Arnold's Laws of Documentation: (1) If it should exist, it doesn't. (2) If it does exist, it's out of date. (3) Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws.
TFW you worked on a patch for days, went through multiple rounds of reviews, made all the required changes and finally sent the last revision... Then it just stuck in limbo: no more feedback that asks for new changes, but nobody applies it to the tree either. ...happens on all kinds of projects. Just be patient, move on to something else, someone may notice and pick up your patch after two months. :blobcatsleep:
@alexandra@Jaqueek Subpixel antialiasing and font hinting can have its own book (books?) too. To do that, TrueType uses a virtual machine and embeds bytecode in fonts.
#TIL TI MSP430 CPU's instruction set is basically "what if we redesign the PDP-11, but more RISC-like."
Wow, I spent a month on PDP-11 assembly this year, who knows it has practical applications?! Shut up and take my money? #electronics#retrocomputing#PDP11#MSP430
Just found a good way to photograph and reverse engineer small PCBs - a copy stand. Image quality has dramatically improved compared to the previous attempt. Recent smartphones should also work with a mount adapter if you don't have a camera. #electronics
The result from the flatbed scanner looks good but the focus and resolution are still not good enough for reverse engineering. I need to try again with a camera. #electronics
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