- A complementary resource for learning about tube amps is the YouTube channel Fazio Electric. Colleen Fazio does a nice job of repairing old amps and explaining various aspects of their construction, history, and significance. Plus she has a very calming voice and is probably one of the loveliest amp repair technicians out there.
- I found a couple fun ones near the ones you posted:
https://radio.garden/visit/ris-orangis/QP41kyYR Volubilis Radio, Ris-Orangis France
seems to play some later 60ish stuff
groovy theme, trombone solo
string section, horn section, rock instruments, sitar, harpsichord, quite a setup!
no vocals so far on the last couple of tracks, spy movie theme song stuff
https://radio.garden/visit/yamoussoukro/2hK0VL6B Radio MEDIA+CI Yamoussoukro 90.2 FM Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire
african rhythms, african and french lyrics, mellower than some of the dance beat stations
nice guitars and vocals
lots of fun bouncing around all of the neighboring stations!
- It was not obvious to me that I needed to click the New button first. I clicked around everywhere else and tried typing and no go. Then after clicking New and getting a text area, it made sense and I said "well of course".
So maybe not too many other people had this problem, but perhaps the top line could say "Click New, then just write." =)
And/or start the page off with a note that describes the basic process:
"click new, write, and click Publish to finish the note, then click Save to save it to index.html on your system"
When I went back to edit a note, Publish didn't work for me.
Trying this in Vivaldi, I didn't try on another browser yet.
- It would be helpful to have some examples that show the prompts needed to develop simple shapes, then how to iterate to add improvements. A video of you using it to create something specific would be great.
I first tried "a work table with a roof" which gave me a reasonable model but with a flat roof, then I tried "a work table with a pitched roof" which gave me a very unlikely and unworkable model with the halves of the roof disconnected and not contacting the vertical supports. Then I tried the "Adam Pro" option and it came out looking more like an Adirondack chair than a table, but not one you could sit in! =)
I would like to know what to write instead to get a more useful model. Very cool project though!
- I thought this might be about the saying I've heard a bunch recently, "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast."
I've mostly heard it in the context of building and construction videos where they are approaching a new skill or technique and have to remind themselves to slow down.
Going slowly and being careful leads to fewer mistakes, which will be a "smoother" process and ends up taking less time, whereas going too fast and making mistakes means work has to be redone and ultimately takes longer.
On rereading it, I see some parallels: When one is trying to go too fast, and is possibly becoming impatient with their progress, their mental queue fills up and processing suffers. If one accepts a slower pace, one's natural single-tasking capability will work better, and they will make better progress as a result.
And maybe its just my selection bias working hard to confirm that he actually is talking about what I want him to say!
- He says something similar at the end of the article:
"These four verbs aren’t a productivity system or a self-help formula. Some days I forget one. Other days, one takes over. But when I return to them, they gently reorient me."
You may be overreacting with words like "machine" and "tyranny" to an idea simply suggested as a useful and helpful goal.
- I love the idea of it, but I would get bothered working with such a tiny screen. I understand that bigger screens lead to more things going on and greater distractions, but I want to see my writing with some structure, paragraphs, margins, indentation. Some of those tiny screens with their tiny text, it looks comparable to typing through a keyhole! But I would still love to try one.
- Ha, funny! I did something very similar when we moved from old NEC APCs with 8" floppies to brand new IBM PC XTs and ATs! The consultants wanted something like $200 per disk to convert them. I was able to rig up a serial cable and a tiny Turbo Pascal program to send files from one machine to another. A couple cheap cable ends from Radio Shack and some spare phone wire from the basement was all it needed!
The serial printer port trick is very clever too. I don't think my transfer was as fast as 9600. Good job!
- My first few programming jobs were in dBASE, the last of which saw the use of dBASE go on for 15 years or so. It was a weird language but still capable of quite a lot. I learned some assembly language with the help of Peter Norton and had a few neat little addons for my dBASE code.
I tried to transition my company to Borland dBASE 5 when it came out but there was too much to try to upgrade all at once. I was really excited about a lot of the language improvements, and the fact that it was now coming from a real language company, but it was too much too late. A few years later my company moved to different software altogether and dBASE was just a (mostly) fond memory.
