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Voice recognition – we’re not quite there yet

r3dux — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:38:17 +0000

Voice recognition is only ever going to get better (check out CMU Sphinx if you want to play with speech rec. for yourself), but at the moment… um, it’s not quite up to scratch: Okay, so he’s putting in on a bit for the lulz, and if he’d just said “where’s the nearest pub?” he’d [...]

Nada Surf – Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode cover)

r3dux — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:01:45 +0000

Woke up the other day singing the Nada Surf cover of Enjoy the Silence to myself so I thought I’d share. The track itself comes from their self-released 2010 album If I had a Hi-Fi. If the job of a cover is to re-invent and re-interpret the song, then this absolutely nails it – lovin’ [...]

Avoiding down-casts in C++

r3dux — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:01:32 +0000

If you have to down-cast objects from a base class to a derived class then there’s probably a design flaw in the class structure. It might all work but it’s going to be a brittle design. // C++ FAQS by Cline & Lowom // FAQ 162 - What is a down-cast? // Answer: Trouble. [...]

Gloria Jean’s Cold Drink Recipe List

r3dux — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:01:29 +0000

Gloria Jean’s is an Australia chain of coffee shops, and they do some great cold drinks like Vanilla Chillers and Tim-Tam Chillers. So here’s a recipe list showing what’s in ‘em. When the recipe calls for filling up to the logo on a cup, this is what the cups looks like so you can get [...]

Derived class issues with arrays and casting in C++

r3dux — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:37:22 +0000

I’m working my way through C++ FAQs book by Cline and Lomow, and it’s excellent. There’s lots of issues going on with inheritance, arrays and casting that could be a real pain to deal with towards the end of system development, but that you can nip in the bud and make life easier for yourself. [...]

Why is Linux using all my RAM?

r3dux — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:01:23 +0000

My Linux-running laptop seemed to be a little bit sluggish, so I had a look at the amount of free RAM available – and did a double take: This is on a 4GB machine with a web browser (6 tabs) open, email client, code::blocks IDE and totem to play some music. How can that devour [...]

Happy Australia Day!

r3dux — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:38:01 +0000

You can read about the history of Australia Day here, if you’re interested. Or just throw another shrimp on the barbie and be thankful for the day off =D

NBA 2K12 is…

r3dux — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:01:12 +0000

Game is teeth-gnashingly hard against the AI on standard “Pro” difficulty. It’s upsetting.

Dante Bucci – Fanfare

r3dux — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:33:01 +0000

I’d never even heard of Hangs / Hang drums before today – check them out! Amazing! Like playing a flying saucer – really, really well! =D

How-to: Overload the C++ function operator()

r3dux — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:25:52 +0000

I’m working my way through the first few chapters of James Reinders’ Intel Threading Building Blocks book, and its a little bit hard going. As much as I’m enjoying the mental exercise of thinking in parallel, when it actually comes to the coding they use a lot of function operator (i.e. operator()) overloading, and I’m [...]