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by ash 12y ago
Last ShiftIt release was in 2012. And it requires XQuartz for some reason. On the other hand, Spectacle (also open source) is supported and it doesn't require XQuartz. That said, I don't like Spectacle default shortcuts (hard to r
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Firefox.html screencast(paulrouget.com)
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by ash 12y ago
The original Graphene paper: "The reported graphene films were made by mechanical exfoliation (repeated peeling) of small mesas of highly-oriented pyrolytic graphite as described in the supporting online material. This approach was fou
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by ash 12y ago
GitHub Terms of Service apply in this case. Specifically: "We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to the Service. Your profile and materials uploaded remain yours. However, by setting your pages to be vi
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by ash 12y ago
No. When you can read a book, it doesn't mean you have rights to distribute its text or create derivative work. "What happens if I don't choose a license? …Generally speaking, the absence of a license means that the default c
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by ash 12y ago
arewesmallyet.com, it seems to be expired and grabbed by domain squatters. And (what is probably related) Firefox installer size is now much more than 5Mb it was then :) Also: https://github.com/ttaubert/arewesmallyet
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by ash 12y ago
In your opinion, is it a good idea to replace ZPU with Rocket on Xilinx FPGA? What are advantages and disadvantages? http://opensource.zylin.com/zpu.htm
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by ash 12y ago
http://areweflashyet.com/
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by ash 12y ago
It's very painful to look at, please disable it. My brain was trying hard to figure out the color for about 20 seconds, before I realized the color is changing. Especially if I click S-M-L buttons at the moment color has changed.
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Firefox.html: Rebuilding Firefox UI in HTML(mail.mozilla.org)
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by ash 12y ago
The other reason for a man to use ladies restroom is to help his small daughter use it.
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Basic Technology Stack for Teaching Web Programming(pgbovine.net)
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by ash 12y ago
"The reason it's hard to get to orbit isn't that space is high up. It's hard to get to orbit because you have to go so fast." https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
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by ash 12y ago
JSON is okay, but I hope TOML will gain traction soon. Because comments. And trailing commas. Rust Crate is already using TOML for package metadata. https://github.com/toml-lang/toml http://doc.crates.io&#x2
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by ash 12y ago
And if you read "Docker" backwards you'll get "Rocket". Somewhat.
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by ash 12y ago
Yes, but the actual container image that is being distributed can only be created by Docker. The ability to import is nice, but irrelevant here.
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by ash 12y ago
I'm slowly trying to switch from Vim to Light Table. There are a couple of bugs in Vim emulation plugin that I think need to be solved before it becomes useful enough to me. E.g. issues with *-search.¹ But I'm optimistic those wil
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by ash 12y ago
"The drm/i915 driver is now mostly based on the Linux 3.8.13 implementation and is no longer similar to the FreeBSD driver. Many Linux APIs and data structures have been implemented in the DragonFly kernel in order to reuse as man
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Conversation I Had with Mark Cuban About the Future of the Internet(businessinsider.com.au)
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Answering my own question. The robot is based on Kilobot that uses similar locomotion: "The Kilobots move by controlling two vibrating motors, the same type as you have in your mobile phone and the movement is based on similar micro vi
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by ash 12y ago
Great project! It's interesting they use vibration motors for motion. And vibration motors are not touching the floor directly. How do they transfer the movement to the floor? Also, is it possible to go backwards?
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by ash 12y ago
No, the article is correct. They did win in Software category. MIT team won in Hardware.
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by ash 12y ago
Yes, CoffeeScript syntax is often ambiguous, but you learn a few simple rules [1] and ignore darker corners. And I think slightly ambiguous transpiler is okay when the resulting language is not ambiguous. You can always check the output (
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by ash 12y ago
How does ido work? Is there any demo or a quick tutorial? (I don't use Emacs.)
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by ash 12y ago
Another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8536412
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by ash 12y ago
Saturn Emergency system demo by James Burke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLiAwSKkm6k Also, command module and spacesuit demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re0F-DgNQTA
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by ash 12y ago
Apollo documentation: http://history.nasa.gov/afj/documents.htm Apollo Lunar Module documentation: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/alsj-LMdocs.html
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Saturn V Flight Manual (1969) [pdf] (history.nasa.gov)
150 points by ash 12y ago|49 comments
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by ash 12y ago
Flagging is such an option. It's not a downvote, but it can be used against extreme off topic or flamebait posts. (You need to have enough karma to be able to flag posts).
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by ash 12y ago
What serial devices are ACM-compatible? How to check for it? Are there any modern OS that don't support ACM? Wikipedia article [1] is making it seem like ACM is only for modems, not for generic serial devices. Am I wrong? Thank you! [1

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