StavrosK

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by StavrosK 5y ago
That's a nice hack. Also, if you can power it from somewhere, you can use a bare ESP8266 module and put it in the serial enclosure to make it fully self-contained.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
> If animal testing was outlawed, the same testing would probably end up being done on poor people instead. That's... quite the leap. The entire point is that ethics committees are much more averse to human testing than to animal te
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by StavrosK 5y ago
> But they did not, themselves, perceive the two sounds as being different sounds. This makes sense, thanks. I guess we generally don't perceive the different sounds in our languages, like an English speaker generally won't per
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Well, that's sound logic and a great quote, thanks!
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Yeah, I'd expect pilots to talk like that, it just had an impression on me because I didn't expect a journalist explaining something to have the same vernacular.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Oh, then it's very different from what I want...
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by StavrosK 5y ago
As an aside, I find it fascinating how we apparently randomly changed prepositions. "By accident" somehow became "on accident" and "wait for" someone became "wait on" someone (which used to be what wa
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Does that expose a Cast device? That's very interesting.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
I agree, but still...
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by StavrosK 5y ago
This is a very interesting article, but I was kind of turned off by the ease with which it described killing people. "To get a solid kill, just put the plane in the dot and squeeze the trigger, super simple!" I've seen deterg
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by StavrosK 5y ago
This is excellent, finally we'll be able to cast to Raspberry Pis and other Linux-running computers. Well done!
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Right, but Greek fits that description. Three languages in Europe have a native word for elephant.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Ah, so they did indeed use the same letter for two distinct sounds. Makes sense, thanks!
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Whaaat? That's crazy, thanks for that!
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by StavrosK 5y ago
"Fantastical" is probably more used for that nowadays (and that very rarely), but it didn't occur to me that there could be any other explanation, as in Greek we use "fantastic" for both meanings commonly, ie "
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Latin used the V for both V and U today, right? How did those two get separated? Why did we get "virus" and not "virvs" or "uirus"? I guess they were pronounced differently back then too?
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by StavrosK 5y ago
German speakers can also relate, with "apotheke". Interestingly, apotheke in modern Greek means "storage room", pharmacy is "pharmakeio". Ypotheke does mean mortgage in modern Greek too.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
> Finnish and the Slavic languages are the only ones in Europe that have a native word for "elephant". (Everyone else uses variants of the Greek "elephas" or Arabic "fil".) So the only languages in Europe ex
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by StavrosK 5y ago
*hagiazo, btw, a d slipped in there by accident.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
A hard joke to get, but I liked it.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
> Uh what's the next adjective after "extreme"? Yeah, seriously. What's my 6 AM to 2 PM schedule? Extremer?
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Ooh I like this one, thanks!
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by StavrosK 5y ago
> As for the value of 1 BTC, it's value fluctuates if you operate on a base currency which is not BTC, but that is the same for any currency exchange. Yes but also, even though 1 BTC will always be worth 1 BTC, the amount of work it
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Speak for yourself, this is the third sun I've planted this millennium and you guys need to take it easy with it.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
I agree with the rest of your comment, but there's some sleight of hand here: > This turns effectively "wasted" energy in to a solidly efficient energy store for infinite amount of time— for example: 1 BTC will always be e
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by StavrosK 5y ago
That's excellent advice, thank you!
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by StavrosK 5y ago
The problem (with the teams I've worked with, at least), is that you have multiple tools for documentation and you generally get overwhelmed and stop even trying to search. I'm working on https://www.sherdoc.co/ r
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by StavrosK 5y ago
> I had already started internal blog groups and was encouraging people to write. Can you give some advice around that? Was it one blog in general, one per team, per person? What tool did you use for it? What else do you think is notable
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by StavrosK 5y ago
They're replying to a comment arguing for open devices. Saying "I'm fine with a closed device" is at best irrelevant. "I'm fine with a locked-down computer" is no argument against "I want my compute
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Then people arguing this should stop being disingenuous that this is somehow about enabling user freedoms, and outright say "your phone should take away your choice because you can't be trusted with it" .

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