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by avhon1 8y ago
+ middle mouse button Makes using 3D software on a laptop much easier, and also allows using X11's "middle-click to paste". I've been idly thinking of getting a new laptop, and it's been disappointing to see how few
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by avhon1 8y ago
> Guetzli is not appropriate as a general-purpose tool for optimizing website images. That's not really what it's designed for. What is it designed for? I downloaded and compiled it, and it seems to work quite well for the phot
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by avhon1 8y ago
I'm not quite sure if this is a joke or not. In ColorForth, color is part of the syntax - it matters whether or not some text is white or green or yellow, in the same way that "//" matters in C or indentation matt
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by avhon1 8y ago
> Does it include a FORTH 6502 assembler written in FORTH? https://github.com/scotws/TaliForth2/blob/master/docs/manual... > Currently, there is no assembler included. The plan is to include a
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by avhon1 8y ago
> some kind of custom firmware for printers Unfortunately, to the extend of my knowledge and google-fu, such a thing does not (currently) exist.
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by avhon1 8y ago
Earlier discussion of this and more sophisticated printer tracking codes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14501894
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by avhon1 8y ago
Any idea what terms the b compiler is licensed under?
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by avhon1 8y ago
Funny that you should say that. APL was designed to be easy to read, like how mathematicians can look at an equation and immediately get a feel for it. "Notation as a Tool of Thought": http://www.jsoftware.com/pa
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by avhon1 8y ago
A vehicle's suspension serves 2 purposes: 1. to make the ride smoother and more comfortable 2. to keep the wheels in contact with the ground to ensure consistent, safe handling This suspension is capable of lifting the wheels off the g
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by avhon1 8y ago
>Quick, let's try using Facebook [...] built on JS Facebook has a no-js version of their website which suffices for all of my purposes. https://mbasic.facebook.com
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by avhon1 8y ago
Do you have a source on that? Also, what country?
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by avhon1 9y ago
This was at Indiana University (in Bloomington, Indiana) in Fall 2017. The Indiana University Outdoor Adventures club went on a hike through a nearby cave. To prevent vandalism and overtraffiking, the cave has a locking gate inside the entr
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by avhon1 9y ago
The Boy Scouts of America offers 3 coed programs for teens/young adults (in addition to its well-known "Scouts" program): * Venture Scouting (aged 14-21), * Exploring (aged 10-20) [0], * and Sea Scouting (aged 14-20) [1] Howe
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by avhon1 9y ago
"Venturing is an inclusive program through the Boy Scouts of America for males and females aged 14-21 (or 13 and completed the 8th grade)." [0] A Venture crew would not be accessible to many juniors, most seniors, or (almost) any
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by avhon1 9y ago
Amazon's kindle ereaders are sold with a thin profit. (I don't think that the average kindle owner purchases enough books that they generate significant revenue after IP costs are subtracted.) [0] https://www.forbes.com
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by avhon1 9y ago
> the Inferno port tended to run better. Cool . I hadn't heard about this! It looks like it's being actively maintained on bitbucket, too! [0] It looks like someone else also got Plan9 booting on the OLPC [1]. [0] https:&#x2F
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by avhon1 9y ago
I recommend used thinkpad X-series laptops. I used an X41 as my only laptop during my last year of college (2016-2017). I spent $35 for the laptop on ebay and $25 for a hard drive. I don't recommend anything older than the X41 for most
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by avhon1 9y ago
RMS also used an OLPC for a while. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Stephen_... https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
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by avhon1 9y ago
As shams93 said, the OLPC has tremendous industrial design, which nothing else I've ever seen matches. The plastic pieces are remarkably thick, and they all either slide or screw together. There are no sharp corners on the exterior.
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by avhon1 9y ago
One of my friends brings either an OLPC or an Alphasmart to Burning Man every year. In one of my other comments in this thread, I mentioned that I used my olpc to animate this logo [0] and to make a patch adding a dodecahedron to the X.org
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by avhon1 9y ago
If nothing else, I would say that chromebooks are a spiritual descendant of the OLPC. Inexpensive laptops with simple software marketed heavily towards education.
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by avhon1 9y ago
Not to mention that, even without internet, the OLPC XO-1 ships with bunches of stuff already on it. Here's a directory dump from one of mine: https://alexvh.me/share/olpc-library-listing.txt
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by avhon1 9y ago
The keyboard is probably a lot nicer to use if you can fit all of your fingers on it. (I usually use my IBM model M with my XO-1 laptops.) Also, the newer models are available with a chiclet-style keyboard. As bitwize said, not only is Suga
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by avhon1 9y ago
> (pie-in-the-sky) design lifetime of 10 years I'm more optimistic about this than you seem to be. The OLPC XO-1 has a lithium-iron phosphate battery [0], which are only now reaching the end of their design lives. Anecdotally, I hav
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by avhon1 9y ago
> OLPC had an Open Firmware Forth bootloader. True? False? True. [0] > Why did OLPC require a "developer key"? So that kids can't casually screw up their laptops, but people who want to modify their software can. You ca
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by avhon1 9y ago
> Did their mesh network thing ever work? Yes it did. Anecdotal, but I've gotten my two OLPC XO-1 laptops to network together just fine. > did it came preloaded with at least a few thousand sciency books on it? Yes it did. They&#
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by avhon1 9y ago
> I do like the premise of Zuckerberg's Internet.org project. I think that access to Wikipedia in particular should be a right Until February 2018, Wikipedia had a similar zero-rating program called Wikipedia Zero [0]. > [Wikiped
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by avhon1 9y ago
> Are there any laptops available that have this feature now? Nope. At one point, there were two netbooks that could have an off-the-shelf [0] pixel qi display fitted into them [1]. > I would kill to be able to write blog posts and wo
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by avhon1 9y ago
The OLPC has most of the characteristics you ascribe to books: * it works even after getting a bit wet * it works even if I sit on it (caveat: the hinge will definitely snap if I sit on the screen while it is open) * I highlight, underline,
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by avhon1 9y ago
> do you need a laptop for that or an eReader? An ereader already contains all of the hardware to be an interactive computer (especially if it has a keyboard, like the kindle 1, 2 and 3). It really shouldn't cost any more to deploy

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