Fwirt

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by Fwirt 2y ago
Sure, but there’s also less to go wrong with an FX-600. It’s literally a wall jack and an analog switch. No pushbuttons, no displays, no power adapters. Safety features are worth considering but everything else seems unnecessary.
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by Fwirt 2y ago
Why overcomplicate a simple tool? If you're not soldering professionally and only need it a few times a month, I never see anyone recommend the Hakko FX-600. I couldn't be happier with mine. Heats up in seconds, adjustable tempera
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by Fwirt 2y ago
Much like user interfaces: by careful study of how people use them and not by aping what the most "successful" keyboards are doing. Anyone who has used a mechanical keyboard can tell you that there is much room for improvement. Ru
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by Fwirt 2y ago
Looks like the bottle is pushed up from the bottom (so the water won't pool around the joint) and then caulked with some kind of sealant. Since these are basically shanties with corrugated steel roofs I would think that leaks would be
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by Fwirt 2y ago
There are already solutions for mounting a small led lamp with a battery and solar cell in place of the bottle cap to provide light into at least the early evening hours.
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by Fwirt 2y ago
Except that the iPad does run what they want. Just because the App Store doesn’t have X piece of software doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have Y suitable replacement. In fact, most of the functional equivalents in the App Store are better opti
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by Fwirt 2y ago
The iPad can replace a computer for the average user . Hackers and developers make up a tiny, tiny percentage of people who buy iPads. There is a huge library of business-class professional software available on the App Store that fits a
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by Fwirt 2y ago
From the foundation of the open-source movement, hackers have always had an adversarial relationship with manufacturers. It is that relationship that motivated the creation of GNU in the first place. At least Apple allows developers to sow
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by Fwirt 2y ago
To compare it to wiretapping is taking it too far. You don’t have a choice whether or not your government forces a policy on you, but you still have a choice of which ecosystem you buy into. Complaining about the lack of freedom you have in
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by Fwirt 2y ago
Not to defend a multi-billion corporation that’s currently being raked over the coals for anti-competitive practices, but here’s the thing about all Apple products: Apple under and since Jobs has been all about selling appliances, not com
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by Fwirt 2y ago
Haven't tried it yet, but personally I'm very interested in Pythonista which also exposes an impressive number of iOS APIs (bluetooth, camera, etc.) that you can use in your scripts. No idea how it functions as an IDE though.
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by Fwirt 2y ago
Not to mention that washing machine PCBs have to function in an environment which is notoriously hazardous for electronics: very high humidity/moisture, and very high vibration. The last time I took a look at my washing machine's
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by Fwirt 2y ago
I've been using it to do some basic 3D printed designs, and it has all of the features you mention. I haven't had to write any Python so far. The main issues with FreeCAD are those common to most open-source software applications
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by Fwirt 3y ago
Ah, so it is. My apologies. He's a pretty good actor!
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by Fwirt 3y ago
It seems that much like we become able to delegate tasks like setting down a coffee cup to our subconscious on Earth, after a while in microgravity astronauts become accustomed to "setting things down" in midair. It's could b
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by Fwirt 3y ago
If you have the stomach for starting from nothing and installing only what you need, Alpine is wonderful. It uses musl libc so there are some things you need flatpaks for, but the vast majority of stuff I've tried just works, and it&#x
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by Fwirt 4y ago
Here's the thing you come to realize as the owner of a 3D printer: Ink cartridges are expensive for a good reason. Printing is hard. 2D printers are amazing. You can feed in cheap paper that's been sitting in a humid environment
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by Fwirt 4y ago
There's an existing package - OctoPrint - that you install on a Raspberry Pi and connect up to your 3D printer that can provide a web interface for just about any 3D printer on the market, so you don't have to shuffle files around
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by Fwirt 4y ago
There were some interesting Selectric balls, e.g. one specifically for writing APL! One of my CS professors wrote his dissertation on something to do with APL and had a copy of the manuscript and an APL type ball that he liked to show off.
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by Fwirt 4y ago
It all comes down to demand I guess... Most people seem to like Beats headphones or think their Airpods have top quality sound and don't care that $200 headphones exist that blow them out of the water. Most people use bluetooth with lo
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by Fwirt 4y ago
Old laptops also make killer home routers. I recently replaced my consumer grade wireless router with an old Thinkpad in a router-on-a-stick configuration + PoE switch + dedicated access point and my home network is better for it in just ab
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by Fwirt 4y ago
I believe one of the ideas behind the evaluation is being creative enough to be able to imagine the scenario with those details, and then being able to select the words that best fit the scenario you've created. If you know words that
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by Fwirt 4y ago
If you're writing a story and trying to flesh out a character, someone who leases an olive drab Jeep is likely (a) someone who has money and (b) someone who likes to go off-roading, or at least give the appearance of being rough-and-tu
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by Fwirt 4y ago
One justification for this might be that the greater the number of words in your vocabulary, the more "colors" with which you can paint your linguistic constructs. More complex words can have a subtlety of meaning that distinguish
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by Fwirt 4y ago
There are also free services that do this, like ImprovMX.
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by Fwirt 5y ago
You can even use a box on your home network (or even your router itself with a little elbow grease...) Many routers support popular DDNS providers, and most ISPs don't block port 80 or 443. It may be against your ISPs TOS because they
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by Fwirt 5y ago
I guess 2011 could be considered ancient now... My SL1 (100D) is from 2013 but I never thought of it that way. Of course it's a crop sensor so I guess that puts me solidly in the amateur category, but I also enjoy shooting manual. (Mor
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by Fwirt 5y ago
I meant that a professional likely has an end goal in mind for developing an exposure and can use any software to obtain the result they want, whereas an amateur is likely more reliant on the software to provide sane defaults that look good
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by Fwirt 5y ago
One interesting thing to note about open-source vs commercial software when it comes to RAW conversion is that commercial offerings like Adobe CS, CaptureOne and Affinity Photo sometimes have a relationship with camera manufacturers to get
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by Fwirt 5y ago
The payroll check printer for my employer was once a couple thousand lines that generated raw PCL to be sent to a LaserJet that used magnetic toner to produce checks that had a working MICR number. It was rendered into spaghetti by multiple

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