Francois Dion [email protected]

Sons Maisons, percussions, electrons & automatons is available to buy digital, on CD, and in very limited edition on cassette, either type I (normal, ferric) or type II (chrome) thanks to my stash of NOS sealed #cassette #tape blanks. francoisdion.bandcamp.com/releases

@derive_io Another option is to have a ZFS backed storage, with transparent compression.

I keep most of my data files in a compressed `.gz` format. Did you know that you can use the `zcat` command to view the content of a zipped file? Like this: `zcat filename.csv.gz | head -n 10`

@IgniteMindz Basically the query returns a DataFrame, so anything you can do to a DataFrame will work. Chaining transformations is a nice way to build pipelines with pandas

@f_dion Oh nice hadn’t tried head with df query

Anybody know if I can df query in pandas and have the output only show me a few rows instead of everything?

@HillairetJulien C’est ce que je pensais, j’espérais avoir manqué un choix quelque part!

@HillairetJulien avec scikit-rf, est-ce possible de faire des smith charts en contour (lignes iso avec gains et échelle de couleurs pour chaque aires).

@jonnosan303 @Scobleizer @roydanroy @stevewoz We all converted to hex by hand back then. I couldn't afford an assembler anyway at 9 years old.

Yesterday I met the fourth employee at SpaceX. Hans Koenigsmann. I asked him how they did the code that lands rockets back on earth so they can be reused. “Oh, one person wrote that.” What? Yeah, it’s better for a single human, he told me, to write it because one person could keep the whole system in their head. Get more people involved and it gets confusing, he told me. He admitted other people were involved, but most of it was done by one person. Reminds me of @stevewoz who was the last human to have an entire computer in his head. So, why can’t Lockheed or Boeing figure this out? The committee can’t decide who is smart enough to do the code. :-)

I just put up on soundcloud a #cassette of #computermusic I composed and performed on the Apple //e back in 1985 #electronicmusic #computing #RetroComputing #music #soundcloud soundcloud.com/francois_dion/…

@jamiesloc Nope, nothing that fits the bill

@f_dion Did you ever find a good solution to this? No-Code solution to ag-grid populated with data from python?

Past few weeks i’ve been searching for a nocode web based database table grid editor. Basically, a spreadsheet like interface, but with validation, dropdowns, checkboxes for boolean, date picker etc. Edits reflect back to db. So far nothing that works. So going with lowcode next.

@acqmacintosh If it is latex, krud cutter will take care of that. If it is acrylic... I don't know what would be safe to use

91% isopropyl isn't helping!! What do I do!?

@Distantanimals @GoodeKnyghte In my case, the opposite. Just good memories with tape. Probably because I was fortunate as a kid in the 80s to find some really good units in yard sales: Superscope pmd200, Sansui sc2000, Lenco C2003 (!) etc. I recorded so many mixtapes, and experiments. I'll check your label.

Looking for a circuit diagram or service manual for a univox MR-8 micro rhythmer pedal drum machine, if anybody has a lead? @f_dion/109849350856820254" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.online/@f_dion/109849…

ZX Spectrum Bubble Bobble source code safely archived from Mike Follin's original development discs. I'm not sure if this is the final version of the game, but it does seem fairly complete. The game was developed on a Tatung Einstein and deployed to as Spectrum via a serial link.

@CandyAnalog Feel free to get in touch, I do buy a lot of equipment locally (charlotte-winston-greensboro)

Anybody remembers crazy cuts or rock it? #turntablism #hiphop #electronica #vinyl #record #turntable @f_dion/109769948001696847" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.online/@f_dion/109769…

@BoBeatsMusic Telharmonium mark III Of course you’ll need a time machine 🤣

any synth you would like to see a bobeats review of? Could be brand new, could be older

@DosFox1 That's an order of magnitude too cheap.

Apparently I have a knack of finding Roland equipment for cheap. This D110 I just picked up for *£10*

@mrJamesurquhart what is a good way to contact you? Left some info through contact form on midi madness… i think your email service for the site is not working

@randyzwitch worldwidestereo.com/products/q-aco… I remember visiting world wide stereo years ago, maybe close enough from where you live? Target is supposed to have those too. Quite small. If you have space for much bigger speakers, check the local vintage / used audio shops.

@f_dion no, plain wired

Philly people: is there any place except Best Buy I can walk into a store and buy bookshelf speakers? Don’t want anything special, just something wired for my workshop