My most productive use of it was with the Topaz library for Turbo Pascal from Software Science. They provided a much more powerful UI capability than one could get from "@ 1,1 say ..." with drop down lists and moveable windows etc. It was still all character mode DOS stuff, but we had the whole menagerie running in Windows for Workgroups for a good while. Those were fun days.
- I would call it "an easy way to create a very full featured README" because it's not easier than just loading a snippet or template in ones text editor, but it does offer a very easy way to add specific sections and to customize them.
The "Get Started" button goes right to the editor with three panes: list of sections to include, plain text editor for the current section, and rendered preview. There's no sign up, and the results can be downloaded directly. Very nicely done little app.
I felt the default sections were missing something, so I easily created this:
There, perfect!## Dad Jokes - Q: did you hear about the two antennae who met on a roof top and fell in love? - A: well the wedding was okay, but the reception was Great! - Wow, such beautiful work! Imaginative designs and great expressions! The frogs and tadpoles have their own character, and other animals as well.
I'm surprised I haven't heard of this guy before. I'm a big fan of Alphonse Mucha and Art Nouveau in general, but not deeply studied.
Thank you for posting this!
- I love this! The hardware and the presentation are very nicely done.
To do a similar job though, I run NirSoft PingInfoView which allows you to put in a list of hosts and shows an ongoing display of who is responding or not and all kinds of stats about the connection. (Windows only)
- The article says the 17-point star is on a monument to Gauss in his home town of Brunswick Germany, not on his headstone.
An image search for "gauss monument brunswick germany" on Duck Duck Go includes a picture of the 17-point star at this link:
https://www.braunschweig.de/leben/stadtportraet/stadtteile/n...
I can't go to it to confirm because we are blocked from going to foreign links at my work place. It looks like the star is on the left side of the monument near his right foot.
- I've come to the point of accepting that I will always take notes in multiple formats. Syncing is "achieved" by writing things down in different places enough times that I just eventually remember what I want to do.
I also tend to put different kinds of tasks on different types of lists.
I make little pocket clipboards out of a piece of cedar shingle and a folded-in-half 4x6 brown index card, held together with a mini binder clip. This gives 4 different panels to write on. One of these clipboards is my primary grocery and hardware and other shopping list, which gets the occasional song/band name or funny idea written on it. Another of these lists is for my house and yard projects, using a somewhat bullet-journal like tracking system.
I have a 6x9 wirebound notebook at home that serves as my "daily plan" receptacle for work related tasks (I wfh 3 days a week). I take pictures of these pages if there are any tasks or info I need to refer to at the office. Then when at the office, I have piles of scrap paper that came from mistaken print jobs that I write meeting notes on. Also stickies inevitably get onto both of those. I also have a 4x6 wireboound notebook that fits well in a pocket that I bring when going to other people's work stations to write down the support items that didn't get into the ticket.
Anything that ends up as a project that I will put more time into will get notes written about it in Obsidian, and sometimes still OneNote, and also in the notes text file and comments in the source code of my development projects. I agree that the simple text file is the easiest way to record things on the computer.
As much as I've tried to consolidate these things into one system again and again, my current approach follows the ideas of TFA by just reducing the friction to get something written down somewhere, and if its important enough, in a number of places.
Writing on paper is faster than typing on a phone for me, but not as fast as typing on a PC. But getting to a pen and a blank part of a page is often faster than getting the right note-taking app in focus, so I still tend to mostly do that. Checking something off is also usually more rewarding on paper than on the PC.
And on my grocery lists, I check things off as I put them in the cart, AND cross everything off when done at the store, so that is a double-completion which is extra satisfying!
- One of my favorite todo lists to create:
Well, now that I wrote things down, I can cross that off. And now that I crossed something off, I can cross that one off too.write things down cross things offA fully achieved list! Success!!
Truthfully, I've been doing forms of this more recently, writing things down that I know I can accomplish, and checking them off. It gives me a good motivation boost. Especially very simple first steps for a project, it helps me get started and then once I get over that hump I can keep going without the list. Then it's very rewarding to come back and check all kinds of things off!
I clicked because it had an interesting design and thought it would be metal! XD
But its a Russian men's singing group and they're very good.