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Getting a Count of Occurrences of Items in a Ruby Array (and a Caveat for Rails)
I feel like I’m often wanting to count occurrences of items in an array (Rails has its own special case as well), and I’m always trying to do it the “long way.” I finally stumbled upon this answer on StackOverflow that details the version-by-version options: Ruby 2.7+ use .tally directly on the array: Ruby 2.4+…
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8563 Chip: Plotting Characters to the Commodore 128’s 80-column Mode
Source Code for this 8563 Demonstration You can find the below source code at https://github.com/stringsn88keys/unnecessary-computer-things/blob/main/episodes/2021/001/commodore-128/CHASXYCOSINE.BAS and watch here for demonstration of the run time vs. the TRS-80 Model 16 emulator (a computer for which I never realized had a graphics mode when I had access to one). The BASIC and disassembly is also available on…
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Microphone Crackle and Distortion on Windows 10 with New ASUS Motherboard
I’ve had to remedy microphone crackle and distortion twice on two different builds/rebuilds of Windows 10 PCs, and somehow forgot from the last time how to remedy. In my case, the problem was the onboard sound for the ASUS Motherboard (ASUS ROG Strix B550-E and ASUS ROG Strix B550-A motherboards.) The solution is to get…