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by Vexs 11y ago
I love how many great innovations and inventions have come about by people being slightly inconvenienced.
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by Vexs 11y ago
That's what I was thinking when I was reading this, an 11$ teensy uC could do the job very easily, it's got a keyboard emulator built in. I love the teensy uC, it's completely replaced the arduino for me. So much cheaper and
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by Vexs 11y ago
Monitors are actually really easy to hook up, most of the time you just need to adjust the pinout and timings of the controller chip.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Nice! I've never heard of those. Pretty expensive for a 10" monitor though, found them on aliexpress/alibaba for ~100$. Adafruit stocks them too for 180$, but with a driver board included.
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by Vexs 11y ago
I'm kinda surprised that key number 2 on the imgur mirror is a dimple lock. Those are generally used for more high security things than crap tsa travel locks; they're expensive too. Key 4 doesn't surprise me though. https:&#
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by Vexs 11y ago
> THE design for a key that allowed a convicted killer to escape from a Territory prison was printed on the cover of a booklet given to all inmates, it has been revealed. Pahahaha. That sounds like something you'd find in an ARG puz
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by Vexs 11y ago
It's very easy to do actually, you just need one lock actually. It's called key impressioning, and basically you put a blank in a lock, look for the scratches on it, file it down a bit, rinse/repeat.
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by Vexs 11y ago
I hope you fed it that all at the same time.
249.
by Vexs 11y ago
Really? I've seen plenty of breadboards with split busses like that, but that could just be the fact that it's one of the longer breadboards. There's been a handful of times where I'm wondering why a circuit isn't w
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by Vexs 11y ago
You could use a directional antenna, and point it straight up. I mean, sure, you could put a geostationary satellite or something above you, but that's just getting silly at that point.
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by Vexs 11y ago
I honestly had no idea that was a thing. How on earth can that possibly create a net gain for the company? All it does is encourage piracy...
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by Vexs 11y ago
Stuff like swiftkey automatically recommends next words, it might not be that difficult to have a similar system for a shell. Sounds like a fun idea actually. Oh, relevant XKCD. https://xkcd.com/1068/
253.
by Vexs 11y ago
Basically. They put the magnetic source in an shielded sphere, and then somehow moved the field outside of the sphere.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Still better than being inside those incredibly loud machines. I expected a "spinning" noise of some kind, not the jackhammer concerto. Also, I had no idea courts in India were using that as a detection method; that's insane.
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by Vexs 11y ago
This reminds me a lot of the works of David Macaulay, the art style and writing style are very similar. He wrote some great books, amazing for curious kids.
256.
by Vexs 11y ago
Huh, I wouldn't have guessed that, but I suppose it makes sense- people usually follow patterns on keyboards.
257.
by Vexs 11y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't some sort of Victorian-era steam powered machine that read mixing instructions off one of those paper wheels player pianos used. Actually, that sounds like a pretty cool project; no wonder s
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by Vexs 11y ago
Just as much as the existing flash-based methods can.
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by Vexs 11y ago
I love nautilus because it can make the most seemingly inane things incredibly interesting. I've never thought about turbulence at all; or even guessed it would be difficult to figure out the cause but this, for lack of a better term,
260.
by Vexs 11y ago
God I hate tapatalk with a passion. It's even worse when it redirects you to the front of a forum instead of the thread you were trying to get to.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Huh, that's pretty cool actually; I've never heard of that. I love early synths, there's some wonderfully convoluted systems.
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by Vexs 11y ago
I saw it on HN a while ago- a webservice that does poker hands using a URL; you could pass it cards in the URL and it would display them.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Reminds me a bit of VIM. I love vim as much as the next guy, but I can't wait for neovim to get stable.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Huh, I never thought of that, how they're all so different. Microsoft uses flat, very contrasting rectangles, versus google uses rounded shapes and pastel colors.
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by Vexs 11y ago
I think this is the most obvious conclusion to gather, I had never heard of the service until the hack. While it's true that most people don't think as much about security as they should; the media has done a fairly good job at co
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by Vexs 11y ago
See, this just seems overly investigative. If they were physically fusing the arm to your body, sure, that's a reasonable time for the FDA to investigate. But just because it is related to your body in any way doesn't warrant that
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by Vexs 11y ago
To quote DwarfFortress, !!FUN!!. It would be neat to do though. wonder if you could make one work like an i2c eeprom chip, have it act as a drop-in replacement. Or rather, an "add jumper wires and put in a box outside of it replacement
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by Vexs 11y ago
I think you're right. I havent been actively monitoring it, but it seems to me they got even more money than they thought they would get, and their timescale was for the budget they thought they would get. They've been pushing out
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by Vexs 11y ago
China really is going through the industrial revolution pretty much; it's basically in the same state as the US was or Britain. Low wage workers, tennament buildings, little oversight, and lots of accidents. Hopefully things like this
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by Vexs 11y ago
There's an interesting blog post a while back called w"what color are your bits?". Kinda reminds me of what you are talking about. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

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