of ham radio culture thereader.mitpress.mit.ed... · Posted by u/rmason
Kind of wish they had kept the Morse code requirement for the radio license. Felt like more of a connection to the old ham requirements and history
Worth noting that the movement to drop morse code, "No-code International," was spearheaded by none other than K6BP. Bruce Perens, one of our own!
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I am curious if its use is dropping off. I heard knowing morse is no longer a requirement to get a license.
In absolute terms, probably, but some are declaring a renaissance associated with the increasing popularity in portable operation. Summits On The Air (SOTA) in particular favors lightweight transmitters. CW is such an efficient mode, in terms of speed, reach and circuit design that it is worth learning Morse for that single use case.
Personally, once I gained some proficiency with CW I realized that it is an enjoyable pursuit in and of itself, so now while not climbing mountains I stay on the low parts of the band and exchange postcards with octogenarians and I couldn't be happier.