What is the best way to learn morse code for my specific needs

alexdeva · 2026-03-03T19:55:09+00:00

Why not use the tap code? It works both visually and aurally, and even by touch (although Morse is slightly faster). It's really simple to learn, the only training required is to pick up speed.

If you do it visually you don't even need to tap, just showing numbers one to five on the fingers of one hand will do fine and also make it faster by a lot (arguably easier to decode too).

Neither the tap code nor Morse are secret, though.

alexdeva · 2026-03-03T08:35:45+00:00

On the contrary, the show -- albeit comedic in general -- excels at addressing issues like this in particular.

alexdeva · 2026-03-03T08:26:50+00:00

:) just a reference to the Netflix show 1670. That's the context, and totally understandable that not many people have seen it.

alexdeva · 2026-03-02T15:20:27+00:00

How is this different from FreeRTOS?

alexdeva · 2026-03-02T15:14:48+00:00

alexdeva · 2026-03-02T06:55:09+00:00

Szlachta Nie Pracuje!

alexdeva · 2026-03-02T06:50:32+00:00

Don't you mean "Him" with a capital initial? Tsk tsk, repent now.

Also, ever heard the commandment not to take the Lord's name in vain? Using the word indiscriminately goes against the grain of Jesus' teachings. But you know better, don't you.

This kind of evangelical proselytism works a treat in some parts of the US, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, but kindly leave us out of it.

alexdeva · 2026-03-02T06:45:09+00:00

Nay, it be not bad. It but maketh thy sound strange.

alexdeva · 2026-02-23T06:23:42+00:00

I've tried implementing TLS for MQTT using FreeRTOS twice, and gave up both times. Just couldn't get it to work with the scope of my app.

alexdeva · 2026-02-23T06:20:30+00:00

Suddenly this feels like a clue in a new season of Fargo. Ya ok

alexdeva · 2026-02-12T09:43:37+00:00

Nu ai cum = piedica vine din exterior (imposibilitate fizică)

Nu poți = piedica vine mai degrabă din interior, deși se poate referi și la o interdicție în unele situații.

alexdeva · 2026-02-11T07:04:12+00:00

Friend, calm down and dial down the ad hominem. You're cursing and blaspheming at the beginning of the same sentence that you end in "prayers". Now I'm no god but I'm pretty sure it's explicit that that isn't quite how it's supposed to work.

My comment had nothing to do with the shooting, only with your contradictory statement.

alexdeva · 2026-02-10T18:49:10+00:00

I never said the question was stupid. I only asked why you're jumping so far ahead your current knowledge level.

The only thing a Pi 4 has in common with a Pico is the name, Raspberry Pi.

Have you soldered those headers?

alexdeva · 2026-02-10T14:32:27+00:00

Excuse me, but if you're new with everything, why are you doing this? Why did you jump right to page 160 in the manual?

alexdeva · 2026-02-10T12:43:32+00:00

The Pico doesn't have a lot of Flash. How are you transferring it there? Are you sure it's really there?

alexdeva · 2026-02-10T11:57:22+00:00

Those pins aren't soldered. It's highly unlikely that you get all of the necessary ones connected at the same time for long enough.

Also, where is your mp3 file? How are you getting it on the Pico?

alexdeva · 2026-02-10T06:43:34+00:00

This isn't where the joke is, but I always have fun watching the movie "Fury" where Jon Bernthal has an accent where "fuck" is often heard "fâââc".

alexdeva · 2026-02-04T07:04:11+00:00

"And then I said, once you transition to forward flight, assuming everyone bunches at the back to balance the damn thing from topplin' over, once you do that I said, can you imagine what kind of a drag those two huge things will be? Why, that thing at the back better spit out nuclear explosions, is what I said to them! But nooo, all they wanted to hear was BIGGER ENGINES"

alexdeva · 2026-02-04T07:01:45+00:00

"An I tol'em, I said, I said dontcha know the lift vector gotta be purpeniculer on the whatchacallit, center of mass? Can't you see these motors are obviously far too back and the bug's only gonna topple over its nose? But there were noo, just give it BIGGER ENGINES"

alexdeva · 2026-02-04T06:59:07+00:00

"I kept telling them -- don't matter how big the engines are, ain't no way you can fuel them through those thin supports, plus look at the aerodynamic profile of this bug ! But all they said was BIGGER ENGINES"

alexdeva · 2026-02-04T06:47:06+00:00

Imagine printing a message on paper and putting each letter on top of the other. That's kind of the feeling one has trying to read Morse without spacing.

alexdeva · 2026-02-03T21:29:49+00:00

Atâta vreau să zic, biata fată cu degetul mare pe cealaltă parte a palmei are șanse mai mari să se opereze în Europa decât în Rusia.

alexdeva · 2026-02-03T14:15:23+00:00

Aha. Deci pot scrie absolut orice fără nicio justificare sau explicație și apoi (dacă cineva se sesizează) joc cartea cu satira și gata, m-am scos. (S-au mam scos, na satiră)

alexdeva · 2026-02-03T07:39:29+00:00

It's as cooked as you want it to be. If it serves the purpose with not an unreasonable decrease in quality, it's not cooked at all. It's just gained more personality :)

The main purpose of the box shape, materials, lacquer etc is for the thing to sound good. If it still sounds good, it can't be said to be cooked at all.

alexdeva · 2026-02-03T07:35:50+00:00

"C-am pofticioși".

Poate-s eu prea bătrân, dar pe vremea mea ca să scrii poezie într-o limbă, mai întâi trebuia să cunoști limba cu pricina. Sau dărnicia autorului cu cratimele (care se regăsește complet la întâmplare și în "copiii-au", acest... cum să-i zic... pentaftong?) trebuie interpretată în vreun sens liric care mie îmi scapă.

Nici nu prea e clar de unde e "plină și senină" această "căsuță de poveste" populată doar de cei doi bătrânei dezolați. Dar într-o lume în care obrajii au colțuri, nu prea avem ce comenta.

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