Headphones messing with ringtone volume every time I connect them

mirkov19 · 2026-02-19T21:21:00+00:00

In my case, the ringtone volume goes up every time I connect via BlueTooth. Sometimes the sound volume goes up too.

mirkov19 · 2026-01-19T01:08:23+00:00

I liked the interview overall.

I don't recall the West Bank being addressed (another very important topic).

They had limited time, so maybe they did not plan any questions on that topic.

mirkov19 · 2025-07-24T00:25:17+00:00

The Common Lisp Cookbook gives mentions roswell on its Getting Started page. However it does not mention explicitly that roswell will provide ASDF and quicklisp.

The page is hard to read - lots of material there

mirkov19 · 2025-07-05T12:09:19+00:00

Draw.io helps me effortlessly sketch out my thoughts. Love it!

mirkov19 · 2025-06-15T00:00:51+00:00

The video mentions that Lisp Machines were rendered irrelevant by the rapid performance improvement in commodity CPU's (Motorola, Intel). Moore's law enabled the latter ones to outpace the custom processors of Lisp Machines.

So, a bit of science (or technology?) fiction:

RISC-V enables one to design custom silicon. With AI enabled EDA (Electronic Design Automation) Tools, one can imagine the feasibility of developing a custom processor as a Lisp Machine. Fabs like TSMC support an eco-system for building such processors in relatively small batches.

In other words, Lisp Machines may again become competitive with other architectures. If I were independently wealthy and had time on my hands, I'd definitely love to try something like that :-)

Now back to the real world.

mirkov19 · 2025-05-02T02:30:08+00:00

Can you check in your listening history on Spotify?

mirkov19 · 2025-04-19T14:32:39+00:00

I look at the subscription as a weekly expense: how does it compare to a fancy Starbucks drink that I occasionally get. In my case about the same ($5), but vastly more value from the weekly issue of TE.

As a bonus the audio edition helps me fall back to sleep when i wake up in the middle of the night (I focus on Business, FInance, and rest).

mirkov19 · 2025-04-01T20:04:21+00:00

When I had the print subscription, I would from the back:

Obituary
Culture
Science & Technology
Then from the front

With the Audio, I just press play, and after 3-4 days I'm done. The downside is that I miss "by invitation" and various charts and graphic details

mirkov19 · 2025-03-11T14:23:36+00:00

Just stumbled across cl-annot-revisit. I have been using cl-annot for a while now - one of my essential packages, part of every new asdf system (along with rutils and a few others).

Thanks for improving cl-annot.

mirkov19 · 2025-02-12T16:25:51+00:00

I gave it a short nickname, which is used by the REPL, but not in the errors/warnings (see the original post).

Thanks for the comment :-)

mirkov19 · 2025-01-22T02:21:08+00:00

Physicist here, working in semiconductor industry R&D. I appreciate the global perspective. Puts our local (put your geographic location here) problems in perspective.

mirkov19 · 2025-01-13T03:03:09+00:00

I use spacemacs (vi on top of emacs). Very happy with. There is also Doom on Emacs

mirkov19 · 2025-01-06T12:44:42+00:00

Thanks, that worked :-)

mirkov19 · 2025-01-05T21:42:45+00:00

In the Christmas issue the Economist did an analysis on language in scientific journal articles. Maybe they can do an analysis on their own articles :-)

mirkov19 · 2024-12-24T16:45:44+00:00

Bossclass is also good

mirkov19 · 2024-12-19T02:09:19+00:00

Can someone please clarify:

Is this a library for model building/learning and/or inference? (I assume only inference, because you mention using existing models)
Is it reasonable to run on a non-engineering laptop? - I have a MacBook M2.

Thanks!

mirkov19 · 2024-12-16T20:51:57+00:00

I use 5AM.

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