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by aexaey 10y ago
It would absolutely not survive for very long like this (naked PCB on a key-chain). Mechanical damage from the actual keys on the same chain is what will kill it before water, sweat, washing liquid, pocket lint or ESD do. First things to
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by aexaey 10y ago
...care to give an example for sqlite being "temperamental"?
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by aexaey 10y ago
Never heard before about the "flashrom" tool. Looks nice, especially the long list of supported HW. Thanks!
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by aexaey 10y ago
Small nit: $3 != $100+ That said, using native SPI bus on a closest laying around (embedded) Linux board is an awesome idea hardware-wise. What about software though? Will dd if=file.bin of=/dev/spidev0.0 fail to write to an SPI
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by aexaey 10y ago
In case you need to dump/re-flash an SPI memory chip, but don't happen to have an FTDI programmer handy (be that as a protest to their despicable actions with Windows drivers some time ago, or for any other reason), another (much
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by aexaey 10y ago
Primates apart, the reason for exceptionally fast "boot" for ZX-Spectrum (and most of hobby/home/game-console computers from that time) was that software was stored in the ROM that CPU was able to execute directly from.
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by aexaey 10y ago
Yep. Same here. He wasn't nearly as judgmental in The Bugle, while being as funny as ever. [1] [2] [1] http://podcast.timesonline.co.uk/rss/thebuglemp3.rss [2] https://soundcloud.com/the-bugle
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by aexaey 10y ago
First option (ground floating) is actually quite common: A Class II or double insulated electrical appliance is one which has been designed in such a way that it does not require a safety connection to electrical earth (ground). [1] [1] ht
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by aexaey 10y ago
Two small nits about second part of this passage: electrovibration — the rapid attraction and repulsion of the skin to an insulated ground plane (such as brushed aluminum) - Metal in unibody MBPs is sandblasted [1] rather than br
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by aexaey 10y ago
Fair number of commenters here justifiably laments over Micro:bit not resembling a "real" computers despite matching and exceeding specs of ZX-Spectum and other late 70s - early 80s microcomputers. Fair enough, good point. But con
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by aexaey 10y ago
> what power density would it take to get self-focusing in a vacuum by gravitational lensing? Not this is a question I'd look forward to be answered by Randall Munroe in his http://what-if.xkcd.com/
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by aexaey 10y ago
~600 rps is an very low bar to set. Not to mention that database is the bottleneck in this benchmark.
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by aexaey 10y ago
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11770463
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by aexaey 10y ago
That was a suprisingly accurate summary. The whole thing, including the incoherent rant about material design
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by aexaey 10y ago
SCTP is alive and vell in very niche applications. SIGTRAN [1] for example is an adaptation of middle layers of SS7 network stack that runs on top of SCTP/IP. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGTRAN
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by aexaey 10y ago
"Robot rebellion" in fast-food industry has already quietly happened. Those robots are called "vending machine". There is even a moderately successful fast-food chain in the Netherlands that have fully embraced this &quo
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by aexaey 10y ago
Completely agree with your sentiment. Just one small nit-pick: Intel doesn't use SPARC, but a much more obscure, less documented, and very proprietary ARC core [1, 2 & 3]. Ostensibly it was chosen due to having some excellent low-p
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by aexaey 10y ago
Thank you for mentioning this. I was really struggling to understand reasons for not dropping SSL3 much, much earlier.
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by aexaey 10y ago
You may want to start lines with (at least) 4 spaces for HN to preserve original formatting.
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by aexaey 10y ago
Thank you for this : > ...and by early 2004 I had released the final version , v06. I wish more software had "final version", where possible [0] as opposed to endless churn and inevitable "is this project dead" qu
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by aexaey 10y ago
Do you mean - just open websites that are displeased with your ad-blocker in your secondary browser? Nice idea. Or, instead of two different browsers, you can use xraru [1] to ad-hoc launch as many independent ephemeral "incognito&quot
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How software will eat the car(medium.com)
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by aexaey 10y ago
Interestingly enough, at the same time, several other countries are experimenting with osmotic power generation [1], which is pretty much exact opposite of electrically-powered desalination. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by aexaey 10y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned WWW::Mechanize - classic perl library [1] or python port of it [2], which is much closer to RoboBrowser than selenium/phantomjs/horseman. [1] http://search.cpan.org/~ether&#x
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by aexaey 10y ago
It doesn't. To scrape (or fake-API) js-only websites you have to either: - drive a browser (firefox/chrome) via already mentioned here selenium/webdriver (potentially hiding the actual browser window into a virtual X by wrapp
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by aexaey 10y ago
And it sounds like UdeM is not exactly pleased with Springer's pricing practices - added emphasis in []: “We are trying to best meet the needs of our community despite budget cuts in the last few years, the [greediness of
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by aexaey 10y ago
They sure do accumulate, to the point where by the time you go back to some old tab, and that tab just so happen to be replaced with a window.opener trick, [1] there is no chance of you remembering what was there in the first place, and spo
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by aexaey 10y ago
What you have described is pretty much an opposite of how F-droid works. One can't just take binary (whether official or compromised) and upload it there. [1] Instead, to publish an app there, you need to provide source code repository
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by aexaey 10y ago
> Instead of being able to press <Up Arrow>, <C-Backspace>, and type my operation, I'm instead having to position my cursor to the second argument. Maybe not as neatly, but you can do this in 5 blind keystrokes (instead
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by aexaey 10y ago
> like B, mini-B or micro-USB [or C] Maybe that is exactly the reason to go with type-A, i.e. to make a statement about too many different B types? Still a recipe for a disaster of course.

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