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by btreecat 12y ago
This is cool, I have a reason to boot up my RPi again for the first time in a few months. Looking forward to how this project shapes up.
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by btreecat 12y ago
> drivers and hardware managers on Linux distros (with my T420) Care to elaborate? My lappy is a T410 and my roommates a T520. Neither of us have any hardware/driver issues. As far as the UI goes, I somewhat agree. However when I us
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by btreecat 12y ago
This "new leaf" Microsoft is showing is quite refreshing. I hope they continue to integrate themselves as part of the FOSS community while reducing their fights.
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by btreecat 12y ago
So I went to read the privacy policy on the cyberdust site and came across this gem in section 6.1: "Your information, and the contents of all of your online communications (including without limitation chat text, voice communications,
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by btreecat 12y ago
Yeah SJVN is full of fluff. Hardly pens a word worth reading.
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by btreecat 12y ago
PUA means Pick Up Artists. There are lots of people in the PUA community who just use the same techniques that work to "pick up" people to be more socially confident and meet people. Often people will talk about things like mainta
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by btreecat 12y ago
Thank you for these links! I love programming history and the many things you can learn about your tools. I am stuck on a few projects at work using Groovy/Grails. Groovy itself has been fine and I regularly switch between Groovy, Pyth
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by btreecat 12y ago
Last time I checked out shiny (about 8-12 months ago) it was still useless beyond the most trivial examples. Building an actual website that would be public facing seemed like a horrid idea at the time. Have they really come that far in suc
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by btreecat 12y ago
Are there any patents on physics or laws of physics, the same way there are patents on things like "swipe to unlock?" Eg, has anyone filed a patent on something like "swing hammer to drive nail." Or "Spin wheel to t
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by btreecat 12y ago
So now the court has to decided about how complex said algo is and weather or not it is simple enough to not deserve a patent. Basic Lossless compression can function like this: Imagine a string of 1's and 0's e.g. 100100000110001
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by btreecat 12y ago
I really enjoyed reading this. Certainly put the browser security model in a new perspective for me.
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by btreecat 12y ago
This could be something I am interested in testing. I just migrated to DO, however I kept a small credit on Linode hoping they introduced cheaper plans.