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by avian 5y ago
> The whole goal of the Pi project is to make computers affordable to enable learning and prototyping Is it still though? They have been pushing into various industrial and commercial markets. There was talk about Raspberry Pi Trading pl
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by avian 5y ago
> Plasticity is mostly Open Source. When Plasticity reaches 1.0, it will cost $25 to use (no subscription). I'm curious how this will be implemented. According to the LICENSE file in the repo, the current source is available under L
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by avian 5y ago
Does anyone know what the beam perpendicular to the body and the two small white boxes hanging off the ends of it are for? Maybe a safety feature to prevent rolling to the side in case it loses balance?
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by avian 5y ago
Good catch! I might be misremembering this event and it was actually Perl, not C. I see Learning Perl, 3rd Edition was published in 2001, which does put its publication at about the right time in early 00s.
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by avian 5y ago
Sorry, I should be more clear. This is a line from the header linked by the parent comment that reminded me of this story.
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by avian 5y ago
> #define M_PI 3.2f A long time ago, a friend who was studying mathematics at the time, approached me laughing hysterically and showed me a page in an "intro to C"-style book. It showed an example of how one would write a &quot
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by avian 5y ago
> The cheapest way to reprogram a blown efuse is to buy a new efuse. I think this somewhat undersells what a monumental task un-blowing an e-fuse on a chip would be (e.g. resetting something like the USB boot enable bit on the RaspberryP
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by avian 5y ago
> he may love fiddling with settings, but the vast majority of people do not. I used to love to fiddle with settings. I gave up because the constant churn of modern software made it too tedious to maintain non-default settings in most ap
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by avian 5y ago
Cloudflare forwards complaints to hosts. Hosts throw complaints to the bin. Copyright holders have no-one to discuss the issue with, since they don't know who the host is (Cloudflare won't tell you whom they forwarded your complai
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by avian 5y ago
Maybe APSE is what you're looking for [1]. A while back the founder sent me a link after one of my blog posts hit HN. It's a tool that continuously records your desktop and offers text search of everything through OCR. I persona
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by avian 5y ago
Smart completion is the first thing I remove or disable on any system I work on. "Complete with a path on <tab>" is simple to understand and reason with and becomes second nature after working a lot in the shell prompt. &quo
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by avian 5y ago
I used to have an account with a bunch of art there. Not anymore. Some time after the redesign I deleted everything and now I only rarely visit the site. The only thing I miss is contact with a few artists I got to know through the site. Of
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by avian 5y ago
Thanks for finding it! I'm certain this is the story I remember reading.
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by avian 5y ago
I can't remember the title or the author, but I remember reading a story based on a similar premise years ago - the first interstellar ship goes out from Earth to a nearby star, only to barely escape as it goes nova shortly after they
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by avian 5y ago
Sometimes it's little freedoms like that that help you get through your workday. Sitting logged in to server00831 from laptop firstlastname2016 all days is just soulcrushing.
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by avian 5y ago
I was looking if anyone will mention Parker Vector here. I've been writing with these daily since forever. I've tried some much (much) more expensive fountain pens and none came close to the comfort of writing with the Vector. Mig
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by avian 5y ago
It's not the initial setup. It's the maintenance over the years that really makes you question the universe, life and the decision to host your own mail. When you can't send that important mail because $big_provider is blocki
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by avian 5y ago
I don't see how Facebook could claim copyright over the created animations and restrict what you could do with them. The language of the terms of service even acknowledges that (" you grant Facebook ... license to reproduce ... d
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by avian 5y ago
Previous thread on HN (40 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29580619
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by avian 5y ago
> Though this doesn't explain why you didn't get a notice about just that video. I don't know if that's a thing with YouTube and private videos, but when I got a copyright strike on my YouTube account because of a pri
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by avian 5y ago
I've ordered several PCBs from Aisler exactly because they were cheaper than vendors from China when accounting for shipping to EU, import duties and my nerves dealing with customs. I never had quality problems. I remember reading an e
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by avian 5y ago
Ah, good old 2019. A time when micros were still throw-away trinkets, not a rarity with a 80 week factory lead time.
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by avian 5y ago
Just to make a counter point, if you never spent your days in planning poker meetings, endlessly discussing hundreds of tiny scraps of yellow paper stuck to a white board (and never produce anything), you've never seen how bad Scrum ca
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by avian 5y ago
Publish literally anything textual on the web and a moment later you'll find a dozen websites copying your content, raking in ad money, identity protected by Cloudflare and conveniently ranking high on Google. Complain and people will
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by avian 5y ago
Thanks! I have been following the issues and also spent quite some time trying to fix/work around this on the client side, but it never occurred to me that simply reseting the password deletes everything server-side. I'll try it o
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by avian 5y ago
I wish they fixed the long standing, annoying sync bug that makes Firefox download 7000+ containers every once in a while. Some of us hosed our sync accounts in one way or another (through the container duplication bug in m-a-c itself [1] o
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by avian 5y ago
systemd just has so many reasons to kill processes, and invents new ones with new releases. Timeouts for things it thinks it should be short-lived, resource limits, service isolation and sandboxing settings, etc. They are mostly documented,
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by avian 5y ago
If it comes to the point of shooting down satellites, do space debris even matter? Humanity will blow itself back into the stone age and no-one will be launching anything new into orbit for centuries anyway.
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by avian 5y ago
> Indeed, table salt is often used in kids’ experiments to demonstrate crystallization. It’s a simple activity, but the results are disappointing. I remember this was one of the things I tried countless times as a kid. It never worked -
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by avian 5y ago
> it shows such complete lack of confidence in their product. It can also show complete and utter overconfidence. "The only reason people would want to unsubscribe is by accident. We're doing people a favor when making it as ha

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