AlphaGeekZulu

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by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago
And this is only the Low Earth Orbit (without geostationary satellites and GPS). Incredible. And incredibly nicely done by NeoLabs!
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by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago
I just dowloaded Inky on Ubuntu and got a 299792 segmentation fault (core dumped)
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by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago
The same with me. There is a comprehensive description and history of the Tyler Slide Rule in German language at: https://www.rechenwerkzeug.de/tylerbausatz.htm There is also an online simulator and a downloadable ki
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The Tyler Slide Rule(osgalleries.org)
3 points by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago|3 comments
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by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago
I know exactly where my inverted Y-Axis comes from: Flight Simulation. Like in the real airplane, pushing the yoke forward pitches down, pulling the yoke backwards pitches up. So I do with the mouse, and the joystick, and the controller. On
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by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago
There is a lot of discussion in this thread about the involved components, technical details of the exploit, the guilt of specific distributions and patch policies. However, the underlying core problem of the vulnerability is absolutely ind
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by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago
I was surprised as well. I always thought, the whole idea of intermittent fasting is to have no sugar floating in the body when you go to sleep. And that would be accomplished by a last meal at 4pm or 5pm and then no intake (except water, s
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by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago
"Coming soon to your Mac." Toodle-pip!
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by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago
Curiosity, playfulness and no fear of the machine.
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by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago
Flym on Android.
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by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago
Feedbro plugin in Firefox.
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by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago
It looks extremely interesting! Is there any sort of documentation, like a quick introduction, tutorial or reference? I found the Wikipedia page about Befunge and I just don't get, how this transforms into sound in Noisefunge...
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by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago
Exactly! Never bring a smartphone to a protest and keep the dumb phone shut off, except if an emergency qualifies otherwise. There are hundreds of reasons for not bringing a smartphone, not only the abuse of companies like Mobilewalla. Imag
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by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago
I have to take up the cudgels on behalf of Tuxedo. Tuxedo is a small company, not far from Munich, Germany. They have specialized on assembling customized laptops that are guaranteed to work nicely with Linux. They are owned by Schenker. Yo
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by AlphaGeekZulu 7y ago
Ben Eater is the Bob Ross of electronics!
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by AlphaGeekZulu 7y ago
Nice name!
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by AlphaGeekZulu 7y ago
Checkout Re-Collections: http://www.scruffmonkey.com/Re-Collections.html
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by AlphaGeekZulu 7y ago
"A Beautiful Remind" - HTML renderer for Dianne Skoll's "Remind" program. This is a side project of mine to learn the Rust programming language while under lockdown. Teaser: https://klostermaier.de/a
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by AlphaGeekZulu 7y ago
Unfortunately only in German language: Bernard A. Lietaer: Das Geld der Zukunft Bernard A. Lietaer: Mysterium Geld
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by AlphaGeekZulu 7y ago
"...and are now in a much better position to decide what to do next." ...if you deliberately ignore the small "issue" of accumulated nuclear waste, that somehow has to be handled for the next couple of hundred years. For
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by AlphaGeekZulu 7y ago
Germans do not have to decide between Nuclear Energy or Climate Catastrophe. They have to decide between the potential risks of radioactive pollution or the impairment of landscape by wind turbines and power lines. There is not much tragedy
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by AlphaGeekZulu 7y ago
The Chaos Of English Pronunciation by Gerard Nolst Trenité: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1edPxKqiptw
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by AlphaGeekZulu 7y ago
I have been to the Sudan a few times in the early Nineties. It was my first time in Africa and I went through ultimate culture shock. I experienced military checkpoints, interrogations by security staff, civilians armed with assault rifles
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by AlphaGeekZulu 7y ago
"[...]apart from testing new stuff (god knows how long some toxins take to manifest or how strong they are, why risk life/health for few bites).[...]" In our case, the procedure - of course - was not to approve the edibility
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by AlphaGeekZulu 7y ago
If geographical spots for mushroom foraging find their way into social media, there will be no mushrooms in the forests next year. Mushroom foraging is actually a pretty secretive thing – for a reason!
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by AlphaGeekZulu 7y ago
Mushroom foraging was common in my family and the ruleset was quite simple – we learnt this as children: - you have to know a mushroom, that you want to eat, by 100%. You not only have to know the appearance in all possible states (young&#x
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by AlphaGeekZulu 7y ago
All kinds of radioactive isotopes might enter or attach to your body in many ways as consequence of a nuclear accident. Any radioactive particle that gets close to or into your body will cause some damage depending on the type (alpha, beta,
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by AlphaGeekZulu 7y ago
It would surely be super interesting to forward the questions on the last page of the PDF (p134-135 in the book) to Alexa, Siri, Cortana and Bixby and post the answers here... (I do not use virtual assistants myself, thus the request to any
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by AlphaGeekZulu 7y ago
Oh, I did not do it, all credit goes to: https://github.com/msokalski
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ASCII-Patrol (Terminal Game)(ascii-patrol.com)
4 points by AlphaGeekZulu 7y ago|3 comments

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