I then ate a load of chocolate undoing all my good work! But there we go....
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Ship it!Originally posted by zeitghost View PostJust unborked the chorosynth thingie.
The vibrato (oooer mrs) 555 timer had two supplies feeding it, Vdd was 15V (incorrect) and RESET was 12V (correct).
For some odd reason that really fecked things up and not in a good way.
With Vdd at 12V, all is well (or weller than it was, still problems in there).
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Another day, another ten minutes spent reading the source to identify a command line option that never made it into the README but does exactly what we need
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If it was easy everyone would be doing it! You should be pleased.Originally posted by NickFitz View PostAnother day, another ten minutes spent reading the source to identify a command line option that never made it into the README but does exactly what we need
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I suppose, but little things like setting a default value shouldn't need to be dug up. As Larry Wall said, "Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible."Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostIf it was easy everyone would be doing it! You should be pleased.
Mind you, he invented Perl
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I remember a perl interview once. I took 20 lines to do a task. They told me someone else did it in a line.Originally posted by NickFitz View PostI suppose, but little things like setting a default value shouldn't need to be dug up. As Larry Wall said, "Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible."
Mind you, he invented Perl
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Perl devs are obsessed with making code so short as to be completely incomprehensibleOriginally posted by BrilloPad View PostI remember a perl interview once. I took 20 lines to do a task. They told me someone else did it in a line.
Of course that line would be unsupportable. But there you go.
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